Fox To Help Promote Corsi's Birther Book
April 22, 2011 11:19 am ET by Ben Dimiero
WorldNetDaily, which Alex Pareene appropriately dubbed the "biggest, dumbest wingnut site on the Web," has been cashing in on birther nonsense for several years now. If you head to their online "Superstore" you'll find everything you need to advertise your detachment from reality, including "Where's the Birth Certificate?" bumper stickers for your car, signs for your yard, t-shirts, and more.
Their latest - and probably biggest - cash grab is noted liar Jerome Corsi's upcoming book, Where's The Birth Certificate? (Answer: in Hawaii.) Jerome Corsi is a discredited clown who has been embarrassing himself for years over the birther "issue," including going on Fox & Friends before the '08 election and accusing the administration of posting a "fake" certificate online that, according to a "good analysis of it on the internet" had "been shown to have watermarks from Photoshop." He also suggested to G. Gordon Liddy in 2008 that Obama was visiting Hawaii not just to be with his then-dying grandmother, but to also do... something... relating to his birth certificate.
Nevertheless, Corsi's book, published by WND, hit #1 on Amazon's bestseller list this week, thanks in no small part to prominent promotion from Drudge (and a variety of conservative sites like Fox Nation and Glenn Beck's The Blaze).
Continuing Fox News' full embrace of birtherism, WND CEO Joseph Farah will reportedly appear on David Asman's program on the Fox Business Network tonight to "talk birth certificate" and discuss Corsi's upcoming book. This should be a friendly place for Farah to promote Corsi's book, considering Asman's recent assertion that before he declares Obama was born in the U.S., he wants to "see all the evidence."
During an interview on Bill Cunningham's radio show last month, Farah claimed to talk to Fox's lead birther Sean Hannity "every day." Farah also suggested that he had been blacklisted by Fox over birtherism: "I was on Fox regularly before this... the minute we started on this campaign, the minute we started putting billboards up across this country, it stopped."
Looks like the ban has been lifted.
You remember the one that the Weekly Standard or National Review (can't remember which one, not that it matters they constantly plagiarize off each other) gave away "A free subscription to their paper with the $19.95 purchase of her book"
That being said, I think that there is a significant interest in this topic in conservative circles. They are going to buy this book, read it and take it as the gospel. Nothing anyone says or does is going to make them believe otherwise.
Here's to hoping it finally bubbles over (too much) and bites them in the rear.
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this book, Breitbart's book, and Coulter's new book.
figures.
Where's the Birth Certificate
Corsi. -- 1st ed. -- Lahore : Fox Press, 2011.
xvi, 142p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-cataloging-in-process
Filed under Fiction
It's selling like hotcakes!
I am going to have stickers made with IN HAWAII printed on them.
Then a visit to the bookstores carrying this book and voila!! stickers under the title.
He didn't spend millions to hide his education or birth certificate, check out Politifact on the issue.
Trump's false claim
He showed his certificate of live birth already btw, those who claim it is false have no credible proof of that.
On his education, he was an editor of the Harvard Law school review and graduated with a JD magna cm laude:
Editor of Harvard Law Review
Graduated with JD Magna Cm Laude
Both of these are easily verifiable by any authority, and no doubt they were verified prior to his candidacy so I don't believe he's trying to hide these things.
Guess what, your post was not blocked and I'm responding to it. Not only that it reveals your OWN deep seated bias against MMFA (btw MMFA always backs up claims of media misinformation from Fox and other right wing figures with facts, something conspicuously absent from your post). You certainly hold FOX in high regard despite the fact that they have shown bias towards the right while claiming otherwise, having been revealed to be manipulative in reporting (Bill Sammon), posting news items that are factually untrue... the list goes on.
Oh and as for FOX ratings? They don't determine the quality of their news. Like Macdonalds having a huge customer base does not indicate the quality of their food (in fact they've largely shouldered the blame for obesity for kids in America.
And now we get to Beck. This is a guy who's been posting conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory without any factual evidence to back it up. Even fellow commentators at FOX (before he was fired) were claiming that he was going over the top. He has shown himself to be vindictive and inflammatory in his remarks and shows no respect for others. Here's an example of the "support" he has garnered:
Rabbi Protest against Glen Beck
I've heard tell of how there are so called "foxbots" or "beckbots" who ignore facts and simply spout what Fox or Beck tells them.Never quite believed that such behaviour would come from anyone other than cult memmebrs. But your post seems eerily reminiscent of such.