Jerome Corsi, Obama Smear Author, Detained In Kenya

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.

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."

Comments

[Oakknollfarm]

Obama is the Messiah - Louis said so

[magicmary]

Like that bratty kid in the Simpsons, all I can say is, "Ha Ha"!!!!

[saron123]

How does it feel to be an illegal alien? huh

Jerome Corsi = illegal alien

[butonelife]

Six months in a Kenyan prison should work some of that crisco out of his pores. These wingnut hacks always look lost, like pale, bloated, eyeless insects that have been suddenly caught out in the sunlight.

[S1m0n]

Man, that's gall. He's lucky he didn't get disappeared.

[robeson]

Why do all right wingers look like Jerome Corsi?

[TLV]

I'm sure, like most right wingers, Corsi thinks he's one hot guy. Just count the number of times he's hit on attractive young men in public restrooms!

[woodywest]

thanks Mr Corsi for the guts to speak the truth

[handyrandy]

He's got plenty of guts, you're right about that. (And about a 54-inch waist to boot.) But it takes more than guts to go to a violent African country to bad mouth its favorite son. That requires an abundance of muscles, the kind you get between your ears.

[OdaNobunaga]

You're so brainwashed, you wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face.

[Nikola Tesla]

He admitted that he's a fascist tool?

[SD leaker]

CccooniaIist vvarmongers support McCain.

[NoElephants]

Maybe they will execute him.

[tjwdraws]

Kenya's homeland security did a good job defusing that huge, gas-filled, smear bomber.

[gdaerin]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

OMG, this is the funniest thing I've read in a couple of weeks,

[johnqeniac]

It is the will of God, for verily, as the Good Book says:

"Are not two fat republicans sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not be arrested in Kenya without your Father."

[ZimboChick]

lol

[gospelnous]

eh, hmm . . . if you're going to cite Scripture you really should reference the chapter and verse.

But minor points aside; can someone explain to me why the American proletariat is so eager to embrace a postmodern totalitarianism that ignores or denies social justice?

Is it really in our best interest to applaud the actions of a third world regime that's seized and censored an author for simply calling a press conference to disclose political indiscretions involving a U.S. presidential candidate and Kenya's Odinga?

I mean beyond the fact that Mr. Corsi may be packin' a few extra pounds . . .?

I don't intend any personal offense, it's just that I'm sorely disappointed by an American public who remains so enamored with itself, even in the midst of potential ruin, that it insists on holding to a calloused, myopic worldview virtually ignoring anything other than its 'own truth'.

In my opinion, with such significant issues at stake, we'd be better served in working together to transcend political bias towards life-saving, constructive change.

[breezi]

But minor points aside; can someone explain to me why the American proletariat is so eager to embrace a postmodern totalitarianism that ignores or denies social justice?

Just a question: To which country are you referring? Kenya, or USA?

[ZimboChick]

Corsi believes he is a god of sorts. When in Rome do as the Romans do. Just like one cannot waltz into the US and just do as they please. Unfortunately for him, he found out the hard way that Huntington's babarians have rules too. they therefore must be adhered to

[SugarMan]

Is any one interested in Corsi's book any way?
It has been discected and examined and found to be chock full of lies.
Throw it in the trash!

[foofy]

Read this and pass it on, this is who Palin and McCain have associated with.

Palin's Association with Alaska Independence Party:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/02/politics/animal/main4407224.shtml

McCain's Association with Council For World Freedom:
http://news.google.com/news?q=Council+for+World+Freedom&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

[boss1ret]

It is quite apparent that most of your bloggers have no conception of Kenyan politics, Muslim doctrines or the obvious political agenda which the Democrats proffer to turn a once great nation into a Socialist quagmire.
As someone who has lived in three different Muslim countries and yes, have visited Kenya ( a beautiful country) the mantra which is always apparent is "Once a Muslim always a Muslim" and this is the paramount ideology, which pervades the religion, to the exclusion of all else, including family and country.