Jerome Corsi

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name = Jerome Corsi


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birth_name = Jerome Robert Corsi
birth_date = Birth date and age|1946|8|31
birth_place = East Cleveland, Ohio
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residence = New Jersey
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known_for = Co-author of Unfit for Command, author of The Obama Nation, and North American Union conspiracy
education = BA Case Western Reserve, magna cum laude
PhD Harvard
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party = Constitution Party
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religion = Roman Catholic
spouse = Monica Corsi
Joy Dugan
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children = daughter Alexis Corsi
parents = Louis E. Corsi
Alice (Hanlon) Corsi
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Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author and conservative activist. [Cite web
title = Republican for Obama | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL
accessdate = 2008-10-09
url = http://www.theledger.com/article/20081002/NEWS/810020295/-1/EDIT?Title=Republican_for_Obama] He is best-known for his two New York Times bestselling books: "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command" (with co-author John O'Neill). Both books, the former written in 2008 and the latter in 2004, attack Democratic presidential candidates and have received much criticism, including allegations of serious factual errors. [cite news | url=http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/08/16/democrats_say_corsi_book_full_of_lies/ | title=Democrats say Corsi book full of lies |publisher=Boston Globe | date=August, 16th 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] His other books, as well as columns he has written for conservative websites such as WorldNetDaily and Human Events, have discussed topics such as the alleged plans for a North American Government, criticism of the United States government for allegedly covering up information about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, criticism of the scientific consensus on the biotic nature of petroleum, and alleged United States support of Iran in its attempts to develop nuclear weapons. [John Hawkins, cite news |title=The 20 Most Annoying People on the Right | url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18751 |publisher=Human Events |date=01/03/2007 ] [cite news |title=The amero conspiracy | url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/25/the_amero_conspiracy/ |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=November 25, 2007] [cite news |title=U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada? | url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/|publisher=Salon.com |date=November 25, 2007]

Early life

Jerome Corsi was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, to Louis E. Corsi, a union public relations director, and Alice Corsi, née Hanlon. He married Joy Dugan on May 8, 1970. The marriage ended in divorce. He married Monica Corsi in 1991. [cite web
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He earned a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University in 1968, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1972; his dissertation was titled "Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent; a Moral and Legal Evaluation."Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC.Document Number: H1000020842. (fee)]

Career

In 1972 Corsi researched the political protests around the 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, and the involvement of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.Fact|date=August 2008 His research was then published by the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence (Brandeis University, 1974).

In 1995 Corsi helped launch an investment venture in Poland, which lost $1.2 million, much of it from a group of about 20 Minnesota investors.cite news | url=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/20/failed_venture_follows_anti_obama_author/?page=1 | title=Failed venture follows anti-Obama author |publisher=Boston Globe | date=August, 21th 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] [cite news | url=http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2008/08/21/smear-mongering-author-jerome-corsi-ripped-minnesota-investors.html | title=Smear-mongering author Jerome Corsi ripped off Minnesota investors |publisher=Twin Cities Daily Planet | date=August 21, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] The FBI investigated, but it did not result in any criminal charges. Many investors blamed Corsi and two investors sued Corsi and his partners winning judgements. However, they couldn't collect from Corsi because, as one investor explained, the money "had been moved into his wife's name . . . There was nothing to get out of him." Until his 2004 book, Corsi was a financial services marketing specialist.cite news | url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/blumenthal | title=Jerome Corsi's Long, Strange Trip |publisher=The Nation | date=August, 20th 2008 | first=Max | last=Blumenthal | accessdate = 2008-11-14]

