Jerome Corsi's target audience

The Obama Nation author is plugging the book on a white-supremacist radio show:

Perhaps Corsi’s most telling appearance, however, has been on The Political Cesspool, an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show hosted by self-avowed white nationalist James Edwards. Corsi was interviewed on the Cesspool on July 20 and is scheduled to appear again this Sunday, August 17, joining a recent guest roster that has included Christian Identity pastor Pete Peters, Holocaust denier Mark Weber and former Klan boss David Duke.

Along with promoting Corsi’s appearances, Edwards is boasting on his website that the three-hour weekly show will join the Republic Broadcasting Network in September. This conspiracy-minded network, heard via satellite and the web, features talk about a sinister “New World Order” and wild theories about the causes of 9/11. Shows that air on the network include The Piper Report, named after host Michael Collins Piper, who has contributed to the holocaust denial magazine The Barnes Review, and Mark Dankof’s America, which has interviewed Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, a leading Holocaust denial group.">The Political Cesspool, an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show hosted by self-avowed white nationalist James Edwards. Corsi was interviewed on the Cesspool on July 20 and is scheduled to appear again this Sunday, August 17, joining a recent guest roster that has included Christian Identity pastor Pete Peters, Holocaust denier Mark Weber and former Klan boss David Duke [and Pat Buchanan - DP].

Along with promoting Corsi’s appearances, Edwards is boasting on his website that the three-hour weekly show will join the Republic Broadcasting Network in September. This conspiracy-minded network, heard via satellite and the web, features talk about a sinister “New World Order” and wild theories about the causes of 9/11. Shows that air on the network include The Piper Report, named after host Michael Collins Piper, who has contributed to the holocaust denial magazine The Barnes Review, and Mark Dankof’s America, which has interviewed Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, a leading Holocaust denial group.

The Political Cesspool? At least you can't accuse Edwards of false advertising. Good for Screw Loose Change's Pat Curley - a McCain supporter - for keeping an eye on this.

Damian P.

Update: more here. For Corsi, the 9/11 stuff was a sideshow, and the mythical "North American Union" the main attraction.

Commentary's Pete Wehner says McCain and the GOP should run, not walk, away from Corsi and Obama Nation. (Corsi, for the record, supports Chuck Baldwin of the ultra-right Constitution Party.)

Update II: Jake Tapper dismisses Obama Nation as "shoddy and dishonest," but also refutes some of the Obama campaign's refutations of same. (via Hot Air)

Posted by damian at August 15, 2008 12:21 PM