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DNC joins defense of Obama on book

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor August 14, 2008 05:21 PM

The Democratic National Committee is joining the counteroffensive against Jerome Corsi, author of a new bestselling book attacking Barack Obama.

Today, it launched a website and sent an email to 3.4 million supporters calling "Obama Nation" a book of lies.

"One of the most vile smear peddlers of the 2004 election has found a new target," the message says. "Jerome Corsi just published a new book full of rehashed distortions and the same old lies about Barack Obama, and the right-wing noise machine is in full gear promoting it. In 2004, Corsi helped launch the Swift Boat smear campaign with a book of distortions and lies he wrote about John Kerry."

UPDATE: Obama's campaign today also issued a detailed rebuttal of Corsi's book on its Fight the Smears website. Called "Unfit for Publication," the Obama report addresses what the campaign calls "a sampling of the lies, half-truths, and misleading statements" in the book, plus Corsi’s "controversial and bigoted comments."

"Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage in order to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago. His is one of what will likely be many lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle that are cobbled together from debunked internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda. We will forcefully respond to these smears with all means at our disposal,” said Obama campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Senator John F. Kerry launched his own website on Wednesday to criticize the book.

"We cannot afford to let Corsi get away with the same dirty tricks that fooled so many people in 2004. We can't rely on the media to hold him accountable -- in fact, the sheer brazenness of the lies is attracting even more coverage," the DNC says. "The media have shown that they aren't going to stop him. It's up to you to spread the truth, so here it is. Below you will find the facts about Corsi and his desperate fabrications....Together we'll show Corsi, the Republicans, and John McCain that Barack Obama and the Democrats don't back down from a fight."

24 comments so far...
  1. Oh i guess a book written by Barack Obama that is full of lies is now the BIBLE for Liberals.

    You liberals continue writing history and giving speeches about how history should of been and let the making of HISTORY BE DONE BY CONSERVATIVES since they are the ones who have always done it.

    Posted by Roger Slograph,. August 14, 08 12:25 PM
  1. Yes, I believe the book, it is not a book of lies but a book of truth, something Obama must still learn, still wet behind the ears

    vote - sitting out

    Posted by NO VOTE August 14, 08 12:48 PM
  1. what a lie..

    we Americans know better, not to be fooled by desperate fabricaitions;
    together we will stand up for the truth

    Obama 2008
    Yes we can !!!

    Posted by Etetu Santos August 14, 08 01:02 PM
  1. "Book of Lies..."

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

    Posted by Buzz August 14, 08 01:46 PM
  1. How is the media supposed to stop him? Have they done so in the past for the DNC? Your headline is telling. I see it as DNC goes on attack not defense. It's not the first time they have attacked private citizens.

    Posted by Lila August 14, 08 01:59 PM
  1. what a lie..

    we Americans know better, not to be fooled by desperate fabricaitions;
    together we will stand up for the truth

    Obama 2008
    Yes we can !!!

    Posted by Etetu Santos August 14, 08 02:17 PM
  1. This pig slop passing itself off as a book is a disgrace to the memory of the old house of Simon and Schuster. Karl Rove's fingerprints are all over this unadulterated pack of lies. Mary Matalin is a stooge of the Rove School of the Big Lie and Smear and slimeball Corsi is her tool. All right-minded people should be outraged at this Swift Boat style attack. Obama campaigners need to strike back with a vengeance. A complete boycott of Simon and Schuster would be a great place to start. Getting out the full story about McCain and the Keating Five might be useful. One thing is certain Obama cannot stand idly by and let the RNC/Rove/McCain thugs get away with this assault.

    Posted by jefflz August 14, 08 02:24 PM
  1. I don't care how much Corsi smears Senator Obama!! Even if Senator Obama grows horns and a tail I'll still vote for him before John McCain or any other Republican,because he can't possibly screw up the economy worse and is unlikely to start another illegal war like Senator McCain would . Someone please explain that the mission statement to spread democracy around the world is not in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution.The Object lesson of the last Illegal war in Vietnam was you can't force other people or nations to embrace what you think is right if they aren't interested.

    Posted by Michael Gilbert August 14, 08 02:28 PM
  1. Sue the Bastard! Stop this garbage once and for All!!!!

    Posted by anne hornbach August 14, 08 03:40 PM
  1. YAWN. Only highschool educated low-income conservative country bumpkins drink up this nonsense. They're just afraid of the inevitable this November when Obama is victorious in his quest for the presidency. I'm going to send another $100 to Obama's campaign just to counter the sale of four of these books to the gullible masses.

