PREEMPTIVE STRIKE. THE NEW YORK TIMES ISN'T TAKING CHANCES

this election cycle, instead of seeking to undermine Jerome Corsi by ignoring him as it did in 2004, this time the Times has come out fighting like a momma bear protecting its little cub.  In what has become typical NY Times style, a blizzard of verbal assaults against Corsi's investigative reporting on Barack Obama -- e.g. "unsubstantiated, misleading or inaccurate" --  are backed up by, well, not much of anything, other than two wet spitball nitpicks borrowed from the crazed partisan fanatic -- and admitted liar -- David Brock.  [UPDATE:  I resolve the issue of when it was that Obama stopped abusing marijuana, cocaine and alcohol here.]

And I await Tom Maguire's reply to the "hand on the scales" victory the NY Times has awarded the Main Steam Media over Corsi and his 2004 book "Unfit for Command".  The Times insinuates that Corsi's earlier book could be dismissed as something like trash, with the sneering claim that Corsis book, "included various accusations that were ultimately undermined by news reports pointing out the contradictions."  Well, only the sheltered readers of the NY Times could be so stupid, gullible, and ill informed as to think so.  The rest of us, well, not only did we read the book, and we read Maguire.  And it was the authority, the credibility and reputation of John Kerry and the Main Stream Media which was left in shreds after these encounters.  [Tom Maguire replies to the NY Times here.]

By the way, Corsi's The Obama Nation is #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and #8 in books at Amazon.

You can read the Preface of The Obama Nation here and Chapter 1 of the book here.  From the Preface:

.. let me clearly state that this book has been written solely on my initiative. There has been no attempt made, nor will there be any attempt made, to communicate the shape or contents of this book with anyone in the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Constitution Party, or in any third party with a candidate running for the presidency.

In contrast to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama has not been vetted, not even by Democrats. Even today he is largely an unknown to all but a small handful of dogged political professionals and a concentrated core of political junkies who inhabit Internet blogs. Thus, in this book I have pursued Obama's extensive connections with Islam and with radical racial politics, including those articulated by such extremists as Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, in order to bring these issues from the shadows where Obama has tried to keep them hidden. For this same reason, I have pursued Obama's extensive and continuing connections with Kenya, the homeland of his father, where Obama has continued to involve himself personally in advancing the goals of Raila Odinga, the radical socialist presidential contender who comes from Obama's home tribe. Even for Obama, his past is prelude, in a political world where voters legitimately see character as an important predictor of policy.

Hence, I also document Obama's emergence in Chicago politics through the Saul Alinsky school of radical community organizing. Alinsky used the battle cry of "Change" as a code word for a socialist redistribution of wealth. I have also examined Obama's involvement in the slum landlord empire of Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko. I reported questions about Rezko's use of a loan from Nadhmi Auchi, a Middle Eastern financial intermediary, to help Obama finance the purchase of his dream-home property in Chicago ..

UPDATE:  Don't miss Althouse's take down of the Times. Roger Kimball also takes a whack.

UPDATE II:  Tom Maguire weighs in.

UPDATE III:  Now it's the Washington Post running cover for Obama.

Instead of playing protective momma bear for Obama, why don't these papers do some reporting of their own, telling us who this guy is?  But the, someone might want to actually subscribe to these papers, and they wouldn't want that, would they?