Unfit For Publication

is the name of the 41-page Obama rebuttal to Mr. Swift Boat's — Jerome Corsi — new book slandering the candidate. Lots of pro-Obama people are worried about its effect on campaign reporting, but apparently the media at least are wise to the scam by now. Still, thanks to bulk buying by right-wing groups, it's now listed as a NYT bestseller, something that could convince unwary people to buy, read and believe it.
What I find most interesting about all this is Sumner Redstone, who you may never have heard of. He's a frequent guest on Charlie Rose, which I still watch occasionally. The book was published by one of his properties.
You can download Unfit for Publication in pdf here.
From Wikipedia:

"Simon & Shuster owns the Threshold Editions imprint, which is increasingly controversial for publishing right wing political books including for example Jerome R. Corsi's The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality as well as other books attacking Democratic party politicians. Managed by a Republican Party operative, Mary Matalin, Threshold has a reputation of general indifference to the accuracy of the works it publishes. However, Threshold is believed to be highly profitable."

One other bit of wikipedia trivia: S&S is owned by CBS, which in turn in owned by the National Amusements theater chain, which is owned by Sumner Redstone. He was born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27, 1923, and was ranked by Forbes last year as the 86th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $9 billion.

Is there an uncanny resemblance between Murray Rothstein and Jerome Corsi? Well, maybe if Murray would cram the carbs, quit dying his hair and injecting collagen in his cheeks.

Do all old white guys look alike? Discuss.

1 Corsi 2 Redstone 3 Ed McMahon 4 The Donald
(I was gonna find McCain and Bush, too, but getting these four to look semi okay took too much mental energy.)