Sean Hannity helps Jerome Corsi promote his black-helicopter 'New World Order' conspiracy theories
By David Neiwert Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 10:00am
Sean Hannity hosted not one but two whole segments last night devoted promoting the new book by Jerome Corsi -- godfather of the Swift-Boating of John Kerry -- titled America For Sale, which is basically an extended black-helicopter-style conspiracy tome straight out of the Patriot movement of the 1990s, updated for the new century.
This is a classic case of conservatives mainstreaming extremist ideas. I haven't read all of Corsi's book yet, but it differs very little in ideas and content and overall thesis from the kinds of books you could buy at militia-meeting tables in the '90s.
I haven't yet found whether Corsi decided to include his recent reportage for WorldNetDaily detailing the nefarious Obama conspiracy to round up conservatives and imprison them in concentration camps. Hannity managed to not bring up that point last night.
But yes, that's what Corsi wrote:
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The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany.
Funny, I still have a Militia of Montana book that outlines this very same nefarious plot being concocted by Bill Clinton.
As Steven Thomma explained for McClatchy:
In truth, Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., has proposed a bill that would order the Homeland Security Department to prepare national emergency centers — to provide temporary housing and medical facilities in national emergencies such as hurricanes. The bill also would allow the centers to be used to train first responders, and for "other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security."
Of course, Corsi and Hannity aren't the only ostensibly mainstream conservatives peddling this paranoiac fearmongering: So is Michelle Bachmann, among others:
"There is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service," Bachmann told a Minnesota radio station.
"And the real concern is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."
It's also cropping up quite a bit at Tea Party gatherings. That's where you find outfits like the "Oath Keepers," whose organization is built around resisting citizen roundups.
Why, exactly, does Sean Hannity so avidly promote Jerome Corsi and his conspiracy theories anyway? Look at his record:
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.
After penning the Swift Boat book, Corsi co-authored a book with Jim Gilchrist about the wonderful Minuteman movement. It included a chapter devoted to extolling the virtues of then-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, who wanted to run Orange County the way Joe Arpaio runs Maricopa County. Except that Mike Carona was actually a corrupt cop who wound up resigning.
Then he wrote his first outright conspiracy tome: The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada which ostensibly exposed secret plans to form a "North American Union" by combining the three countries into one. He evidently folds that theory into his latest book.
Then he wrote last year's The Obama Nation (get it? Abomination/Obama Nation?) which was the usual farrago of distortions, fabrications, and outright falsehoods we've come to expect from him. In between, he helped drum up media interest in the phony Ramos/Compean case.
There are mainstream conservatives who have spoken out about how badly this kind of embrace of extremism by movement leaders reflects on their ideology. But as we pointed out then, it's much more deeply entrenched than they realize.
And it's a large part of the reason we're now seeing militias come crawling out of the woodwork. For that, we can thank not just Corsi but Hannity too.
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"There is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service,"
Yes, it's called school and it is where young people get an education.
Althought a case can be made for some kind of education camps for some of these older moroons!
there's always home-skooling
let me tell you that the success rate of the homeschooled kids was abysmal. I understand why it is pretty much illegal in the rest of the industrialized world.
I'll bet the students and the parents both blamed you and your godless ways for their kids failures too.
Wasn't that mandatory service once call the "draft"
Let's be politically correct. It was called "Selective Service" as in "if your daddy is rich you ain't gonna be selected for service".
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standsit corrected.cleaning off my monitor and keyboard.
monitor cleaner (it's so damn cute I can't quit looking at it)
http://www.raincitystory.com/flash/screenclea...
Ah man, I wish I had known about that site this morning. A man was here finishing the installation of our security system and he had two pugs at home. He would have loved to see that little doggie licking away.
and my mini-schnauzer stared at it for about 5 minutes straight, God it was funny.
When Martini wakes up I'm going to show it to him. He loves other little dogs so he's going to think that I have a little pug crated in my screen.
I also sent the link to my elderly neighbor across the street. She's a dog lover and has a wonderful sense of humor.
Thank you so much for that link. I would have never known about it had you not shared.
My dad was poor. Guess where I wound up? Dubya's dad was rich. Guess where he wound up.
did my reply wind up way down here?
in the Texas Guard?
Draught is also what they call a bank cheque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
that FOX News is the right-wing of the Republican Party
would know better than to promote someone who called the one true church a bunch of "boy buggerers."
