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Even WND disputes Corsi's phony Obama birth certificate claim

Summary: WorldNetDaily.com, for which Jerome Corsi, author of the debunked and discredited book The Obama Nation, works as a staff reporter, has now taken on the claim that its own writer has been promoting, and determined for itself to be false -- that the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama "has a false, fake birth certificate posted on their website." WorldNetDaily reported that a "WND investigation into Obama's birth certificate utilizing forgery experts ... found the document to be authentic."
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Posted by nerzog

See? These Cretins are so desperate that they're making sh*t up left and right. If the Democrats can't win this time, against such a lame Republican candidate.... we're FUBAR. McGrampy makes Bob Dole look exciting.

Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to nerzog

Dammit. Now I don't believe that Obama's birth certificate is authentic.

Posted by NiceguyEddie in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

 (Unless it's digital, that is...)

Posted by friedbergboy1422 in reply to nerzog

Speaking of polls, does anyone know if the polls call folks that only have cell phones?  I would assume that most younger folks don't have a land line.  What are the demographics/methodology used?

Posted by Conchobhar in reply to friedbergboy1422

According to an article I read about a month ago, online I think, there is no polling done on cell phones, because they reject automatically dialed calls, and would have be direct dialed by the pollster.  This would be inefficient and uneconomical.  Given that, as you observed, cell phones are the only phones used by a large proportion of the young, who also seem to lean disproportionately in Obama's direction, his actual support is probably being undercounted by three or four percentage points.  That was the jist of the article.  I don't stand by their conclusions, but I do hope they're right.

Posted by friedbergboy1422 in reply to Conchobhar

Thanks, Conch.  I hope that a pundit, any pundit, will actually bring this up at some point soon!  I appreciate the information.

Posted by magnolialover in reply to friedbergboy1422

Not just the younger crowd on the cell phones. My wife and I just bought a new house (American dream, ah yeah), and we decided to just use our cell phones as our home phone as well. I see more and more people doing that these days, and not getting a traditional land line.

Posted by Conchobhar in reply to magnolialover

Good point.  My wife and I decided to drop the landline at our place in the Berkshires.  The only reason we keep LL in NY is that we have a "triple play," with phone, cable and internet bundled.

The next question might be, do techno-savvy older voters lean toward Obama?

Posted by IRONY 101

So, is Corsi going to go on Hannity's show and admit he was wrong? Ha...! Yea, right...that'll happen.  ;>)

Posted by mari2jj2970 in reply to IRONY 101

If one tries to hold their breath until Corsi repents of his lies in his book about Obama - say during a visit on a national TV program, Hannity, etc, - they will be blue from hppoxia and in cardiac arrest due to no oxygen for a long protracted time.  The statement in question is a lie right out of hell.  I have a friend, very old now, in Hawaii who worked in the Labor and Delivery unit when Obama was born in, YOU KNOW, in Hawaii!!!!! 

Posted by RABBITLUVR

So is Lard-faced Corsi off the payroll at WND now? :)

Posted by wzwriter

This will probably be the only nugget of truth that you will ever see on World Nut Daily.

Posted by RABBITLUVR in reply to wzwriter

And the wingnuts will come out of the woodwork to proclaim that WND is now an honest source for political and social commentary... along the lines of Sean Hannity actually telling one truth which makes him a saint now. Disgusting.

Posted by vysotsky

I love how WND reports this little tidbit:

WND: "The investigation also revealed methods used by some of the bloggers to determine the document was fake involved forgeries, in that a few bloggers added text and images to the certificate scan that weren't originally there."

That's a fabulous way to say that these bloggers falsified evidence to support the claims that they made up. This is the first time I've ever heard 'lying' described as a "method...used to determine" anything.

Posted by MidnightWriter in reply to vysotsky

Well, once "Fair and Balanced" became code for "We make stuff up," you had to figure other euphemisms were going to follow.

Posted by eb in reply to MidnightWriter

I hope Obama's supporters will make a BIG DEAL about this.  Look how low the wingnuts will stoop to smear him.  This should be embarassing to them.  They should be called on it.  Smearing should be shamefull. 

Mccain should make a public statement distancing him from these attacks!

A real media should focus on what kind of country we are going to create to tackle the challenges of our future.  Instead we get this vapid circus!

Posted by archae

Jerome Corsi has always been a liar, and always will be.

This way he panders to his fan club, you know, the ones who just figured out they have opposable thumbs.

Posted by donaldmaddog5642

The phoniness that runs through Corsi's book also ran through the "Unfit to Command" tome. Unfortunately, the damage was not repaired until it was too late. This piece of trash may also have the same result. Corsi is a troll, only instead of one post at a time he places them between the hard covers of a book. The morons who will read this tripe will believe it no matter how often it is discredited. "Unfit to Command" played a large part in the defeat of John Kerry. "Obama Nation" may have the same "success". That 45-49% who STILL favor McSame are more than happy to believe a lie than the truth. Their entire "philosophy" depends on that. "Winning is everything, it's the ONLY thing."