Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid isn’t the only right-wing writer pretending that Joel Gilbert hasn’t been thoroughly discredited.
A May 16 WorldNetDaily article by Jerome Corsi is devoted to uncritically repeating Gilbert’s claim that he’s being harassed by the IRS, which allegedly leaked financial information about him to a reporter. Neither Gilbert nor Corsi offer any evidence for this, of course, but Corsi does — in an unusual act of journalism on his part — obtain a response from the reporter in question.
Corsi reverts to form, however, by letting Gilbert claim that “I was targeted because ‘Dreams from My Real Father’ exposes Obama as a pathological liar. … Obama intentionally obscured a deeply disturbing family background in order to hide a Marxist agenda, completely incompatible with American values. It was an unacceptable manipulation of the electorate and unquestionably the biggest scandal in American history.”
Needless to say, there’s no mention of the work Loren Collins did in discrediting some of the major claims Gilbert made in his film. On the other hand, Corsi made no mention of the main claim Collins debunked — that Obama’s mother posed for nude pictures taken by Davis — even though Corsi hyped that claim when Gilbert’s film was first released.
Is this as close to a correction we will ever see from Corsi? Or is he so gutless that he won’t admit Gilbert got it wrong lest it cause his entire birther conspiracy to crumble?