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Statement no. 2 would be a basis to pressure Simon & Shuster which is now in legal jeopardy because their intent is clearly to defeat a federal candidate using corporate resources. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Tara McGuinness < [email protected]> wrote: > > A few incredible aspects of this story not to be missed... > > 1. The book is published by an outfit owned by Threshold Editions, (they > will also be publishing Karl Rove's book) the company's chief editor is > Mary Matalin. > > *Ms. Matalin said in an interview* that the book "was not designed to be, > and does not set out to be, a political book," calling it, rather, *"a > piece of scholarship, and a good one at that."* > ** > *2. Mr. Corsi (the book's author is UNABASHEDLY trying to defeat Obama and > plans to run ads) "The goal is to defeat Obama,"* Mr. Corsi said in a > telephone interview.* "I don't want Obama to be in office."* He said *he > was also planning to assist several conservative groups that intend to run > advertisements against Mr. Obama this fall, though he would not name them. > * > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/books/13book.html?_r=1&oref=slogin > > The New York Times > > August 13, 2008 > Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat '04 Anti-Kerry Feat > 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 as a stealth radical liberal > who has tried to cover up "extensive connections to Islam" — Mr. Obama is > Christian — and questioning whether Mr. Obama's admitted experimentation > with drugs during high school and college ever ceased. > > Significant portions of the book, released by Threshold Editions, a > division of Simon & Schuster that has as its chief editor, Mary Matalin, the > former Republican operative turned publisher-pundit, have already been > challenged as misleading or false in the days since it made its debut on > Aug. 1. > > But it is to make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller > list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday — at No. 1. The book is pushed > along by a large volume of bulk sales, intense voter interest in Senator > Obama and an aggressive marketing campaign that already has included 100 > author interviews with talk radio hosts across the country, like Sean > Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy, Mr. Corsi said on Tuesday. > > It is a significant, early success for Ms. Matalin's three-year-old > imprint, Threshold Editions, which is also planning to publish the memoirs > of Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political guru. The publishing > house says it has undertaken an aggressive printing effort for anticipated > demand, with 475,000 copies of "The Obama Nation" produced so far. > > "The goal is to defeat Obama," Mr. Corsi said in a telephone interview. "I > don't want Obama to be in office." He said he was also planning to assist > several conservative groups that intend to run advertisements against Mr. > Obama this fall, though he would not name them. Mr. Corsi, who has over the > years written critically about Senator John McCain as well, said he > supported the Constitution Party presidential nominee, Chuck Baldwin, and > had not been in touch with McCain aides. He called his reporting on Mr. > Obama, which he stands by, "investigative," not prosecutorial. > > Ms. Matalin said in an interview that the book "was not designed to be, and > does not set out to be, a political book," calling it, rather, "a piece of > scholarship, and a good one at that." She said she was unaware of efforts to > link the book to any anti-Obama advertising. > > In its timing, authorship and style of reportage, the book is strikingly > reminiscent of the book that Mr. Corsi wrote with his co-author, John > O'Neill, about Mr. Kerry, "Unfit for Command," which included various > charges that were ultimately undermined by news reports pointing out the > contradictions. (Some critics against Mr. Kerry quoted in the book had > earlier praised his bravery in incidents they were charging he had > fabricated; one of them had earned a medal for bravery in a gun battle he > accused Mr. Kerry of concocting.) > > But books like "Unfit for Command," which remained for some 12 weeks on the > Times best-seller list, and, now, "The Obama Nation," have become an > effective and favored delivery system for political attacks. There have been > anti-Clinton (both Bill and Hillary) and anti-Bush tomes too numerous to > name. The sensational findings in these books, whether dubious or true, can > quickly come to dominate the larger political discussion in the media, > especially on cable television and the less readily detectible confines of > talk radio and partisan Web sites. > > Fact-checking the books can require extensive labor and time from > independent journalists, whose work often trails behind the media echo > chamber. > > Web sites on the left have begun poring over Mr. Corsi's latest book. Media > Matters, which is run by David Brock, a former right-wing journalist who > wrote a classic of the genre, "The Real Anita Hill," has been particularly > aggressive in fact-checking the book, and its press releases on inaccuracies > in the book have gotten some attention on television programs on cable. > > Several of the book's charges, in fact, are unsubstantiated, misleading or > inaccurate. > > For instance, Mr. Corsi writes that Mr. Obama had "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," asking, "How > about in the U.S. Senate?" > > But Mr. Obama, who admitted to occasional marijuana and cocaine use during > his high school and early college years, wrote in his memoir that he had > "stopped getting high" when he moved to New York in the early 1980s. And in > an interview in 2003 with The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Ill., > he said in response to questions of his drug use, "By the time I was 20, I > don't think I indulged again." > > In an interview, Mr. Corsi said Mr. Obama's word was not to be trusted > because "self-reporting, by people who have used drugs, as to when they > stopped is inherently unreliable." > > In exploring Mr. Obama's denials that he had been present for the more > incendiary sermons of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Mr. Corsi > cites a report in the conservative Web site NewsMax.com that Mr. Obama had > attended a sermon on July 22, 2007, in which Mr. Wright blamed "the 'white > arrogance' of America's Caucasian majority for the world's suffering, > especially the oppression of blacks." Mr. Obama was giving a speech in > Florida that afternoon, and his campaign reported he had not attend Mr. > Wright's church that day. William Kristol, a columnist for The New York > Times, had cited the same report in a column, but issued a correction. > "There is a dispute about the date, and Kristol chose to side with Obama," > Mr. Corsi said. "We can nitpick the date to death," Mr. Corsi said, saying > his "fundamental point" was Mr. Obama's close association with someone > ascribing to "black liberation theology" like Mr. Wright. > > Mr. Corsi described most of the critiques of his book as "nitpicking," like > a contradiction of his claim in the book that Mr. Obama had failed to > dedicate his book "Dreams of My Father" to his family; Mr. Obama dedicated > the book to several family members, in the introduction. He called the Media > Matters critique inconsequential because it was forwarding a liberal, > political agenda. > > Media Matters was created in part to answer a conservative "echo chamber" — > one that liberal activists say they have still yet to match — that gives > books like Mr. Corsi's extra bounce. "There's just no doubt that in terms of > longer term infrastructure, there's more out there on the right than there > is on the left," said Cliff Schecter, author of a liberal attack book on Mr. > McCain, "The Real McCain," which, with 35,000 copies in print, did not hit > The New York Times bestseller list. > > Mr. Obama's campaign has yet to weigh in heavily on the charges itself in > Mr. Corsi's book, appearing to face the classic decision between the risk of > publicizing the book's claims by addressing them and the risk of letting > them sink into the public debate with no response. > > "This book is nothing but a series of lies that were long ago discredited, > written by an individual who was discredited after he wrote a similar book > to help George Bush and Dick Cheney get reelected four years ago," said > Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Mr. Obama. "We will respond to these smears > forcefully, with all means necessary." > > Several Democrats associated with Mr. Kerry's campaign in 2004 said in > interviews Tuesday that they were comfortable so far with Mr. Obama's more > muted response to the book, which has not showed up yet in television > advertisements. > > Even Mr. Corsi said this book did not have what "Unfit for Command" had: a > built-in interest group, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, to run > advertisements against its target. > > While he said he thought it was a certainty that he would be "assisting in > the creation of ads in the fall," he did not say what he believed their > content would be. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. To post to this group, send to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] E-mail [email protected] with questions or concerns This is a list of individuals. 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