From FOX News:
An American author who penned an anti-Barack Obama book was detained by immigration authorities in Kenya after plans to launch the book there, the Times of London reported.
Jerome Corsi, of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame, was being held Tuesday morning while his immigration status was checked in a nation where Obama is widely popular. Kenyan airport officials said they plan to deport Corsi.
He had been planning to launch his book, entitled "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," before traveling 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 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 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."
Corsi said he had a $1,000 check for George Obama, seen as part of a stunt to suggest that the senator was not taking care of his Kenyan-based relative.
First, George Obama desperately needs some help.
Since Barack Obama is not assisting his half-brother, I see nothing wrong with Corsi lending him a hand.
Second, I would like to know if anyone with the Obama campaign or connections to the Obama campaign has been in contact with Kenyan authorities.
Corsi's detention looks bad for Kenya. Worse, it raises questions about the heavy handed tactics of Obama when it comes to the suppression of free speech.
9 comments:
In the name of God woman, how can you not see this for the stunt it is? Dragging half-family members continents away into the quagmire for political gain. Give the guy a thousand bucks from someone writing an anti-Obama book?
Up until now I just disagreed with your politics but now I wonder about your ability to separate politics from bigger things like maintaining respect for someone's human dignity. What does his half-brother have to do with any of it!
No, anonymous, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, we must expose Barack Hussein Obama for the dishonest Communist that he is!
You better hope Obama doesn't go to visit his half-brother and discovers good old George in his hit in a fetal position... B.O. will have him aborted too!
Having lived in Kenya for many years and seen people come in to take advantage of Africa and its peoples I am in support of getting rid of a liar (aka "a snake in the grass - nyoka mbaya). Corsi is an untruthful biased nguruwe.
Stunts during an election year? Now that's never happened before. What's the world coming to?
Well I don't know what the world is coming to when campaign operatives have to fly half way round the world to African villages to dig up a half-relative in the midst of what might be the the worst economic and financial crisis the country has ever seen.
As for you Chris, I am shocked as a contemplative Franciscan you have so much hatred and fear in you. Fine you don't agree with Obama on abortion. Only God can know his heart. Let God be the judge of him.
Isn't it sad that a complete stranger is giving $1000 to this man when/because his own half-brother hasn't given him a penny? (He's too busy attending $28,500 a plate dinners.)
If Corsi was in Kenya giving a grand to some charity nobody would say a word.
BO doesn't care about his own family and/or Africa, so how can you expect him to care about lowly Americans?
"Dragging half-family members continents away into the quagmire for political gain. Give the guy a thousand bucks from someone writing an anti-Obama book?
How is any of this true?
1. Nobody is being dragged anywhere. Corsi went to Kenya, not the other way around.
2. Political gain? Really? Corsi isn't running for any office.
3. He isn't writing an anti-Obama book. It's already written, published and out. I've read it and it's actually backed up with facts. There is nothing that cannot be proven in it. Obama's lame excuse/response of "Oh, they're just making stuff up" and then ignoring it completely (like he's also doing with Wright, Ayers, ACORN, the illegal campaign funding , etc.) holds about as much weight as a paper boat. I am very much interested in hearing what this Kenyan brother has to say and since nobody in the BO camp seems to care, why not hear it via Corsi?
PS. He was not in Kenya promoting the book, nobody goes to there to try and sell a book. What a ridiculous notion.
When I read the story, I didn't think Corsi's gift to Barack Obama's brother George was the focus.
The man was held by Kenyan authorities and is being deported because they don't like what he wrote.
It reminds me of what a great country America is.
DP
Why do you think it's ok to drag the half-brother into any of this? I thought families were "out of bounds", "off the table", "hitting below the belt". Isn't that what McCain's folks have been screaming ever since Palin was introduced? Or are families conveniently free game again?
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