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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; CYBERPUNK} - Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:29:08 GMT</pubDate>
		<description> Natasha Mitchell, host of the excellent ABC National Radio Program (Australia) recently interviewed Elizabeth Hess, author of Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human. Natasha Mitchell: The story of project Nim begins with an ambitious research project whose goal is really embodied in the name the chimp was given. What was the project and tell us about the name? Elizabeth Hess: Nim Chimpsky was the chimp's name and the psychologist at Columbia University whose brainstorm this was was called Herbert Terrace and he was BF Skinner's protégé. And there was a longstanding argument essentially between BF Skinner and Noam Chomsky, famous linguist and philosopher, over whether or not you could draw the line between humans and non-humans at language. BF Skinner of course argued that language was learned, even a chimpanzee could learn a language; whereas Chomsky argued language only could be found in the human species and there was actually a biological organ responsible for the fact that we can speak and most animal species do not use language the way that we do. The idea was to put an infant chimp into a human family, allow that chimp to learn language in the same way that human children might learn language, that they would absorb it naturally from their siblings. And the reason that they were using American sign language is there had been earlier studies which had shown that chimps are extremely gestural, they were able to learn American sign language whereas they don't have the same voice boxes that we have. But no chimp had been raised from infancy in a human language and taught ASL, so this was an experiment that everybody was really looking at and watching to see what would happen. ... Natasha Mitchell: He even got to a point where he drank beer and smoked. Elizabeth Hess: Yes, it was the 70s so you know it wasn't uncommon for Columbia students to be hanging around at night smoking pot, and Nim loved pot and eventually developed his own sign for give me a joint. You know chimps have the same vices that we have. Nim started the day for his entire life with a cup of coffee and as he grew older was often grumpy if he didn't get it. Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky (ABC National Radio)...
  
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Boingboing.Net</span> -  Natasha Mitchell, host of the excellent ABC National Radio Program (Australia) recently interviewed Elizabeth Hess, author of Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human. Natasha Mitchell: The story of project Nim begins with an ambitious research project whose goal is really embodied in the name the chimp was given. What was the project and tell us about the name? Elizabeth Hess: Nim Chimpsky was the chimp's name and the psychologist at Columbia University whose brainstorm this was was called Herbert Terrace and he was BF Skinner's protégé. And there was a longstanding argument essentially between BF Skinner and Noam Chomsky, famous linguist and philosopher, over whether or not you could draw the line between humans and non-humans at language. BF Skinner of course argued that language was learned, even a chimpanzee could learn a language; whereas Chomsky argued language only could be found in the human species and there was actually a biological organ responsible for the fact that we can speak and most animal species do not use language the way that we do. The idea was to put an infant chimp into a human family, allow that chimp to learn language in the same way that human children might learn language, that they would absorb it naturally from their siblings. And the reason that they were using American sign language is there had been earlier studies which had shown that chimps are extremely gestural, they were able to learn American sign language whereas they don't have the same voice boxes that we have. But no chimp had been raised from infancy in a human language and taught ASL, so this was an experiment that everybody was really looking at and watching to see what would happen. ... Natasha Mitchell: He even got to a point where he drank beer and smoked. Elizabeth Hess: Yes, it was the 70s so you know it wasn't uncommon for Columbia students to be hanging around at night smoking pot, and Nim loved pot and eventually developed his own sign for give me a joint. You know chimps have the same vices that we have. Nim started the day for his entire life with a cup of coffee and as he grew older was often grumpy if he didn't get it. Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky (ABC National Radio)...
  
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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; RSS FEEDS} - Lost Finds Saturn Awards</title>
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Lost was a big winner at the Saturn Awards on June 24, earning four awards, including best network television series, best actor (Matthew Fox), best supporting actor (Michael Emerson) and best supporting actress (Elizabeth Mitchell). 
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Lost was a big winner at the Saturn Awards on June 24, earning four awards, including best network television series, best actor (Matthew Fox), best supporting actor (Michael Emerson) and best supporting actress (Elizabeth Mitchell). 
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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; CYBERPUNK} - Five years with the master of Pac-Man, by Joshua Bearman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:58:30 GMT</pubDate>
		<description> Joshua Bearman says: Let it be known that anyone interested in 8,000 words about Billy Mitchell, the world champion of Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Burgertime, and many other arcade games, need look no further than the July issue of Harper's, where an article about such appears. Perhaps you are thinking: but my Harper's subscription ran out and since it's now August the July issue is long gone from stands! This is true. Which is why the article is available HERE AS A PDF. And my apologies for being about six weeks behind on my mostly non-operative blog. This article was many years in the making, and was begun long before I wound up working on King of Kong. (BTW: King of Kong fans, rejoice! There is another whole dimension to the competitive classic gaming realm to be found here.) But the article came out while I happened to be out of the country getting married! This was also many years in the making and even more exciting, and so Billy Mitchell appearing in Harper's sort of snuck past me. But don't let my momentary inattention fool you: this is likely the most readable and entertaining look at the metaphysical implications of competitive Pac Man yet to appear! Slate's endorsement: "Best Culture Piece" of the month. Five years with the master of Pac-Man, by Joshua Bearman...
      
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Boingboing.Net</span> -  Joshua Bearman says: Let it be known that anyone interested in 8,000 words about Billy Mitchell, the world champion of Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Burgertime, and many other arcade games, need look no further than the July issue of Harper's, where an article about such appears. Perhaps you are thinking: but my Harper's subscription ran out and since it's now August the July issue is long gone from stands! This is true. Which is why the article is available HERE AS A PDF. And my apologies for being about six weeks behind on my mostly non-operative blog. This article was many years in the making, and was begun long before I wound up working on King of Kong. (BTW: King of Kong fans, rejoice! There is another whole dimension to the competitive classic gaming realm to be found here.) But the article came out while I happened to be out of the country getting married! This was also many years in the making and even more exciting, and so Billy Mitchell appearing in Harper's sort of snuck past me. But don't let my momentary inattention fool you: this is likely the most readable and entertaining look at the metaphysical implications of competitive Pac Man yet to appear! Slate's endorsement: "Best Culture Piece" of the month. Five years with the master of Pac-Man, by Joshua Bearman...
      
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; REAL ESTATE} - Office space at 68 Mitchell Blvd. (san rafael)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:20:58 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>The 68 Mitchell building has office space available



68 Mitchell is a very well maintained building. The building is surrounded by gardens and has abundant parking. Management is on-site. Many of the buildings current tenants have rented in this building for in excess of 10years. Tenants stay because of the buildings convenient location, attractive office space, reasonable rent and cooperative management. Current tenants are CPAs, Property Managers, Publisher and Investment Advisor.



One of our long-term tenants is moving out because they have outgrown their space.



Beginning July 1, 2008 we will have suites available ranging in size from 450sq.ft. to 500sq.ft. The rent per square is $2.09 on a full service basis (the rate includes utilities and janitorial). This compares to rent of $1.75 per sq. ft. if utilities and janitorial were not included! The owner will pay for tenant improvements based on the length and terms of the lease.



The building is close to McInnis Golf Center and Restaurant, Civic Center, Banks and 101.



Please contact us if you are interested in seeing the office space.  We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.



Contact phone is 415-507-1717

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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - The 68 Mitchell building has office space available



68 Mitchell is a very well maintained building. The building is surrounded by gardens and has abundant parking. Management is on-site. Many of the buildings current tenants have rented in this building for in excess of 10years. Tenants stay because of the buildings convenient location, attractive office space, reasonable rent and cooperative management. Current tenants are CPAs, Property Managers, Publisher and Investment Advisor.



