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Joseph Farah says he may sue Esquire for ‘parody’ story on Jerome Corsi book
DailyCaller/YahooNews ^ | 5-18-11 | Chris Moody

Posted on 05/18/2011 9:52:01 AM PDT by STARWISE

An article on Esquire magazine’s website, claiming that the publisher of Jerome Corsi’s new book about President Obama’s birth certificate is pulling it from bookstores, may have been written as a parody, but not everyone is laughing.

The Esquire story, written by Mark Warren, spread across the Internet moments after being posted on the magazine’s website Wednesday morning. Esquire has said it was a joke and Warren told TheDC he has no regrets about posting it.

“He is an execrable piece of ****,” Warren said of Corsi.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bookreview; corsi; esquire; jeromecorsis; josephfarah; lawsuit; naturalborncitizen; wnd
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1 posted on 05/18/2011 9:52:08 AM PDT by STARWISE
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To: Admin Moderator; Lead Moderator; Sidebar Moderator; onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; ...

.. Ding!


2 posted on 05/18/2011 9:52:57 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE
...recall and pulp...
Would that I could recall a politician or three.
3 posted on 05/18/2011 9:55:29 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (HM2/USN M/3/3 Marines RVN 66-67)
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Farah:

“Let me say this very clearly:

There is not a single word of that report that is true. I assume it is a very poorly executed parody. In any case, I have begun exploring our legal options, since this report has all the earmarkings of a deliberate attempt at restraint of trade, not to mention libel.”


4 posted on 05/18/2011 9:55:30 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Farah complaining about someone making up stories...without a hint of irony.


5 posted on 05/18/2011 9:56:14 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Tex-Con-Man

well come on tex, please show us the proven false stories where he was taken to court and lost....or was forced to just recant, because of an error, not intentional malice, etc...


6 posted on 05/18/2011 10:00:26 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: STARWISE

“I have begun exploring our legal options, since this report has all the earmarkings of a deliberate attempt at restraint of trade, not to mention libel.”

He’ll find out he doesn’t have any legal options. Parody is extremely well-protected.


7 posted on 05/18/2011 10:03:02 AM PDT by Strategerist (There is only so much stupidity one man can prevent - Andrew Marshall)
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To: STARWISE

Good! I hope he proverbally nails their brownshirt heads to the nearest maypole!


8 posted on 05/18/2011 10:08:02 AM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: STARWISE

Parody my (bleep)

This was a hit piece by the scums at Esquire. Only AFTER were they exposed for the liar they are, did they then add the sarc tag.

“Ha, ha. We were kidding”. Bull (bleep).

But no matter. This is all good for Mr. Farah and Dr. Corsi.
They can turn this Esquire screw up into more good publicity and sell more books.


9 posted on 05/18/2011 10:11:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I'm a Birther - And a Deather)
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To: STARWISE
He’ll find out he doesn’t have any legal options. Parody is extremely well-protected.

“He is an execrable piece of ****,” Warren said of Corsi.

If it were the Onion, the parody defense might cover it. But Esquire claims for the most part to be telling the, ahem, truth. And Warren—who apparently has the legal prudence of an overheated lizard—has given clear evidence of malicious intent.

10 posted on 05/18/2011 10:11:35 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Strategerist

I don’t think a parady includes falsely quoting a named source to destroy the financial gain from the marketing of a legitimate product.


11 posted on 05/18/2011 10:12:16 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Tex-Con-Man

So Farah makes up stories? Farah has as much courage as anyone on the scene, and I have the utmost respect for the man. The “b/c” is a clear forgery, and I find it disgusting that so many conservatives cower in fear at his flank.


12 posted on 05/18/2011 10:12:17 AM PDT by alstewartfan (While we lay under our roofs, the whole night filled up with the beating of hooves. Al Stewart)
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To: Tex-Con-Man

You should find a liberal site to post on.


13 posted on 05/18/2011 10:15:24 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Responsibility2nd

—>”Only AFTER were they exposed for the liar they are, did they then add the sarc tag”

Exactly! I read the article earlier today and actually looked for a parody tag or something like that. Didn’t see it.

Now, they have finally tagged it as “humor” and added this ridiculous disclaimer [links omitted by me]:

“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.”

What a crock of BS!

Cheers


14 posted on 05/18/2011 10:22:17 AM PDT by DoctorBulldog (A lot of people probably just negated my comment while I was hunting and pecking at the keyboard!)
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To: Tex-Con-Man; All

It would be a perfect daily double of hilarity if Farah were to somehow get Judicial Watch involved......


15 posted on 05/18/2011 10:22:32 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Populism is antithetical to conservatism.)
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To: bmwcyle
Why? Because I'm not a birther?

Because I consider Farah a hoax huckster?

My definition of conservatism doesn't include believing every idiotic conspiracy that comes along.

I value conservatism over birtherism.

You should try it.

16 posted on 05/18/2011 10:22:39 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Tex-Con-Man

Come on, Tex-Con-Man. We’re waiting for your response. Answer raygunfan’s question:
...show us the proven false stories where he was taken to court and lost....or was forced to just recant, because of an error, not intentional malice, etc...


17 posted on 05/18/2011 10:34:49 AM PDT by greenhornet68
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To: Tex-Con-Man
Getting preachy to fellow conservatives who do their own extensive research, formulating their own concerns and probabilities ... may want to put this on your shopping list.


18 posted on 05/18/2011 10:43:09 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

Joe has as much chance to win his suit as he is to see one of those pterodactyls he claims are still flying above the earth.


19 posted on 05/18/2011 10:48:58 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: DoctorBulldog; onyx; penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; SE Mom; Fred Nerks; Red Steel; ...

Thanks for that.

Emblematic of the lowlife press scum of this generation.


20 posted on 05/18/2011 10:52:04 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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