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Date Posted: 20:37:16 08/20/08 Wed
Author: Mark Shapiro
Author Host/IP: 68.38.84.79
Subject: Six degrees of separation.....The Zinn Connection
In reply to: Christopher 's message, "Failed venture follows anti-Obama author" on 17:23:40 08/20/08 Wed

I wonder if Corsi new that Jeff's dad is one of the most well respected profs.@ Harvard.....................Nothing quite embodies the sleaziness of Corsi's attacks so much as his smear of Sam Graham-Felsen, one of Obama's official bloggers. Corsi recounts how "Graham-Felsen's bookcase in the Quincy House dorm included titles by Karl Marx and Howard Zinn..."(149) Imagine that: a college student who has books! Graham-Felsen is also deemed guilty for praising Noam Chomsky.(149) And then, as Media Matters pointed out, Corsi falsely presents an article Corsi wrote for the Nation as being written for the magazine "Socialist Viewpoint" (which in reality reprinted it from the Nation, as it reprints many mainstream publications). Corsi then describes the publication in breathless detail: "The Socialist Viewpoint is a magazine published by the Socialist Workers Organization, a group that describes itself as 'formed to advance the revolutionary Marxist political program in the United States.'"(150) Finally, Corsi declares, "Little Green Footballs has called Graham-Felsen 'a hardcore Marxist.'"(151) Wow, Little Green Footballs, there's an unimpeachable source. Corsi quotes another blogger who embraces his McCarthyism: "exactly what is a Democratic candidate doing with a staffer who acts as the campaign's public's face when the staffer is featured in Marxist publications?"(151)

Corsi concludes his chapter on Obama's radical views by writing: "How possibly can Obama argue his association with radicals such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn was a long time ago, when he continues to recruit a Marxist sympathizer such as Sam Graham-Felsen to be an official blogger of his 2008 presidential campaign?"(151) Corsi actually believes that Obama should be held responsible for the failure of his campaign to ban anyone who has read a book by Karl Marx or Howard Zinn. Perhaps it would assist the Obama campaign if Corsi came up with a list (let's call it a "blacklist") of books that anyone associated with his campaign is not allowed to have read at any point in their lives.

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