One of our long-term tenants is moving out because they have outgrown their space.



Beginning July 1, 2008 we will have suites available ranging in size from 450sq.ft. to 500sq.ft. The rent per square is $2.09 on a full service basis (the rate includes utilities and janitorial). This compares to rent of $1.75 per sq. ft. if utilities and janitorial were not included! The owner will pay for tenant improvements based on the length and terms of the lease.



The building is close to McInnis Golf Center and Restaurant, Civic Center, Banks and 101.



Please contact us if you are interested in seeing the office space.  We will be happy to answer any questions you may have.



Contact phone is 415-507-1717

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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; RENTALS} - 3rd room in spacious 3 bedroom at duncan and valencia (mission district) $990</title>
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THE LOCATION: 



Duncan Street at Valencia, one block south of Cesar Chavez on a residential street.  We are within walking distance of the 24th Street BART and many bus lines and easily accessible by the 280 and 101. Right near emmy's spaghetti shack, the knockout, el rio, and mitchell's. There is also a Safeway up the block as well as several other bodegas and restaurants and bars.





THE HOUSE:

We are the corner building on a one way street snuggled between the Mission and Bernal Heights (with a great view of bernal hei). The apartment is the 2nd (top) floor of a pre-earthquake Victorian, is very spacious and has lots of light. The entire house was remodeled last year to keep its old fashioned charm (and original hardwood floors) but upgraded with freshly painted walls, modern wiring, and a modern kitchen with a dishwasher, garbage disposal, oven, stove, etc.  There are three bed rooms, each with its own set of bay windows, and one bath room. The living room is also large, with double bay windows.   The living room is decorated in the "mid-century" style but has a eclectic (not cluttered!) feel.  We have free laundry in the basement.







THE ROOM:

The available bedroom is at the front of the house and has three large bay windows with new shutters and hardwood floors.  It is about 10x10.5 feet plus extra on account of the bay windows plus the area by the closet.  It can fit a queen-sized bed, a desk, and bureau.    



THE ROOMMATES:

Pete - has 3 bikes, is trying to develop a refined taste for coffee, and has

lot of philosophy and math books on his shelf from school though he would

tell you he has unfortunately not picked one up for a while.  Pete used to

be able to play guitar and is from Philadelphia.

Julia- from NYC moved to SF last fall.  Works as a union organized by day and an occasional burlesque dancer by night. Likes to bike around to different bars and make costumes.  Travels for work about once a month.  Favorite music: Neko Case and Wu Tang.

Lula - age unknown, was rescued by Julia from the Pound four years ago. Is a 15 lb pekingese mix (looks like a skinny pug).  Can bark at strangers but is tender in time.  Sleeps in Julia's room but hangs around the house all day. No favorite music.



THE DEAL:

Rent is $990 a month total.  ALL UTILITIES ARE INCLUDED - we pay about $15 a month each for the internet and $20 every other weak for a cleaning man which so far has proven to be a good idea. And we split the rent three ways (it's $2,900).

(THE OPTIONAL PARKING SPOT: in the garage, an extra $200 if you want it)



PLEASE write us and tell us about yourself. MOVE IN is September 5th. Thanks.</description>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Media denounce Corsi's anti-Obama book</title>
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		<description>While the recent anti-Obama book by Jerome Corsi, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (Threshold
Editions), will debut atop the New York
Times bestseller list, many in the media are challenging the book,
noting its numerous falsehoods as well as its author's track record,
which includes a slew of bigoted posts on the
conservative website Free
Republic and co-authorship of a discredited book
attacking Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. The
media's reaction to The Obama Nation stands
in stark contrast to coverage of that 2004 book, Unfit for Command. As Media Matters for America
has noted, the media were sharply criticized
for taking too long to challenge Unfit's
numerous smears and falsehoods.

In an August 15 article in Editor &amp; Publisher, Greg Mitchell noted the contrast in the
media's reaction to the two books:


Four
years ago this month, with E&P's Joe Strupp, I explored in a number
of articles the belated or conflicted media response to the
"swiftboating" of Sen. John Kerry, then the Democratic nominee for
president. The mainstream press gave the charges-- carried in ads, in books and
articles, and in major TV appearances -- a free ride for a spell, then a
respectful airing mixed with critique, before in many cases finally attempting
to shoot them down as overwhelmingly exaggerated or false. This delay, along
with Kerry's own reluctance to face the matter squarely, quite possibly
cost the Democrat the White House. 

Now,
this month, a bestselling anti-Obama book -- by a co-author of the most
prominent "swiftboat" anti-Kerry book in 2004 -- has predictably
been published (by Mary Matalin's imprint) and has gained immediate and wide
attention in the mainstream. But this time, in many cases, the media response
has been a "swift" kick to its credibility.


Below are numerous examples of the
media responding with "a 'swift' kick" to The Obama Nation's credibility:

From an August 15 Washington Post column by Eugene
Robinson:


The
"author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John
Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew
vicious lies about Barack Obama. Right-wing radio talk-show hosts are dutifully
transmitting this concocted venom. This presidential campaign has officially
gotten ugly. 



The
"author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book
published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico
and Canada," Corsi claimed that George W. Bush was at the heart of a
secret conspiracy to subsume the United States into a post-national,
one-worldish North American Union. Corsi's writings on far-right blogs have
been even more paranoid and delusional. He has written that pedophilia, for
which he used a more graphic term, "is OK with the Pope as long as it
isn't reported by the liberal press." He has referred to Muslims as
"ragheads."

Corsi
would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been
the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's
exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that
book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing
echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds --
perhaps enough to swing the election.


From an August 13 Politico article by Kenneth P.
Vogel:


The
folks behind "The Obama Nation," the wildly successful but
factually disputed new book trashing presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama, are casting it as a scholarly, thoroughly researched
work. 

But its
author has left a trail of wild theories, vitriol and dogma that have called
into question his credibility.

Jerome
Corsi, who rose to prominence as the co-author of a book attacking 2004
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, penned another tome asserting oil is a nearly infinite
resource that continues to generate naturally, and posted a series of online comments
through 2004, including suggestions that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lesbian
and Muslims worship Satan.


From the August 13 edition of
MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:



RACHEL
MADDOW (guest host): You may remember Corsi for his
sober allegations that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, that John Kerry is both a
Jew and a Communist, and his allegations that Muslims actually worship Satan.
You may remember Jerome Corsi for his recent book
attacking the liberal myth that oil is a finite resource, since he, Jerome Corsi, has learned how to make new oil. You may remember Corsi for his scholarly rebuke of George W. Bush's
secret plan to merge the United States
into Mexico.

OK,
honestly, you probably don't remember Jerome Corsi
at all, because why would you pay attention to someone with a record like that?
But Corsi's new anti-Obama book will be number one on
that bestseller list for at least two weeks running, despite fact checking by
news organizations, including The New York
Times, showing it to be rife with errors and inaccuracies.

And the
Obama camp is now firing back, issuing a 40-page rebuttal
titled "Unfit for Publication," soon appearing at Obama's Fight
the Smears website. The campaign promising to forcefully respond with all means
at their disposal. Nonetheless, the book is selling well, due, essentially, to
hundreds of right wing talk show interviews, and large volume bulk sales to
right-wing organizations, a tactic to be discussed now with my next guest.


