Thread: Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya

If Obama become President maybe we all can look forward to arrest if we disagree with him!! It seems to S.O.P. in all the countires he admires!!

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By SHASHANK BENGALI
McClatchy Newspapers
Jerome Corsi, the controversial author of a much-criticized book slamming Sen. Barack Obama, was detained in Kenya on Tuesday for an immigration violation as he arrived for a press conference to promote his book.

Authorities in Kenya, where Obama's father was born, said Corsi had entered the country as a tourist and wasn't allowed to work here. A Kenyan aide to Corsi said that he was en route to the airport Tuesday evening and would be deported.

Corsi's book - titled "The Obama Nation; Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality" - portrays Obama as an untrustworthy radical seething with "black rage," and rehashes a host of false claims about Obama, including that he was raised a Muslim.

The nonpartisan Factcheck.org Web site called the book "a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods." Obama's campaign posted a 40-page rebuttal to Corsi's claims on its anti-rumor Web site, fightthesmears.com.

Corsi, who gained notoriety in 2004 by launching the so-called "Swift Boat" attacks against then-Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, arrived in Kenya about a week ago to publicize his book and conduct research on Obama's family, according to Peter Mbae, a Kenyan journalist who helped coordinate Corsi's visit.

But the trip appeared to be mostly a mean-spirited stunt on the fringes of a presidential campaign that has rapidly turned nasty.

Corsi's book questions links between Obama and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is from the same Luo ethnic group as Obama's father, a well-known economist who died in 1982.

An e-mail sent to Kenyan journalists before Tuesday's book launch said that Corsi would "expose details of deep secret ties" between Obama and certain Kenyan government officials as well as a "subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya" if Obama is elected president.

The e-mail also claimed that Corsi planned to meet Obama's half-brother, George, who lives in a Nairobi slum, and present him with a $1,000 check from Joseph Farah, founder of the conservative WorldNetDaily.com Web site.

The Standard, one of Kenya's leading daily newspapers, described Corsi's visit in Tuesday morning's editions as "a smear crusade" that "makes no secret of the intention to hurl dirt at Obama and undermine his campaign from his ancestral home."

Obama is wildly popular among Kenyans of all tribes, and news of the press conference appeared to spur authorities into action.

"The government didn't want to be seen allowing that gentleman to give a statement denouncing Obama," Mbae said.

Even the five-star hotel where Corsi was scheduled to appear issued a statement later saying that it "does not condone any smear campaigns."
Obama barely knew his father, who had problems with alcohol and died in a car crash in Kenya at age 46. The Illinois senator wrote poignantly of investigating his identity in Kenya in his 1995 memoir, "Dreams from My Father," and last came to the country on an official visit in 2006.


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Kenya deporting U.S. author of anti-Obama book

Associated Press

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

NAIROBI, Kenya — The American author of a best-selling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya on Tuesday, a criminal investigations official said.

Jerome Corsi, who wrote “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,â€

First heard about this on the radio this morning and glad to hear Mr. Corsi is out of that country. Heard he had been talking with Kenyan officials all week. Timing is interesting, to hurry him out right before a news conference.
Well, we'll all hear what Mr. Corsi has to say soon enough.

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

UPDATE: (11am EST) Please hold your calls, Dr. Corsi's publisher has just informed us that Dr. Corsi is on a plane out of Kenya on its way to England. We will keep you posted.

DARN!

I was hoping they'd keep him in custody until after the election and he wouldn't have the opportunity to vote or spew his venomous lies...

Originally Posted by mapwife

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

UPDATE: (11am EST) Please hold your calls, Dr. Corsi's publisher has just informed us that Dr. Corsi is on a plane out of Kenya on its way to England. We will keep you posted.

DARN!

I was hoping they'd keep him in custody until after the election and he wouldn't have the opportunity to vote or spew his venomous lies...

who is it your accusing of lying?

Originally Posted by mapwife

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

UPDATE: (11am EST) Please hold your calls, Dr. Corsi's publisher has just informed us that Dr. Corsi is on a plane out of Kenya on its way to England. We will keep you posted.

DARN!

I was hoping they'd keep him in custody until after the election and he wouldn't have the opportunity to vote or spew his venomous lies...

What "venomous lies"?

Lou's radio show has the CEO from World Net Daily on the radio
and he said that as far as he knows, he has NOT been released
but he is saying that he should be deported on a plane that leaves
sometime today.

he also says he has not heard from him since 9 45 Eastern time this morning

Originally Posted by mapwife

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

UPDATE: (11am EST) Please hold your calls, Dr. Corsi's publisher has just informed us that Dr. Corsi is on a plane out of Kenya on its way to England. We will keep you posted.

DARN!

I was hoping they'd keep him in custody until after the election and he wouldn't have the opportunity to vote or spew his venomous lies...

Yeah, I was hoping the US would deport Obama so HE wouldn't have a chance to vote or spew his lies.

Corsi is a frequent guest on Peter Boyles' radio show. Boyles is going to try to get Corsi on tomorrow morning, Wed., Oct. 8th, and if he can't get Corsi, he'll try to get a spokesman for WND on, to discuss this. Boyles' show is on from 5AM-9AM Mountain Time: www.khow.com/pages/shows-boyles.html