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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:03 PM Mar 2013

The case of the Missing Sarcasm Tag (WND suit against Esquire)

This old Esquire blog post was published *when Obama released his birth certificate* so the fact that these people were promoting a book due out in weeks called "Where's the birth certificate" struck Esquire as funny.

Note that Esquire says in the 2nd paragraph that the author had a previous book about the moon-landing being faked. Tee hee.

It is very dry satire, but when you read the whole thing it is plainly not real... unless the publisher is known to be so bat-shit insane that maybe it is true. Because Corsi and WND are *insane* it really is kind of hard to tell satire about the from news about them. Funny how that works...

So WND is quite upset about the two hours before Esquire added the, this is satire, you dopes!!! update at 12:25 PM.

WND’s $250 million defamation suit seeks damages for a May 18, 2011, report on Esquire’s website by Executive Editor Mark Warren that falsely claimed the WND Books exposé “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President” by Jerome Corsi had been recalled and repudiated by publisher WND Books and its CEO, Joseph Farah.

The suit argues the article is not protected by the First Amendment because its publication caused real damage by defaming WND and suppressing book sales.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/esquire-lied-to-defend-false-story-that-harmed-wnd/#Eaygb27DcJc4uyVA.99

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The case of the Missing Sarcasm Tag (WND suit against Esquire) (Original Post) cthulu2016 Mar 2013 OP

Esquire's update was as scathing is the original piece of satire Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #1

Brother Buzz

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1. Esquire's update was as scathing is the original piece of satire

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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:23 PM

Mar 2013

DEVELOPING...

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.

Read more: BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves! - Esquire http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/jerome-corsi-birther-book-5765410#ixzz2MP5u7cuP

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