Jerome Corsi Joins InfoWars & Gets Into White House Press Briefings.

[KittyWampus]

The fringe right-wing outlet Infowars has tapped one of the leading promoters of the debunked conspiracy theory surrounding Barack Obama's place of birth to helm its fledgling Washington, D.C. bureau.


Jerome Corsi, author of the 2011 book "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President," said he's leaving WorldNetDaily, another conspiratorial publication to join Infowars.

Appearing on "The Alex Jones Show," a radio and Internet show hosted by Infowars' founder and proprietor, on Tuesday, Corsi said he believes he will receive credentials for White House press briefings on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.

"I expect to get cleared, perhaps tomorrow," Corsi said.

A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
Corsi, who also co-authored a book questioning John Kerry's service in Vietnam that had a significant influence on the 2004 presidential campaign, has a history with President Trump. Jones said Tuesday that the reporter and the president have known each other "for 40-plus years.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/31/media/infowars-jerome-corsi-washington-bureau-chief/

[cynatnite]

1. Corsi is a slime opportunist with zero integrity...

Of course he'll probably get credentials.

[underpants]

2. He wrote "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" too

Scum

[octoberlib]

3. What a fucking joke. The other day the first person Spicer took a question from

was some kook from Laura Ingraham's Lifezette

[MineralMan]

4. When Infowars and major TV networks are treated equally,

journalism is dead. The White House press briefings will have no real relationship to news if that happens.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Journalists need to clean up their own profession

They really need to throw these charlatans and propagandists out
of their press rooms and out of the field. We can't do it for you.

[MineralMan]

7. Admission to the White House Press Briefing Room

is not controlled by the press. It's controlled by the White House. As for other press rooms, generally, the press is admitted after applying for press passes for that particular situation. Whoever set up the press room decides who is admitted or not admitted.

I've spent hundreds of hours in press rooms in my career as a magazine journalist. All of them were set up and admission granted by whatever organization created the press room. I never had any say in who came into any of them.

So, the media doesn't control who gets press passed to anything. They can't throw anyone out. That's up to whoever owns the premises, the convention, or the event.

In addition, in press conferences, it is the person or group holding the press conference who decides which journalists will be called on, not the journalists.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Got it.

But these phonies need to know there is no other job in media for them beyond their current gig. They are not your comrade journalist.

[MineralMan]

9. They don't care. As they worm their way into

places once inaccessible to them, they grow in power. They don't want legitimate jobs in journalism. They don't care about that. Reputable media folks know who they are, of course, but are really powerless to expose them. Those phonies have their own outlets, and some of those have huge audiences. They don't care about legitimacy one bit.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Such a shame.

Edward Murrow wept.

[MineralMan]

12. A lot of time has passed since Edward R. Murrow

was around. Much has changed. These days, news can come from anywhere, so the sheer number of people posting news (or fake news) has gone up dramatically. At one time, there were the three networks and newspapers. Now, there are countless thousands of websites posting what looks like news, and people writing content for all of those websites.

Many people pay no attention whatsoever to the credibility of those sources. If they read it, they think it's true.

Journalism is a very different thing today. Old-school journalism is all but dead. More's the pity.

[HughBeaumont]

5. I'm sorry that Cleveland shat out this fucking loon.

What a seriously slimy motherfucker that bastard is. Kerry's "unfit for command", but Bewsh continuing needless oil war deaths and ushering the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression is somehow exemplary leadership. Cock.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Lars Larson asked a "question" today.

I would fully expect Corsi to be given the same privilege.

[rusty fender]

13. Corsi also wrote a "Birther" book

All he is, is

[superpatriotman]

14. Paranoid delusional phony

It seems apt for this administration.