1/From an article entitled, "Using a PhD as a Weapon of Mass Destruction", the IrishTimes review of Jerome Corsi's 2008 book entitled, "The Obama Nation; Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" (cult of personality, hah, so ironic). Some well written words @ Corsi:
2/"What really jars is the big black letters after Corsi's name, "PhD", presented in large type, like a BSc on Viagra. On his multimedia odyssey, Corsi carried his PhD around like a diamante clutch purse. It gives an elevated social status and is designed to bathe him in a more
3/"flattering light than, considering his allegations, he deserves. Or to put it another way: PhD + Innuendo = QED...Once, during a heated interview with a priest-cum-academic (who has both an MA and PhD), his words of last resort were: "I've read Aristotle and Plato!" A PhD is
4/"no small achievement, but it's the intellectual grandstanding and, in Corsi's case, the use of those letters as weapons of mass communication to support his allegations that bothers me...His PhD is cited in the first sentence of his polished Wikipedia profile and he is
5/"consistently credited as "Dr Jerome Corsi" on Fox Television, the Rupert Murdoch-owned US satellite news channel where he said Obama's father was a polygamist. Not that he holds it against him, but Corsi says he insists on talking about it because Obama won't.
6/"That's boomerang logic. On any other network, it would hit come back and hit him between the eyes. In the preface, Corsi says his 700 footnotes allow readers to judge his "factual claims", a mind-boggling oxymoron, which makes about as much sense as a "fictional truth"...When
7/"Corsi was challenged by Democrat Bob Beckel via satellite link from Washington DC on Sean Hannity's New York-based Fox TV show, Beckel's line went down. Hannity said: "Believe it or not, the DC bureau has lost all power." I do believe it - I just wonder who pulled the plug...
8/" Here are some of Corsi's other opinions:On Muslims: "Ragheads are boy-bumpers and clearly are woman-haters." On John Kerry: "John F-ing Commie Kerry." On Hillary - or "Hellary", as he wrote - Clinton: "Hillary Clinton, Fat Hog Clinton."...Corsi writes that Obama never stopped
9/"using recreational drugs. In Dreams From My Father, Obama wrote that he stopped when he went to college. When challenged on this, the good doctor responded: "We have Barack Obama's testimony on that." This is the when-have-you-stopped-using-drugs school of politics.
10/"The absence of such evidence is so not worthy of a PhD thesis...Corsi PhD is a plank, but should be dismissed as a crank." ~Irish Times, 8/26/08