    Posted by Kevin August 14, 08 03:41 PM
  1. Ignoring the book is the best approach.
    Americans with rational minds should just ignore any and all of these nut jobs. Let America pay for believing the lies with another 4 years of Repubican rule. I just hope some day the fools will wake up but most likely not. They just blame
    someone else as they always do.

    We Americans all have to pay for these
    conmen, liers and thieves.

    Posted by OldMan August 14, 08 04:26 PM
  1. roger slograph, you should not be writing anything, let alone history, because the post you just made is completely incomprehensible....take some time to learn about grammar/sentence structure, then come back and lecture us on how to write jackass

    Posted by limosine/latte/betterthanyouliberal August 14, 08 04:40 PM
  1. Obamaians, read it and weep: the truth has come out, and the truth will set American free of Obama.

    Posted by James Arnold August 14, 08 05:27 PM
  1. it's about time there is some counter press to this media love fest for obama. keep crying liberals, because im sure you can get the government to take care of your broken hearts just like you want them to take care of everything else for you.

    Barr 08!

    Posted by Bradley Monroe August 14, 08 05:45 PM
  1. RE:
    DNC joins defense of Obama on book
    Email|Link|Comments (8) Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor August 14, 2008 11:58 AM
    ------------------------------------

    NEW LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
    Laval, Canada, August 6, 2008

    SENATOR OBAMA,

    ‘It is in adversity’, I was going to say in ‘darkness’, that one recognizes true friends.

    Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by Todays’s Energy crisis, what does Science hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?

    Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.

    My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Senator Obama, to an inexhaustible source of energy, which one should tame now.

    In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause, entitled ‘BILL A RI And There Was Light’, addressed during his last American election campaign to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.

    It’s like to say to you, Senator Obama, that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today - in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out.

    There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister Obama. In spite of my Haďtian ascent and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through. A taboo of magnitude, Sir, I admit it. A ’scientific’ taboo, seldom encountered.

    ‘ The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative,’ affirms Roger Caillois.

    It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting the theory of Newton on light and colors.

    However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it, should I say, what an asset! Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of ‘Black Holes’, synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole ! So much and so well that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting. Physicists say it: ‘ninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe (Grosso Modo - said here roughly by Lucien BONNET - for more precisions see "LINKS" or "GOOGLE") is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible, like the sea surrounds the continents’. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it. The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.

    My intervention, here, Senator Obama, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy. By decoding the Black Matter.Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While ‘returning the elevator to Newton’ - without a play on words. By the Act which consists in making an AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS.

    Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause?

    — Objectively and in a pragmatic way, why not focussing on the new synthesis?

    Consequently, what a liberation !

    At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis !

    ‘Synthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rythm of the universe’s heartbeat, tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity.’

    One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in ‘ BILL A RI and there was light !… ‘

    Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient Energy crisis if I dare say, which invites us to explore other avenues, other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected.

    Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe. Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy !

    Energetic formula with a unique character !

    In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse !

    A winning formula !

    In The United States Of America.

    By The United States Of America.

    For The United States Of America and abroad !

    With you today, Senator Obama, I repeat this sentence - since 1972 and 1978 - that is to say forty years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium, as I said since 1972 and on April 10, 1978, in a Letter to Doctor Carl Sagan:

    ‘On the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral, sine qua non part, of color and light pocess’.

    Is it still broad daylight
    in the shadow of the black sun?

    Yours truly,
    Lucien BONNET

    PLEASE SEE ‘Bill A Ri And There Was Light !’

    LINKS (JANUARY 12, 2008)
    UBC astronomer makes first map of dark matter
    CTV.ca - 11 Jan 2008
    For the first time, a team of UBC scientists have mapped the elusive ‘dark matter’ in a supercluster of stars in the night sky.
    New map lets scientists ’see’ dark matter CBC News
    Astronomers get best look yet at dark matter surrounding galaxies The Canadian Press.

    Posted by Lucien BONNET August 14, 08 07:17 PM
  1. Ignoring the book is the best approach.
    Americans with rational minds should just ignore any and all of these nut jobs. Let America pay for believing the lies with another 4 years of Repubican rule. I just hope some day the fools will wake up but most likely not. They just blame
    someone else as they always do.

