Eric J (Viking)
5th July 2011, 16:05
Excellent article...
Eligibility takes center stage at National Press Club
WASHINGTON – The issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president took center stage at the National Press Club today, with even portions of the "establishment media" taking note of the heating dispute.
Holding a news conference regarding a new lawsuit against Esquire magazine over its faked "report" that falsely claimed a New York Times best-selling book, "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President," had been pulled from shelves and recalled were its publisher, WND CEO and founder Joseph Farah, and book author Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.
The first part of the news conference:
Read more: Eligibility takes center stage at National Press Club http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=317085#ixzz1RFOO6niH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFE6vAUm0s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/obamabirthcert.jpg
Mara Zebest, who has completed an analysis of the image Obama released three years after telling reporters that it wasn't available, said, "This is not only a fake document, it is an obvious fake document."
Support WND's "Esquire Justice Fund" to support lawsuits against Mark Warren, Esquire and the Hearst Corporation for its malicious attack on Jerome Corsi's book.
Her statement was pertinent to the news conference about the lawsuit, because Obama's release of his purported birth certificate has left literally tens of millions of Americans unconvinced that he's telling the truth. A recent poll showed that half of Americans want Congress to investigate Obama's eligibility to be president, including more than one in four Democrats
Corsi explained that he had been warned more than two months before Obama's document was unveiled that a forgery was in the works. Corsi said a document had been added to the state Health Department's log book purporting to be Obama's birth record in a position where none had existed earlier.
He said Obama's role in releasing the document means that his future now depends on the authenticity of the document, which has been described as a forgery by numerous computer document experts already.
In addition, state officials in Hawaii, when Obama released the copy, refused to confirm for WND that the image that was released was an accurate representation of their original records.
"Now the president is in the chain of evidence," Corsi said. "It's no longer possible [for him] to say one of my subordinates produced [it]."
Among those who reported on the issue was Adweek, which noted that Corsi's "Where's The Birth Certificate" book was at No. 6 on the New York Times best-sellers list for hardcover nonfiction "despite its having been released not long after Obama released his birth certificate."
Most of the media coverage regarded the Esquire story as satire, but attorney Larry Klayman, who is handling the action, said the story "was obviously calculated with malice to destroy not just the book and its sales, but the reputations of Mr. Corsi and Mr. Farah."
"There were only three reporters present to hear Zebest's explanation – and that, in itself, is key to understanding why WND has decided to file suit over the Esquire article," Adweek reported. "Before Obama released his birth certificate, back when [Donald] Trump was working the media into a frenzy over the birther issue, Wednesday's press conference would have been a real draw for a (sic) reporters. But now the issue is all but dead."
Mediabistro reported that the Esquire article author, Mark Warren, "pokes fun at the book, which had its premise plainly disproven before it was even released."
The report was typical of the coverage. Yet while Obama has claimed his document is valid, many others say it's a fraud, and the original has yet to be seen.
At Forbes, Jeff Bercovici wrote that "as often happens with satire on the internet, the article was received my (sic) many readers (or non-reading reTweeters) as straight news."
He said Esquire was forced "to add an update 'for those who didn't figure it out yet.'"
He noted Esquire said it had not yet seen the complaint but the "blog post spoke for itself."
"It was satire, an age-old and completely legitimate form of expression," he quoted Esquire saying.
At TPMMuckraker, it was reported, "The lawsuit claims that unnamed stores started to take copies of the WND-published book 'Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is no Eligible to be President' off the shelves after Esquire published a satirical story that said Farah was recalling the book."
TPM continued, "Both plaintiffs are also upset over a comment Warren gave to the Daily Caller, calling Farah and Corsi 'execrable piece of sh--.'"
At the Atlantic, Elspeth Reeve said, "The article – noting that President Obama had released his long-form birth certificate and thus resolved the question of where he was born – was a joke, but some readers took it at face value."
rest of article here...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317085
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viking
Eligibility takes center stage at National Press Club
WASHINGTON – The issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president took center stage at the National Press Club today, with even portions of the "establishment media" taking note of the heating dispute.
