Factually challenged Obama-hater, conspiracy theorist, and birther enthusiast Jerome Corsi is back, and he's weighing in on the New Black Panther party non-scandal.

In a July 15 WorldNetDaily column, Corsi asserts that President Obama has an “association with the New Black Panther Party.” How so? Because the NBPP once had a user-generated page on the website for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. No, really, that's all Corsi has for “proof.”

Then, Corsi approvingly cites David Duke to make a “point”:

The New Black Panther Party posting as an Obama fan on the campaign website was clearly polarizing, drawing at the time the criticism of yet another racial extremist in the person of David Duke, the Louisiana former state representative who discredited himself as an outspoken white supremacist and former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

“Now that Obama has a real chance to be president and needs white support, he claims to condemn Rev. Wright,” Duke wrote on his website March 25, 2008. “In fact, Obama's official website even welcomes the support of a racist, communist black organization such as the Black Panthers, an organization with a long history of violence against white Americans.”

The point is not that David Duke is right. Clearly, Duke's racism demands to be condemned just as does the racism of the New Black Panther Party.

The point is that instead of making race a non-issue, President Obama's record is that he polarizes race issues, perhaps because deep down he intellectually agrees with the radical polemics he admits in his autobiography were his intellectual pillars growing up -- including anti-white firebrands such as Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon.

Is David Duke really the best example Corsi could come up with to validate his “point”? If so, that would seem to be further evidence of something we already knew about Corsi -- that he's all too comfortable around white supremacists.

As Media Matters has detailed, Corsi had appeared in 2008 on a radio show called “The Political Cesspool,” which declares that it “represent[s] a philosophy that is pro-White.” After word got out about Corsi's follow-up appearance on the show to promote his Obama smear book, he canceled it. We don't recall Corsi demanding any condemnation of racism then, which makes Corsi's call for it regarding Duke more than a little disingenuous.

(This radio show, you may recall, is the same one on which WorldNetDaily's latest birther hero, Tim Adams, first made his unsubstantiated claim that there is no Obama birth certificate in Hawaii; at the time, he was attending a convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as having a “white supremacy, white separatism” ideology. WND has tried to portray anyone pointing this out as running a "vicious smear campaign" against Adams, but it's never been explained why he was on a “pro-White” show or at the convention of a white-supremacist group in the first place.)

Also, don't forget that Corsi was also the author of numerous bigoted and hateful posts on the right-wing website Free Republic.

If the best backup for Corsi's “point” is David Duke, then perhaps that point isn't worth making.

Corsi goes on to write, “The issue of the New Black Panther Party has the potential to dog Barack Obama, much as the Rev. Wright issue did during the 2008 campaign and the professor Gates controversy did in the first months of his presidency.” Corsi most assuredly wants to make that “potential” into reality.