It seems that Jerome Corsi is being driven to ever-higher levels of insanity by the release of Obama's long form two weeks before his now laughably-titled book "Where's the Birth Certificate?" was due to be released.
And, of course, World Net Daily is more than happy to let him
spew his nonsense all over their pages.
He drags out the forgery known as the "Blaine Document", first released by none other than Orly Taitz back on October 19, 2009 (the name comes from the person Orly claims sent it to her, one William Blaine. Of course, "expert researcher" Jerome Corsi apparently couldn't track that down, and instead only says it appears in
this March 18, 2010 article from the Aloha Reporter. He also notes "There is no explanation of the image."
Well, other than first being passed around by lawyer-loon Taitz, but apparently Corsi is completely unaware of that.
Here's the certificate:
(larger version
here)
Anyone who's been following these threads should be able to immediately spot the giant blaring neon sign that screams "OBVIOUS FORGERY". But, typically, Corsi has no clue, and instead focuses on a bigger mystery that he says connects the forgery to the recently-released Obama long form: the pencil markings.
An analysis posted on Facebook by GoodTryBarry shows that markings on the Kenya document appear to be the same as markings on the White House release.
That's right; showing a desperate gullibility that would make Pam Geller proud, Corsi cites
some guy on Facebook!
Although Corsi notes that the Nordyke certificates have the same sort of pencil markings (despite denying that in the previous article I posted about earlier), he makes the rather grandiose claim that the marks on the Blaine Document are uniquely identical to the marks on the long form Obama just released, such as this number 2:
Unfortunately for Corsi, the marks aren't nearly as unique as he claims (the X's above the "This Birth" choices appear on the Nordyke's certificates, for instance). And they match another certificate a lot closer than they do Obama's.
This certificate, in fact (note the same number 2):
That image can be found in
this June 10, 2009 republishing of a "retired CIA investigator's" report, on the website Western Center for Journalism, where it's tagged "Actual long form Certificate of Live Birth similar to one Obama refuses to release".
(Fun sidenote: the Western Center for Journalism was founded by none other than World Net Daily's own Joseph Farah).
Now, that report itself is a mess of birther nonsense, hitting nearly every discredited canard in the book (including citing Ron Polland's laughable "proof" that Obama's short form was a forgery, exhaustively debunked by an actual expert over
here). But take a close look at the above image, and compare it to the Blaine Document.
Not just the pencil marks are the same, but note how the large white redactions carried over. The lack of a file number in the Blaine Document, for instance, or the reason why the Blaine Document's time of birth is fully typed, rather than having a preprinted M (for AM or PM) as in the Obama and Nordyke certificates - the white redactions cover them. Note also the breaks in the lines surrounding the fields, and how missing lines in the Blaine Document correspond rather neatly to where the white redactions cover the lines in the WCJ certificate...and even correspond to the obviously-redrawn bottom line in the "Signature of Local Registrar" field (and how the name of that field is partially cut off on the bottom).
Now compare that redacted blank to the 1963 certificate
posted by that blogger back in June of 2008 (spoilered for image size):
Compare the pencil marks, and where the signatures stretch beyond the redactions.
Someone took that partially-redacted 1963 certificate, whited out almost everything, and put it up at Western Center for Journalism. Then either that same person or someone else took that entirely-redacted version, and produced the Blaine Document forgery. This has been obvious
since at least April 30 of this year. And Jerome "Master researcher who wrote a book!" Corsi is totally unaware of anything except a Hawaii regional newspaper posted it on their website last year, and some guy on Facebook claims it has marks that uniquely match Obama's.
Even though Corsi acknowledges that the Blaine Document is a forgery at the top of the article, in the main part of it he tries very hard to imply that it's not as fake as everyone might think. He tries to use all the above to establish a connection between it and the actual Obama certificate, claiming that they both contain the same marks that are not found anywhere else. He even suggests that "either of the documents could have been copied from the other," and in the headline for the article, the word "forgery" appears in scare quotes.
,The Blaine Document, though, is a screamingly obvious forgery, clearly made by copying a certificate that was definitely not Obama's. The name of Obama's grandmother is misspelled in the signature, for instance. The "II" is listed next to Obama's first name, making his legal name at birth (per that document) Barack II Hussein Obama, not the actual (and far less nonsensical) Barack Hussein Obama II.
The real smoking gun, though, is the neon sign I mentioned above. It's the notation in the "Evidence for Delayed Filing or Alteration" box. Here's what Corsi says about it:
Among other things, the "Certificate of Live Birth" on the Reporter page says, "Birthplace: Kenya; Registered Honolulu HRS 338-17.8 per Grandmother."
Obama's grandmother can't have registered his birth in Hawaii under HRS 338-17.8.
HRS 338-17.8 didn't exist, in any form, until 1982!
The fact that Corsi not only had
no idea where this "mysterious" document came from, but is willing to entertain the possibility that it's
not a hideously obvious (and rather lame) forgery shows just how inept and intellectually bankrupt both he and World Net Daily really are.
