Does Jerome Corsi Know When He's Making Stuff Up?

posted on 12/14/2018 by the Salt City Sinner

I first wrote about Jerome “Dr. Dimples” Corsi almost a decade ago, in 2009. When he popped up in connection to the Mueller investigation it was, like so much of conservative politics these days, a little like watching a band I’d seen when they were small-time favorites finally make it big. There’s a feeling of pride, but also covetousness: “Hey, this weird conspiracy-minded corner of the right wing used to be my thing – now Rachel Maddow is smirking and chuckling about it on the MSNBCs!”

Yes, it seems that Dr. Jerome may have finally flown too close to the sun. It’s one thing to lie to the readers of WND or the radio-signal-receiving dental fillings in the mouths of InfoWars fans, but lying to the FBI, it turns out, may – sometimes, maybe – actually have consequences in the real world!

Dr. Dimples is primarily known for being the father of the Birther conspiracy theory, but he’s a lot crazier than just that distinction would indicate. For the uninitiated (and that’s just about everyone), here are a few things that just I – your loveable and humble guide – have written about Jerome over the last near-decade. Forgive the writing, as my craft has evolved like a mighty genus since then.

Corsi Has a Unique Idea Of Where Oil Comes From (2012)

"Dr." Corsi is perhaps best known for two things: first, as the father of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and secondly, as the father of the 'Birther' movement. If you're not familiar with either, just keep in mind that he is the progenitor of not one but TWO pejorative political terms, "Swift Boating" (to unfairly lie and smear one's opponent with total fictions) and "Birther" (a term for one who holds to the conspiracy theory / racist crap that President Obama forged his birth certificate, or was born in Kenya, or can't be president because his father wasn't a U.S. citizen, or blah blah HE'S A BLACK AFRICAN MUSLIM FOR GOODNESS' SAKE!!).
 [Corsi is, as it turns out, also a supporter of a pseudoscientific conspiracy theory known as “abiogenesis,” or the idea that oil is formed from inorganic rock in the Earth’s crust.] Corsi (who is also a climate change denier) is so crazy, in other words, he doesn't just not believe the science of carbon's effects upon the atmosphere, he doesn't believe the science of how oil is formed in the earth. That's like going beyond young-earth creationism to believing that the Earth is, in fact, flat.

I Got Big Mad When C-Span Let Corsi Flog A Book (2009)

"Liberal Media" update: CSPAN's Book TV gave Jerome "Lying Piece of Shit" Corsi a whole segment to lie about his lying book in late October.  

These WND nuts are the scum of the earth. If you need to know how repulsive Corsi is, well, here's a link. The HuffPo has more on how Corsi is a shameless liar and his article is total trash (par for the course with Jerome "Swift Boat" Corsi).

Any old way, Jerome is back (again)! But that’s not necessarily surprising – Corsi is the herpes of conservative politics, and this might have just been another flare-up if he hadn’t decided to, first, play with the big dogs, and, second, bet all his chips on a presidential pardon when he got caught breaking the law.

A few weeks ago, Ari Melber interviewed Corsi. The interview (which is really worth watching in its entirety) is memorably headlined “KeyMueller witness: I lied and I’m ready to die in jail” and raises the question: does Jerome Corsi know the difference between fact and fiction?

This isn’t a shot at Dr. Dimples (although he deserves to take any and all shots) – it’s more of a legal and philosophical question. Given Corsi’s long, intricate background in charlatanism, lunacy, and religious delusion (including, as is always the case with these execrable frauds, delusions of Holy Persecution), can/should/will Corsi be held responsible for what he says, or is he essentially a well-funded, jowly iteration of the shrieking street preacher?

I suspect the legal system should gear up to deal with this question as it applies to more people than just Jerome Corsi.