From the 9 a.m. ET hour of the August 5 edition of MSNBC Live:


BREWER:
You say it's a comprehensive look, and yet there are already online bloggers
that are going through this book page by page and picking apart what they see
as factual errors. Let me give you an example. You say in this book,
"Interestingly, Obama did not dedicate Dreams from My Father to his
mother or to his father, Barack Sr., or to his Indonesian stepfather," and
Media Matters,
the online organization, says in his book, he actually says on a -- on the last
page of the introduction, "It is to my family, though, my mother, my
grandparents, my siblings, stretched across oceans and continents that I owe
the deepest gratitude and to whom I dedicated this book." So if they're
going through, and they're finding all of these factual errors in your book,
why should we give you the credibility? 

CORSI:
Let's discuss that one. If you'll read carefully what Media Matters said, they point
out there is no dedication page even in the second edition. 

BREWER:
But it says right in the introduction that it's dedicated to his family.

CORSI:
In the introduction that he wrote after, this was going with the second book. And
the original book had no dedication page and this is not the typical way that
you dedicate a book. So I'm making the distinction there is no dedication page
in the book at all, never has been.

BREWER:
Media Matters
has some eight, nine, 10 pages of factual errors. 

CORSI:
And I'd be happy to go through each one of them with you. 

BREWER:
And we're not going to do that. But I'm saying, if they are finding one, then
why do you get credibility for the book? 

CORSI:
Well, I've already objected to the one they found. I think Media Matters
is wrong, and I would argue with every one of them. 


From the August 13 edition of
MSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams:


DAN ABRAMS
(host): Yeah. I mean, look, you know, and again, among the accusations, Brad,
debunked from this book -- drug use in the U.S. Senate, that he didn't
dedicate his book to his family, he wanted to decrease the size of the
military. I mean, the list goes on of the things that were debunked from this
book.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Larry King Live:


LARRY
KING (host): Jerome, you write in your book that Senator Obama has, quote, "yet to answer whether he stopped using marijuana
and cocaine completely in college or whether his drug usage extended to his law
school days or beyond."

CORSI: Yes.

KING:
But Obama wrote in his memoir Dreams from My Father -- which you repeatedly cite in your
book -- that when he moved to New
  York in the early '80s, quote, "I stopped
getting high. I ran three miles a day and I fasted on Sunday." So
are you saying he's lying?

CORSI: What I'm saying in the
book is that people who admit that they've used drugs -- and Obama -- Obama said he used drugs through Occidental. And it was a lot
of drugs. He said it was -- it had become virtually habitual with marijuana and
cocaine. My argument is that the self-reporting of people who use drugs
as to when they quit is not reliable. That's the argument I was
making.


From an August 15 post to Commentary magazine's Contentions blog by Peter Wehner, titled "The Obama Smears":


As for the
book: it seems to be riddled with factual errors-some relatively minor
(like asserting that Obama does not mention the birth of his half-sister, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, in Dreams
from My Father; Obama does mention her), and some
significant (suggesting that Obama favors withdrawing troops from Afghanistan;
he wants to do the opposite). But more problematic, I think, is Corsi's
claim that Obama has "extensive connections to Islam" and his
suggestion that Obama is a recent drug user. Those claims are, from everything
I can tell, unsubstantiated. (When challenged to produce the evidence, Corsi
counters with the "prove you're not beating your wife"
defense.)

For
example, Obama, who in his book admitted using drugs in his youth, says he
hasn't used any since he was 20 years old. Corsi, in an interview, said
Obama's words can't be trusted because "self-reporting, by
people who have used drugs, as to when they stopped is inherently
unreliable." And Corsi's effort to tie Obama to the Muslim
faith-claims based on questionable sources, reaching back to
Obama's youth in Indonesia-is especially troubling, since the
subtext here is attaching Obama to militant Islam and suggesting that
he's somehow alien to America and its values (when in fact his candidacy
is a confirmation of the viability of those values).

Corsi's
approach to politics is both destructive and self-destructive. If Senator Obama
loses, he should lose on the merits: his record in public life and his
political philosophy. And while it's legitimate to take into account
Obama's past associations with people like the Reverend Jeremiah
Wright-especially for someone like Obama, about whom relatively little is
known-it wrong and reckless to throw out unsubstantiated charges and
smears against Senator Obama.

Conservatism
has been an intellectual home to people like Burke and Buckley. The GOP is the
party that gave us Lincoln and Reagan. It seems to me that its leaders ought to
make it clear that they find what Dr. Corsi is doing to be both wrong and
repellent. To have their movement and their party associated with such a figure
would be a terrible thing and it will only help the cause of those who hold
both the GOP and the conservative movement in contempt.


From an August 12 Los Angeles Times article by Kate
Linthicum:


Right-wing
author Jerome Corsi hit it big in 2004 with a book attacking John F. Kerry.

"Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" soared to
No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Now
Corsi has done it again -- taking aim at a different Democratic presidential
candidate.

Corsi's
latest, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality," will top the Aug. 17 New York Times hard-cover nonfiction
bestseller list.

The
book lashes out at Barack Obama and alleges, among other things, that the
politician has a secret radical Islamic agenda.

But
being No. 1 doesn't necessarily mean being accurate. Obama is a
Christian.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Election Center:


CAMPBELL
BROWN (host): There's a new book out about Barack Obama. It's
number one right now on The New York Times
bestseller list. I can guarantee you, though, nobody in the Obama camp is happy
at all -- at all happy about that. And here's why.

It is
called Obama Nation:
Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. The author, Jerome Corsi, also co-wrote the book Unfit
for Command, which started the Swift Boating of John Kerry. Obama Nation is riddled with pretty much
every unsubstantiated rumor you ever heard about Obama. Jessica Yellin
found out for us that it's also turning into a major campaign headache. And, Jessica,
I know -- we know that some of the most damaging charges in this book just
aren't true. The author admits he's on a mission to take down Barack Obama. He's been slammed for books that he's written before. They're
also discredited. But it's still getting an awful lot of
traction.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Anderson Cooper 360:


JESSICA
YELLIN (CNN Capitol Hill correspondent): To prove his point, Corsi says the book is meticulously researched
and fact-checked. But when we checked his facts, we found he's wrong on
many points. Here are a few. The book claims Obama didn't
dedicate his first book, Dreams from My
Father, to his family members. He did. He dedicated it to his
mother, his grandmother, and his siblings. Corsi cites a report saying
Obama was in church when Reverend Jeremiah Wright made
comments about race on July 22. But Obama was out of state, a full time zone
away. And Corsi
writes Obama has yet to answer questions about whether he
ever stopped using drugs. But in his first book, Obama said he stopped getting
high during college.


From an August 12 New York Times article by Jim
Rutenberg and Julie Bosman:


In the
summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the
best-seller lists as co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book
attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that
began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as
he sought the presidency.

Almost exactly four
years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book
painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential
nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up
"extensive connections to Islam" -- Mr. Obama is Christian -- and questioning
whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever
ceased.

Significant parts of the
book, whose subtitle is "Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality," have already been challenged as misleading or false in the
days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance
on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday --
at No. 1.

[...]

Several of the book's accusations, in fact, are unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate.


