Lest we forget who Jerome Corsi really is - UPDATED

Atrios reminds us all that Media Matters had the scoop on Jerome Corsi, Freeper, back in 2004 when they provided us with a selection of his quotes.

• Corsi on Islam: "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion"

• Corsi on Catholicism: "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"

• Corsi on Muslims: "RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together"

• Corsi on "John F*ing Commie Kerry": "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"

• Corsi on Senator "FAT HOG" Clinton: "Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?"

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Corsi is also a frequent participant in FreeRepublic.com's online forums, posting under the pseudonym "jrlc" since 2001. (Click here to read a full set of Corsi's posts; click here to read the post in which "jrlc" admits to being Jerome Corsi.)

On FreeRepublic.com, Corsi has, among other things, said that "ragheads" are "boy buggers"; referred to "John F*ing Kerry"; called Senator Hillary Clinton a "Fat Hog"; referred to her daughter as "Chubby Chelsie" Clinton; referred to Janet Reno as "Janet Rhino"; called Katie Couric "Little Katie Communist"; suggested Kerry was "practicing Judaism"; and expressed the wish that a small plane that had crashed into a building in Los Angeles had instead crashed into the set of NBC'S The West Wing, thereby killing actor Martin Sheen.

Media Matters then provided a whole series of specific examples of Corsi's freeper postings with links. To be honest, it's pretty sickening to view but after skimming it, I really have to question how any legitimate journalist would even contemplate as reliable anything that comes out of Corsi's mouth.

UPDATE:

Ben Smith added this note about Corsi:

... I'll take the opportunity to plug one of my favorite radio shows, and the place I first heard Corsi: Coast to Coast AM. It specializes in alien sitings and abductions, time travel, other paranormal phenomena, as well as regular guest Jerome Corsi's discoveries on the malign plans for the North American Union.

Read Ron Rosenbaum's classic Coast to Coast AM piece for more. The show airs starting at midnight all over the place, and is great, hallucinatory listening for insomniacs.

And then there's the debunking by the Obama campaign itself, summarized by Jonathan Martin:

In an move that is one part genuine pushback and one part message-sending, Obama's campaign has released a 41-page PDF file designed to rebut accusations made in Jerome Corsi's book, "The Obama Nation."

The idea is to aggressively fact-check a book that is now No. 1 on the NYT's best-seller list.  But, as made plain by the title and faux book jacket, the goal is also to demonstrate to fretting Democrats, Republicans plotting attacks and reporters watching it all that they won't be "swift-boated" in the way John Kerry was in 2004 starting with Corsi's book, "Unfit for Command."

To prove this point, they don't stop at merely fact-checking each questionable claim in the book -- they also set out to attack Corsi for his fringe views, discrediting the messenger.

Of course, the lies in "The Obama Nation" almost pale in comparison to the bizarre, conspiratorial views that Jerome Corsi has advocated in his broader work," writes the Obama campaign in what amounts to an introduction, noting the author's fear of a purported North American Union, belief that there was a government coverup of 9/11 and past anti-Catholic comments.