WND conspiracist's bogus claim: Hasan advised Obama's transition team
By David Neiwert Friday Nov 06, 2009 2:45pm
It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the wingnuts tried to maliciously and deceitfully connect the Fort Hood shooter to the Obama White House. We just didn't expect it would take less than 24 hours.
And of course the perpetrator is the reliably wrong conspiracy-meister Jerome Corsi, writing at WorldNetDaily:
NEW YORK – Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood, played a homeland security advisory role in President Barack Obama's transition into the White House, according to a key university policy institute document.
The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University published a document May 19, entitled "Thinking Anew – Security Priorities for the Next Administration: Proceedings Report of the HSPI Presidential Transition Task Force, April 2008 – January 2009," in which Hasan of the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine is listed on page 29 of the document as a Task Force Event Participant.
Media Matters has the facts:
However, Corsi himself acknowledges that there is no evidence that "the group played any formal role in the official Obama transition" -- indeed, the Task Force was initiated in April 2008. Moreover, while Hasan was listed as one of approximately 300 "Task Force Event Participants" in the report's appendix, HSPI has reportedly said he was not a "member" of the Task Force, and was listed because he RSVP'd for several of the group's open events.
Why, we can hardly wait for the next Glenn Beck episode.
The fact that it is crap, of course, guarantees that Glenn Beck et al will run with it. We can now look forward to a “the Fort Hood killer advised the Obama transition team” meme -– shortened to calling him “an Obama adviser”.
This is, naturally, just par for the course for Corsi:
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.
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Is a big fat liar!
Only "WND - Wing-Nut-Daily" would peddle his brand of BS.
build a family bunker out back . . and be on the lookout for Muzzies.
That's whats important.
Why can't President Obama sue this man and be done with it.
One more thing to make it harder on Muslim's in the military.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
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it apprears that this major took his ire out on
the wrong group of people......who knows or will
ever know what set him off...
write Obama's speeches too!
are we sure that he was not the other
ghost writer for palin's GOING ROGUE FOR REAL
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In 1995 Corsi helped launch a mutual fund to invest in formerly-communist Poland after the fall of the Soviet Union, which eventually lost $1.2 million, much of it from a group of about 20 Minnesota investors.[8][9] The Federal Bureau of Investigation found no basis for bringing criminal charges.[8] Some of the investors blamed the organizers, including Corsi, for their investment in the former communist country. Two investors sued Corsi and his partners on the basis that the organizers had given their personal guarantee backing up the investment, and won judgments against them.[8] But, they did not collect from Corsi allegedly because, as one investor claimed, the money "had been moved into his wife's name ... There was nothing to get out of him."[8] Until his 2004 book, Corsi was a financial services marketing specialist.[10]
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So,
When people who questioned the events of 9/11 were chastised as being "CONSPIRACY THEORISTS" that was O.K.
But,
Now that those castigators are now engaging in the very same principles and tactics...
... Oh, I forgot. It's not a "CONSPIRACY THEORY" when the G(no)P does it, YES?
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Why does the media give this clown and others like him a platform to speak? He's a known LOSER and is making money on anything he can WHORE out. As far as 9/11 being an inside job, I am still trying to understand how Box cutters brought this country to it's knees and started two wars and caused a War against Muslims. We are the Richest most powerful nation on the planet with a military un-paralled to any other, but we are supposed to believe that a few Muslims boarded 3 planes with only box cutters (no bombs but box cutters), they took over the planes and headed them into the towers, the pentagon and one crashed in PA, and we managed to find Mohammed Attah's passport or drivers license in the rubble in New York. Unfreaking believeable people. If this is true it doesn't say much about our nations competence, does it? So the perps only spent what less than $10,000 for plane tickets and about $25.00 for box cutters to bring a nation to it's knees. Let that marinate in your mind for a minute.... Do you see any rationale in this scenario??
Corsi is just a Christian extremist, like Hasan is obviously a Muslim extremist.
Belief in something you can't prove can be just mildly neurotic, or it can range to total full-blown psychosis.
