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Title: BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!
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Esquire
URL Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politi ... her-book-5765410#ixzz1Mkugx81E
Published: May 18, 2011
Author: Mark Warren
Post Date: 2011-05-18 21:01:03 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 11722
Comments: 12
In a stunning development one day after the release of Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President, by Dr. Jerome Corsi, World Net Daily Editor and Chief Executive Officer Joseph Farah has announced plans to recall and pulp the entire 200,000 first printing run of the book, as well as announcing an offer to refund the purchase price to anyone who has already bought either a hard copy or electronic download of the book.
In an exclusive interview, a reflective Farah, who wrote the book's foreword and also published Corsi's earlier best-selling work, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak out Against John Kerry and Capricorn One: NASA, JFK, and the Great "Moon Landing" Cover-Up, said that after much serious reflection, he could not go forward with the project. "I believe with all my heart that Barack Obama is destroying this country, and I will continue to stand against his administration at every turn, but in light of recent events, this book has become problematic, and contains what I now believe to be factual inaccuracies," he said this morning. "I cannot in good conscience publish it and expect anyone to believe it."
When asked if he had any plans to publish a corrected version of the book, he said cryptically, "There is no book." Farah declined to comment on his discussions of the matter with Corsi.
A source at WND, who requested that his name be withheld, said that Farah was "rip-shit" when, on April 27, President Obama took the extraordinary step of personally releasing his "long-form" birth certificate, thus resolving the matter of Obama's legitimacy for "anybody with a brain."
"He called up Corsi and really tore him a new one," says the source. "I mean, we'll do anything to hurt Obama, and erase his memory, but we don't want to look like fucking idiots, you know? Look, at the end of the day, bullshit is bullshit."
Corsi, who graduated from Harvard and is a professional journalist, could not be reached for comment.
DEVELOPING...
UPDATE, 12:25 p.m., for those who didn't figure it out yet, and the many on Twitter for whom it took a while: We committed satire this morning to point out the problems with selling and marketing a book that has had its core premise and reason to exist gutted by the news cycle, several weeks in advance of publication. Are its author and publisher chastened? Well, no. They double down, and accuse the President of the United States of perpetrating a fraud on the world by having released a forged birth certificate. Not because this claim is in any way based on reality, but to hold their terribly gullible audience captive to their lies, and to sell books. This is despicable, and deserves only ridicule. That's why we committed satire in the matter of the Corsi book. Hell, even the president has a sense of humor about it all. Some more serious reporting from us on this whole "birther" phenomenon here, here, and here.
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jerome-corsi-birther-book- 5765410#ixzz1Mkuu07f4
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"Thats because your basically and idiot."
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#2. To: go65 (#0)
Being the head birfoon, Farah completely missed the point that this article was humor, of course.
#3. To: Skip Intro (#2)
Being the head birfoon
Being an hObama lick-spittle (among other things) Mark Warren and Esquire missed the fact that the birf certificate is a poor forgery.
The dumb Kenyan can't even find a good counterfeiter!
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg...
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#4. To: hondo68 (#3)
Being an hObama lick-spittle (among other things) Mark Warren and Esquire missed the fact that the birf certificate is a poor forgery.
That's the funniest thing I've read today. Keep it up.
#5. To: hondo68 (#3)
Pretty lame forgery from the fraudster.
#6. To: go65 (#0)
lol, i was having second thoughts about Farah's sanity until I got to the Update.
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Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#7. To: go65 (#0)
The article is lying. The book is not being pulled from shelves. Wishful thinking on you left wingers part notwithstanding.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
#8. To: Rudgear, skip intro (#7) (Edited)
The article is lying. The book is not being pulled from shelves. Wishful thinking on you left wingers part notwithstanding.
I guess classifying this as "humor" and the update at the end went over your head?
You need to put a safety mechanism on that knee of yours.
"Thats because your basically and idiot."
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#9. To: go65 (#8)
I guess classifying this as "humor" and the update at the end went over your head?
You just have to love Rudy. No matter what the topic he never fails to completely miss the point.
#10. To: go65 (#8)
National mag publishes fabricated report attacking Corsi book
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
#11. To: Rudgear (#10)
National mag publishes fabricated report attacking Corsi book
Chuckle.
Farrah doesn't understand "satire" either.
"Thats because your basically and idiot."
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
#12. To: Skip Intro (#9)
You just have to love Rudy. No matter what the topic he never fails to completely miss the point.
I have to keep reminding myself that tea party folks hold those views for a reason.
"Thats because your basically and idiot."
Badeye posted on 2011-04-29 10:30:22 ET
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