Jerome Corsi, Orly Taitz’ date to the Wingnuttia High School prom, promotes the loony theories of fellow birther Ron Polland, who has filed laughably idiotic challenges to the non-profit status of Factcheck.org because that site has rejected their favorite delusion that Obama is a Kenyan-born Muslim commie.
Researcher Ron Polland has launched Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service challenges against Factcheck.org, charging the media monitor has violated its tax-exempt legal status as a non-partisan organization by publishing and promoting a short-form birth certificate for Obama he contends was forged…
Polland’s complaint to the IRS reads in part:
In June 2008, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, D/B/A Annenberg Factcheck colluded with the Obama Campaign to create a false identity document for Barack Obama and to conduct a propaganda campaign to prevent Obama’s true identity and citizenship from being known. The document was allegedly a scan image of a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth. In August 2008, after people questioned its authenticity, Factcheck created a physical document using a printout of the same scan image and took photos of it. Factcheck used the photos along with a fraudulent examination of them to authenticate the same false identity document they created.
Polland asked the IRS to rescind Factcheck’s non-profit status, charging the principals at Factcheck are “leftwing political activists who campaigned for Obama and against McCain.”
Hilarious. Walter Annenberg, whose money funded Factcheck, was Nixon’s ambassador to Britain. And one of Ronald Reagan’s closest friends. His wife, Leonore, was an official in the Reagan State Department. They donated huge sums of money to Republican causes.
But even if that was not the case, it is patently absurd to claim that they have violated the IRS rules on tax exempt status by taking a position on an issue that happens to favor a Democratic president. If that was the standard, there would be no political non-profits at all. This complaint will receive all the attention it is due, which is none. I suspect it will be passed around the offices at the IRS and provoke a good deal of laughter.
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chilidog99
December 28, 2011 at 10:35 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Related info: Corsi caught plagerizing in WND articles.
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/9265-world-net-daily-author-accused-of-plagiarism
jamessweet
December 28, 2011 at 10:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He has a point. Really, any non-profit organization that attempts to do factual reporting could arguably be characterized as actively campaigning against Republicans.
Wasn’t there some Orwell thing about telling the truth becoming a political act?
Bronze Dog
December 28, 2011 at 10:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Postmodernists always lash out against people who put forth the effort it takes to reach objective truth. To WND, truth is just another biased liberal narrative, interchangeable with any other narrative.
Hence, they launch subjectivist ad hominem and appeal to motive fallacies instead of examining the available evidence.
d cwilson
December 28, 2011 at 10:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This reminds me of the old saying among lawyers:
If the law is against you, argue the facts.
If the facts are against you, argue the law.
If both the law and the facts are against you, pound the table.
The birthers have been pounding the table so hard it’s a wonder they don’t have splinters.
dingojack
December 28, 2011 at 10:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“In June 2008, the Annenberg Public Policy Center, D/B/A Annenberg Factcheck colluded with the Klingons to create a false identity document for Superman and to conduct a propaganda campaign to prevent Superman’s true identity and citizenship from being known. The document was allegedly a scan image of a Narnian Certification of Live Birth. In August 2008, after (unspecified) people questioned its authenticity (and that, of course, makes their concerns absolutely The Truth™), Factcheck created a physical document (even though we have abosolute evidence of actual document that contradicts this oft repeated stament of ‘fact’, but hey, who needs real evidence?) using a printout of the same scan image and took photos of it (we know this ’cause we said so, so shut up!). Factcheck used the photos along with a fraudulent examination of them to authenticate the same false identity document they created (’cause we sais so, &etc.)”
Well, it now (almost) makes (as much) sense (as it ever will).
Dingo
Bronze Dog
December 28, 2011 at 11:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Somehow, I doubt your typical sci-fi/fantasy geek would be able to suspend that much disbelief for the sake of plot, Dingo. ;)
One thing I should ask the next Birther I meet: “How could anyone have known Obama would develop any political affinity at all?”
I was recently introduced to one meme that’s as good a guess as any for their response.
dingojack
December 28, 2011 at 11:08 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Bronnze Dog – I’m sure that guy could convince oily titz. ;)
Ooohhh cooome on! Klingons are juuust evuuul*.
Dingo
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* just a bit worse than uppitty, democratic WH n*gg*rs!
lordshipmayhem
December 28, 2011 at 11:09 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
d cwilson @ 4:
You’re close, but I think the original wording is much more amusing. It goes like this:
Aquaria
December 28, 2011 at 11:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Researcher Ron Polland has launched Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service challenges against Factcheck.org, charging the media monitor has violated its tax-exempt legal status as a non-partisan organization by publishing and promoting a short-form birth certificate for Obama he contends was forged…
This guy should know full well that tax-exempt groups lie all the time. I imagine he works for one or supports one.
One thing I should ask the next Birther I meet: “How could anyone have known Obama would develop any political affinity at all?”
They’ll have the same answer all those racist nitwits have: “He’s black, and all black people support the Democratic Party.” Unless they’re the “right kind” of blacks like Herman Cain or Alan Keyes.
loren
December 28, 2011 at 11:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Speaking of Polland and “laughably idiotic,” his YouTube videos are a treasure trove of crazy. This one for instance, where he basically claims that every photo of Obama as a young man is a Photoshopped fake:
Michael Heath
December 28, 2011 at 11:57 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed reports:
The Annenbergs are also primary benefactors to the educational initiative in Chicago which had Barack Obama serving as a board member. That obviously proves that Barack Obama was carrying on the Islamist jihad against the U.S. first started by Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
John Hinkle
December 28, 2011 at 12:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It’s funny when imbeciles actually think they can intersect with reality, even if it’s the smallest crescent in the Venn diagram.
carolw
December 28, 2011 at 5:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
loren@10 – You know, I never realized, my eyes look just like my mother’s did when she was younger. Oh no! My whole childhood is a photoshopped myth! Bwah haa haa! :)
Modusoperandi
December 28, 2011 at 6:21 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
John Hinkle “It’s funny when imbeciles actually think they can intersect with reality, even if it’s the smallest crescent in the Venn diagram.”
It’s called an “intersection” and it’s not a crescent (assuming two circles, it’s more of a gibbous shape). Dork.
d cwilson
December 28, 2011 at 11:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@loren:
I love how they disabled comments for the video. That pretty much says it all.
democommie
December 29, 2011 at 12:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dingojack:
That plotline would work better if the Lizardunderking Obama would have a press conference and put on a pair of dark glasses while saying, “I’d like you to all look at this flashy thing…”.