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realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23571

Foggy...

Foggy · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:41 am

Couldn't resist. I love that guy. His head is like a huge honeydew melon with high blood pressure.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:45 am

Corsi #2 looks like he just cut one and the other three look like they are holding one back. =))

mimi · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:55 am

thorswitch wrote:

That same Conwebblog post notes:

Quote:

I pointed out to Corsi that, his and Farah's assertions to the contrary, there are people who will defend the authenticity of the PDF birth certificate or at least rebut its attackers, such as Dr. Conspiracy's detailed rebuttal of the Ken Vogt analysis that Corsi devoted three WND articles to. Corsi's response was a curious one: After calling Dr. Conspiracy "one of my favorites," Corsi said, 'I'll be writing about Dr. Conspiracy in the next few days. I'll be exposing his background, his entire credentials, his involvement with his company. I've got a detailed -- I just haven't had time to write it up."

When I asked Corsi why he's personally attacking his critics by digging into their backgrounds, Corsi suddenly softened his tone: "I'm sorry, I said I would evaluate his credentials. It's not a personal attack, but we're going to evaluate his credentials in his point-by-point."

Le sigh...

Corsi is gonna attack Dr. Conspiracy?

Just a post at WingNutDaily? Or does Doc get a book devoted to him?

everalm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:14 am

According the reports from Ad Week

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/birthe ... ire-133096

(They got their monetary figures horribly screwed up but what the hell)

Farah stated that WTBC had a print run of 65,000 copies.

Based on that, WND reckons the value of each bok must be about $4,000 each….(255,000,000 / 65,000)

Optimistic much….. =))

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:17 am

The ConWebWatch article posted a link with the data on the Bloomberg Room at the National Press Club:

kimba · **Joined:** Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:24 pm **Posts:** 6634

mimi wrote:

Corsi is gonna attack Dr. Conspiracy?

Well sure, just speculation, but how can he resist doing something with the information Kenyacorn is feeding him? That the stuff is just burning a hole in his pocket and he's looking for excuses to publish it? That he's got a vendetta against debunkers now because he has to find someone to blame for his failed book? That the guy's judgement is clouded by hate? That he's gotten away with it once/ twice already and no one's pushed back hard enough to make him think twice about doing it again? I dunno, jus askin.

Suranis · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 am **Posts:** 5251

Reality Check wrote:

Cross posted from the WND thread:

Terry Krepel from ConWebWatch attended the press conference and has an article up on it.

The WND Birther Lawsuit Dog and Pony Show (And The Question Joseph Farah Won't Answer)

As timing would have it Terry will be on RC Radio tonight. :-bd

Just a slight correction on that article

Quote:

Farah said the post's reference to "Capricorn One" -- a movie about a faked moon landing -- was not a sufficient clue to the satirical nature of the post because so much of the article was untrue.

Capricorn One is actually about a faked manned mission to Mars. Its just a small thing but is important to dot your 'I's and stuff. Good movie too.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:34 am

Quote:

Capricorn One is actually about a faked manned mission to Mars. Its just a small thing but is important to dot your 'I's and stuff. Good movie too.

Good point point Suranis. I can see the WND headline:

Quote:

WND critic blatantly lies about movie plot?

raicha · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:22 am

everalm wrote:

According the reports from Ad Week

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/birthe ... ire-133096

(They got their monetary figures horribly screwed up but what the hell)

Farah stated that WTBC had a print run of 65,000 copies.

Based on that, WND reckons the value of each bok must be about $4,000 each….(255,000,000 / 65,000)

Optimistic much….. =))

Did WND start running the "$4.95" special before the LFBC was released?

raicha · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 11:25 am

kimba wrote:

mimi wrote:

Corsi is gonna attack Dr. Conspiracy?

Well sure, just speculation, but how can he resist doing something with the information Kenyacorn is feeding him? That the stuff is just burning a hole in his pocket and he's looking for excuses to publish it? That he's got a vendetta against debunkers now because he has to find someone to blame for his failed book? That the guy's judgement is clouded by hate? That he's gotten away with it once/ twice already and no one's pushed back hard enough to make him think twice about doing it again? I dunno, jus askin.

KBOA has been threatening Doc C with "exposure" for some time. And she has claimed that all of Corsi's "research" on the debunkers is her work.

Loren · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 3898

The whole press conference is now on YouTube.

