Joseph Farah writes in his July 7 WorldNetDaily column:
Now that so many highly qualified graphics experts – seven by my count – have weighed in unequivocally in pronouncing Barack Obama’s “long-form birth certificate” as an outright fraud, it’s time to issue a challenge to other highly qualified experts to explain why they’re wrong.
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Isn’t it curious that not a single media outlet has quoted even one such expert to proclaim the document valid?Now, I can’t say there are no experts out there who can explain the anomalies and contradictions that the seven experts say make it impossible for the White House document to be valid. But I can say they haven’t been forthcoming.
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So I am hereby issuing a challenge to them: Come forward and explain what the seven experts proclaiming Obama’s birth certificate fraudulent are missing. Explain these anomalies in a way the American public can understand. Allay our fears that the biggest hoax in American political history is being perpetrated on us all by this White House.Why are no other experts coming forward to answer the very public indictments of this document by highly qualified people?
Isn’t the absence of evidence of authenticity in fact an indictment of a complacent, lapdog media with no interest in pursuing truth if it reflects poorly on Obama?
For heaven’s sake, where are Obama’s experts to explain what seven distinguished experts say cannot be explained away?
Farah is lying to you. At least two experts have come forward to “explain what seven distinguished experts say cannot be explained away”: “Dr. Conspiracy” at the Obama Conspiracy blog, and computer expert John Woodman.
Thus, Farah’s fallacious premise is utterly destroyed. The real question is why WND has hidden analyses that contradict its presumption that the birth certificate is fake from its readers. Then again, Jerome Corsi did promise during WND’s Esquire lawsuit dog-and-pony show to try and discredit “Dr. Conspiracy” while downplaying his debunking of WND’s so-called “experts.”
Of course, that’s not the way real journalism works. But Farah, Corsi and WND are interested only in information aimed at destroying President Obama, no matter how bogus and no much they discredit themselves in their Javert-esque pursuit.
If Farah and Corsi cared about the truth, they would ave reported on Dr. Conspiracy and Woodman by now. But they don’t, so they haven’t.
UPDATE: Here’s a third defense of the long-form birth certificate that Farah and Corsi have chosen to ignore, from Neal Krawetz. Thanks, L.C., for the tip.