Like many of its news articles, WorldNetDaily’s birther activism is defined in no small part by anonymous sources. Aaron Klein, for instance, claims that anonymous “independent forensics experts” have found that Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate is a fake, and Jerome Corsi has cited at least one anonymous “expert” to back up his claim the the birth certificate is fake.
A Nov. 1 WND article by Corsi follows in that tradition, claiming that “Sources close to the sheriff’s law enforcement investigation” say that the sheriff’s posse appointed by Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio plan to “demand the original microfilm of Obama’s birth certificate.” No named source backs up Corsi’s claim.
Meanwhile, an earlier WND article on the sheriff’s posse dropped this tidbit about how stacked this silly little posse is: “Earlier this month, WND senior staff reporter Jerome R. Corsi spent 18 hours over a two-day period in Arizona briefing the Cold Case Posse on a wide range of evidence regarding Obama’s eligibility. There was no mention that anyone who contradicts Corsi’s conspiratorial claims was invited to tell their story before the posse, such as John Woodman, author of a book debunking many of Corsi’s birther claims.
If not, that makes this sham a kangaroo court, not a posse.