In January 2005, Corsi told the "Boston Herald" that he planned to bid for John Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008 as a Republican or Independent candidate.Fact|date=August 2008 He later said his wife had "vetoed" this plan. Then Corsi stated "Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so." [cite web
url=http://conservativepresident2008.blogspot.com/2006/12/corsi-on-gop-and-possible-2008-run.html
title=Conservative President 2008: Corsi on the GOP and Possible 2008 Run
accessdate=2008-08-01
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quote=5. [Q] Will you run for President in 2008? [A] Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so. ] He then agreed to be nominated at the Constitution Party National Convention, cite web
url=http://thirdpartywatch.com/2007/04/21/cp-national-committee-meeting-in-boise-report-part-1
title=Third Party Watch « Blog Archive » CP National Committee Meeting In Boise Report: Part 1
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date=2007-04-21 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Richard Viguerie |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite web |title=Ballot Access News -- June 1, 2007 |url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/060107.html |accessdate=2008-08-01 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2007-06-02
year= |month= |format= |work=Ballot Access News |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] but he dropped out in July 2007. [cite web |url=http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56676 |title=Corsi declines Constitution Party bid |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=
date=2007-07-13 |format= |work=WorldNetDaily.com |publisher=WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
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Writings and theories

Corsi has written about a variety of subjects, including Democratic politicians and conspiracy theories. [cite news
last = Rice
first = Xan
title = American anti-Obama author arrested before Nairobi book launch
publisher = The Guardian
date = 2008-10-08
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/uselections2008.kenya
accessdate = 2008-10-07] In 2004, Corsi wrote a critical biography of then Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry called "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry". In 2005 he published "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians", which claimed Democratic politicians are corrupted by Iranian money and are helping the mullahs, who seek nuclear weapons, in Tehran. [cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2005/02/24/2005-02-24_dems_going_nuclear_over_book.html | title=DEMS GOING NUCLEAR OVER BOOK'S IRAN CLAIM |publisher=New York Daily News | date=February 24th 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] That same year he co-authored "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (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. In August 2006 he published "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders" with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist). This book criticizes President George W. Bush's border protection policies, accusing him of furthering plans to create a North American Union. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzs46Nxohk The Dangers of the "North American Union"] , The Conservative Caucus, 2007] In May 2006, Corsi co-wrote the book "Rebuilding America" with Kenneth Blackwell, then Ohio secretary of state and a Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio. [cite news | url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50249 | title=Meet the Democrats' worst nightmare | publisher=WorldNetDaily | accessdate=2007-03-03]

In March 2008 Corsi reported in WorldNetDaily that a "Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida" has given "strong support" to John McCain. [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title=Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez | url=http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=57678 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=March 02, 2008] Corsi is not a Republican and has complained that "the Republican Party is controlled by what used to be called the 'Rockefeller Wing'." [cite web |url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57812 |title=Why I am not a Republican |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author=Jerome Corsi |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=September 25, 2007 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=WorldNetDaily |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] In addition, Corsi has called for the impeachment of Geoge W. Bush." [cite web |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/the-obama-overr.html |title=Corsi calls for impeachment of George W. Bush |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author=ABC News |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=August 15, 2008 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=ABC News |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] [cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJRYzuLehT8 |title=Corsi calls for impeachment of George W. Bush |accessdate=2008-08-16 |author=Jerome Corsi |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=August 15, 2008 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=Youtube |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] On August 15th, 2008, Corsi endorsed Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, who has campaigned to reopen the investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks in support of the 9/11 Truth Movement. [cite web
url=http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/08/15/obama-nation-author-officially-endorses-chuck-baldwin/ |title=‘Obama Nation’ author endorses Chuck Baldwin |accessdate=2008-08-01
last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2008-08-15 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=Richard Viguerie |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

"Unfit for Command"

In August 2004, Corsi's "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry", co-authored with John O'Neill, was published by Regnery Publishing. The book was criticized for containing interviews with people who did not serve with Kerry, and many who did serve with Kerry called the book's claims false. [cite news | url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8524900_ITM | title=Swift boat skipper: Kerry critics wrong. |publisher=Chicago Tribune | date=2004-08-04 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] Of those interviewed for the book, some asserted that their statements were edited to strip out material favorable to Kerry. [cite news|publisher=New York Times|date=2004-08-20|title=Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/politics/campaign/20swift.html "Mr. Runyon said the edited version was stripped of all references to enemy combat, making it look like just another night in the Mekong Delta."]