The problem is religion, whether anyone wants to hear it or not.
Obviously? You'd like to share how you've come to that conclusion?
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/
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... W had a problem staying in the lines.
I will pop if I can't say this. On the Ed show Kos (Marcos) and Tancredo were on. Marcos pissed Tancredo off so much that he walked off the set. It was tv gold.
Thank you site monitor if you don't kick me out for my comment.
will pick this up and run with it....it doesn't matter that it's blatantly false, they will keep it in the forefront, so people will just accept it as fact. Much as the WMD in Iraq. Truth doesn't matter anymore....so you might as well accept this as gospel.
who infiltrated our armed forces wake up! Where's bin laden you would think he'd have put out a video already.
... Beck will claim Hassan was an Obama Czar.
I mean, it would just play into all the reichtwingnutz paranoia fanatsies, but sometimes there's a gutteral desire to see some of these folks met up with and spoken to in a dark alley kind of way.
Mind you, it would be wrong. I know that. But in a savage way it would soothe the barbaric soul.
Markos (Daily Kos) just royally pissed off Tom Tancredo on the Ed Show (David Schuster hosting). Tancredo took off his mic and left early because Markos wouldn't apologize to him for taking a shot at Tancredo's deferment for depression. It was a cheap shot, but Tancredo was suggesting that vets want 'vouchers' for private care rather than health care reform and Markos, who is a vet, called foul on him.
If Tancredo had any sense, he would have waited for Marcos to finish his comment and then said, Thank you Marcos for you service to our country. He would have just left Morcos's deferment comment alone. Instead Tancredo threw a hissy fit.
He's the enemy now!!! . . Let's hope Marcos was totally cured when he switched parties.
In Tancredo's case, you have someone who is pro-war, but who got a deferment during a draft. In Markos's case, you have someone who is not pro-war and did not volunteer during a non-draft war period. Anyone can see those are not comparable. Also, Markos did serve in the military during peacetime.
Tancredo has nothing to be proud of, Markos has nothing to be ashamed of.
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I would say that it was Tancredo who took the first "CHEEP SHOT".
Markos was just responding with facts. If Tancredo was upset at the facts of Tancredo's history, then maybe it is HE who needs to engage in some self reflection.
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while the froth about this incident is still flying thru the air. Gotta ram the crazythought into those thick skulls out there while the scare is cooking, so it'll stick well and stay, facts be damned.
Are you just gonna grumble?
Just another tactic that will only work with the wingnut crowd. Smear Obama no matter the facts. The problem is that it will only work with that crowd, and most poeple could care less what they think anyway.
Obama is a Al Qaeda secret agent. Nothing shocks me anymore in this mess.
Well, you're certainly right, that the right-wing will always find things to criticize the president about. Nonetheless, if this article is correct, it suggests a pretty serious lapse in our counter-intelligence efforts in this country.
Can't someone sue Corsi or something? This guy is at the bottom of every political dirt pile. Who pays him for his shit slinging?
Oh god, I don't even want to think how long Beck will be chewing on this bit of fake meat.
quite the stretch even for corsi
and, while he is trying to stretch his scrotum over his head, consider the obvious fact that dick cheney was bush's vice president--and dick cheney is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
cheney must giggle at the thought of being responsible for only a dozen dead US troops, he did that in a good weekend.
But I thought it would be from Bachman. I figured she'd say Obama had something to do with it to deflect attention away from her teabagger party. They have no shame.
Maj. Hasan is a close personal friend of the Prez and often plays poker with him and Rev Wright and Bill Ayers.
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Opinions with no facts make for a great a$$hole.
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It makes one wonder what Obama would have to do to make these people believe he isn't "one of the enemy" in regards to Islam. I mean, he's escalated the war in Afghanistan, continues the war in Iraq, bombs Pakistan, continues indefinite detention and in fact builds upon Bush's power grab in this regard, can't bother to shut down Gitmo and had two Christian preachers talk at his inauguration.
