A Sept. 18 WorldNetDaily article by Jerome Corsi touts how “One million copies of the documentary film that presents evidence Barack Obama’s real father was Communist Party activist Frank Marshall Davis have been mailed to households in the crucial presidential-election swing state Ohio,” adding that filmmaker Joel Gilbert “also has sent another 100,000 copies to New Hampshire, and he has plans to send 1 million to six more swing states.”
One thing you won’t find in Corsi’s article: any evidence of him asking Gilbert who’s paying for all of this.
After all, millions of copies of a DVD cost money, as does mailing them to millions of households. A lot of money, in fact. Where is that money coming from?
Gilbert is completely mum on the subject, and Corsi apparently lacks the intellectual curiosity to ask such a basic question.
Gilbert even admits this is all a publicity stunt to draw more attention to himself, and Corsi has no problem writing about that:
“The media simply can’t ignore 1 million free DVDs to Ohio; it is very newsworthy,” Gilbert said. “I encourage everyone who gets a DVD in the mail to watch it, share it with friends and contact the news media to discuss the information in the film.”
[…]Gilbert told WND he hopes the 1 million DVD mailing to Ohio will stimulate “Dreams from My Real Father” sales, a television deal and possibly even a theatrical release in movie theaters around the nation.
But they won’t say who’s providing the not-insignificant amounts of cash to pay for this partisan political effort, or whether that money should face scrutiny under federal election laws.
Remember, these are the same folks who don’t want you to know the truth about birtherism (that it’s a sham).
Lazy or dishonest? We report, you decide.