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Of Corsi Lied
by TheBell
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It was hot evening in East Cleveland, Ohio on the thirty-first of August in 1946. Alice Corsi (nee Hanlon) squatted over the toilet in the bathroom of the poor and dirty apartment she shared with her husband Louis. She was suffering mightily from the largest, bloodiest, and most painful hemorrhoid she had ever experienced. It was simply one more annoyance in her disappointing and meaningless life.

The post-war prosperity boom sweeping the country had done little to benefit the couple. While others in the factory where Louis worked had achieved jobs as officials and enforcers in the local union that allowed them to become rich through intimidation and graft, Louis was considered too unintelligent and, frankly, too unhygienic for any important work and was placed in a meaningless position with the ridiculous title of “Public Relations Director.”

Whenever another body would wash up on the docks at Lake Erie, it was Louis’s job to be rounded up by the police and mumble, “I never saw nuthin’!”

Alice, a former low-class prostitute, would have left her worthless mate long ago but for the fact he routinely looked the other way as she continued to ply her former profession, now primarily for her own pleasure, and that his meager paycheck helped pay for the penicillin she required to treat her numerous venereal diseases.

She groaned and shifted her weight on the toilet seat as she jammed her right index finger, with its grotesquely long false nail, up her rectum in a desperate attempt to find some type of relief.

She located the bulbous, squishy balloon of flesh almost immediately. It seemed further down her anus than she previously remembered. At times, the pain it produced was a sharp stabbing sensation that Alice remembered very well from when one of her former pimps beat her up. It was only itching now but the need for respite was overwhelming. Alice raked her finger within her rectum, heedless of any damage she might cause. There had been worse things up it plenty of times before, she reasoned.

To her surprise, the mass moved almost as though it had come free. She pulled harder at it and at 8:09 P.M., Eastern Standard Time, Jerome R. Corsi entered the world and immediately plopped into the toilet water below. The first known human baby to grow parasitically in its mother’s large colon rather than her womb and delivered anally, Corsi seemed destined to spend his life in the sewers and gutters, raking up muck and throwing it at passer-bys.

Corsi had a strained relationship with his father but his interactions with his mother were unusually “intimate.” Many observed the two kissing and hugging and some even report him nuzzling shamelessly at her breasts. Corsi has said this last practice ended when he was weaned at about one year old but the self-testimony of an incestuous sexual deviant is inherently unreliable, meaning there is strong reason to believe he had an active intimate relationship with his mother until the poor woman’s death.

Disliked and often brutalized by bigger, stronger, and better kids, Corsi learned as a child that others could be hurt through lying, tattling, and otherwise ruining their reputations, all of which posed no bodily risk to his under developed and sexually stunted physique. Interviews with neighbors that this poster did not have time to conduct reveal that three children were killed as a result of Corsi’s deceptions and five seriously maimed in “hazing” incidents.

In 1968, he showed up at Harvard, having faked transcripts that claimed he graduated with a B.A. from Case Western University. Examination of these documents by experts resulted in the judgment that they “look fake.” Corsi left Harvard four years later after the doctoral thesis he submitted, entitled Me Give You Money, You Give Me Diploma, Everybody Be Happy, was summarily rejected by the faculty for eighty-seven separate ethics violations.

Despite this, Corsi proudly reports he “holds a Ph.D. from Harvard.” He has yet to confess the name of the legitimate scholar there from whom he stole it. Corsi denies this episode but since, as Doris Kearns Goodwin notes, the word of a known plagiarist is inherently unreliable, it must have happened exactly as I imagined it as described herein.

He married Joy Dugan in 1970, whom he subsequently murdered in cold blood. Corsi contended that Dugan refused him oral sex and he was only doing “what any red-blooded husband is entitled.” The judge rejected this argument but ultimately dismissed the charges when defense lawyers proved Corsi was repeatedly sodomized as a child by his maternal grandfather, his father, his older sister, his younger sister, his priest, several assorted altar boys, and the family cat. He was judged to have likely been bat-shit insane at the time of his crime because he was bat-shit insane pretty much all of the time.

