The Obama campaign’s email solicitation drips with well-earned self-satisfaction:
Let me introduce you to Jerome Corsi.This week he released a new book that the publisher says will be a bestseller “of historic proportions.”The title is Where’s the Birth Certificate? — yes, really.Corsi’s work is a greatest-hits reel of delusions, ranging from 9/11 conspiracies to claiming that there is an infinite supply of oil in the Earth’s core. In 2008,
he published a book about Barack Obama claiming, among other things, that he (a) is a secret Muslim; (b) is secretly anti-military; (c) secretly dealt drugs; and (d) secretly supported terrorist actions when he was eight years old. So many secrets!FactCheck.org called Corsi’s work “a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.”There’s really no way to make this stuff completely go away. The only thing we can do is laugh at it — and make sure as many other people as possible are in on the joke.So let’s just do this — get your Obama birth certificate mug here
It’s almost enough to make you feel bad for Corsi, whose book title is about as well-timed as that “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline.
While the mugs are a nervy move, it’s a shame the campaign didn’t go the edgy route, and produce Christine O’Donnell-themed “I am not a witch doctor” mugs, too. (If they do, I want a piece!)
While the collectible value of the mugs is uncertain, they are certainly great mementos to the now-bygone Birther Era, and likely make great gifts for that Birther friend everyone has. Wonder how many Obama supporters will send one of these to Donald Trump?