From the August 14 edition of Fox
News' Hannity &amp; Colmes:


ALAN COLMES (co-host): The substance of the book --

[crosstalk]

COLMES: -- we have already seen in the book. He was wrong about a
sermon that Barack Obama attended. He got the date wrong. He was wrong about
the dedication in the book. He was wrong about Obama saying that he stopped
using drugs. He was not truthful about that. He was wrong about a number of
things in the book --

HUGH HEWITT (syndicated radio host): Actually, stop there, Alan.
That's not true --

COLMES: -- there have been a number of things in the book that have
been discredited.


From an August 14 Washington Post article by Eli
Saslow:


Corsi's
"The Obama Nation" lacks major revelations and has been dismissed by
Obama's campaign as a series of lies from a serial liar. Parts of the book have
also been disproved by the mainstream media. In 2004, Corsi co-wrote
"Unfit for Command," in which Swift boat veterans criticized Sen. John
F. Kerry's Vietnam War record. That book was also widely
disproved.


From an August 15 Washington Post editorial:


Unfortunately
but unsurprisingly, given his earlier hit job on the last Democratic nominee,
Mr. Corsi's latest is rife with inaccuracies and innuendo. If the fundamental
smear of "Unfit for Command" was that John F. Kerry was no war hero,
the insinuation of Mr. Corsi's latest is that Mr. Obama is a closet Muslim and
militant, black activist drug-user.

[...]

He gets
facts wrong, from the date of Mr. Obama's marriage to whether he dedicated his autobiography
to his family (he did) to whether he revealed that he took his future wife on
his second trip to Kenya (he did.) He makes offensive statements: "The
sexual attraction of his mother to her African husband jumps out from the
page." 

When
facts are lacking, Mr. Corsi makes his point by suggestive questions. Noting
that Life magazine could find no record of an article that Mr. Obama remembered
reading as a child about a black man who tried to lighten his skin, Mr. Corsi
asks, "How much more imagining, hypothetical lying, or just plain lying is
Obama capable of doing?" When facts are present, he twists them to make
Mr. Obama bad.


From an August 14 Associated Press article by Nedra
Pickler:


Jerome
Corsi's anti-Obama book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult
of Personality," claims the Illinois
senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president. The book is a
compilation of all the innuendo and false rumors against Obama -- that he was
raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and secretly has a
"black rage" hidden beneath the surface.

In
fact, Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

[...]

Corsi
suggests, without a shred of proof, that Obama may be using drugs today. Obama
has acknowledged using marijuana and cocaine as a teenager but says he quit
when he went to college and hasn't used drugs since.

Corsi
makes an issue of the fact that, before he quit smoking cigarettes, Obama
didn't want it widely known that he smoked. "If Obama takes pains to hide
his smoking from us, what else does he take pains to hide?" Corsi asks in
the book.

Corsi
also dwells on Obama's mother marrying Obama's African father and later
marrying someone from Indonesia
-- whom Corsi describes as "a second man of color to be her mate."
The Obama campaign says the description is one of many examples of Corsi's
"offensive language" in the book.

He
claims Obama received extensive Islamic religious education as a boy in Indonesia,
education that was only offered to the truly faithful. Actually, Obama is a
Christian and as a boy he attended both Catholic school and Indonesian public
schools where some basic study of the Koran was offered.

He
accuses Obama of wanting to weaken the military even though Obama's campaign
calls for adding 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines.


From an August 13 post by Joe Klein on Time magazine's Swampland
blog:


I heard
about Jerome Corsi's book a few weeks ago from my mother, who said that her
great fear--that Barack Obama has covert Islamic associations--had been
confirmed by a new book. I told her not to worry, that many reputable people
had looked into the matter and Obama was more likely to be spotted in Whole
Foods than praying in a mosque. (Since my mother has never been to Whole Foods,
so she didn't quite get my wry allusion.) "I hope so," she said,
dubiously. 

So we
know the market for trash is there, and not so far from home. And we know, that
Mary Matalin, who appears regularly on mainstream media programs like Meet the Press
called the Corsi book in the New York Times today:

"a
piece of scholarship, and a good one at that."

But
hey, Mary stands to make big bucks off this scholarship, which I'm sure was
submitted for peer review and otherwise held to the highest editorial
standards--and I'm sure her reputation and mediagenicity won't be damaged by
this poisonous crap, and we're all friends here, aren't we? And, yknow, they
say politics ain't beanbag...and it's all in the game to tell innocent, well-intentioned
people that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim or that John Kerry wasn't really a
hero in Vietnam.
Or, as George W. Bush, once told a rightly outraged John McCain--whose wife and
daughter Bush's minions had smeared--"It's just politics."


An August 13 post on Jonathan
Martin's blog at Politico.com:


The
power of Fox News and talk radio: Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation "is to
make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction
hardcovers this Sunday -- at No. 1.," according to a front-page story by Jim Rutenberg
and Julie Bosman in the Times today that will only help sell more books.

As
Rutenberg and Bosman note, the book has its share of errors. 

But
Corsi delved into the drug-and-Muslim fever swamps, which, regardless of
accuracy, is what many on the right want to believe about Obama.

The
best part of the piece, though, is this: "He said he was planning to
aid several conservative groups that intend to run advertisements against Mr.
Obama this fall, though he would not name them."

A
third-party anti-Obama effort still may form, but methinks there is a reason
here why Corsi "would not name them."

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - While the recent anti-Obama book by Jerome Corsi, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (Threshold
Editions), will debut atop the New York
Times bestseller list, many in the media are challenging the book,
noting its numerous falsehoods as well as its author's track record,
which includes a slew of bigoted posts on the
conservative website Free
Republic and co-authorship of a discredited book
attacking Sen. John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign. The
media's reaction to The Obama Nation stands
in stark contrast to coverage of that 2004 book, Unfit for Command. As Media Matters for America
has noted, the media were sharply criticized
for taking too long to challenge Unfit's
numerous smears and falsehoods.

In an August 15 article in Editor & Publisher, Greg Mitchell noted the contrast in the
media's reaction to the two books:


Four
years ago this month, with E&P's Joe Strupp, I explored in a number
of articles the belated or conflicted media response to the
"swiftboating" of Sen. John Kerry, then the Democratic nominee for
president. The mainstream press gave the charges-- carried in ads, in books and
articles, and in major TV appearances -- a free ride for a spell, then a
respectful airing mixed with critique, before in many cases finally attempting
to shoot them down as overwhelmingly exaggerated or false. This delay, along
with Kerry's own reluctance to face the matter squarely, quite possibly
cost the Democrat the White House. 

Now,
this month, a bestselling anti-Obama book -- by a co-author of the most
prominent "swiftboat" anti-Kerry book in 2004 -- has predictably
been published (by Mary Matalin's imprint) and has gained immediate and wide
attention in the mainstream. But this time, in many cases, the media response
has been a "swift" kick to its credibility.


Below are numerous examples of the
media responding with "a 'swift' kick" to The Obama Nation's credibility:

From an August 15 Washington Post column by Eugene
Robinson:


The
"author," and I use the term loosely, whose vicious lies damaged John
Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign has crawled back out from under his rock to spew
vicious lies about Barack Obama. Right-wing radio talk-show hosts are dutifully
transmitting this concocted venom. This presidential campaign has officially
gotten ugly. 



