Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya

[WeDidIt]

Jerome Corsi, anti-Obama author, detained in Kenya

Rob Crilly, Nairobi

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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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.

Times Online Link

:evilgrin:

[lamp_shade]

1. Yathink Hannity is licking his chops?

:rofl:

[cali]

2. Well shit. They should just kick the asshole out of the country not

detain him. And Obama should call for his release. I detest Corsi but it's crap to detain him for saying bad things about Odinga.

[caraher]

7. yeah, but still

if anyone has it coming to him...

But let's not make a martyr out of this scumbag

[davidpdx]

8. Actually the article is overstating it, he's being questioned

not detained. If he was being detained, he'd be in a jail cell. He was passing out promotional material that was critical of Odinga. I do disagree with you slightly though. If you are entering a foreign country and you talk smack, you get what's coming to you. People should be very careful when they go to a foreign country, they do not have the same rights we have here. That being said, I would bet you are right and he'll be told to leave with a warning that if he comes back he'll be arrested.

Edited for correction

[jefferson_dem]

3. Awww...

Couldn't happen to a ... bigger POS.

Deal, Jerome, you pig.

[davidpdx]

4. Maybe they could hold on to him for about a month

give him a nice cozy jail cell, bread and water. Then drop him in the middle of nowhere and let him find his own way home.

[ps1074]

5. HA HA

:rofl:

[terrya]

6. I need to download that Nelson Muntz picture for things like this.

:-)

[ccharles000]

9. '''

[rucky]

10. Sadly, parasites like Corsi live for shit like this.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. If he was at home minding his bidness his ass wouldn't be in a jam.

Feed him to the lions!