Jerome Corsi is in bed with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (Sorry about the mental imagery.) Corsi has special access to the cold case posse “investigation” of President Obama’s “eligibility” — which he played a key role in instigating — and he apparently has been made a secret “special deputy” by Arpaio. Therefore, anything Corsi says about Arpaio should be seen as one sees a press release: stenography that should not be mistaken for “news.”
So when Arpaio was finally sued by federal officials for allegedly violating the civil rights of Latinos, he knew he could count on Corsi to serve as his stenographer and wingman. And that’s exactly what Corsi does. It’s a nice quid pro quo.
Corsi’s first response to the charges was a May 9 WorldNetDaily article providing Arpaio’s response, repeating earlier unsubstantiated claims that there is “White House coordination in an effort to remove from him from office or discredit him before his investigation uncovers more about Obama’s past.”
Corsi spins even more furiously for Arpaio in a May 10 article featuring Arpaio in full attack mode, resuming his attack on one Arpaio critic, Randy Parraz, as a “radical agitator with a union-trained background as a Saul Alinsky ‘organizer.'”
Corsi teams with Arpaio to try and change the subject from Arpaio’s alleged criminality with another May 10 article touting how the cold case posse “has pressed the director of the Selective Service System not to destroy any microfilm records that may yet exist of Obama’s 1980 draft registration form.”
Corsi repeats claims that Obama’s Selective Service registration was a forgery because of alleged anomalies in the post office stamp that recorded it — a claim that has largely been discredited.
Expect Corsi to report on that around the time he answers the question of whether he is a “special deputy” of Arpaio.