How much war mongering do they need? I guess he would need to nuke the entire middle east to win their respect? Maybe he should personally make a pile of naked Muslim prisoners and electrocute their privates like Jack Bauer?
They act like he sold weapons to Iran or gave Iraq WMD... Oh wait, that's Reagan.
Did you know Obama was the sniper that shot Terry Nichol's wife and son!!! He was also the guy who started the fire in Waco!!! He was also buddies with John Hinckley Jr. and is having an affair with Jane Fonda!!!
It's getting harder and harder to impress a cougar nowadays.
Obama had to personally burn a flag and abort a fetus before Ms. Fonda would even let him get to second base.
I swear, liberal courtship is so much fun! Much better than bartering some goats and linens for a bride-servant like those godly types have to do. :)
Is from the movie "Legend"...
I can smell the copyright infringement from here.
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Not that the WND crowd and Corsi in particular were all that rational before the 2008 election, but they've basically taken a jackknife dive into the empty swimming pool of insanity over the past year, and they took it off the 10 meter platform from the looks of it.
Good one!
-– shortened to calling him “an Obama adviser”.
I'd be willing to wager a premium pint of brew on, "a key Obama adviser”.
"a key Obama adviser”.
AND..and:a close personal friend.
They just "pal"ed around.
How do you spell that? Sarah? Oh, never mind....
I'm not surprised to see "The Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University" chime in on this. They have an interesting history...
My Sister-In-Law has a niece that attends George Washington University in DC.
Snip - A number of posters in October 2007 surfaced at GW satirizing the "Islamofascism Awareness Week," which was assumed to have been from the GW Young American's Foundation. On October 9, The Daily Colonial reported that the posters were not the work of the YAF, but rather an attempt to discredit the YAF for their involvement in promoting the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week...
Obama is the the DC Sniper. It's plausible, they're both black and you know what the racist say. He also started the Rwanda genocide.
Why isn't there a truth in broadcasting or publishing law. Oh, that's right, because the conservatives would never be able to open their mouth's again.
Where is the 21st century edition of the Fairness Doctrine?
It's a lousy job, but someone has to do it.
I wonder how Obama keeps his teams of Muslim jihadists, radical Maoists, black nationalists, and Chicago gangsters from fighting with each other. They don't really seem like natural allies. But I guess coming from the guy who thought nationalis Sunni Ba'athists, Shia, and Kurds would all come together and greet American soldiers as liberators, it's about par for the course.
We really ought to figure out which Obama people are in each camp. Maybe we could give them jerseys.
I think I saw these guys partying with goats while smoking a little hash on Limbaugh's front porch. The word I got is that the goats came from Beck and the hash came from Lieberman.
By the way, none of them were wearing any protection, as far as I know.
'Thugs don't share.
Notes: At first glance, one would be hard-pressed to find a link between pleasure and the acts of assassins. Such was not the case, however, with those who gave us the word assassin. They were members of a secret Islamic order originating in the 11th century who believed it was a religious duty to harass and murder their enemies.
The most important members of the order were those who actually did the killing. Having been promised paradise in return for dying in action, the killers, it is said, were made to yearn for paradise by being given a life of pleasure that included the use of hashish. Hence, the name for the secret order as a whole, ¡ /ašš³šºn, “hashish users.” After passing through French or Italian, the word came into English and is recorded in 1603 with reference to the Moslem assassins.
You knew this was coming. I guess you didn't know Obama's grandfather was one of the ones slamming the doors on the ovens in Dachau either.
The GOP has been relegated to the party of ignorant narrow minded white trash. that's about all that's left in the party.
Of course the MSM will run with this lie. All they have to do is pose it as a question and it guarantees them a full day of coverage. "Was the Fort Hood shooter an Obama adviser?" I'm sure Wolf will be asking this question next week or you'll see it in bold type along the bottom of the screen. They grab attention with huge lies and then follow up with a few lines debunking the story only to run the same lies in the following hour. It's all about ratings ratings ratings.
wasn't he?
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