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Corsi in the Cross-hairs

by: hannah

Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 08:18:56 AM EDT
Scott Lehigh has a good op-ed in the Globe about the Corsi smear job and one of the diarists on KOS does a good job of running down where else the hit job is being decried.

In addition, the Globe has done a bit of journalism and brought some of Corsi's earlier endeavors to light.
hannah :: Corsi in the Cross-hairs
It turns out that, after getting a doctorate in Political Science from Harvard, Jerome Corsi put in ten years teaching on New Hampshire, Colorado and New Mexico.

And then, before heading into "journalism," Jerome Corsi did a stint as an investor.  As the Globe also reports:

Corsi's role as investor is perhaps the least known of his several careers. And 13 years after the Poland deal, the fingers of blame are still wagging. At least two of those investors won court judgments in separate cases filed in courts in Hennepin and Dodge counties in Minnesota against Corsi and his two partners to recoup a portion of the money lost in the Poland deal, but they never collected from Corsi.

That's because Corsi transfered all his assets to his wife who runs a house cleaning business in New Jersey.

So, how did this fellow hook up with the Swifties to do a hit job on Kerry?  And now Obama?  How did he get from the World Net Daily, the outfit that provided a home base for the faux reporter Jeff Gannon?

Perhaps if we stop looking at the dagger and focus on the hand that's wielding it, we can figure it out.
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Mary Matalin published (4.00 / 3)
the thing on Obama.

How anyone can ever trust Carville the ragin' Cajun as a supposed Democratic operative, I don't know. He is married to Matalin; I assume he lives with her, so even if the money she gets is put into a separate bank account from his, he still benefits.

He should not be allowed to speak for the Democratic party or pretend he has a Democratic POV. I have nothing against "mixed marriages" nor do I believe that partners are responsible for what the other one does. But in this case, I think the Matalin/Carvilles are over the line.  

I go back and forth about that (0.00 / 0)
I want to believe love conquers all, even politics. But you're right, it is strange to have people whose lives are so entangled on opposite sides under one roof. Because that affects US, and our lives.

And Carville is wicked good sometimes. I don't want to unilaterally disarm.

 

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Politics as a career (0.00 / 0)
Those two butter their bread with our causes. At that level, I think they end up doing what they have to do to maintain their standard of living.

Kinda like lawyers. They don't always "do nice."

Besides, neither have had much luck handicapping lately. Ouchy wa-wa!

The giant finds its gait.

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It's funny how (4.00 / 2)
we're so obsessed (not us literally, but most folks) with people's sex lives and affairs, but we're fine with how people make their money.

My family certainly enjoys a lower standard of living because of career choices I've made and which were made out of idealism.

I just wouldn't feel moral making money off of a sleazebag author and his book full of lies. But we don't begrudge Matalin/Carville.

I think things are out of balance somewhat.

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A ha, but (4.00 / 1)
Mary Matalin thinks she IS moral.

If she didn't believe what she's saying at some level, she'd be ... somebody else. Somebody less effective.

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The Corporate Veil (4.00 / 1)
One of the mores promoted by our capitalist culture is that "we do what we have to."

Personal service professionals, consultants and advocates, get to hide behind the claim that they don't act on their own behalf. They "represent the client."

In school you learn "birds of a feather..." Right?


The giant finds its gait.

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That's not all bad, either (4.00 / 1)
Defense lawyers, for example. But you're right, an awful lot of corporate malarkey is justified under that rubric.
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