No, it’s not being pulled from the shelves, but it looks like some didn’t get the joke. Esquire writes:

UPDATE, 12:25 p.m., for those who didn’t figure it out yet, and the many on Twitter for whom it took a while: We committed satire this morning to point out the problems with selling and marketing a book that has had its core premise and reason to exist gutted by the news cycle, several weeks in advance of publication. Are its author and publisher chastened? Well, no. They double down, and accuse the President of the United States of perpetrating a fraud on the world by having released a forged birth certificate. Not because this claim is in any way based on reality, but to hold their terribly gullible audience captive to their lies, and to sell books. This is despicable, and deserves only ridicule. That’s why we committed satire in the matter of the Corsi book. Hell, even the president has a sense of humor about it all. Some more serious reporting from us on this whole “birther” phenomenon here, here, and here.

But with the whole coffee-mug and T-shirt edition of the birth certificate out today, I’m more intrigued than ever, so I just bought the Kindle version of the Corsi book. Here’s the conclusion, as if Newt didn’t have enough problems this week:

“Just the Facts, Ma’am. All We Want are the Facts.”
Jack Webb, playing police detective Joe Friday in the 1950s TV series Dragnet, became famous for the line, “All we want are the facts.” The same applies to those of us who dare to continue inquiring into President Obama’s eligibility to hold the office under the requirements of the supreme law of the land, the U.S. Constitution. In the end, the request is simple and the stonewalling is hard to understand or justify. Why would Obama and his determined supporters protest so much unless there was something to hide? Far from losing this argument, we are winning. By now the American public has caught on that the foul language of the left is hurled forth to stop inquiry, demonstrating once again how fearful leftists truly are of any serious First Amendment-protected investigation of their leaders. Increasingly, the original small group of “birthers” is becoming an army of eligibility “proofers” who are tired of the abuse and the excuses, the calumny and the rhetoric. All proofers want is the same thing Detective Joe Friday wanted: the facts. In October 2010, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Spanish-language TV that Obama has an “obligation to figure out why so many Americans doubt his life story. If I were the president, that would really concern me, not because of Fox News or talk radio or Rush Limbaugh, but what is there that he’s doing that would let that many people be confused?,” Gingrich said on Univision’s Al Punto,260
Although Gingrich said he believes that Obama was “absolutely” born in the United States and is a Christian, he also insisted the president needs to consider what he’s doing that leads people to suspect he is Muslim. “I think some of this stuff is just a sign of how much fear and anxiety has built up,” Gingrich said, “but I think the president has an obligation to slow down and say, if you’re president of all the people, what is it the White House is doing that so frightens a third of the Republican Party and they don’t even believe something as simple and as obvious as his self-professed religious belief.” A prominent array of commentators, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, Lou Dobbs, Chuck Norris, and Pat Boone have all said unequivocally and publicly that the Obama eligibility issue is legitimate and worthy of inquiry.261 Because the White House continues to stonewall legitimate requests to produce eligibility documentation, six out often Americans now doubt Obama’s birth story. If the stonewalling continues, the number of proofers is sure to grow. History has not been kind to U.S. presidents that have attempted to hide behind a lie. At some point, even President Richard Nixon had to face the truth. At some point, President Barack Obama will have to do the same.

Chuck Norris says it’s an issue, so it’s totally legitimate. Maybe Norris can buy the mug and the truth will be revealed.

Newt does have a point. The political arm of Team Obama milked the birth certificate issue for all it was worth and now it’s all a big joke. Sure, they could have released the long-form certificate years ago and have saved the country from this toxic polarization, but why do so if it’s helping your guy by making your opponents look like kooks?