Corsi's cooperation with the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth provoked the website Media Matters for America to re-post a number of controversial comments — some interpreted to be anti-Islam, anti-Catholic, anti-semitic and homophobic [] — made by Corsi at the forum threads of the "Free Republic" website from 2001 through 2004 and at a website critical of John Kerry.cite web| last =Corsi| first =Jerome| title =Communist Vietnamese honor John Kerry, the war protestor, as a hero in their victory over the United States in the Vietnam War – Part II| publisher =WinterSoldier.com| date= 2004-07-27| url =http://web.archive.org/web/20050324092901/ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040604194804799| accessdate = 2007-03-29 ] cite web| last =Corsi| first =Jerome| title =Coordinating with the enemy: Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Paris and Hanoi| publisher =WinterSoldier.com| date= 2004-05-03| url =http://web.archive.org/web/20050305152602/ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=2004060123330738| accessdate = 2007-03-29 ] Corsi responded that the selected posts were failed attempts at humor, but the Media Matters for America story rapidly spread. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A61087-2004Aug12?language=printer 'Nonpartisan' Swift Boat Ad?] by Terry M. Neal. Washington Post. Friday, August 13, 2004] After this Corsi was "sidelined" from the Swiftboat group. [cite news | url=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=1825 | title=Swift Vets Keep Misfiring |publisher=The Nation | date=September 17, 2004| first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] 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] [cite news | url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200408250002 | title=The lies of John O'Neill | publisher=Media Matters for America | accessdate = 2007-03-03] Nevertheless, O'Neill described Corsi as the book's "coauthor" in a 2007 letter to the New York Times [cite web
url=http://www.humanevents.com/downloads-pdfs/Neill.pdf
title=letter to the editor of the New York Times
accessdate=2008-07-31
last=O'Neill
first=John E.
authorlink=John O'Neill (Vietnam veteran)
coauthors=
date=after 2007-11-07
year= |month=
format=PDF
work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] . Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler describe Corsi's efforts in writing the book, referring to him as one of its "authors," in their book "To Set the Record Straight". [Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler. "To Set the Record Straight" (pp. 120-124).]

In 2007 Corsi, along with several other authors, sued Regnery's parent company, Eagle Publishing, claiming the company “orchestrate [d] and participate [d] in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.” [ cite news| url="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html"|title=Conservative Authors Sue Publisher|accessdate=2008-08-17] The suit was dismissed on June 30, 2008 [ cite news| url="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/arts/02arts-AUTHORSSUITD_BRF.html"|title=Authors Suit Dismissed|accessdate=2008-08-17]

"The Obama Nation"

Corsi's book "" was released on August 1, 2008, and is critical of Barack Obama and his candidacy for President. In response, the Obama campaign issued a 40 page rebuttal called "Unfit for Publication" on his website FightTheSmears.com, alleging serious factual errors. [cite news |title=Unfit For Publication: An Investigative Report On The Lies In Jerome Corsi's "Obama Nation" | url=http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi |publisher=Obama for America |date=2008-08-14] The Democratic National Committee responded calling him "One of the most vile smear peddlers of the 2004 election" and he was "too crazy even for Swiftboat liars." [cite news | url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/democrats-seek.html | title=Democrats Seek to Undermine Anti-Obama Author With His Own Words |publisher=ABC News | date=August 14, 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] According to various American news sources, many of the accusations made in the book are unsubstantiated, misleading, or inaccurate. [cite news |title=Book on Obama blasted for 'vicious innuendo' | url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/14/corsi.book/ |publisher=CNN |date=2008-08-14] cite news |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303959.html |title=New Books Aim To Unweave the Obama Narrative |author=Eli Saslow |publisher=Washington Post |date=2008-08-14] [cite news |title=Latest smear against Obama an abomination | url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/1107452,CST-NWS-mitch14.article |publisher=Sun-Times |date=2008-08-14] [Kate Linthicum, " [http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailcorsi12-2008aug12,0,2342201.story?track=rss Book attacking Obama makes the bestseller list] ", "Los Angeles Times", August 12, 2008] [cite news |title=Wild theories of 'Obama Nation' author | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12526.html |publisher=The Politico |date=2008-08-14] cite news |first=Jim |last=Rutenberg |authorlink= |coauthors=Julie Bosman |title=Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat ’04 Anti-Kerry Feat |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html |work=New York Times |date=August 12, 2008 |accessdate=2008-08-13 ] [cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005 |title="Unfit for Publication: Corsi's The Obama Nation filled with falsehoods" |publisher=Media Matters for America|date=August 4, 2008] [cite web|url=http://mediamatters.org/about_us/ |title="Who We Are" |publisher=Media Matters for America|date=August 10, 2008]

