Jerome Corsi

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Jerome R. Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author and conservative activist. Corsi received national media exposure as credited co-author (with John O'Neill), of Unfit for Command, a book that topped the New York Times bestseller list. The book, written in cooperation with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, criticized the conduct of John Kerry -- at the time the Democratic candidate for president -- as a naval officer during the Vietnam War and challenged the legitimacy of each of his combat medals. The book also criticized Kerry's later efforts organizing opposition to that war.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Controversy 3 Books 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Corsi received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1972, and has since published several works on political protest and terrorism. His 1972 dissertation was titled Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent; a Moral and Legal Evaluation. In 1972, he published an extensive study of the political protest around the 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, and the involvement of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (an organization that Kerry was involved with). That work was published at the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence (Brandeis University, 1974). Corsi authored Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (2005) and co-authored Black Gold Stranglehold (2005) with Craig R. Smith. In 2006, he also co-authored Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States with Michael D. Evans.

Corsi has also co-authored Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist), published in August 2006. This book heavily criticizes President George W. Bush for deficiency in enforcing border protection laws and for furthering plans to create a North American Union.

In January 2005, Corsi told the Boston Herald that he planned to bid for Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008. He stated that he would run as a Republican or Independent.

In May 2006, Corsi co-wrote the book Rebuilding America with Kenneth Blackwell, then Ohio secretary of state and a Republican candidate for Ohio governor.^[1] In the fall of 2006, Corsi used his column at the conservative news website WorldNetDaily (whose publishing division, WND Books, also published Rebuilding America, as well as Atomic Iran and Black Gold Stranglehold) to write numerous columns attacking Blackwell's Democratic opponent in the governor's race, Ted Strickland. ^[2] Strickland easily won the election, receiving 60 percent of the vote to Blackwell's 37 percent.^[3]

In January 2007, Corsi announced he was joining the staff ^[4] of TheVanguard.Org, the conservative website.

[edit] Controversy

In August 2004, during Corsi's collaboration with the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the website Media Matters for America reposted a number of anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic, and anti-gay comments^[5] made by Corsi at the forum threads of the Free Republic website, dating from 2001 through 2004 ^[6]. Corsi responded that the selected posts were failed attempts at humor ^[7], but the Media Matters for America story rapidly spread.^[8] When questioned about his connection with Corsi at this time, John O'Neill claimed that Corsi was not actually a co-author of the book Unfit for Command, but rather was "simply an editor." ("Scarborough Country," Aug. 10, 2004; "Wolf Blitzer Reports," Aug. 11, 2004) ^[9].

Conservative author and pundit Debbie Schlussel has accused Corsi of plagiarizing elements from columns that she has published, and subsequently posting them under his byline in his WorldNetDaily column. ^{[10] [11]}

[edit] Books

• O'Neill, John E. and Corsi, Jerome E. Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. Regnery Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-89526-017-4.
• Kenneth Blackwell and Jerome R. Corsi. Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare. WND Books, May 4, 2006. ISBN 1581825013
• Atomic Iran. WND Books
• Black Gold Stranglehold. WND Books

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• Corsi's column archive at WorldNetDaily
• Jerome Corsi Articles Archive at Human Events
• Jerome Corsi on the planned North American Union from Human Events Online
• "Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?" by Media Matters for America
• "Jerome Corsi responds to accusation of being anti-Catholic," FNC Video.
• Innuendos leveled by Corsi against Democratic candidate Strickland in the 2006 Ohio governor's race.
• Corsi Interview from Conservative President 2008.
• The Right Perspective interview about the planned North American Union (free audio archive)