Corsi book targetedSales of birth-certificate T-shirts claiming
president 'Made in USA' keeping issue alive
Posted: May 18, 2011
2:39 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily
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The Obama presidency today ramped up its attacks on critics, offering online an opportunity for constituents to buy a T-shirt or a coffee mug with an image of the Obama "Certificate of Live Birth" released several weeks ago as well as a portrait of Obama, stamped "Made in America."
In an email dispatched from BarackObama.com this morning, Julianna Smoot proclaims, "You'll like this one."
"Let me introduce you to Jerome Corsi," she says. "This week he released a new book that the publisher says will be a bestseller 'of historic proportions.' The title is 'Where's the Birth Certificate?' – yes, really.
"Corsi's work is a greatest-hits reel of delusions, ranging from 9/11 conspiracies to claiming that there is an infinite supply of oil in the Earth's core. In 2008, he published a book about Barack Obama claiming, among other things, that he (a) is a secret Muslim; (b) is secretly anti-military; (c) secretly dealt drugs; and (d) secretly supported terrorist actions when he was eight years old. So many secrets."
The email then says, "The only thing we can do is laugh at it – and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke."
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Then it asks consumers to donate $30 or more to Obama in exchange for a "limited edition" shirt.
It's just the latest attack on Corsi and his best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is Not Eligibility to be President."
Just an hour earlier, a national magazine, Esquire, published a fabricated report attacking the Corsi book.
Esquire, which endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008, claimed in the fabricated story that the book had been taken out of stores and was being "pulped."
The magazine later claimed it had "committed satire" but not until after a long list of major news organizations apparently accepted the report as genuine and contacted WND Books for reaction.
There also have been apparent links between the book and the president's previous actions. The president himself confirmed he ordered the release of the "Certificate" just as the bestselling "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case that Barack Obama is Not Eligibility to be President," was profiled on the Drudge Report and reached No. 1 on Amazon.
And none of the president's actions have offered answers to any of the questions raised by the original eligibility questions, before the "Certificate of Live Birth" was released and after.
"If what Barack Obama released is really a valid birth certificate that answers all the questions about this controversy, why is the Obama campaign in attack mode on Jerome Corsi's bestselling book?" asked Joseph Farah, CEO of WND.com and chief of WND Books.
"Because he fears it is his undoing. Do you really think the $1 billion Obama campaign cares about selling a few coffee mugs? Give me a break. This is an effort to derail media attention from a successful book and media tour that is focusing renewed attention on his ineligibility for office."
At the Political Punch blog on the ABC News website, Jake Tapper reported Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt called the effort a "mobile version" of Obama's 2008 online "fight the smears" effort, where he tried to diminish criticisms about his candidacy.
More to come ...
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