The thing that American's should truly fear about this kind of rhetoric by the Right Wing is a replay of the Kennedy Assassination. You see, this same type of rhetoric was being floated around in the mainstream prior to Kennedy's assassination. As a matter of fact, the Dallas Morning News had an article the very morning of his assassination calling him a Socialist and a Fascists and pretty much the same things the right wing is calling Obama. We should all be concerned.
about the military industrial complex? with companies like Halliburton and Xe (sic) who get millions worth of govt contracts? and the huge budget the Defense Dept has, and the entire industry. i dont think he would have anything to say about it, hed just leave it the way it is. hah, some faux patriot. i curse at Corsi.
The true irony is, there is a new world order, it is Globalization by Multi National Corporations who owe allegiance to no nation, certainly not this one even if they are headquartered here.
One does not need to call it some mysterious name with an abbreviation NWO and suppose about its charter.
Although people do and they sell lots of books and do lots of TV appearances promoting them.
Call it what it is: WTO, the World Trade Organization. You can find it all in writing in the Treaties negotiated by our executives and ratified by the Senate which supersede the laws of the land.
The tenets of the WTO abrogate the rights of our workers, the enforcement of our environmental and safety standards and help move our jobs to lowest wage labor source.
Fox News will never talk about that, Murdock has a multinational empire himself, after all.
about relocating to Dubai to help their development of solar and wind energy capabilities.
You know, GE, the recipient of bank bailouts, guvmint contracts and other such US-taxpayer welfare.
about Haliburton and the millions they stole? Oh, right, that was Bush's buddies. Never mind.
just what are those FEMA camps for, anyway?
just asking...
corsi may be a lunitic, but he may have a point here...
WND readers and people who take anything Corsi says with more than the smallest grain of salt.
:)
before asking stupid questions and making ignorant remarks. You may have a point on the top of your head.
Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:11 — barkin
just what are those FEMA camps for, anyway?
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This?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwnCB9fETFA&fe...
I saw this issue crop up here and there during the last administration.
FEMA was obviously and rightfully embarrassed by the non-response and tragedy at the Superdome after Katrina. Their response was to build these “detention centers” in case of future disasters to house refugees. That is why they sit there “waiting to imprison” people.
A good policy? Meh.
People like Beck and Hannity only see what they want to see. There is no point.
There are no FEMA camps, you fool!
Can I get a refund for my kid's fee for the upcoming July session?
I was told they have a terrific Arabian Horseback riding program and a pretty nifty boating program.
Glenn Beck went in search of the FEMA camps and he sadly couldn't find a single one. He did find some empty buildings but he just couldn't find a camp anywhere.
Hey, you mean there really is a group of jack booted thugs who are going to round up the radical right wingnuts and put them in concentration camps? Kool! I'm overweight, out of shape, over the hill, and in bad health, but I volunteer! Where do I sign?
-I wish. One man's wingnut exploitation scam is another man's daydream.
-Well, how about a giant mousetrap baited with a "Free KKK Uniforms" sign? Or maybe a "Enter Here to Join Glen Beck Fan Club" sign? Half a dozen of us liberal wimps ought to be able to set one of those puppies~
Who is the crazier, Corsi or Beck? When insanity becomes frightening, that's worse than any horror movie.
I thought blacks would have to ride in the back of the helicopters
Or tied to the rotors.
This was one of the most bizarre interviews I've ever witnessed. These two guys made it sound like the end of the world was coming on Thursday and it was ALL the fault of a progressive (communist/Socialist/Marxist) president and his hit squads that were out among us ready to take our children and put them to work on farms.
Corsi needs to be put in a home for sure and after witnessing this love fest between these two, I'm more convinced than ever that Hanratty is un-stable..The man is completely wacko...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLTTKwE_Lho
The comments on that site are hysterical. LITERALLY. The histrionics are amazing.
My favorite comment, however, was critical of their plan saying "Let's give her a wedgie after home room, too!". Sweet.
Ooops. Wrong thread. I meant to post this on the Salt For Snowe thread. I'll head over there. Bye.
When bush was in office he validated all of the fears and paranoia of the militias in this country propelling them into some fantasy of power. Reality has hit now and its shaking them to the core making these people unable to retract what they really are paranoid, fear mongering, egocentric, racists. So now they just go with it and push as far as they can, why not they have the following.
I would say Sean Hannity owes his church and the Holy Father many, many, many Hail Mary's and Our Fathers for having as a guest the man who said:
CORSI: Maybe while he's there he can tell the UN what he's going to do about the sexual crimes committed by "priests" in his "Church" during his tenure. Or, maybe that's the connection -- boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press. (03/03/2003)
I suggest some of you direct a letter to Bill Donohue at the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights:
450 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10123
(212) 371-3191
Fax: (212) 371-3394
Today Bill is responding to New York Times attacks on the church for priestly behavior at his website: http://www.catholicleague.org/
He is also appearing on the 700 Club promoting his new book on how liberals are destroying American values and morals.