TexasFilly · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:52 pm **Posts:** 10651

Reality Check wrote:

The ConWebWatch article posted a link with the data on the Bloomberg Room at the National Press Club:

Why does this remind me of Shalaroni's last Tea Party speech? :-k

ducktape · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:15 pm

TexasFilly wrote:

Why does this remind me of Shalaroni's last Tea Party speech? :-k

Except that Sharon had about 4x as many people.

Apparently, there were a grand total of 3 in the audience -- AdWeek, ConWebWatch, and some "reporter" who turned out to be another WND staffer. Not even Lester showed up!

Suranis · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 am **Posts:** 5251

raicha wrote:

Did WND start running the "$4.95" special before the LFBC was released?

No. They were still charging something like $22 for WTBC for at least a couple of weeks afterwards.

BFB · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:36 pm

ducktape wrote:

TexasFilly wrote:

Why does this remind me of Shalaroni's last Tea Party speech? :-k

Except that Sharon had about 4x as many people.

Apparently, there were a grand total of 3 in the audience -- AdWeek, ConWebWatch, and some "reporter" who turned out to be another WND staffer. Not even Lester showed up!

Didn't Lester say he was convinced the BC was real?? I thought I read that in a thread here a while back. And then suddenly, Lester's not heard from ... ?

verbalobe · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:48 pm

ducktape wrote:

TexasFilly wrote:

Why does this remind me of Shalaroni's last Tea Party speech? :-k

Except that Sharon had about 4x as many people.

Apparently, there were a grand total of 3 in the audience -- AdWeek, ConWebWatch, and some "reporter" who turned out to be another WND staffer. Not even Lester showed up!

Lester is birfoona non grata since he opined that the certificate with raised seal that he handled at the WH presser seemed okay to him.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:49 pm

It was in a Media-ite interview:

http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2011/05/ ... insolving/

kate520 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:51 pm

Well, that was an interesting read. Terry's article links to an article that links to a blog post from Jan. 08 that asserts that Sickliar was somehow affiliated with the Ron Paul Campaign when he first made his accusations and that the blogs most involved in pushing it were all Paul supporter blogs. I don't believe I had heard that one before.

Also, I have a problem with this Mara Zebest person's name. She has zero credibility to me because of it, aside from the fact she's with Farah. For me the name Zebest means complete and utter fraud. I wonder how many others have the same reaction?

Way back when there was this slick kid named Barry Minkow who was sent to jail because he was an extraordinary con artist. He had a rug cleaning - RUG CLEANING, fer chrissakes- business called ZZZZ-best that he Ponzi'd into a multi-million dollar publicly traded company. He was just a kid, a teenager. He was the boy wonder in Forbes and on Wall Street. Gushing Local Boy Makes Good stories were everywhere. And then the first Ponzi brick toppled and pretty soon he was exposed as a fraud and many good people who had invested in him on the strength of the Publicity lost a whole bunch of money.

Lola_Getz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:56 pm

kate520 wrote:

Also, I have a problem with this Mara Zebest person's name. She has zero credibility to me because of it, aside from the fact she's with Farah.

The name she writes under is Mara Zebest Nathanson, so it seems to me that Zebest might be her maiden name.

obot 1024 · **Joined:** Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:25 pm **Posts:** 639

everalm wrote:

According the reports from Ad Week

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/birthe ... ire-133096

(They got their monetary figures horribly screwed up but what the hell)

Farah stated that WTBC had a print run of 65,000 copies.

Based on that, WND reckons the value of each bok must be about $4,000 each….(255,000,000 / 65,000)

Optimistic much….. =))

Hmmm didn't Farah claim some grand number for the first run of printing?

Loren · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:20 pm **Posts:** 3898

obot 1024 wrote:

Hmmm didn't Farah claim some grand number for the first run of printing?

This comes to mind:

"To MSNBC fans sending me obscene messages on my appearance last night. Major book buyer saw show, ordered 15,000 more copies of Corsi book."

bob · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:13 pm

mimi wrote:

Corsi is gonna attack Dr. Conspiracy?

Just a post at WingNutDaily? Or does Doc get a book devoted to him?

Doc C. says expecting a WND article to be written about him.

verbalobe · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 1:14 pm

Loren wrote:

obot 1024 wrote:

Hmmm didn't Farah claim some grand number for the first run of printing?

This comes to mind:

"To MSNBC fans sending me obscene messages on my appearance last night. Major book buyer saw show, ordered 15,000 more copies of obscene Corsi book."

Fixed it for him

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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