The
"author" I'm talking about is a man named Jerome Corsi. In a book
published last year, "The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico
and Canada," Corsi claimed that George W. Bush was at the heart of a
secret conspiracy to subsume the United States into a post-national,
one-worldish North American Union. Corsi's writings on far-right blogs have
been even more paranoid and delusional. He has written that pedophilia, for
which he used a more graphic term, "is OK with the Pope as long as it
isn't reported by the liberal press." He has referred to Muslims as
"ragheads."

Corsi
would be known as just another visitor from the outer fringe if he had not been
the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book that slimed Kerry's
exemplary record as a Swift boat commander in Vietnam. The allegations in that
book were discredited, but not before they had been amplified by the right-wing
echo chamber to the point where they raised questions in some voters' minds --
perhaps enough to swing the election.


From an August 13 Politico article by Kenneth P.
Vogel:


The
folks behind "The Obama Nation," the wildly successful but
factually disputed new book trashing presumptive Democratic presidential
nominee Barack Obama, are casting it as a scholarly, thoroughly researched
work. 

But its
author has left a trail of wild theories, vitriol and dogma that have called
into question his credibility.

Jerome
Corsi, who rose to prominence as the co-author of a book attacking 2004
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, penned another tome asserting oil is a nearly infinite
resource that continues to generate naturally, and posted a series of online comments
through 2004, including suggestions that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lesbian
and Muslims worship Satan.


From the August 13 edition of
MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:



RACHEL
MADDOW (guest host): You may remember Corsi for his
sober allegations that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, that John Kerry is both a
Jew and a Communist, and his allegations that Muslims actually worship Satan.
You may remember Jerome Corsi for his recent book
attacking the liberal myth that oil is a finite resource, since he, Jerome Corsi, has learned how to make new oil. You may remember Corsi for his scholarly rebuke of George W. Bush's
secret plan to merge the United States
into Mexico.

OK,
honestly, you probably don't remember Jerome Corsi
at all, because why would you pay attention to someone with a record like that?
But Corsi's new anti-Obama book will be number one on
that bestseller list for at least two weeks running, despite fact checking by
news organizations, including The New York
Times, showing it to be rife with errors and inaccuracies.

And the
Obama camp is now firing back, issuing a 40-page rebuttal
titled "Unfit for Publication," soon appearing at Obama's Fight
the Smears website. The campaign promising to forcefully respond with all means
at their disposal. Nonetheless, the book is selling well, due, essentially, to
hundreds of right wing talk show interviews, and large volume bulk sales to
right-wing organizations, a tactic to be discussed now with my next guest.


From the 9 a.m. ET hour of the August 5 edition of MSNBC Live:


BREWER:
You say it's a comprehensive look, and yet there are already online bloggers
that are going through this book page by page and picking apart what they see
as factual errors. Let me give you an example. You say in this book,
"Interestingly, Obama did not dedicate Dreams from My Father to his
mother or to his father, Barack Sr., or to his Indonesian stepfather," and
Media Matters,
the online organization, says in his book, he actually says on a -- on the last
page of the introduction, "It is to my family, though, my mother, my
grandparents, my siblings, stretched across oceans and continents that I owe
the deepest gratitude and to whom I dedicated this book." So if they're
going through, and they're finding all of these factual errors in your book,
why should we give you the credibility? 

CORSI:
Let's discuss that one. If you'll read carefully what Media Matters said, they point
out there is no dedication page even in the second edition. 

BREWER:
But it says right in the introduction that it's dedicated to his family.

CORSI:
In the introduction that he wrote after, this was going with the second book. And
the original book had no dedication page and this is not the typical way that
you dedicate a book. So I'm making the distinction there is no dedication page
in the book at all, never has been.

BREWER:
Media Matters
has some eight, nine, 10 pages of factual errors. 

CORSI:
And I'd be happy to go through each one of them with you. 

BREWER:
And we're not going to do that. But I'm saying, if they are finding one, then
why do you get credibility for the book? 

CORSI:
Well, I've already objected to the one they found. I think Media Matters
is wrong, and I would argue with every one of them. 


From the August 13 edition of
MSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams:


DAN ABRAMS
(host): Yeah. I mean, look, you know, and again, among the accusations, Brad,
debunked from this book -- drug use in the U.S. Senate, that he didn't
dedicate his book to his family, he wanted to decrease the size of the
military. I mean, the list goes on of the things that were debunked from this
book.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Larry King Live:


LARRY
KING (host): Jerome, you write in your book that Senator Obama has, quote, "yet to answer whether he stopped using marijuana
and cocaine completely in college or whether his drug usage extended to his law
school days or beyond."

CORSI: Yes.

KING:
But Obama wrote in his memoir Dreams from My Father -- which you repeatedly cite in your
book -- that when he moved to New
  York in the early '80s, quote, "I stopped
getting high. I ran three miles a day and I fasted on Sunday." So
are you saying he's lying?

CORSI: What I'm saying in the
book is that people who admit that they've used drugs -- and Obama -- Obama said he used drugs through Occidental. And it was a lot
of drugs. He said it was -- it had become virtually habitual with marijuana and
cocaine. My argument is that the self-reporting of people who use drugs
as to when they quit is not reliable. That's the argument I was
making.


From an August 15 post to Commentary magazine's Contentions blog by Peter Wehner, titled "The Obama Smears":


As for the
book: it seems to be riddled with factual errors-some relatively minor
(like asserting that Obama does not mention the birth of his half-sister, Maya
Soetoro-Ng, in Dreams
from My Father; Obama does mention her), and some
significant (suggesting that Obama favors withdrawing troops from Afghanistan;
he wants to do the opposite). But more problematic, I think, is Corsi's
claim that Obama has "extensive connections to Islam" and his
suggestion that Obama is a recent drug user. Those claims are, from everything
I can tell, unsubstantiated. (When challenged to produce the evidence, Corsi
counters with the "prove you're not beating your wife"
defense.)

For
example, Obama, who in his book admitted using drugs in his youth, says he
hasn't used any since he was 20 years old. Corsi, in an interview, said
Obama's words can't be trusted because "self-reporting, by
people who have used drugs, as to when they stopped is inherently
unreliable." And Corsi's effort to tie Obama to the Muslim
faith-claims based on questionable sources, reaching back to
Obama's youth in Indonesia-is especially troubling, since the
subtext here is attaching Obama to militant Islam and suggesting that
he's somehow alien to America and its values (when in fact his candidacy
is a confirmation of the viability of those values).

Corsi's
approach to politics is both destructive and self-destructive. If Senator Obama
loses, he should lose on the merits: his record in public life and his
political philosophy. And while it's legitimate to take into account
Obama's past associations with people like the Reverend Jeremiah
Wright-especially for someone like Obama, about whom relatively little is
known-it wrong and reckless to throw out unsubstantiated charges and
smears against Senator Obama.

Conservatism
has been an intellectual home to people like Burke and Buckley. The GOP is the
party that gave us Lincoln and Reagan. It seems to me that its leaders ought to
make it clear that they find what Dr. Corsi is doing to be both wrong and
repellent. To have their movement and their party associated with such a figure
would be a terrible thing and it will only help the cause of those who hold
both the GOP and the conservative movement in contempt.


From an August 12 Los Angeles Times article by Kate
Linthicum:


Right-wing
author Jerome Corsi hit it big in 2004 with a book attacking John F. Kerry.

"Unfit
for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" soared to
No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

Now
Corsi has done it again -- taking aim at a different Democratic presidential
candidate.

Corsi's
latest, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality," will top the Aug. 17 New York Times hard-cover nonfiction
bestseller list.

