LOOKS LIKE THE NOISE MACHINE & McCAIN HAVE MADE UP

Below I posted a column by David Kiley that pointed out that Hannity has been spewing the same lines about Obama as the McCain campaign and now I learn that McCain has taken a line from Fats Limbaugh. Fats has repeatedly referred to Obama as "The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama" and now McCain has come out with with a web ad that uses the same terms.

McCain camp mocks Obama as Messiah-like
Fri Aug 1, 2008 7:02pm EDT
By Steve Holland

PANAMA CITY, Florida (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's presidential team mocked Democrat Barack Obama on Friday as an overconfident, Messiah-like candidate with a tendency toward exaggeration in a Web ad that closed out a week of attacks.

Hannity has gone a step further and has been pushing the lies and smears in Jerome Corsi's book. I expect that Hannity will be repeating these lies on radio & TV and World Net Daily (WND) has already started to spread one of the lies. MediaMatters has already rebutted one of Corsi's lies in WND:

But Corsi's reported allegation that Obama "never revealed if or when he stopped" using drugs is false: Obama wrote in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father (Crown, 1995), that he "stopped getting high" shortly after moving to New York City to attend Columbia University as an undergraduate.

On Hannity & Colmes, Corsi pushed another lie, also rebutted by MediaMatters:

Corsi then asserted, "Obama first presents his father as a great hero, and the truth was, his father was a polygamist and a alcoholic. He had abandoned the family in Africa when he met Obama's mother in Hawaii. He married Obama's mother without disclosing that he had not divorced this African woman," falsely suggesting that Obama did not address these issues in his memoir Dreams From My Father (Crown, 1995). After making his false suggestion, Corsi asserted, "I'm first criticizing that Obama was not straightforward in how he presented, really, a deception about his father as a goatherd who got his chance to go to, come and study in the United States because of John Kennedy."

Contrary to Corsi's suggestion, on Pages 125-126 (paperback) of Dreams From My Father, Obama recounts a conversation with his mother that addressed his father's polygamy:
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Moreover, on Pages 212-217, Obama recounts a discussion with his half sister Auma about their father's alcoholism:
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Further, on Pages 343-344, Obama recounts a discussion in which his half brother Mark called their father "a drunk":
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FAUX News also provided the transcript of this interview, something it doesn't do very often but hey, this is the Noise Machine at its best. I did note another conlfict in wingnut narratives in this excerpt:

HANNITY: And then -- then you move into his current positions and where he stands. And it is a picture that you're painting of a radical leftist socialist, a guy that believes in redistribution, that has basically -- these views have been shaped and formed from his youth.

CORSI: That's right, including being a Saul Alinsky organizer, and Saul Alinsky was a radical leftist organizer who said that his goal was redistribution of wealth from the haves to the have-nots.

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KIRSTEN POWERS, GUEST CO-HOST: You raised just now Saul Alinsky.

CORSI: Yes.

POWERS: Of course, Hillary Clinton famously identified him as somebody who's been very influential to her.

CORSI: Correct. Absolutely.

POWERS: She grew up in the most middle class, sort of normal American family, Republican family, actually. I mean, she's not a radical. Why does it make Obama a radical?

CORSI: Saul Alinsky was a radical.

POWERS: I understand that, but I'm saying you could -- you could actually read Saul Alinsky and not be radical.

CORSI: I don't see how. I mean, here, Saul Alinsky is saying that Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" for the haves to keep what they have, and he wrote "Rules for Radical" for the have-nots to take it away.

POWERS: Right.

CORSI: He dedicated it, "Rules for Radicals," to Lucifer. And Obama taught Alinsky methodology.

POWERS: Do you -- do you believe in Hillary Clinton as a radical?

CORSI: She was in terms of her following of Alinsky. And I think Hillary -- you know, this book is not about Hillary.

POWERS: Right.

CORSI: I think Hillary has moved much more to the center. Obama, I think, at core remains the Saul Alinsky community organizer. His politics are still about redistribution of wealth. And that was the core Alinsky principle.

Here's the contradiction: Hannity has been claiming on his radio show that he doesn't know what a "community organizer" is and implies that it's an insignificant role. Here, Corsi is laying out how ideologically powerful that position can be and that nullifies Hannity's cheap dismissal.