Ask Bill what he thinks of Sean Hannity, St. Pius X grad for hosting the man who said that about the Pope.
I'll bet you get no response.
I dont think the whole crimes committed by "priests" thing is going away anytime soon:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/
should be enriching those who have defamed his church, as has Jerome Corsi. Bill Donohue is the man to call Sean to task.
You can e-mail him at: cl@catholicleague.org
Do they think they're clever with that barbarism taken from abomination?
I see his book is a N.Y. Times bestseller already!
Who wants to bet which righwing sugar daddy has the largest stock of this lunatic horseshit in their garage? I say Melon-Scaife has a couple hundred thousand in his garage, waiting to be given away free on the internet, or for a $1 donation to some wingnut, kookball, wacko nutjob organization - like the republican party.
Well the republicans wanted the crazy right wing of their party to support them and now they have them forever. Hard to shake off parasites once they have decided you are their host. Republicans should have been careful what the wished for. The last two elections have shown them the crazies aren't their best friends but now they are stuck with them.
"There is a very strong chance” that Mr Corsi doesn’t even believe in half the crap that comes out of his own stupid piehole. Either that or he’s batshit crazy.
I'm going to pick door number two. I think he is batshit crazy.
about the fate of Sean Hannity's immortal soul. Jerome Corsi has defamed the Holy Mother Church. I pray for Sean Hannity to see his errors.
Before I light a candle for Sean I have e-mailed Bill Donohue,
head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights seeking his advice. Here was my message:
"I saw an author named Jerome Corsi on the Sean Hannity program on FOX network last night. I understand the man has said very unkind things about the Pope and the Catholic church, including comparisons of the church to the Muslim religion in sexual abuse of boys.
In particular, Mr. Corsi reportedly wrote this on the website Free Republic about Pope John Paul's visit to the United Nations:
CORSI: Maybe while he's there he can tell the UN what he's going to do about the sexual crimes committed by "priests" in his "Church" during his tenure. Or, maybe that's the connection -- boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press. (03/03/2003)
I look reverently forward to your guidance on this matter."
Please demonstrate you concern for poor Sean's soul by e-mailing Mr. Donohue as well at cl@cathlolicleague.org
Remember, I am working for salvation, not your donations (yet).
I hope you used spell check on the original because it took me a while to figure out what Sean's "sould" was. Other than that, good one!
when you offer it for filthy lucre. For those of you with free long distance service you can call Bill Dononhue and ask if praying
for Sean hannity's sould or soul is appropriate. (212) 371-3191.
I am sure it will warm the hearts of the person who answers your call to know you care about Sean and the Pope.
But see, here's the problem. I don't give a rat's ass about Sean and the Pope's face fromming scares me. I'm just eating an apple and pondering the situation.
I want Bill Donohue to send my e-mail to Spurgatory.
I like the Pope's hat and his shoes.
Write Bill Donohue today. Better yet call(212) 371-3191 and let your fingers do the talking on your beads.
The Pope copied his shoes after the shoes the chick wore in the Wizard of Oz. I believe he copied his hat from one he saw a lady wear at the Kentucky Derby. He is so unoriginal.
Your pickup truck and fertilizer are ready...
your "news" programs where you interview these morans...
Is like a drug dealer speaking to an NA meeting...
of Sean Hannity, brother.
Probably you would be better off to pray for his sanity. The Nobel Peace Prize has pretty much driven him and his ilk over the edge.
I think Hannity sold his soul when he came to work for Fox. From what I hear, he got a hell of a deal.
But call Bill Donohue and ask why Jerome Corsi is spreading lies about the Catholic Church speading cheeks of boys on Sean Hannity's show. Or e-mail him at cl@catholicleague.org
May the good Lord bless and keep you.
You want the lord to keep my sould? Heck he can have it if he wants it, I never use it.
During the G.W. Bush administration we saw all kinds of interesting things including the following. I found this in addition to a press announcement on the KBR website that I think has since been removed, but it would be worth looking it up! From the horses mouth:
KBR Awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security Contingency Support Project for Emergency Support Services
ARLINGTON – Jan. 24, 2006 - KBR announced today that its Government and Infrastructure division has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency. KBR is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton (NYSE:HAL).
With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five-year term, consisting of a one-year based period and four one-year options, the competitively awarded contract will be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000 through 2005.
“We are especially gratified to be awarded this contract because it builds on our extremely strong track record in the arena of emergency operations support,” said Bruce Stanski, executive vice president, KBR Government and Infrastructure. “We look forward to continuing the good work we have been doing to support our customer whenever and wherever we are needed.”
The contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs. The contingency support contract provides for planning and, if required, initiation of specific engineering, construction and logistics support tasks to establish, operate and maintain one or more expansion facilities.
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan to react to a national emergency, such as a natural disaster. In the event of a natural disaster, the contractor could be tasked with providing housing for ICE personnel performing law enforcement functions in support of relief efforts.
ICE was established in March 2003 as the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security. ICE is comprised of four integrated divisions that form a 21st century law enforcement agency with broad responsibilities for a number of key homeland security priorities.
KBR is a global engineering, construction, technology and services company. Whether designing an LNG facility, serving as a defense industry contractor, or providing small capital construction, KBR delivers world-class service and performance. KBR employs more than 60,000 people in 43 countries around the world.
CONTACT: Halliburton Public Relations, Houston
Melissa Norcross, 713-759-2601
Melissa.Norcross@Halliburton.com
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So it's a conspiracy theory to say that Rahm Emanuel talked extensively in a television interview about wanting to impose 3 months of mandatory military service for 18-25 year olds?
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -David Rockefeller
Yes, it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtDSwyCPEsQ&fe...
Peace.
Corsi is more than just another nut. He is a CIA operative. I had a business associate in Israel who let Corsi use his Tel Aviv office for a "business meeting." It turns out that Corsi was looking for people in Israel who had family back in Iran. He was looking to create some kind of phony committe of Iranians seeking to topple the current regime.
We knew an Iranian guy who met with him and listened to his pitch. We warned this guy not to get involved with Corsi because it would likely put his family back in Iran at risk. We had no doubt that Corsi would love to have seen something happen to this guy's family so he could use it as an example of "Iranian abuse."
Fortunately, the Iranian guy decided to have nothing to do with Corsi and his nonsense. I told my friend to never let Corsi use the office again and that was the last we heard of him. He is garbage.
the right didn't mind all those "free speech cages" under Bush.
were all the patriotic rage to these asshats just less that a year ago. Hmmm, I wonder what just changed?
$10,000,000 meant for Iraq to Brother Jeb in Florida to gear up the police in riot gear, build chain-link fences and shoot rubber bullets at peaceful protestors during the WTO meeting?
Where was their concern when Bush was listening in on domestic phone calls?
Where was their concern when Bush was sending FBI agents to Peace Group meetings?
I'm so tired of their invented concern over invented threats and their complete ignorance of actual threats.
Thanks guys for figuring it all out for us. So we have a globalist President whose support for ACORN helped burst the housing and banking bubbles and who is threatening our sovereignty, by allowing every country to drill in American territory while shutting out our own corporations. Corrupt Democrats, the only party succumbs to interests groups, should all be thrown in jail. Additionally, the WTO, UN and Obama through secret zionist funders are creating a new world order.
Sounds good guys. Glad to see the right is on top of all this.
I guess the equivalent on the left of such a conspiracy would be if MNBC had some guest claiming that the US Treasury Secretary was the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and who in the latter role saved his former company by bailing them out while letting other banks collapse, or some crazy shit like that. Freakin hippies.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has as much effect on the matters of State as my 6 year old neighbor does on the orbit of the earth.
Complaining about the WTO is completely valid, but linking them to the UN is asinine.
As for the Treasury and Goldman Sachs, it was Paulson the Plunderer appointed by George W Bush, the dumbest man on earth.
... trying to make sense of the logical cacophony that is the posting of the common libertarian/wingnut is a complete waste of time. And as fruitful of an enterprise as trying to find the pattern behind the decimals of the number Pi.
you do realize I was being sarcastic. Or did I just fall for your' double sarcasm?
You certainly threw me a loop.
See my comment here
I was having my fun-time after listening to the complete morons talk about the current state of things. I agree entirely re: the WTO/WB, although I would argue there is nothing really new about The Order. The multi-nationals using global "free trade" is really nothing more than Monopolists on steroids.
If you can't detect sarcasm when it is so apparent then go read Mad.
wasn't that good, could it?
It was solid
I have NO PROBLEM with concentration camps being set up in America....as long as only people like Corsi are sent there. I can see the sign above the gates now: "Intelligence is Freedom"
Lunacy?
republicanism/conservativism is a mental illness!
yup. they just can't stop making up little stories and then trying to make them real somehow. how to help these little sickos...
it seems like any delusion will do - they are so desperate and deranged.
"the Obama conspiracy to round up conservatives and imprison them in concentration camps." Oh , if only it were true !
... for some of these wingnuts to actually READ THE FREAKING BILL.
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