    We Americans all have to pay for these
    conmen, liers and thieves.

    Posted by OldMan August 14, 08 08:19 PM
  1. I am deeply saddened by the negative and smear tactics the Conservative party is using against Obama. I am particulary saddend by a news stations that that signs off saying"We're looking out for you" It hurts deeply when one formerly believed innocently in the reports by this news media. However, they betrayed us all and fell into the deep mines of hatred. This , when they proudly proclaim they are 'fair and balanced. Why would Obama grace the O'reilly' Factor? Who in a clear mind would expect fair treatment in a snake pit?
    Ever notice that the first negativity toward Obama is related before all others by this 'fair and balanced" station? Most certainly they would never defend to the death the right to speak a different opinion or even give the other side a chance. Their behavior shows more than what they say as they bully, interrupt and sign off because they tooke the time to not allow the opposite to counter in honest debate.

    Posted by kathryn Creegan August 14, 08 10:59 PM
  1. If you think this book is critical of Obama. You should read "The End of Days The Warning" Who do you think he is suppose to be in this book?

    Posted by Danielle August 15, 08 11:33 AM
  1. I am writing from London and I can assure you that a book such as this, aimed against an honest and principled man as Barack Obama, would have just been dismissed as too pathetic to even talk about it. Americans, I am sure, are not less intelligent nor aware as we are here and i would be shocked and disgusted if this book would have any impact what's ever on his election as the next president. This book is offensive in every possible way but, most of all, it implies that the public are just too stupid and too ignorant to see through it. Obama cannot but win in this latest lower and lowest attack. My prayers are with you Barack Obama, May God always bless you and protect you.

    Posted by yasabella August 15, 08 03:33 PM
  1. Considering that much in Corsi's book comes from Obama's books says a lot. Who's really telling lies, Corsi or Obama? And considering that Obama is very vague as to presenting validated documents such as his real birth certificate. Is he also a citizen of Indoneseia. When did he change his name from Barry Soeroto to Barack Obama and why that info is not on his lawyer state bar registration. Is he still practicing his Muslim faith as Rev Wright's church accepts muslims in the church. So many unanswered questions. Not to mention the fraud involved and being investigated in many of the caucus states during the primary where thuggery, misogyny and sexist and racist cards were all played by the Obama campaign. So many unanswered questions. Could it be that Obama voted for Fisa because GOOGLE is one of his big supporters? Obamabots don't know the truth either and are foolishly voting on face value and very little Vetting.

    Posted by Judy Devlin August 15, 08 04:04 PM
  1. Number 10 has got it right. There is no reasoning with anyone who hasn't seen the darkness pervading our land after 8+ years. Let's go to Barack's site and counter any sales of this pathetically transparent attempt.

    Posted by Lee August 15, 08 05:23 PM
  1. I am writing from London and I can assure you that a book such as this, aimed against an honest and principled man as Barack Obama, would have just been dismissed as too pathetic to even talk about it. Americans, I am sure, are not less intelligent nor aware as we are here and i would be shocked and disgusted if this book would have any impact what's ever on his election as the next president. This book is offensive in every possible way but, most of all, it implies that the public are just too stupid and too ignorant to see through it. Obama cannot but win in this latest lower and lowest attack. My prayers are with you Barack Obama, May God always bless you and protect you.

    Posted by yasabella August 16, 08 03:44 AM
  1. There are a lot of people who wouldn't even buy this book. Now that Obama is making such a big deal about the book and responding on the internet, a lot of the information in the book, some of which is true, will now be more available to people who aren't following this that closely. For instance, a lot of people don't know that Obama used marijuana and cocaine. They will now if the read Obama's response (unless he distorts the truth). Also, everything that Obama says in his response will be factchecked and questioned and more controversy. I think it was a mistake for Obama to give so much credence to this man. Me thinks he doth protest too much. If the man were really lying, why doesn't Obama just sue him?

    Posted by Susan August 16, 08 05:32 AM
  1. Every society eventually gets the leadership it deserves. Proof: George Bush. If Obama is not elected President because too many voters were effectively scared away by malicious rumors and lies then, whether they realize it or not, they would have been misled like children. But then, looking at the broader challenges facing our country --- mortgage crisis, unaffordable health care, staggering national debt --- we have been brought up like children: happy when fed, pacified with candy, no sense of responsibility, and "I want it now" or I will cry.

    Posted by Vince Brown August 16, 08 10:22 PM
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