Wingut Of The Day: Jerome Corsi, For Trying To Tie Hasan To Obama
Swift Boat enabler and Obama basher Jerome Corsi is portraying accused Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan as a transition team adviser to President Obama.
The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled “Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009,” in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant.
Corsi tries to make his case by saying Hasan “attended meetings” of the Homeland Security Policy Institute Presidential Transition Task Force. And he raises a question as to “whether or not Hasan made comments from the audience that influenced the task force recommendations or not.”
In his World Net Daily article, Corsi claims that a new book claims, “Hasan is just the tip of a jihadist Fifth Column operating within the ranks of the U.S. military – which is too blinded by political correctness to see the threat.” And guess where you can buy this shocking book? Yes, World Net Daily.
A small amount of investigation reveals:
Significantly, Nidal was not the author of the document. He was not a member of the HSPI’s “Presidential Transition Task Force.” Nor was he a member of the HSPI’s “Task Force Staff.” He was not a member of the HSPI’s Steering Committee or a briefer to the task force.
Also, the activities of the HSPI here do not in anyway constitute official transition advice to the White House, despite the fact that a committee got named the “Presidential Transition Task Force” and the HSPI’s activities involved identifying homeland security priorities and offering advice.
Corsi admits that it’s a non-issue by writing:
While the GWU task force participants included several members of government, including representatives of the Department of Justice and the U.S Department of Homeland Security, there is no indication in the document that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition, other than to serve in a university-based advisory capacity.
And, yet, this story is hyped with the headline:
Shooter advised Obama transition
Fort Hood triggerman aided team on Homeland Security task force.
is there not any responsibility in verbal remarks and accusations omitted from the mouths of idiots and radicals
pierre Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
That guy will soon be on FOXHOLE, FOXMOROnic outlet
spewing this garbage.
Will the media elites stand by again?
Or will the current administration take action
by any means necessary?
flap Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
FOXHOLE, FOXMOROnic outlet
Oh, yeah? Well, MSNBC stands for MORE $HIT NBC! How about that?! And CNN stands for CRAPPY NEWS NOW!
placefield Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Am I the only one tired of the childish intentional misspelling of names to try and insult? We all had good fun torturing each other with that in grade school but we are not eight any more.
pierre Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
F= fetid
O= of
X= xiphosuran
flap Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Pierre = PEE AIR
HAHAHAHA!
pierre Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
F= foxy
L= leash
A= apologist
P= paling
Michaelp Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I don’t normally join message boards, I typically read the articles and the posts and move on.
This time I felt the need. I don’t know why I joined since I will probably get flamed as it seems that is the norm here. No one wants to take all information and formulate an opinion anymore it seems.
This article in no way suggests anything that Alan here is claiming. This article appears to only state some facts and some unanswered questions.
If you are ideologically observing events unfolding you tend to not read the information correctly.
This guy was a part of the advisory committee as the attached footnoted document shows. Those that attended this task force meeting were given advisory roles. The title of the article is slightly inflammatory and suggestive, but that makes it no different to any other news story on any other topic.
Having said that, I would like to make a statement about Pierre’s comment. Where does Fox come into this, and why must you comment with such hate and anger? It really shows your lack of patience and degrades debate.
OldLefty Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Michaelp ,
Keep in mind that many here have been to conservative websites….as long as you are talking about hate and anger.
No one has cornered the market on it.
pierre Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Yeah!
How many times Corsi has used that fetid
outlet to propagate lies?
burqa Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Michael, you seem naive to the strategy of juxtaposition in order to create a false impression.
We saw the same thing before the invasion of Iraq when al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were juxtaposed in order to cause listeners to draw the false conclusion that they were linked.
Michaelp Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
OldLefty
I am sorry I don’t follow you. I am only bothered by the language used by commenting board members here, and elsewhere if you want to apply it to conservative sites.
I just think if you don’t get your information from Fox, or WND, or some other right leaning informations store’s, it shows immaturity by calling names tossing clever insults. Simply leave it out of the conversation.
I don’t get my news regularly from MSNBC or the local stations because they don’t always cover everything and they tend to put a left spin on it, but I don’t believe I have ever had hatred for a station or a news outlet.
Michaelp Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Burqa,
You appear intelligent, I have seen many of your posts. I suppose you can differentiate between a juxtaposition in a news article and a statement of fact in a recorded document.
