So I'm Facebooking my head off and I come across people posting a link to this Esquire story:
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.
Now, being in radio, I get all kinds of wingnuttery in my email...including pressers from Corsi's publicist. He doesn't usually answer my nastygrams, but this time,he did.
hahahahahahahaha
So, here's the initial correspondence:
kestrel9000 to Media
show details 12:34 PM (16 minutes ago)
So, Tim, where's the "immediate release" on this development? Hmmmm?
You out of a job yet, asshole?
http://www.esquire.com/...
media@timbueler.com to me
show details 12:35 PM (15 minutes ago)
Its a fake story
http://www.wnd.com/...
Tim Bueler
Media Consultant
24338 El Toro Rd. E-108
Laguna Woods, CA 92637
(530) 401-3285
from kestrel9000 kestrel9000@gmail.com
to media@timbueler.com
date Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM
subject Re: It's out! The book that proves Obama's ineligible
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hide details 12:42 PM (9 minutes ago)
heh
You know how, every year, they eliminate several words from the Oxford English Dictionary?
This year, they've eliminated the word, "gullible."
By the way, I did see the "dead baby birth certificate" episode of the Rockford Files.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM, wrote:
how to do spell NY TIMES BESTSELLER ?<<<< Hey, that list has lots of fiction on it.
He's the President.
He's still black.
He will be reelected.
Deal with it.
And he's dealing with it, all right. Because almost immediately afterward, I received another presser from Tim:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
18 May 2011
CONTACT: Tim Bueler
media@timbueler.com
(530) 401-3285
NATIONAL MAG PUBLISHES FABRICATED REPORT ATTACKING CORSI BOOK
Conducting interviews on this topic is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Senior Managing Director in the Financial Services Group at Gilford Securities as well as a senior staff writer for WND.com, Dr. Jerome Corsi.
Esquire claims best-seller being disavowed by publisher, 'pulled from shelves'
(c) 2011 WorldNetDaily
A major national publication that endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008 today published a completely fabricated news story claiming Jerome Corsi's new best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate" has been disavowed by the publisher, taken out of stores nationwide and refunds given to any and all customers.
Esquire, established in 1932, alleged on its website today under a "BREAKING" headline that Corsi's book was "pulled from shelves!"
And despite the fact that media are calling WND from around the world concerned about the report, it is completely false.
WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah confirmed he never spoke to Esquire. "Never uttered these words or anything remotely resembling them to anyone. It is a complete fabrication."
He said, "The book is selling briskly. I am 100 percent behind it. This has all the earmarkings of a White House dirty trick - but, of course, only the Nixon administration was capable of dirty tricks like that, according to our watchdog media."
HAHAHAHAHAHA
"White House dirty trick" says one of the peddlers of the Swiftboat crap and the internet's wackedest traveling right wing salvation show!!!
You. Cannot. Make. This. Shit. Up.
Even though WND and Corsi make shit up all the time,and,so does Esquire.
But at least Esquire admits it....which is more than we can say for Joseph and Jerome......
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.
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
Corsi, Farah, WND, and yes, Tim Bueler:
y'all been Breitbarted!!!!!!!!
Just another busy day at the office.....>;)
Oh. Just one more thing:
“Last year, the president said, ‘I can't spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,’” writes deputy campaign manager Julianna Smoot. “This is about as close as we can get.”
The bid to raise money off of birtherism also needles author Jerome Corsi, whose book “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” was released Tuesday, a top seller on Amazon.com despite the fact the White House released a copy of the long-form birth certificate three weeks ago.