Jerome Corsi wrote a nasty, dishonest book about Barack Obama. Jerome Corsi went to Kenya to try to promote the book. Jerome Corsi was arrested and will be deported. He’s actually lucky that the police dealt with him, rather than the people.
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.
Winning support across tribal boundaries? That sounds like a uniter, not a divider. I can go for that.
I don’t think people in Kenya are very keen to host a man who wants to smear Barack Obama and pull lame stunts at his expense.
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.
Cute. Dr. Corsi was supposed to ‘file dispatches’ during his visit. Now he’ll be flying home.
So lucky is Corsi…. He was not on the receiving end of a Kenyan spear with the special tip that’s used to bring down elephants.
Obama is leading McCain
and the economic pain
will keep his lead aloft.
Monday’s from FivethirtyEight
Electoral Obama 343.8 McCain 194.2
That’s approaching my prediction.
The check for the relative stunt is deeply ironic. I teach almost all immigrant students and all of their families send money back to the old country. You wouldn’t believe how many native-born Americans (the kind who might buy Corsi’s book) find that fact distressing. They think that it is proof that people aren’t integrating into American society.
A stunt attempting to revive the flagging interest in his book, no doubt.
This was all a PR stunt to sell his book. I wouldn’t be surprised if he bribed the Kenyans to arrest him. Better publicity for his book back in the red states.
I don’t know if I should ask what is was you were doing when you first viewed that clip.
🙂
That is, I don’t know if I should ask what you were doing…”
Preview is my friend.
“Deporting political conservatives.” Not the worst idea I’ve ever listened to!