#13
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 ...
He should sue them.
That story was designed to wreck the sales of the book so the public would not know about Corsi’s research on Obama’s background. Git ‘em Joseph!
the irony of those words, coming from the mouth of a Con-Man... ;-)
Do you really want to live in a country where writers are sued for writing political satire?
Ooh .. ok .. thanks.
Jerome Corsi was just on the Janet Mefferd (radio) show this afternoon and discussed Esquire’s fraudulent report. He said the book is “selling like crazy”.
Here is part of the interview which was just posted on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfjrnrDTvM
Thank you!
There can be a fine line between satire and libel. The Esquire piece looked perfectly legitimate, even upon multiple re-readings after the “it’s satire” disclaimer was added. I don’t see what is “satirical” about the piece at all, esp. in light of the feds actually buying up all copies of a book (name escapes me, gave too much info about military activity) and pulping it some time last year or so.
Given the circumstances of this week’s expulsion of a reporter from the WH press pool, I could see someone going “ya know, he did release the BC, so how about you just make that book, ya know, go away...”
So what was “satirical” about that piece? Oh, and “satire” does not automatically confer protection from being sued for damages, even if it was funny.
No, I don’t.
Political satire is fine because the author is protected from being sued by politicans or those in the political arena. Smearing Corsi and Farrah and the topic of the book is fine. But trying to ruin the sale of a product - a book - by flasely claiming it was discontinued might not be protected speech.
There have been many cases where businesses have sued people for making flase claims about their products with the intention/or outcome of harming the sales of that product. There are damages for verbal and published lies outside the political arena. I look at the Farrah case here as an attack of deception on his product and it’s market status; not the content of his product.
Clicking on that leads you to the scam/attack piece. Punk pamphleteer, far from journalism.
SATIRE ?
This just in! Esquire bankrupt! Plans to lay off all staff tomorrow! Website to shut down at midnight!
/”joke”
“Is there anyone reading that who can’t work out that it is not serious?”
The WND crowd. “I was too dumb to get that it was parody” isn’t the “You can now sue” exemption.
Yeah, they have no case.
This just in! Esquire bankrupt! Plans to lay off all staff tomorrow! = GOES VIRAL!
;)
See #52
Why do people not like WND? They have been the only people to keep up the fight on the birth certificate. I am starting to think Trump was in on the whole deal about Obama releasing another fake BC It says certificate of live birth not birth certificate
I’ll admit that I thought it was true during the morning hours - what a bullcrap thing to do.
Total .. lowlife.
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