Dr. Jerome Corsi is probably the most controversial man in America these
days. His blockbuster new book, The Obama Nation, is currently the New York
Times Number One Bestseller, and media talking heads are having a hissy fit.
They are incensed that there is someone of Corsi's intelligence and
credentials who is willing to tell the truth about the presumptive
Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama.
You see, the national media have elevated Obama to a position beyond
sainthood: they view him as the fourth member of the Godhead. He can do no
wrong. He is America's--no, check that, he is the world's--savior. How dare
Dr. Corsi spoil the sacrosanct candidacy--and the media's universal
anointing--of Obama?
The fact is, however, Jerry Corsi is a rare breed these days: he is an
honest and objective journalist whose commitment to truth outweighs his
desire for popularity. I will go even further: Jerry Corsi is what the rest
of the national media should be, but aren't.
Benjamin Franklin and the other Founding Fathers believed that the First
Amendment protection of the freedom of the press was necessary, because they
assumed the press would serve as an independent, unbiased, and truthful
check and balance to the propensities of government toward subterfuge and
duplicity. And for many years, this goal was more or less fulfilled. No
more.
For the most part, the national media today are nothing more than lap dogs
for both major parties, but especially for the Democratic Party. We have not
seen a sincere effort by the major media to circumvent the machinations of
the party in power (Democrat or Republican) since the days of the Watergate
investigations. The major media--especially the television media--have
accommodated and even facilitated George W. Bush's corruption as much as
they did Bill Clinton's--maybe more. With few exceptions, they have become
nothing more than pathetic panderers of power.
Therefore, when a fellow journalist--especially one with the credentials of
Jerry Corsi--writes a thoroughly researched and well-documented exposé of
one of the media's darlings, packs of attack dogs descend with bloodlust. In
fact, Dr. Corsi has received more intensive scrutiny from the national media
in one week than Barack Obama has received since he became a candidate for
President.
I say, Hooray for Jerry Corsi. And, yes, I very much appreciate the fact
that he endorsed my candidacy for President by saying in his book, "I intend
to vote in 2008 for Chuck Baldwin." However, readers should know that I
admired Jerry Corsi and his brilliant investigative reports long before I
became a candidate for President with the Constitution Party and long before
he wrote his latest masterpiece. Dr. Corsi also made it clear that his book
The Obama Nation was in no way intended "to be an argument for Chuck Baldwin
[his quote]."
For balance, every person in America should read Dr. Corsi's book The Late
Great USA. This book just might be the most important book written in this
young twenty-first century. Jerry's exposure of President George W. Bush's
(and his fellow travelers at the Council on Foreign Relations) globalist
schemes in The Late Great USA is beyond masterful: it is a blueprint for
America's survival as a free and independent republic. Therefore, no one can
honestly claim that Corsi's exposé on Obama is somehow politically biased,
because he has exposed the shenanigans of both Republicans and Democrats.
I just wish that Jerry had time to write an exposé on John McCain, because
no one else among America's national journalists has the intention (much
less the integrity) of doing it, and McCain is certainly equally deserving.
*Disclaimer: I am currently a candidate for President of the United States
on the Constitution Party ticket. My official campaign web site is located
at: http://www.baldwin08.com/
(c) Chuck Baldwin
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