Corsi says he never killed anybody but since the word of a psychotically deranged murderer is inherently unreliable we must also consider that Corsi has never satisfactorily proven that he was not involved in the rape and murder of “Little Miss Beauty Pageant Winner” Jonbenet Ramsey to the satisfaction of Denver police and remains a suspect in that case to this day.

Corsi developed a number of interests and causes that came to define his professional career. These included taunting and spitting on handicapped and traumatized former veterans, disrupting the international petroleum industry’s infrastructure, advocating the West to provide Iran mullahs with nuclear weapons, shooting illegal aliens as they cross the Mexican border, promoting the first step toward world government by creating the North American Union, and writing novels.

Unfortunately, Corsi’s novels failed to gain any interest from publishers. He cleverly re-submitted them as non-fiction instead of fiction and soon was #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. This reinforced his oft-stated mantra, “The American Public is a bunch of retarded assholes that should be killed after they give me all their money.”

Critics routinely accuse Corsi of outright lies in his books or cherry-picking facts and quotes to create sensationalism. He agrees to this but says he does not care. His employer, WorldNet Daily, issued this faint praise of his works.

Jerome Corsi Ph.D. is renowned . . . worldwide for his ability to break down . . . national prominence with . . . His latest book . . . which . . . could have been avoided with stronger enforcement of . . . political science expertise.

After the September 11 tragedy, Corsi publicly commented it was “too bad” the planes had not crashed into other New York City buildings and killed even more people, especially ones he did not like. That same year he married his second wife Monica, an Argentinean immigrant, despite his long-standing opposition to immigration. This and his accusations against both Jews and President Bush, point to Corsi himself as directly involved in the attacks. Corsi denies this but since the word of an extremist Islamic terrorist zealot is inherently unreliable, he probably did it.

Corsi reached his highest fame in 2004, when he joined the Swiftboat Veterans Against John Kerry, a group of old men bitter about their own military experiences who felt that two thousand dead American soldiers in Iraq was a job only half done. However, Corsi was ultimately kicked out of the group, most of whose members will soon spend their eternities justly rotting in hell, as being “too extreme” even for a bunch of lying scumbags of their proportions.

Things began going downhill for Corsi from this point. He announced that he would run for Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat but shamefacedly admitted on C-SPAN's Washington Journal two years later that his wife had “vetoed” this idea. This further suggests that Corsi is actively under the psychological control of a foreign agent or, at the very least, pussy-whipped like you wouldn’t believe.

Corsi tried swift-boating Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland while on the payroll of Republican rival Ken Blackwell but Strickland went on to win the election by a two-to-one margin. Then fellow conservative author and pundit Debbie Schlussel accused Corsi of plagiarizing elements from columns that she has published and subsequently posting them under his own byline. Corsi denies her accusation but since . . . . well, you know.

His confidence now shaken, Corsi announced in May 2007 that he would be the Constitution Party’s candidate for President. He subsequently dropped out in July, saying that his penis was far to small to allow him to be taken seriously by anybody.

Fortunately, new opportunities came knocking when Republicans needed another bunch of lies made up and published about Barack Obama. Corsi was only too happy to comply.

Of course he lied when writing The Obama Nation . . . that’s what Corsi does.

Awesome!
by PlSgt
Great stuff, Bell! I'm always glad to see your writing here.
I'm totally confused
by zuko1

TheBell, you're posting, up until now, has always been know for it's committment to accuracy and objectivity, and if I may add, keen perceptions.

But here, your generous portrayal of Mr. Corsi's personal integrity and relative human value far, far exceeds reality. You were extraordinarily too kind in your description of his character.