According to "The New York Times", "Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is 'Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,' have already been challenged as misleading or false in the days since its debut on Aug. 1." Nonetheless, it made its first appearance on The Times' best-sellers list for nonfiction hardcovers at No. 1. [" [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/books/bestseller/besthardnonfiction.html Hardcover Nonfiction] ", "New York Times", August 17, 2008.] Corsi has conducted over 100 interviews promoting the book, including a scheduled appearance [cite web |url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200808140003?f=h_top |title=Corsi reportedly scheduled to appear on "pro-White" radio show |publisher=Media Matters for America |accessdate=2008-08-14 ] [cite news |title=Political Cesspool to Host 'Obamanation' Author Jerome Corsi | url=http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=5349 |publisher=Western Voices World News |date=2008-08-08] on the "The Political Cesspool", a white supremacistcite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=817 |title=Memphis Sewage: In Tennessee, a Racist Radio Host Thrives. |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |accessdate=2008-07-29 ] radio talk show. He previously appeared on the show on July 20th, [cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/08/13/bestselling-anti-obama-fabulist-appears-on-white-supremacist-radio-show/ |title=Bestselling Anti-Obama Fabulist Appears On White Supremacist Radio Show |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |accessdate=2008-08-13] but he cancelled his August 17th appearance because of a change in "travel plans". [cite web |url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200808180001? |title=Corsi's reported cancellation of scheduled appearance on "pro-White" radio show leaves unanswered questions |publisher=Media Matters for America |accessdate=2008-08-18] In August 2008, Corsi appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show and promoted "The Obama Nation". [cite news |title=Alex Jones: August 4th | url=http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/ |publisher=Alex Jones (radio) |date=2008-08-14 Podcast: http://freespeech.vo.llnwd.net/o25/pub/rss/20080804_Mon_Alex.mp3]

"The Obama Nation" has been criticized by Paul Waldman as being "filled with falsehoods", [cite news | url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005?f=h_top | title= Unfit for Publication: Corsi's The Obama Nation filled with falsehoods | date=2008-08-04] and in a debate with Corsi on "Larry King Live", Waldman accused Corsi of using baseless innuendo as a tactic to 'smear' Obama. [Frank Jamescite web |url=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/corsis_obama_book_facts_or_sli.html |title=Corsi's Obama book: facts or 'slime'? |publisher=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=2008-08-16 ]

On October 7, 2008, Corsi was detained by immigration authorities in Kenya while promoting his book, allegedly without a "work permit." The Reuters report details reasons which may point to another likely reason for his detainment, which is the potential for embarrassment of the Kenyan government as a result of information to be released at the press conference which was abruptly interrupted by Kenyan immigration officials. [cite news
last = Crilly
first = Rob
title = Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya
publisher = Times Online
date = 2008-10-07
url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4897758.ece
accessdate = 2008-10-07] [cite news
last = Kanina
first = Wangui
coauthors = Humphrey Malalo
title = Kenya to deport US author of critical Obama book
publisher = Reuters
date = 2008-10-07
url = http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnJOE4960HW.html
accessdate = 2008-10-07] A Nairobi newspaper reported that Corsi would soon be deported. [cite news
title = Kenya to deport Obama critic Corsi
publisher = Daily Nation
date = 2008-10-07
url = http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/478016/-/tkxv0p/-/index.html
accessdate = 2008-10-07]

"Black Gold Stranglehold"

Corsi is also a prominent endorser of the concept of "abiotic oil" production (as opposed to Petroleum#Formation); [Jerome Corsi, [http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47551 Finally, an international conference on abiotic oil] , WorldNetDaily, November 23, 2005 ] the idea that oil is naturally produced underground through methods other than the scientifically-accepted process of converting biological material. [Jerome Corsi, [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47448 How exactly do 'fossils' make 'fuel'?] , WorldNetDaily, November 17, 2005] In his book "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" he questions the "truism that oil is fossil fuel" [Jerome Corsi "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil", WND Books page 18] and believes the reason the world buys into scientific views of petroleum formation is it would be "disastrous - both to oil companies and to politicians in office" to do otherwise. [Jerome Corsi "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil", WND Books page 235] The abiotic oil view is not supported by scientific consensus. cite journal
last= Glasby
first=Geoffrey P.
year=2006
title= Abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons: an historical overview
journal= Resource Geology
volume=56
issue=1
pages=83–96
url=http://static.scribd.com/docs/j79lhbgbjbqrb.pdf
format=PDF
accessdate=2008-02-17 ] On the inside flap of the book:

"Jerome R. Corsi and Craig R. Smith expose the fraudulent science that has been sold to the American people in order to enslave them: the belief that oil is a fossil fuel and a finite resource. On the contrary, this book presents authoritative research, currently known mostly in the scientific community, that oil is not a product of decaying dinosaurs and prehistoric forests. Rather, it is a natural product of the earth. The scientific evidence cited by Corsi and Smith suggests that oil is constantly being produced by the earth, far below the planet's surface, and that it is brought to attainable depths by the centrifugal forces of the earth's rotation. [http://www.amazon.com/Black-Gold-Stranglehold-Jerome-Corsi/dp/1581824890]

"Atomic Iran"

In 2005 Corsi's "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians" was published by WND Books with an introduction by Craig R. Smith. In the book he claims Democratic politicians are corrupted by Iranian money and are helping the mullahs, who seek nuclear weapons, in Tehran. [cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2005/02/24/2005-02-24_dems_going_nuclear_over_book.html | title=DEMS GOING NUCLEAR OVER BOOK'S IRAN CLAIM |publisher=New York Daily News | date=February 24th 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] An aide for John Kerry, one of the politicians Corsi accused of helping the mullahs, responded: "I doubt anyone who isn't wearing a tin-foil hat will take their foreign-policy cues from a proven liar who became infamous smearing the Pope, Catholics, Jews and Vietnam veterans." [cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/2005/02/24/2005-02-24_dems_going_nuclear_over_book.html | title=DEMS GOING NUCLEAR OVER BOOK'S IRAN CLAIM |publisher=New York Daily News | date=February 24th 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] To promote the book he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes" on April 8, 2005, at the Heritage Foundation, [cite news | url=http://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev040405a.cfm | title=Jerome Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians |publisher=Heritage Foundation | date=April 4, 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] and appeared on WEJEW Radio. [cite news | url=http://www.wejew.com/media/981/Atomic_Iran_Interview/ | title=Jerome Atomic Iran Interview |publisher=WE JEW | date= 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14]

On the topic in April 2005, he wrote "An atomic Iran is imminent ... mullahs may have bomb by June." [Jerome Corsi, cite news | url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43590 | title=An atomic Iran is imminent ... mullahs may have bomb by June |publisher=WorldNetDaily | date=February 03, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14 ] One year after the publication, Corsi wrote in his WorldNetDaily column, "I told you so" and claiming his book was right about failed talks. [Jerome Corsi, cite news | url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48637| title='Atomic Iran' warnings prove accurate|publisher=WorldNetDaily | date=February 03, 2006 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14 ] In contrast, Kam Zarrabi reviewed the book and wrote: "It should be an embarrassment for a publisher to have overlooked such gross misrepresentations or, to put it mercifully, mistakes, in the manuscript offered by a writer whose notoriety and opportunism are so well documented." [Kam Zarrabi, cite news | url=http://www.payvand.com/news/05/apr/1052.html | title=ATOMIC IRAN: Simply Crazy, or Crazy Like a Fox? |publisher=Intellectual Discourse | date=April 8, 2005 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14 ]