I can tell the difference, and no I am not naive, thanks for the flame.
burqa Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Thanks for the compliment, Michaelp. Yes, I can make the differentiation as I am sure you can.
Can we agree it should not have been done in the first place?
Here is the opening sentence of the article:
“Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama’s transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document…”
followed later by:
“… there is no indication in the document that the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition,…”
I apologize for any flamage, sometimes I get smart-alecky, but I don’t mean nuthin’….
flap Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I enjoy flaming people and even when they flame me back. It’s all in good political fun…I like all of my fellow posters, even TDro.
Gotta have the mudslinging, especially on relatively anonymous boards…good way to destress.
placefield Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Fair enough
FuRyUs Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Shut up Michaelp
Lee Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Michaelp,
As Burqa pointed out the words used were deliberately misleading and inflammatory. Partisanship aside. The way journalism works is that you always give the ’story’ briefly at the beginning of the article and and progressively retell the same story with more detail further on down the article. This is so you don’t ‘bury the lead’.
The ‘lead’ here was that “Malik is supposedly connected to the President”.
There is clearly no real evidence to suggest he had any meaningful link with the administration so you have to really ask the question, why write this article in the first place? Why create such an obviously misleading ‘lead’.
I don’t see any other reasonable explanation other than an attempt to smear the president and conjure up false innuendo. If you see something different, please explain..
burqa Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Right, Lee.
Corsi pulled a version of the old Emily Litella bit.
Flap, it can be fun to get sassy, but different people have different tolerances that should be rspected. I don’t know about you, but I don’t talk the same way to my daddy as I do my mama.
Even if you have a different, uhh, standard (for want of a better word) you gotta rspect the other person.
Otherwise what happens is you end up running off interesting people leaving just a few on the board and that’s no good.
Michael, my apology was sincere.
flap Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:36 am
“Flap, it can be fun to get sassy, but different people have different tolerances that should be rspected.”
I guess what I’m saying is I enjoy passionate debate and if I insult people or say bad stuff about them it’s not really personal…even though it might come out that way.
I imagine most of us on here are well-intentioned people.
burqa Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 12:43 am
I feel the same way, flap. It’s just that I’ve been on boards that died because a few strong-willed people drove others off.
I just mean to point out that we need to be cognizant of making sure everyone is comfortable and sometimes dialing it back a tad is worth it in order to have more people join in.
I say that because I sure need to be told at times, probably more than most of y’all at the ring-dang-do.
So I’m telling y’all ahead of time, sometimes I may bring it strong, but will gladly dial it back. Sometimes I have a way of being a bit more sharp than I intend….
November 6th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Sometimes after Alan’s show ends, Corsi will come on Coast to Coast and talk about space aliens from Mars and stuff.
He is a kook.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Jerome is a pimple on the a.s.s.hole of humanity.
burqa Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I dare you to pinch it…
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
eeeewwww. No thanks. I’d rather take a root canal without anesthesia. :))
burqa Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’ll give you five dollars if you’ll pinch it…….
November 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
People like Corsi are obviously agents of foreign powers deliberating pursuing a course designed to incite division, violence, and insurrection, with the ultimate objective of overthrowing the democratically elected government of the United States.
November 6th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I saw Robert Gibbs at an airport once, so I am a high-level Democratic strategist. AND a board member of the FAA.
karthiks030977 Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
See?You admit it.
That’s the only difference, you admitted it,and this chap hasnt yet done so.
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
:)) Have a good weekend kart.
burqa Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I liked the Redskins when Joe Gibbs was coach, so does that make me a socialist hippie gay member of ACORN?
I need to know…
Southern Girl Lib Reply:
November 6th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Good one. :))
November 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Nice American flag and Confederate battle flag lapel Dr. Corsi! Can’t seem to make up your mind on that old settled score? But wait, it’s celebrating heritage not hate with the whole confederate battle flag, some would say. Well if it is about heritage, why not wear or fly the official confederate flag instead of the battle flag?
November 6th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
All too often, Corsi and his lies make it onto FakeNews.
Hannity is drooling even now to book Corsi on the air.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:59 am
What this Bozo is really looking for is his 15 minutes of fame..and alas..we seem to be giving it to him.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Remember when the Not-So-Swift Boater John O’Neill came on with Alan?
Funny stuff.
Alan asked him about Corsi and the O’Neill tried to minimize it and all and then Alan nailed him like a Hellfire missile by pointing out Corsi was listed as the co-author and none of the others were….
November 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm