Well they are giving him plenty of water...e
Posted on 10/07/2008 3:20:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya
(Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
A leading American neo-Conservative author has been detained by immigration authorities in Kenya as he tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama.
Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was this morning being held after failing to reckon with Obamamania.
He had been planning to launch his book, entitled The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, before travelling to one of Nairobi’s slums to donate money to the Senator’s half-brother George, who was found living in squalid conditions two months ago.
But officers swooped hours after Dr Corsi was described as “author of a smear crusade” by local newspapers.
“He has not been arrested. He is just answering some questions about what he is doing here in Kenya,” said an assistant to Dr Corsi. “We have been given water and are very comfortable.”
Journalists were turned away from the hotel suite where the launch was due to be held. “He shouldn’t have had anything in the paper this morning,” said one. “That was his mistake. He should have kept it secret.”
Dr Corsi said he had a $1,000 cheque for George Obama, seen as part of a stunt to suggest that the Senator was not taking care of his Kenyan-based relative.
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Anti-Obama book to be launched in Nairobi today
Updated 13 hr(s) 45 min(s) ago
By Alex Ndegwa
The author of a smear crusade against Barack Obama is in Kenya to advance a negative campaign against the US Democratic presidential candidate on his ancestral soil.
Dr Jerome Corsi, who authored “The Obama Nation; Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” launches the book this morning at the Laico Hotel, Nairobi.
The book questions the Illinois senator’s character, his links to Prime Minister Raila Odinga and attacks Obama’s fitness for the White House.
The development raises eyebrows coming a day after Obama accused his republican opponent John McCain of resorting to smear campaigns and trying to “tear down” his campaign by linking him to terrorists.
A statement inviting the Press to the launch today makes no secret of the intention to hurl dirt at Obama and undermine his campaign from his ancestral home.
“Dr Corsi will also expose details of deep secret ties between US Democratic presidential candidate Sen Barack Obama and a section of Kenya Government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Sen Obama win the American presidency,” the statement reads in part.
Obama’s brother
It adds: “During his stay, Corsi also plans to meet Sen Obama’s brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama, who lives on a $12 a year in the sprawling Huruma slums and hand him a $1,000 (Sh70,000) cheque from WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah.”
Recently, foreign media crews hunted down Onyango and the interviews were used in the US to portray Obama as one who had abandoned his kin.
Onyango, however, denounced suggestions that he was living in squalor and admonished the media for using the reports to attack Obama.
The inclusion of the ‘philanthropic de tour’ in Corsi’s programme is seen in bad taste and an extension of the campaign to undermine Obama’s bid to become the first black American president.
A section of “The Obama Nation” attacks Obama for ostensibly voting against a measure passed by the Illinois Senate to allow self-defense to take precedence over local ordinances against handgun possession.
This followed a much-publicised case in which a 52-year-old resident — worried that his children were in danger — shot a burglar but was later charged for shooting the criminal.
In an attempt to portray Obama as elitist and insensitive, the book revisits the disparaging remark on April 11 when Obama was recorded at a private fundraiser in San Francisco as claiming people in small towns in the Midwest “cling to guns and God.”
Guns at home
Lapierre said, “Senator Obama opposes people having guns in their homes for self-defence while he and his family enjoy armed professional security around the clock.”
The alleged remarks were made before the Pennsylvania primary and cost Obama the contest.
Yet another brands the Democratic candidate a ‘Plagiarising Orator’ accusing him of lifting text from a 2006 speech by an official.
“When we learn he has taken an important section of his speech from another elected official, it raises very fundamental questions about his campaign,” the book quotes a top adviser of Hillary Clinton, Obama’s key opponent for the Democrat ticket-turned-supporter.
The “Obama Nation”, which was released on August 1, has been dismissed as a stream of false allegations modeled on the “Swift Boat” smears that helped to defeat Democratic nominee, John Kerry, four years ago.
The Obama campaign issued a 41-page point-by-point rebuttal of the book under the heading “Unfit for Publication”.
A spokesman said: “Once again, bigoted fringe author Jerome Corsi is trying to make money off an election, spinning garbage as journalism and relying on the right-wing echo chamber to pump up sales”.
“His is just one of what will likely be many more lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle, which are cobbled together from debunked Internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda. We will respond to these smears forcefully with all means at our disposal.”
Corsi’s latest work is one of an estimated 20 books — largely hostile — that are being written about Obama.
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Not could happen here. Will happen here. Obamas mission is to circumvent the constitution in the only way possible. International treaties. The loophole around the constitution is this. Originally the state legislators appointed Senators to be loyal to the seperate states and keep the central government at bay. Now we elect Senators with allegiance to national political parties. Bad news..Treaties Trump the Constitution.
I think the ‘seething black rage’ thing can be pretty fairly inferred from Obama’s book ‘Dreams from my Father’.
Caption the picture on the front page of the Kenyan newspaper today.
http://www.eastandard.net/news/
Prime Minister Raila Odinga (right) with Faisal Centre Chairman Turki Al Faisal (left) and US Reverend Jesse Jackson, during the opening of the World Policy Conference in Avian, France, on Monday.
No bias there. Are they trying to suggest that Obama IS taking care of his brother?
They claim Corsi is a 9/11 troofer. Corsi strenously denies that he believes such nonsense.
I noticed it seems like every third world country and terrorist hellhole is for Obama. God help us!
“That was his mistake. He should have kept it secret.”
Yes. That’s the proper way to be a journalist. Keep your actions secret.
Or were they referring to the proper way to conduct a political campaign???
Left wing tactics wither in the sunlight. Truth is painful for them.
He admits his black rage in his own autobiographies!
After seeing how he reacted to McCain and Palins comments the other day, I think we can safely say he is seething with rage. He is a very dangerous man. You can just see it and its just below the surface.
Dr Corsi should have gotten some travel trips from Odinga campaign manager Dick Morris.
It’s hard to even know where to start.
I particularly like this line:
A spokesman said: “Once again, bigoted fringe author Jerome Corsi is trying to make money off an election, spinning garbage as journalism and relying on the right-wing echo chamber to pump up sales”.
Corsi uses facts. “A spokesman” uses smears. “Bigoted,” “fringe,” “garbage.” Gee, we get a lot of factual information from those words. The information I get is that you have no facts. You fail to point out any defects in Corsi’s arguments.
Bigoted = He said something you don’t like about a protected minority.
Fringe = best-selling
Garbage = It makes us look bad.
Corsi on the phone with Quinn & Rose RIGHT NOW (7:08 AM EST). He says he’s walking up the stairs with the immigration officials as he speaks.
He was about to hold a press conference when the immigration folks came in to detain him. They “lost” his entry papers.
Have it on now. Stunning!
Well they are giving him plenty of water...e
As does Clarence Thomas. The difference is that the Justice recognized that rage and the destructive power it had for his own soul and conquered it.
Civil War... again.
LLS
“In an attempt to portray Obama as elitist and insensitive...”
I love all this propaganda phrasing! By calling this “an attempt” they try to imply that Obama is not elitist and insensitive. They try to smear the author or make him look ineffective.
I’d say he’s quite effective. I’d say it was a successful “attempt.” I’d say it was successful because it is true. I’d say there is plenty of evidence. I’d say “If the shoe fits....”
Foreshadowing political oppression. Yes, it can happen here.
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