North American Union theories

Corsi claims that "President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union" a theoretical continental union of Canada, Mexico and the United States, that will supplant the United States. [Jerome Corsi, " [http://humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965 North American Union to Replace USA?] ", 05/19/2006, Human Events ] He predicts an amero currency to replace dollar for this union will happen within 10 years. [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title='Amero coming within decade' | url=http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=43860 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=October 05, 2007] The "Union" is a theme in two of his books "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada" [cite news |title=U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada? | url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/ |publisher=Salon.com |date=July 16, 2007] [cite web |url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57812 |title=Why I am not a Republican |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author=Jerome Corsi |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=September 25, 2007 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=WorldNetDaily |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] (2007) and "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders" (2006) as he explained on The Conservative Caucus's TV show. [Jerome Corsi on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzs46Nxohk The Dangers of the "North American Union"] , The Conservative Caucus, 2007] On December 15, 2006 Corsi reported for the first time he "had found a major intellectual leader behind the push to integrate North America suggesting that a crisis of 9-11 proportions might be just what was needed to advance the process toward establishing a North American Union and the amero." [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title=North American Union leader says merger just crisis away | url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53378 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=December 15, 2006]

In 2007 he claimed a North American Union driver's license was created [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title=North American Union driver's license created | url=http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=43387 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=September 06, 2007] and that the U.S. State Department was in talks to "move toward a transatlantic union." [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title=Inside the hush-hush North American Union confab
url=http://wnd.com/index.php?pageId=58788 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=March 13, 2008] That same year he claimed, "Virgil Goode, R-Va., has introduced a House of Representatives resolution expressing congressional opposition to construction of a NAFTA Super Highway System or entry into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada." [Jerome Corsi, cite news |title=House resolution opposes North American Union | url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53947 |publisher=WorldNetDaily |date=December 15, 2006] The validity of those claims was criticized in "Newsweek" and the author noted: "Corsi offered a warning: President Bush's supposed determination to force North American integration, he told the audience, could cost the GOP the 2008 presidential election. Corsi may have a conspiratorial bent. But he sure knows how to spin stories that shake up an election — and at least one candidate seems happy to help him." [cite news |title=Highway To Hell? | url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/73372 |publisher=Newsweek |date=2008-08-14]

John Hawkins, a fellow writer for "Human Events", responded: "Yesterday, Jerome Corsi was prattling on about the North American Union again after Michael Medved deservedly spanked him for spreading conspiracy theories. While I don't think Corsi is any more worthy of being taken seriously than those who think Jews rule the world or the "Truthers" who think President Bush is responsible for 9/11, I thought I would respond to him one last time." [cite news |title=There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union | url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18859 |publisher=Human Events |date=2008-08-14] Michael Medved, a conservative writer, listed Corsi as number three on his list of "The Most Annoying People on the Right", and wrote: "Nobody has worked harder to convince people that the completely moronic North American conspiracy theory is real than the right's version of Dylan Avery, kooky Jerome Corsi." [Michael Medved, cite news |title=There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union | url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18751 |publisher=Human Events |date=01/03/2007 ] Additionally, conservative Hugh Hewitt said Corsi is "from the fringe."cite news | title = Obama Blunder #43: The Corsi Push-Back | work = Townhall.com | first = Hugh | last = Hewitt | url = http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/6f844e8c-1b5c-4d18-9c49-89a51b9d5c8c | date = August 15, 2008 | accessdate = 2008-08-15 ]