I understand, we all have our off days.

regards,

z

There's yet hope for redemption.
by Inkberrow
If Corsi is willing to go the way of David Brock in a couple of years, he'll become a progressive arch-hero overnight with unimpeachable credibility, drawing 50K a pop for standing-O speeches at Harvard and Cal-Berkeley. Meanwhile, while he yet remains a prominent and influential Obama critic, and because some of his assertions are questionable, and some others are not founded, we may confidently assume that the entire book is filled with fallacious assertions penned by a demonic clown.
Hacks vs Flacks vs Clowns vs Kooks
by Thrasymachus

Hi, Ink.

I get what you're saying, but there's a hierarchy of credibility even when it comes to partisans, and Corsi is at the very bottom of it. The pecking order, to my mind, goes in descending order as follows:

Hacks are nakedly partisan figures who nonetheless manage to retain a certain amount of integrity. Their analysis is slanted, but honest and even a little bit fair. Bob Herbert and Dana Milbank are good examples of liberal hacks. David Brooks and Peggy Noonan are their conservative counterparts. When a hack changes sides (like Andrew Sullivan did), the other side is only too happy to welcome him or her.

Flacks are a step down from hacks. They're still not willing to lie, exactly; but they won't balk at saying things that are misleading. James Carville and Mary Matalin are the quintessential flacks. Flacks are allowed to change sides too. We're happy to have Arianna Huffington, and you're probably just as glad to have gotten Dennis Miller.

Clowns are people like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore. They're willing to say absolutely anything, and couldn't care less if it's true or not. Their hatred for the "other side" has bleached them of scruples, and is all that motivates them. I think this is where you start getting into the category of people who can't change sides. But we're still not down to the level of Corsi, who inhabits the sub-basement of:

Kooks. Corsi is a kook. To make a political point, a kook will set aside his sanity and reason right along with his scruples, and say literally anything. If a kook has a problem with NASA, he'll say they faked the moon landing. If a kook has a problem with the Iraq War, he'll say the Bush administration plotted 9/11 from the White House situation room. If a kook has a problem with energy conservation, he'll claim (like Corsi) that there's an infinite oil supply that liberal conspirators are keeping secret. If a kook has a problem with NAFTA, he'll claim (again, like Corsi) that it's part of a conspiracy to establish a "North American Union."

Kooks don't get to switch sides. And it almost doesn't matter if they do, because even most of the people who claim to believe them. . . don't believe them.

Quite Scholarly!
by Thrasymachus
In a truly just world, your research would form the basis of Jerome Corsi's official obituary.
Re: Of Corsi Lied
by LaurieAnnM
Great stuff, TheBell. I have to admit as much as I can not vote for Obama because I find his explanations and re-explanations about Wright very disconcerting, as well as his then flip flopping on public financing and then, the worst one of all...voting with Bush on FISA involving Federal spying on citizens!....But,I must say that I thought the Swift Boating of John Kerry was beyond despicable and so,I also don't like seeing Corsi doing the same thing to Obama by stretching facts into the fabrications about him being a Muslim(untrue) and all the other stretches of the truth in his Number One Bestselling Book; 'Obamanation'.
Thanks for the list, Thras---it is amusing---
by Inkberrow
but would you consider the categories and their particular designees pre-textual or post-textual? The list has no apparent capacity to weigh substantive information except on a contingent or conclusory basis. Remember, the Edwards love child was a myth until last Friday because the Enquirer is.....A Tabloid.
Re: Of Corsi Lied
by NickD
No self respecting union would have a member like Corsi. See Corsi lied about the corruption and graft in the Union so he could look meaner and more important then he was. Usually it was union organizers bodies that washed up on the Docks of Erie.
I deeply regret...
by Archaeopteryx
...that I can only give this post a single thumbs-up.
What a "jolly story" so full of anus and
by Skeptical3

rectums.

She groaned and shifted her weight on the toilet seat as she jammed her right index finger, with its grotesquely long false nail, up her rectum in a desperate attempt to find some type of relief.

