You just can't make this shit up.
Birthers are pissed people are laughing at them and they're bloody well suing!!!
Just over a month ago, Esquire Magazine's Mark Warren published an item on the magazine's Politics blog titled, "BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!" Warren's piece was a subtle, yet easily detectable fake item that very specifically satirized the spirit of Corsi's Where's The Birth Certificate?, in that, if Corsi could get away with selling obvious lies to people too dumb to know any better, why couldn't Esquire?
The whole matter might have remained just a blip in the universe of political satire, but it so aggrieved Corsi and WorldNetDaily CEO Joseph Farah, that they intimated that they would consider legal action against Esquire for making them the butt of a joke. And now that threat has been delivered upon: the pair have filed suit against the magazine, Warren, and Esquire's parent company, Hearst Corp. Forbes blogger Jeff Bercovici has all the gory details ("the full amount sought totals more than $285 million") and a copy of the suit itself.
According to Bercovici, Farah and Corsi claim that "the article succeeded...in interfering with their ability to sell books through Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Tower and other retailers. The plaintiffs also say that Warren’s parody exposed them to 'extreme ridicule in the community where they reside and where their works are viewed and read.'”
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Herewith snips of
the "objectionable" piece.
BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!
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.
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."
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.
I dibs a court seat!!!
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