Holding a news conference regarding a new lawsuit against Esquire magazine over its faked "report" that falsely claimed a New York Times best-selling book, "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President," had been pulled from shelves and recalled were its publisher, WND CEO and founder Joseph Farah, and book author Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.
The first part of the news conference:
Read more: Eligibility takes center stage at National Press Club http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=317085#ixzz1RFOO6niH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdFE6vAUm0s&feature=player_embedded
http://www.wnd.com/images/misc/obamabirthcert.jpg
Mara Zebest, who has completed an analysis of the image Obama released three years after telling reporters that it wasn't available, said, "This is not only a fake document, it is an obvious fake document."
Support WND's "Esquire Justice Fund" to support lawsuits against Mark Warren, Esquire and the Hearst Corporation for its malicious attack on Jerome Corsi's book.
Her statement was pertinent to the news conference about the lawsuit, because Obama's release of his purported birth certificate has left literally tens of millions of Americans unconvinced that he's telling the truth. A recent poll showed that half of Americans want Congress to investigate Obama's eligibility to be president, including more than one in four Democrats
Corsi explained that he had been warned more than two months before Obama's document was unveiled that a forgery was in the works. Corsi said a document had been added to the state Health Department's log book purporting to be Obama's birth record in a position where none had existed earlier.
He said Obama's role in releasing the document means that his future now depends on the authenticity of the document, which has been described as a forgery by numerous computer document experts already.
In addition, state officials in Hawaii, when Obama released the copy, refused to confirm for WND that the image that was released was an accurate representation of their original records.
"Now the president is in the chain of evidence," Corsi said. "It's no longer possible [for him] to say one of my subordinates produced [it]."
Among those who reported on the issue was Adweek, which noted that Corsi's "Where's The Birth Certificate" book was at No. 6 on the New York Times best-sellers list for hardcover nonfiction "despite its having been released not long after Obama released his birth certificate."
Most of the media coverage regarded the Esquire story as satire, but attorney Larry Klayman, who is handling the action, said the story "was obviously calculated with malice to destroy not just the book and its sales, but the reputations of Mr. Corsi and Mr. Farah."
"There were only three reporters present to hear Zebest's explanation – and that, in itself, is key to understanding why WND has decided to file suit over the Esquire article," Adweek reported. "Before Obama released his birth certificate, back when [Donald] Trump was working the media into a frenzy over the birther issue, Wednesday's press conference would have been a real draw for a (sic) reporters. But now the issue is all but dead."
Mediabistro reported that the Esquire article author, Mark Warren, "pokes fun at the book, which had its premise plainly disproven before it was even released."
The report was typical of the coverage. Yet while Obama has claimed his document is valid, many others say it's a fraud, and the original has yet to be seen.
At Forbes, Jeff Bercovici wrote that "as often happens with satire on the internet, the article was received my (sic) many readers (or non-reading reTweeters) as straight news."
He said Esquire was forced "to add an update 'for those who didn't figure it out yet.'"
He noted Esquire said it had not yet seen the complaint but the "blog post spoke for itself."
"It was satire, an age-old and completely legitimate form of expression," he quoted Esquire saying.
At TPMMuckraker, it was reported, "The lawsuit claims that unnamed stores started to take copies of the WND-published book 'Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is no Eligible to be President' off the shelves after Esquire published a satirical story that said Farah was recalling the book."
TPM continued, "Both plaintiffs are also upset over a comment Warren gave to the Daily Caller, calling Farah and Corsi 'execrable piece of sh--.'"
At the Atlantic, Elspeth Reeve said, "The article – noting that President Obama had released his long-form birth certificate and thus resolved the question of where he was born – was a joke, but some readers took it at face value."
rest of article here...
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317085
~~~~~~~~
viking