WorldNetDaily’s Jerome Corsi declared last month that he would try to swift-boat John Kerry again in an attempt to derail his nomination as secretary of state, and he’s finally making good on the promise with a Jan. 23 WND article rehashing his old attacks.
But his work is making nary a ripple because Americans know something they didn’t when Corsi first appeared on the scene in 2004 for his first round of Kerry-bashing: how Corsi operates. Media Matters has a convenient compendium of Corsi’s many journalistic offenses, mostly in the birther realm.
Corsi’s lack of credibility is compounded by the even greater lack of credibility embodied by his employer. WND has utterly beclowned and destroyed itself by spending the past four years trying to destroy Obama and his administration by any means necessary, including publishing lies and lurid rumors. As a result of WND putting the politics of personal destruction ahead of time-honored journalistic principles, nobody believes anything it has to say.
Corsi has been laying the seeds of his irrelevance for years through his shoddy reporting as published by a “news” outlet where shoddiness is the coin of the realm. He has no one to blame but himself.