The
book lashes out at Barack Obama and alleges, among other things, that the
politician has a secret radical Islamic agenda.

But
being No. 1 doesn't necessarily mean being accurate. Obama is a
Christian.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Election Center:


CAMPBELL
BROWN (host): There's a new book out about Barack Obama. It's
number one right now on The New York Times
bestseller list. I can guarantee you, though, nobody in the Obama camp is happy
at all -- at all happy about that. And here's why.

It is
called Obama Nation:
Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. The author, Jerome Corsi, also co-wrote the book Unfit
for Command, which started the Swift Boating of John Kerry. Obama Nation is riddled with pretty much
every unsubstantiated rumor you ever heard about Obama. Jessica Yellin
found out for us that it's also turning into a major campaign headache. And, Jessica,
I know -- we know that some of the most damaging charges in this book just
aren't true. The author admits he's on a mission to take down Barack Obama. He's been slammed for books that he's written before. They're
also discredited. But it's still getting an awful lot of
traction.


From the August 13 edition of CNN's
Anderson Cooper 360:


JESSICA
YELLIN (CNN Capitol Hill correspondent): To prove his point, Corsi says the book is meticulously researched
and fact-checked. But when we checked his facts, we found he's wrong on
many points. Here are a few. The book claims Obama didn't
dedicate his first book, Dreams from My
Father, to his family members. He did. He dedicated it to his
mother, his grandmother, and his siblings. Corsi cites a report saying
Obama was in church when Reverend Jeremiah Wright made
comments about race on July 22. But Obama was out of state, a full time zone
away. And Corsi
writes Obama has yet to answer questions about whether he
ever stopped using drugs. But in his first book, Obama said he stopped getting
high during college.


From an August 12 New York Times article by Jim
Rutenberg and Julie Bosman:


In the
summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the
best-seller lists as co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book
attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that
began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as
he sought the presidency.

Almost exactly four
years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book
painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential
nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up
"extensive connections to Islam" -- Mr. Obama is Christian -- and questioning
whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever
ceased.

Significant parts of the
book, whose subtitle is "Leftist Politics and the Cult of
Personality," have already been challenged as misleading or false in the
days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance
on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday --
at No. 1.

[...]

Several of the book's accusations, in fact, are unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate.


From the August 14 edition of Fox
News' Hannity & Colmes:


ALAN COLMES (co-host): The substance of the book --

[crosstalk]

COLMES: -- we have already seen in the book. He was wrong about a
sermon that Barack Obama attended. He got the date wrong. He was wrong about
the dedication in the book. He was wrong about Obama saying that he stopped
using drugs. He was not truthful about that. He was wrong about a number of
things in the book --

HUGH HEWITT (syndicated radio host): Actually, stop there, Alan.
That's not true --

COLMES: -- there have been a number of things in the book that have
been discredited.


From an August 14 Washington Post article by Eli
Saslow:


Corsi's
"The Obama Nation" lacks major revelations and has been dismissed by
Obama's campaign as a series of lies from a serial liar. Parts of the book have
also been disproved by the mainstream media. In 2004, Corsi co-wrote
"Unfit for Command," in which Swift boat veterans criticized Sen. John
F. Kerry's Vietnam War record. That book was also widely
disproved.


From an August 15 Washington Post editorial:


Unfortunately
but unsurprisingly, given his earlier hit job on the last Democratic nominee,
Mr. Corsi's latest is rife with inaccuracies and innuendo. If the fundamental
smear of "Unfit for Command" was that John F. Kerry was no war hero,
the insinuation of Mr. Corsi's latest is that Mr. Obama is a closet Muslim and
militant, black activist drug-user.

[...]

He gets
facts wrong, from the date of Mr. Obama's marriage to whether he dedicated his autobiography
to his family (he did) to whether he revealed that he took his future wife on
his second trip to Kenya (he did.) He makes offensive statements: "The
sexual attraction of his mother to her African husband jumps out from the
page." 

When
facts are lacking, Mr. Corsi makes his point by suggestive questions. Noting
that Life magazine could find no record of an article that Mr. Obama remembered
reading as a child about a black man who tried to lighten his skin, Mr. Corsi
asks, "How much more imagining, hypothetical lying, or just plain lying is
Obama capable of doing?" When facts are present, he twists them to make
Mr. Obama bad.


From an August 14 Associated Press article by Nedra
Pickler:


Jerome
Corsi's anti-Obama book, "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult
of Personality," claims the Illinois
senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president. The book is a
compilation of all the innuendo and false rumors against Obama -- that he was
raised a Muslim, attended a radical, black church and secretly has a
"black rage" hidden beneath the surface.

In
fact, Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

[...]

Corsi
suggests, without a shred of proof, that Obama may be using drugs today. Obama
has acknowledged using marijuana and cocaine as a teenager but says he quit
when he went to college and hasn't used drugs since.

Corsi
makes an issue of the fact that, before he quit smoking cigarettes, Obama
didn't want it widely known that he smoked. "If Obama takes pains to hide
his smoking from us, what else does he take pains to hide?" Corsi asks in
the book.

Corsi
also dwells on Obama's mother marrying Obama's African father and later
marrying someone from Indonesia
-- whom Corsi describes as "a second man of color to be her mate."
The Obama campaign says the description is one of many examples of Corsi's
"offensive language" in the book.

He
claims Obama received extensive Islamic religious education as a boy in Indonesia,
education that was only offered to the truly faithful. Actually, Obama is a
Christian and as a boy he attended both Catholic school and Indonesian public
schools where some basic study of the Koran was offered.

He
accuses Obama of wanting to weaken the military even though Obama's campaign
calls for adding 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines.


From an August 13 post by Joe Klein on Time magazine's Swampland
blog:


I heard
about Jerome Corsi's book a few weeks ago from my mother, who said that her
great fear--that Barack Obama has covert Islamic associations--had been
confirmed by a new book. I told her not to worry, that many reputable people
had looked into the matter and Obama was more likely to be spotted in Whole
Foods than praying in a mosque. (Since my mother has never been to Whole Foods,
so she didn't quite get my wry allusion.) "I hope so," she said,
dubiously. 

So we
know the market for trash is there, and not so far from home. And we know, that
Mary Matalin, who appears regularly on mainstream media programs like Meet the Press
called the Corsi book in the New York Times today:

"a
piece of scholarship, and a good one at that."

But
hey, Mary stands to make big bucks off this scholarship, which I'm sure was
submitted for peer review and otherwise held to the highest editorial
standards--and I'm sure her reputation and mediagenicity won't be damaged by
this poisonous crap, and we're all friends here, aren't we? And, yknow, they
say politics ain't beanbag...and it's all in the game to tell innocent, well-intentioned
people that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim or that John Kerry wasn't really a
hero in Vietnam.
Or, as George W. Bush, once told a rightly outraged John McCain--whose wife and
daughter Bush's minions had smeared--"It's just politics."


An August 13 post on Jonathan
Martin's blog at Politico.com:


The
power of Fox News and talk radio: Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation "is to
make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction
hardcovers this Sunday -- at No. 1.," according to a front-page story by Jim Rutenberg
and Julie Bosman in the Times today that will only help sell more books.

As
Rutenberg and Bosman note, the book has its share of errors. 

But
Corsi delved into the drug-and-Muslim fever swamps, which, regardless of
accuracy, is what many on the right want to believe about Obama.

