Esquire Sued for Defamation by World Net Daily

-- WND said on June 28, 2011 that it would announce the filing of a major defamation lawsuit against Esquire Magazine, parent company Hearst Corporation, and its political editor, Mark Warren, who wrote and published an article claiming WND editor and CEO Joseph Farah had denounced Jerome Corsi's book and pulled it from retail distribution.

WND is a news web site that describes itself as "a free press for a free people." It was founded by Joseph and Elizabeth Farah in May 1997.

The book in question is Jerome R. Corsi's "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President."

Warren's Esquire article, headlined BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!, reports that Farah decided that he could not go forward with Corsi's birther book, saying, "I believe with all my heart that Barack Obama is destroying this country, and I will continue to stand against his administration at every turn, but in light of recent events, this book has become problematic, and contains what I now believe to be factual inaccuracies. I cannot in good conscience publish it and expect anyone to believe it."

In making the announcement about the defamation lawsuit against Esquire, Farah is quoted as saying, "We are reacting to one of the most egregious abuses of freedom of the press I have witnessed in my 30-plus year career in journalism. We are taking this action not because we desire to restrict First Amendment-guaranteed protections, but because we want to police them and guard them."

And there is more.

An item on the WND web site, dated June 28, 2011 and attributed to Jerome R. Corsi, is headlined Adobe book editor positive: Obama certificate is phony. The article's first paragraph reads: "A nationally recognized computer expert who has served as contributing author and technical editor for more than 100 books on Adobe and Microsoft software says the Obama long-form birth-certificate image released by the White House is a fraudulent document created with Adobe software."

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