She located the bulbous, squishy balloon of flesh almost immediately. It seemed further down her anus than she previously remembered.

The Bell sure knows a lot about the anus and rectum...from your days as Rear Admiral in the Constipated Ward?

But The Bell's knowledge of the inner workings of the Dem Unions in East Cleveland on the shores of Lake Erie scare me.

I quote The Bell:

"The post-war prosperity boom sweeping the country had done little to benefit the couple. While others in the factory where Louis worked had achieved jobs as officials and enforcers in the local union that allowed them to become rich through intimidation and graft, Louis was considered too unintelligent and, frankly, too unhygienic for any important work and was placed in a meaningless position with the ridiculous title of “Public Relations Director.”

Whenever another body would wash up on the docks at Lake Erie, it was Louis’s job to be rounded up by the police and mumble, “I never saw nuthin’!”"

What does The Bell actually know? Eh.

All is well in my part of hell.

Cheers

That was beautiful
by biteoftheweek

Re: Of Corsi Lied
by Artemesia
Corsi AKA:

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What anus did that 'book' drop out of!
Is any of this true?
by Woolley
Before I spend too much time reading it, I want to know if its satire or truth. Thanks.
This Is Your Brain On Postmodernism
by Thrasymachus

Inkberrow:
but would you consider the categories and their particular designees pre-textual or post-textual? The list has no apparent capacity to weigh substantive information except on a contingent or conclusory basis. Remember, the Edwards love child was a myth until last Friday because the Enquirer is.....A Tabloid.

In theory, it seems like being proven objectively right (or wrong) ought to have a powerful effect on a person's political credibility. . .but in practice, it simply doesn't matter. When a story is proven true or false, the story moves up or down in the list of categories; but the individual people telling the story stay put.

I know this seems counterintuitive. Allow me to explain by providing examples..

1. Starting from the bottom, in the kook category, let's consider Jerome Corsi. He believes (or claims to believe), inter alia, that 1) the world has a secret, infinite oil supply that is deliberately being hidden by evil liberals; and that 2) Barack Obama attended a Muslim madrassa as a child. Spouting rumors like "1)" is what makes him a kook; spouting rumors like "2)" would just make him a clown.

So there's no promotion for Corsi, not even if he turns out to be proven completely right about rumor "2)", because anybody who believes in things like rumor "1)" is, by definition, a kook. (Unless, of course, he's a genius. . .but I deem that unlikely.

So, regardless of whether he's right or wrong about Obama, Corsi will continue to be regarded as a kook until he stops believing in crazy theories that are completely incompatible with the commonly accepted version of reality.

2. Moving up a notch, let's consider Ann Coulter the clown. The line that seperates her from being a flack is her willingness to say things that are: a) inappropriate and offensive; and b) potentially false. . .like, for instance, claiming that John Edwards had cheated on his wife before it was conclusively proven that he had.

Once the rumors about John Edwards were proven correct, it was no longer impermissably rude to talk about the affair in the national media, and so everyone immediately did, up to and including Meet the Press. Ann Coulter's assertions about John Edwards turned out, in retrospect, to be both appropriate and true.

In hypothetical world, in which the Edwards story was the only potentially scurrilous untruth that Ann Coulter was associated with, being vindicated on that front would compel her immediate promotion to flack. . . but of course, in our world, the real one, Ann Coulter makes inappropriate, offensive, and potentially untrue comments all the time, so she stays where she is.

Unless, of course, she starts making assertions that sound legitimately insane. . . in which case, of course, she'll get demoted to kook.

3. Promotions and demotions from hack to flack (and vice versa) are extremely uncommon, and have nothing to do with the facts. Bill Kristol, noted flack, didn't benefit a bit from his stunningly correct prediction that "shock and awe" would work, and didn't suffer a bit from his stunningly incorrect prediction about how tranquil the ensuing occupation would be.

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