The
best part of the piece, though, is this: "He said he was planning to
aid several conservative groups that intend to run advertisements against Mr.
Obama this fall, though he would not name them."

A
third-party anti-Obama effort still may form, but methinks there is a reason
here why Corsi "would not name them."

    
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Wash. Post uncritically repeats McCain's false suggestion that Obama didn't visit wounded troops on overseas trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:02:15 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>After writing that Sen. John McCain had
"launched a string of increasingly personal attacks on" Sen. Barack
Obama, Washington Post writers
Jonathan Weisman and Perry Bacon Jr. reported in an August 7 article that McCain
"accused him [Obama] of going to a gym rather than visiting wounded
troops" while overseas. But Weisman and Bacon did not note that McCain's accusation
is false:
Obama did in fact visit wounded troops during his recent trip, according to NBC
chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, who was covering the trip. Mitchell reported
in a July 25 appearance on
MSNBC's Morning Joe that
Obama "visited a casualty unit in the Green Zone." On July 28, Mitchell again said that Obama had visited troops while
overseas, reporting: "I can attest to the fact that he did visit troops in Iraq
only four or five days earlier, that there was no notice of it, that I
confirmed that it happened, but they had no video of any type and no reporters.
And that he's been to Walter Reed. So let's at least get that off the
table."

From Weisman and Bacon's August 7 Washington Post
article: 


The parries
come more than a week after his Republican opponent launched a string of
increasingly personal attacks on Obama. McCain has said that his rival would
lose a war in order to win a campaign, accused him of going to a gym rather
than visiting wounded troops, and, while aides asserted that he had
"played the race card," hinted that Obama has a messiah complex and
portrayed him as a celebrity comparable to Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. That
final line of assault continued yesterday with a new McCain ad, again mocking
Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world."

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - After writing that Sen. John McCain had
"launched a string of increasingly personal attacks on" Sen. Barack
Obama, Washington Post writers
Jonathan Weisman and Perry Bacon Jr. reported in an August 7 article that McCain
"accused him [Obama] of going to a gym rather than visiting wounded
troops" while overseas. But Weisman and Bacon did not note that McCain's accusation
is false:
Obama did in fact visit wounded troops during his recent trip, according to NBC
chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell, who was covering the trip. Mitchell reported
in a July 25 appearance on
MSNBC's Morning Joe that
Obama "visited a casualty unit in the Green Zone." On July 28, Mitchell again said that Obama had visited troops while
overseas, reporting: "I can attest to the fact that he did visit troops in Iraq
only four or five days earlier, that there was no notice of it, that I
confirmed that it happened, but they had no video of any type and no reporters.
And that he's been to Walter Reed. So let's at least get that off the
table."

From Weisman and Bacon's August 7 Washington Post
article: 


The parries
come more than a week after his Republican opponent launched a string of
increasingly personal attacks on Obama. McCain has said that his rival would
lose a war in order to win a campaign, accused him of going to a gym rather
than visiting wounded troops, and, while aides asserted that he had
"played the race card," hinted that Obama has a messiah complex and
portrayed him as a celebrity comparable to Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. That
final line of assault continued yesterday with a new McCain ad, again mocking
Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world."

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Wash. Post uncritically repeats McCain&#39;s false suggestion that Obama didn&#39;t visit wounded troops on overseas trip {...} The Washington Post reported that Sen. John McCain "accused" Sen. Barack Obama "of going to a gym rather than visiting wounded troops" during his recent overseas trip, but the Post did not note that the accusation is false. {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 7, 2008, 10:02 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 8, 2008, 11:57 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;16KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - NBC, CNN repeat McCain's criticism of Obama for 2005 energy bill vote, but neither report included Obama response</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Reporting on Sen. John McCain's
tour of a nuclear power plant in Michigan,
NBC and CNN uncritically reported McCain's charge that Sen. Barack Obama
voted for an energy bill in 2005 that was "full of goodies and breaks for
the oil companies," while McCain voted against it. Neither provided a
response from the Obama campaign, which says that Obama voted for the bill
because it included extensive investments in renewable energy. Nor did either
report note that the bill actually resulted in a net tax increase for the oil
and gas industry. 

NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent
Andrea Mitchell reported on the August 6 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News that, "touring a
nuclear power plant today, McCain pointed out Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney
energy bill three years ago." She then aired a clip of McCain saying,
"When the energy bill came to the floor of the Senate full of goodies and
breaks for the oil companies, I voted against it. Senator Obama voted for
it." Similarly, CNN congressional correspondent Ed Henry also
uncritically repeated McCain's claim August 6 on The Situation Room, despite the fact that former Sen. Tom
Daschle said earlier on the program that Obama voted for the bill
"because, in large measure, it included for the first time some of the
alternative energy developments that this country so badly needs."
Neither report mentioned Obama's responses to the charge, despite their
inclusion in recent Associated Press and CNN.com articles.

Indeed, an August 4 Associated Press article reported that
"Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the Democrat voted for the bill because
it included huge investments in renewable energy," and an August 5
CNN.com story said Obama
defended his vote during the primary season, saying "it was the best that
we could do right now, given the makeup of Congress." Further, Obama
issued a press release on June
29, 2005, that said: "This bill, while far from a solution, is a first
step toward decreasing America's
dependence on foreign oil." The release went on to cite the
legislation's investments in biofuels, plug-in hybrids, flexible-fuel
vehicles "that could travel up to 500 miles per gallon of
gasoline," and clean-coal technology as reasons he voted for the bill.
The release also quoted him saying: 


"So,
I vote for this bill reluctantly today, disappointed that we have missed our
opportunity to do something bolder that would have put us on the path to energy
independence. This bill should be the first step, not the last, in our journey
toward energy independence." 


And
contrary to McCain's claim that the bill was "full of goodies and
breaks for the oil companies," a February 27, 2007, Congressional Research Service report found that
although the bill "included several oil and gas tax incentives, providing
about $2.6 billion of tax cuts for the oil and gas industry," it also
"provided for $2.9 billion of tax increases on the oil and gas industry,
for a net tax increase on the industry of nearly $300 million over 11
years": 


The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT05, P.L. 109-58) included several
oil and gas tax incentives, providing about $2.6 billion of tax cuts for the
oil and gas industry. In addition, EPACT05 provided for $2.9 billion of tax
increases on the oil and gas industry, for a net tax increase on the industry
of nearly $300 million over 11 years. Energy tax increases comprise the oil
spill liability tax and the Leaking Underground Storage Tank financing rate,
both of which are imposed on oil refineries. If these taxes are subtracted from
the tax subsidies, the oil and gas refinery and distribution sector received a
net tax increase of $1,356 million ($2,857 million minus $1,501 million).



From the August 5 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News
with Brian Williams: 


MITCHELL: And
touring a nuclear power plant today, McCain pointed out Obama voted for the
Bush-Cheney energy bill three years ago.

McCAIN: When the energy bill came to the floor of the
Senate full of goodies and breaks for the oil companies, I voted against it.
Senator Obama voted for it.

MITCHELL: In fact, as energy prices climb this
summer, both candidates have shifted with the political winds. McCain is now a
true believer in offshore drilling, which he once opposed.

McCAIN: We're going
to drill offshore and we're going to drill now. 


