Paul Waldman of Media Matters took on the Maggot on Larry King, Wednesday, August 13, 20081. The Maggot uses a familiar response to criticisms:
CORSI: Well, the -- you know, this a common tactic of Media Matters and others. They broad brush, say it's discredited, it's full of falsehoods. When you get down to what they can actually prove, it's nitpicking little objections.
Here's an interesting point: Maggot is another reactionary Catholic:
CORSI: I stated they were not written to express my true views. They were intentionally written to be antagonistic or aggressive or provocative. The Catholic Church, I'm a good member. I was born and raised in the Catholic Church.
I'm a member in good standing of the Catholic Church. I have supported Islam. After I wrote "Atomic Iran," I walked 200 miles with the Islamic Iranian expatriates for freedom in their country, created two mutual funds for the state of Israel, went -- with the blessing of B'Nai Brith and my 25 years in financial services.
Waldman corners The Maggot at one point and The Maggot just squirms:
WALDMAN: You put up on right-wing Web sites a whole series of bigoted and hateful posts in 2002 and 2003 that you later had to admit to when you got found out -- all kinds of really vile and malicious stuff.
CORSI: OK. If you...
WALDMAN: Now, you say that you've stopped that. You say that you've stopped that and you don't put up those kinds of vile, bigoted, malicious, hateful posts on right-wing Web sites. But all we have is your word.
I mean, do -- can we really trust you?
People who do that kind of thing, well, you know, they're not really very trustworthy.
CORSI: We have...
WALDMAN: So can we trust you?
Are you still doing that?
CORSI: You have more than my word. You've got the record of everything I've written since then.
WALDMAN: Can you prove that you're not doing it anonymously?
Can you prove it?
CORSI: I don't post anything anonymously.
WALDMAN: But all...
CORSI: And (INAUDIBLE)...
WALDMAN: But you just said -- well, all we have is your word.
CORSI: These... WALDMAN: You see what I'm doing here?
CORSI: No, no.
WALDMAN: This is the...
CORSI: I wanted to go...
WALDMAN: I'm doing exactly the same thing to you, Mr. Corsi, that you're doing to Barack Obama.
CORSI: No, you're...
WALDMAN: You're spreading this incredibly vicious innuendo...
CORSI: What you're doing...
WALDMAN: ...with zero evidence whatsoever.
Media Matters has provided the video clip:
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August 13, 2008 Wednesday
SHOW: CNN LARRY KING LIVE 9:00 PM EST
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News, Most Recent 60 Days
BYLINE: Larry King
GUESTS: Jerome R. Corsi, Paul Waldman
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 7755 words
HIGHLIGHT: The author and a critic discuss the controversial new book about Barack Obama, which will debut at number one on the "New York Times" best-seller list.
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