Corsi Cancels Second 'Political Cesspool' Appearance
Right-wing propagandist Jerome Corsi backed out of his scheduled appearance on the white supremacist radio show, last night only five minutes before he was supposed to go on, according to the show鈥檚 host James Edwards.
Just before 5 p.m. CST, Edwards came on the air following a commercial break to announce that Corsi had just E-mailed to cancel his scheduled hour-long interview due to 鈥渢ravel plans that changed.鈥�
Edwards sounded skeptical of Corsi鈥檚 explanation, and with good reason. Last week Corsi was at the center of a concerning the multitude of inaccuracies, distortions and outright lies in his new book The Obama Nation, as well his scheduled appearance on last night鈥檚 鈥淐esspool,鈥� which was first by Hatewatch on Aug. 13.
That night, during his appearance on CNN鈥檚 鈥淟arry King Live,鈥� Corsi his past apologies for a series of he wrote in the years spanning 2001-2004.
But if Corsi was trying to salvage his reputation by not appearing on the 鈥淐esspool鈥� last night, he was probably too late. As Hatewatch also first reported last week, Corsi had previously appeared on the racist, anti-Semitic radio show on July 20. His interview was live on the Internet by the white nationalist website Stormfront, which is run by a former Klan leader.
Yesterday鈥檚 edition of the 鈥淐esspool鈥� was a rough outing for Edwards. Not only did his marquee guest ditch him at the last minute, but also his warm-up act 鈥� United Kingdom Independence Party Chairman Nigel Farage, who didn鈥檛 answer the phone when Edwards called.
Edwards was reduced to dialing up emergency back-up interviewee , a former Klan lawyer, who delivered a meandering soliloquy about Jewish control of American foreign policy for the bulk of the show.
Edwards sounded unusually defensive throughout his most recent broadcast, repeatedly taking issue with the previous week鈥檚 widespread characterizations of his show as racist and anti-Semitic. 鈥淲e鈥檙e a mainstream voice for European-Americans,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e the show of record for the paleo-conservative right,鈥� not a bunch of 鈥渒nuckle-dragging Neanderthals.鈥�
鈥淲e don鈥檛 malign any racial groups on this program,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e conduct ourselves as gentlemen.鈥�
But on Aug. 14, the day after the Corsi furor began dragging his show into the harsh spotlight of mainstream media scrutiny for the first time, Edwards had to say on the topic of models in the fashion industry: 鈥淎s everyone knows, white women are by far the most beautiful women. And when it comes to looks, black women are at the bottom of the totem pole. It鈥檚 simply an undeniable fact.鈥�
How gentlemanly.
