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==2008 election== Corsi published ''[[The Obama Nation]]'' in August 2008, criticizing then U.S. presidential candidate [[Barack Obama]]. Corsi's motivations behind its publication and book itself has been compared to ''Unfit for Command'' and criticized as unsubstantiated, misleading, or inaccurate.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/democrats-seek.html |title=Democrats Seek to Undermine Anti-Obama Author With His Own Words |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=August 14, 2008 |access-date=2008-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Book on Obama blasted for 'vicious innuendo' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/14/corsi.book/ |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=2008-08-14}}</ref><ref name="WaPo_081408">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303959.html |title=New Books Aim To Unweave the Obama Narrative |author=Eli Saslow |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2008-08-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Latest smear against Obama an abomination |url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/1107452,CST-NWS-mitch14.article |publisher=[[Sun-Times]] |date=2008-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080819050124/http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/1107452,CST-NWS-mitch14.article |archive-date=August 19, 2008}}</ref><ref>Kate Linthicum, "[https://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-trailcorsi12-2008aug12,0,2342201.story?track=rss Book attacking Obama makes the bestseller list]", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 12, 2008</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Wild theories of 'Obama Nation' author |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12526.html |publisher=[[Politico]] |date=2008-08-14}}</ref><ref name=nyt232>{{cite news |first=Jim |last=Rutenberg |author2=Julie Bosman |title=Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat '04 Anti-Kerry Feat |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 12, 2008 |access-date=2008-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005 |title=Unfit for Publication: Corsi's The Obama Nation filled with falsehoods |publisher=[[Media Matters for America]] |date=August 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediamatters.org/about_us/ |title=Who We Are |publisher=[[Media Matters for America]] |date=August 10, 2008}}</ref> In response, the Obama campaign issued a 40-page rebuttal called ''Unfit for Publication'', a play on the title of Corsi's 2004 book, on his website ''FightTheSmears.com'', alleging serious factual errors.<ref>{{cite news |title=Unfit For Publication: An Investigative Report On The Lies In Jerome Corsi's "Obama Nation" |url=http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi |publisher=[[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|Obama for America]] |date=2008-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080818012052/http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi |archive-date=August 18, 2008}}</ref>
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