Jerome Corsi arrived in the ConWeb — and later won a job at WorldNetDaily — with his attacks on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as the co-author of the book “Unfit for Command,” which contained factually dubious claims about Kerry’s Vietnam War service.
With Kerry’s nomination to be secretary of state, Corsi has voted to swift-boat Kerry again. Corsi declared in a dec. 21 WND column:
To coincide with Kerry’s confirmation hearings, I plan to author a series of articles to be published in WND, reminding readers of the radical roots of Kerry’s political career, beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, despite advancing exaggerated claims about his three Purple Hearts supposedly earned as a military hero in that same conflict.
In writing these articles, I plan to be speaking only for myself, in that I am not authorized nor will I seek to be authorized to speak for Adm. Hoffman or John O’Neill, or any of the other courageous participants of Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth.
Corsi went on to tout O’Neill’s appearance last month on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show attacking Kerry, even though the claims made by O’Neill and his Swift Boat Veterans group have been discredited.
Corsi also makes an odd bit of disclosure:
I need to make clear that while I co-authored “Unfit for Command” and was invited to attend meetings held by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, I myself never served in the U.S. military.
I went to my draft physical in downtown Cleveland in 1968, prepared to be inducted that day, only to be disqualified for medical reasons due to hereditary eczema, an illness I continue to suffer from.
“Hereditary eczema”? Sounds a lot like the pilonidal cyst that kept Rush Limbaugh out of Vietnam. Still, it’s interesting that two great conservative champions managed to find a way of getting out of military service.
Will Corsi correct any of the errors he and his Swift Boat buddies made during their last swift-boating of Kerry? We shall see.