Where's the Birth Certificate?
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| Author | Jerome R. Corsi |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Politics; the political process |
| Published | May 17, 2011 WND Books |
| Media type | Hardcover |
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| OCLC | 698332449 |
| Preceded by | The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality |
Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President is a book by Jerome Corsi which promotes the claim that U.S. president Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and is thus constitutionally unqualified to hold the office. The book was released on May 17, 2011, and reached No. 6 on the New York Times list of best-selling hardcover non-fiction books. It has been publicized in politically conservative venues, including The Drudge Report, Fox News Channel's Fox Nation, and Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
The book alleges inconsistencies and fabrications in Obama's life story as well as a conspiracy and cover-up by Obama and the White House Press Office. The book says, among other things, that Obama cannot be a natural-born citizen because, as a boy, he was registered in school as a Muslim and a citizen of Indonesia. The book also alleges that Obama spent millions in legal fees to avoid having to provide a long-form birth certificate to the courts, an assertion which has been disputed by Obama supporters. Obama released his birth certificate several weeks before Where's the Birth Certificate? was published, but the book was nonetheless released unedited. The book's publisher responded to the birth certificate release by saying that Corsi was "deeply suspicious of the authenticity of this document".
Despite the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, publisher Joseph Farah told The Washington Post that Where's the Birth Certificate? would not be renamed and would still be released on May 17. He said the imminent publication of the book had pressured Obama into releasing the certificate.Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi opined that Obama's birth certificate was released in part to preempt Corsi's book. Corsi responded to the President's April 27 document release by likening it to Nixon's release of a few tapes during the Watergate scandal: "All that did was fuel the fire." Corsi also predicted that Obama's presidency would not survive after the publication of his book, which he described as documenting multiple legal issues that disqualify Obama from being president.
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