9/11 theory

According to Corsi, "A video clip widely circulated on the Internet shows a test that pulverized an F-4 fighter on impact with a hardened target, providing evidence to answer 9/11 skeptics who question why so little identifiable airplane debris remained after the hijacked American Airlines Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon." [cite web |url=http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=57680 |title=Sept. 11 redux: Video shows jet vaporizing |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author=Jerome Corsi |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=February 29, 2008 |year= |month= |format= |work=
publisher=WorldNetDaily |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ] It has been reported that [http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20080129_alexjones_corsi.mp3 audio] and a Youtube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yCfI3VmL88 video] has been circulating of Corsi's Jan. 29th, 2008 interview on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' radio show. [cite news |title=Anti-Obama Author on 9/11 Conspiracy | url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/anti-obama-author-on-911-conspiracy/ |publisher=New York Times |date=2008-08-14] [cite news | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12526.html | title=Wild theories of 'Obama Nation' author
publisher=The Politico | date=2008-08-14 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] [cite news | url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/democrats-seek.html| title=Democrats Seek to Undermine Anti-Obama Author With His Own Words |publisher=ABC News | date=2008-08-14 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14] In the interview Corsi discusses "the findings of Steven Jones, physicist and hero of the “9/11 Truth” movement who claims to have evidence that the World Trade Center towers collapsed due to explosives inside the building, not just the planes hitting them, during the attacks." [cite news |title=Anti-Obama Author on 9/11 Conspiracy | url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/anti-obama-author-on-911-conspiracy/ |publisher=New York Times |date=2008-08-14] Corsi cites Jones' findings of microscopic forensic evidence which seemingly negates the U.S. government hypothesis that the aircraft's jet fuel fired heat, alone, was sufficiently hot enough to collapse the steel superstructure of the buildings. Obama's campaign has criticized Corsi for these claims. [Michael Medved, cite news |title=The 20 Most Annoying People on the Right | url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18751 |publisher=Human Events |date=01/03/2007 ] [cite news |title=The amero conspiracy | url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/25/the_amero_conspiracy/ |publisher=The Boston Globe |date=November 25, 2007] [cite news |title=U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada? | url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/|publisher=Salon.com |date=November 25, 2007] [cite news | url=http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/email/Fight%20the%20Smears%20-%20Unfit%20for%20Publication.pdf | title=Unfit for Publication|publisher=Obama for America | date=2008-08-14 | first= | last= | accessdate = 2008-11-14 pages 35]

Accusation of plagiarism

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. [cite news | url=http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/02/swift_boat_auth.html | title=Swift Boat Author Corsi, WND plagiarize Schlussel | publisher=debbieschlussel.com | accessdate = 2007-03-03] [cite news | url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12050112/ | title=Countdown with Keith Olbermann for March 27 | publisher=MSNBC | accessdate=2007-03-03]

Books

By Corsi

Selected works
*cite book |last=Corsi |first=Jerome Robert |title=Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent; A Moral and Legal Evaluation |year=1972 |publisher= Thesis (Ph. D.) Harvard University (ProQuest document ID:754860281) (Publication Number: AAT 0231683) |location=Boston, MA |isbn= |oclc=76982330
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*Corsi, Jerome R. "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada". WND Books, July 4, 2007, ISBN 0979045142.
*Blackwell, Kenneth 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
*cite book |last=Corsi |first=Jerome R. and Smith, Craig R. |title= Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil |year=2005 |publisher=WND Books |location=Nashville, TN |isbn=1581824890 |oclc=61228601
*cite book |last=Corsi |first=Jerome R. |title=Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians |year=2005 |publisher=WND Books |location=Nashville, TN |isbn=1581824580 |oclc=57475793
* O'Neill, John E. and Jerome R. Corsi. "". Regnery Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-89526-017-4.
* Lewis, Ralph G. and Jerome R. Corsi. "To Make the World Safe for Picnics: The 1972 Political Conventions in Miami Beach". 1974

About Corsi
*Swett, Scott and Tim Ziegler, " [http://www.tosettherecordstraight.com To Set The Record Straight: How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry] ", New American Media Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9799841-5-0

ee also

*Swiftboating

References

External links

* [http://wnd.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=246 Jerome Corsi articles] at WorldNetDaily
* [http://humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Jerome+R.+Corsi Jerome Corsi articles] at Human Events
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxzs46Nxohk Jerome Corsi on The Dangers of the "North American Union"] from The Conservative Caucus
* [http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010 "Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?"] by Media Matters for America
* [http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi Unfit For Publication: An Investigative Report On The Lies In Jerome Corsi's "Obama Nation"] – Obama for America official response
** [http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/email/Fight%20the%20Smears%20-%20Unfit%20for%20Publication.pdf Unfit for Publication] from Obama for America