From the August 5 edition of CNN's
The Situation Room: 


DASCHLE: Well, Wolf, it's impossible
to separate yourself from the record, and the record is very clear when it
comes to energy in particular, but a lot of the issues. On 90 percent of the
votes taken in the Senate over the course of the last eight years, John McCain
and Barack Obama -- I mean, John McCain and George Bush have been together. He
has voted against --

BLITZER: But a couple years ago in
an energy bill that the president supported, Senator McCain opposed it because
he thought it was too much --
there was too much fat in there. Senator Obama supported the president's energy
bill. 

DASCHLE: Well, that's because, in
large measure, it included for the first time some of the alternative energy
development that this country so badly needs. It included some of the
conservation methods that we have been trying to get in the books for a long
period of time. John McCain opposed that bill, [unintelligible] -- 

BLITZER: But it had a lot of -- it
had a lot of benefits, though, for big oil, that legislation. 

DASCHLE: Well, it had -- it's had some benefits for energy
overall, but clearly, if we're ever going to change course, we've got to
understand the importance of alternative energy. 

[...]

HENRY:
Obama has a much more cautious approach to nuclear power. He does not want to
build any new plants without first getting a better handle on safety and
security. 

OBAMA [video
clip]: It means finding safer ways to use nuclear power and store nuclear
waste. 

HENRY: Now, in that speech, Obama
also stepped up his attacks on McCain by charging once again that he's in the
pocket of the oil industry. But McCain is firing back that, back in 2005, when
the president's energy bill came up for a vote, Obama voted for that. That had
some huge tax breaks for oil and gas interests. McCain voted against it --
Wolf. 


BLITZER: Thanks very much, Ed Henry,
for that. 

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - Reporting on Sen. John McCain's
tour of a nuclear power plant in Michigan,
NBC and CNN uncritically reported McCain's charge that Sen. Barack Obama
voted for an energy bill in 2005 that was "full of goodies and breaks for
the oil companies," while McCain voted against it. Neither provided a
response from the Obama campaign, which says that Obama voted for the bill
because it included extensive investments in renewable energy. Nor did either
report note that the bill actually resulted in a net tax increase for the oil
and gas industry. 

NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent
Andrea Mitchell reported on the August 6 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News that, "touring a
nuclear power plant today, McCain pointed out Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney
energy bill three years ago." She then aired a clip of McCain saying,
"When the energy bill came to the floor of the Senate full of goodies and
breaks for the oil companies, I voted against it. Senator Obama voted for
it." Similarly, CNN congressional correspondent Ed Henry also
uncritically repeated McCain's claim August 6 on The Situation Room, despite the fact that former Sen. Tom
Daschle said earlier on the program that Obama voted for the bill
"because, in large measure, it included for the first time some of the
alternative energy developments that this country so badly needs."
Neither report mentioned Obama's responses to the charge, despite their
inclusion in recent Associated Press and CNN.com articles.

Indeed, an August 4 Associated Press article reported that
"Obama spokesman Bill Burton said the Democrat voted for the bill because
it included huge investments in renewable energy," and an August 5
CNN.com story said Obama
defended his vote during the primary season, saying "it was the best that
we could do right now, given the makeup of Congress." Further, Obama
issued a press release on June
29, 2005, that said: "This bill, while far from a solution, is a first
step toward decreasing America's
dependence on foreign oil." The release went on to cite the
legislation's investments in biofuels, plug-in hybrids, flexible-fuel
vehicles "that could travel up to 500 miles per gallon of
gasoline," and clean-coal technology as reasons he voted for the bill.
The release also quoted him saying: 


"So,
I vote for this bill reluctantly today, disappointed that we have missed our
opportunity to do something bolder that would have put us on the path to energy
independence. This bill should be the first step, not the last, in our journey
toward energy independence." 


And
contrary to McCain's claim that the bill was "full of goodies and
breaks for the oil companies," a February 27, 2007, Congressional Research Service report found that
although the bill "included several oil and gas tax incentives, providing
about $2.6 billion of tax cuts for the oil and gas industry," it also
"provided for $2.9 billion of tax increases on the oil and gas industry,
for a net tax increase on the industry of nearly $300 million over 11
years": 


The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT05, P.L. 109-58) included several
oil and gas tax incentives, providing about $2.6 billion of tax cuts for the
oil and gas industry. In addition, EPACT05 provided for $2.9 billion of tax
increases on the oil and gas industry, for a net tax increase on the industry
of nearly $300 million over 11 years. Energy tax increases comprise the oil
spill liability tax and the Leaking Underground Storage Tank financing rate,
both of which are imposed on oil refineries. If these taxes are subtracted from
the tax subsidies, the oil and gas refinery and distribution sector received a
net tax increase of $1,356 million ($2,857 million minus $1,501 million).



From the August 5 broadcast of NBC's Nightly News
with Brian Williams: 


MITCHELL: And
touring a nuclear power plant today, McCain pointed out Obama voted for the
Bush-Cheney energy bill three years ago.

McCAIN: When the energy bill came to the floor of the
Senate full of goodies and breaks for the oil companies, I voted against it.
Senator Obama voted for it.

MITCHELL: In fact, as energy prices climb this
summer, both candidates have shifted with the political winds. McCain is now a
true believer in offshore drilling, which he once opposed.

McCAIN: We're going
to drill offshore and we're going to drill now. 


From the August 5 edition of CNN's
The Situation Room: 


DASCHLE: Well, Wolf, it's impossible
to separate yourself from the record, and the record is very clear when it
comes to energy in particular, but a lot of the issues. On 90 percent of the
votes taken in the Senate over the course of the last eight years, John McCain
and Barack Obama -- I mean, John McCain and George Bush have been together. He
has voted against --

BLITZER: But a couple years ago in
an energy bill that the president supported, Senator McCain opposed it because
he thought it was too much --
there was too much fat in there. Senator Obama supported the president's energy
bill. 

DASCHLE: Well, that's because, in
large measure, it included for the first time some of the alternative energy
development that this country so badly needs. It included some of the
conservation methods that we have been trying to get in the books for a long
period of time. John McCain opposed that bill, [unintelligible] -- 

BLITZER: But it had a lot of -- it
had a lot of benefits, though, for big oil, that legislation. 

DASCHLE: Well, it had -- it's had some benefits for energy
overall, but clearly, if we're ever going to change course, we've got to
understand the importance of alternative energy. 

[...]

HENRY:
Obama has a much more cautious approach to nuclear power. He does not want to
build any new plants without first getting a better handle on safety and
security. 

OBAMA [video
clip]: It means finding safer ways to use nuclear power and store nuclear
waste. 

HENRY: Now, in that speech, Obama
also stepped up his attacks on McCain by charging once again that he's in the
pocket of the oil industry. But McCain is firing back that, back in 2005, when
the president's energy bill came up for a vote, Obama voted for that. That had
some huge tax breaks for oil and gas interests. McCain voted against it --
Wolf. 


BLITZER: Thanks very much, Ed Henry,
for that. 

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - NBC, CNN repeat McCain&#39;s criticism of Obama for 2005 energy bill vote, but neither report included Obama response {...} NBC and CNN uncritically reported Sen. John McCain&#39;s charge that Sen. Barack Obama voted for an energy bill in 2005 that was "full of goodies and breaks for the oil companies," while McCain voted against it. Neither provided a response from the Obama campaign, which says that Obama voted for the bill because it included extensive investments in renewable energy. Nor did either report note that the bill actually resulted in a net tax increase for the oil and gas industry. {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 7, 2008, 12:22 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 8, 2008, 11:57 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;25KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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