Jerome Corsi’s Sept. 18 article on “cold case posse” leader Mike Zullo’s “second trip to Hawaii” where he allegedly found “additional evidence the state’s Department of Health is maintaining a cover-up of Obama’s 1961 birth records,” is more noteworthy for what it doesn’t contain than what it does.
The most conspicuous thing missing is any reference to the posse’s botched coding conspiracy — using a 1968 coding system to evaluate the handwritten notations on a 1961 birth certificate. The silence on that fiasco is deafening, and each day Corsi and Zullo refuse to address it is another day that no sentient human has any reason to take them seriously. (Well, there are many reasons not to take them seriously; that’s just the most glaring one.)
Corsi is also mum about one particular misadventure Zullo had in Hawaii. The Phoenix New Times reports that police were called to a Hawaii nursing home after spending hours trying to badger Verna K. Lee, a 95-year-old woman who worked at the Hawaiian registrar’s office many years ago, into talking to him. The fact that wasn’t able to, of course, only added to the conspiracy, according to New Times: “Zullo insists someone must have scared this 95-year-old woman out of talking to him. (Our guess is that his name is Mike Zullo.)”
Corsi and Zullo never seem to understand that a discredited messenger destroys the credibility of the message. Or perhaps they understand all too well, which is why they must hide anything that contradicts the grand birther conspiracy.
As long as Corsi continues to refuse to report the full truth about how birtherism has been debunked, people will continue to see him as a dishonest Obama-bashing obsessive. He will remain an Obama-bashing obsessive no matter what, but he might be seen as slightly less dishonest if he stops acting dishonest.