Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained then deported in Kenya

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.

Corsi is a Neo Con Cheerleader!

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.

He knows he doesn't have to say anything anyway. God help us all if that man gets elected.

My sister LOVES him and she is blowing up my phone with pro-obama text messages. Driving me nuts!

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.


If the Ayers thing isn't sticking - this one doesn't stand a chance.

And they said Reagan was teflon - the media has Barry's back like nothing I've ever seen! Obama has more baggage than Ivana Trump on a cruise, and yet..

:obapat

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.

He knows he doesn't have to say anything anyway. God help us all if that man gets elected.

My sister LOVES him and she is blowing up my phone with pro-obama text messages. Driving me nuts!

If you want her to stop? Ask her why?...that'll usually do it....lol

An American detained on foriegn soil...by a goverment run by a guy that Obama campaigned for and "No comment"...lol...C'mon...at least say "We regret that happened" or Something.


If the Ayers thing isn't sticking - this one doesn't stand a chance.

And they said Reagan was teflon - the media has Barry's back like nothing I've ever seen! Obama has more baggage than Ivana Trump on a cruise, and yet..

:obapat

Wwll I really don't think it has anything to do with Obama himself, just that the rest of world is also foaming at the mouth over this guy...I mean did you see khadafi?....lol...makes me wonder about the reaction if this guy does or doesn't get elected......

Sorry SHR AND GOAT we part company on this one. This guy is nothing more than a character assasin. Most of the time3 his material is filled with half truths and inuendo if any truth at all. My opinion is the Kenyan's can keep him and good riddance.

Maybe - do you think the talking heads are so desperate for the US to be loved again? I agree that Africa should be OFF American's travel plans if Obama doesn't win..

Sorry SHR AND GOAT we part company on this one. This guy is nothing more than a character assasin. Most of the time3 his material is filled with half truths and inuendo if any truth at all. My opinion is the Kenyan's can keep him and good riddance.

Oh now this is nice....author snatched up by the Stasi in Kenya?...LOL....how's that freedom thing work there?....well it is Obama after all...so there won't be any of that talking nonsense about it. To say fairly though...Kenya is not the USA, so Corsi was moer likely than not taking his life in his own hands attempting to go give Obama's brother a grand. When asked for comment on this, Obama Campiagn said "No comment" Well I'm sure that was a pretty big momment for the O-man's brother to actually have his brother's campaign actually say something regarding the incident, no grand though, tough shit on that one, not like a grand would mean a whole lot to George I'm sure.


Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya

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.

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But officers swooped hours after Dr Corsi was described as "author of a smear crusade" by local newspapers.

Immigration officials claim he had been detained because he did not have a work permit, however one of Dr Corsi's assistants said he was "just answering some questions".

"We have been given water and are very comfortable," the assistant said.

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.

A source at Nyayo House, where Dr Corsi was being held, said the author had been detained for references made to Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister, and allegations that his Muslim supporters had engaged in a wave of violence that rocked the country after December’s disputed elections.

The allegations are not taken seriously in Kenya, were Mr Odinga is widely seen to have been cheated out of a legitimate victory.

Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations, said Dr Corsi did not have a work permit. "We still haven’t decided what to do with him," he told The Associated Press.

In the promotional literature for his book, Dr Corsi promised to reveal sinister links between Kenyan politicians and Mr Obama.

"Dr Corsi will also expose details of deep secret ties between US Democratic presidential candidate 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 Senator Obama win the American presidency," it said.

Mr Obama, whose father was a well-known Kenyan economist, is hugely popular across Africa.

In Kenya, his meteoric rise and subsequent fame have won him support across traditional tribal boundaries and left many ordinary people wondering why American right-wingers would wish him ill.

Hawkers in the city centre are selling badges and T-shirts bearing Obama’s image, and every twist of the US election campaign is being followed on television and radio.

[link to www.timesonline.co.uk]


Kenya deports US author of anti-Obama book

NAIROBI, Kenya - The American author of a controversial book accusing Barack Obama of seething with "black rage" and of being unfit for the U.S. presidency was kicked out of Kenya on Tuesday.

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The deportation of Jerome Corsi came just hours before he was to launch his book in a country where the U.S. Democratic candidate for president is wildly popular.

Corsi, who wrote "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," was detained at immigration headquarters in Nairobi for not having a work permit before being ordered to leave Kenya, said Joseph Mumira, head of criminal investigations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Corsi was scheduled to leave on an evening flight to London, Mumira said. Airport officials would not allow journalists access to Corsi at the airport and a message left on his mobile phone was not returned.

A spokesman for Obama said the campaign had no comment on the deportation.

Obama's Kenyan uncle, Said Obama, said he was unaware of Corsi's detention and had no comment. A government spokesman did not return calls for comment.

In the past, the Obama campaign has called Corsi a bigot peddling rehashed lies to hurt Obama in the U.S. presidential race against Republican Sen. John McCain. The best-selling book, released earlier in the United States, collects false rumors and distortions to portray Obama as a secret radical who cannot be trusted.

Obama's late father, whom he barely knew, was a Kenyan economist and the candidate is considered by many here as a "son of the soil." Obama's last trip to Kenya, in 2006, drew thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour.

Ahead of the Nov. 4 election in the U.S., minibuses here are emblazoned with Obama's picture and vendors sell T-shirts bearing his image.

But Obama was born in Hawaii, where he spent most of his childhood raised by his mother, a white American from Kansas.

Corsi's book claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.

Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and his campaign picks apart the book's claims on the Web site FightTheSmears.com.

The campaign's rebuttal is titled "Unfit For Publication," a play on the book Corsi co-authored against 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military service called "Unfit For Command."


[link to news.yahoo.com]