 Jerome Corsi of WorldNetDaily |
NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi in custody at immigration headquarters after police picked him up at his hotel just prior to a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama’s connections in the country.
Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book “The Obama Nation,” was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi. “Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference at the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenyan immigration approached us and detained us,” Corsi told WND by telephone this morning. “Tim Bueler, my publicist, and I are now in the immigration offices, with our passports taken. The immigration officer told the press, ‘There is no problem, and Dr. Corsi is a friend of Kenya.'”
Unconfirmed reports say Corsi has been taken by government officials to the airport. He has not been available by phone or e-mail since 9:30 a.m. Eastern. Corsi had extensive meetings with top Kenyan officials upon his arrival. His visit and his activities during his stay have been well-known to authorities at the highest levels. A senior immigration official in charge of investigations, Carlos Maluta was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: “We still haven’t decided what to do with him.”
Despite reports elsewhere to the contrary, Corsi has not been arrested or charged with any offense.
An official with the Embassy of Kenya in Washington said he was unaware of Corsi’s detention. The Ministry of Immigration in Nairobi could not be reached for comment. WND tried again, later, to contact a spokesman for the embassy and was told by a receptionist the official word is that Corsi was not detained. “He’s enjoying his holiday in Kenya,” she said. Corsi had promised a news conference today that would “expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency.”
Meanwhile, the management of the hotel where Corsi was scheduled to hold the press conference has repudiated its plans to provide the facility.
It seems criticism of Obama can be a risky venture, even in America.
Interesting.
Though its probably more of a case of individuals in the government of Kenya thinking “if we give a guy who is against the person we want for president a hard time, maybe he will get the message and back off”, than a concerted effort by the Obama campaign.
I say this as someone who is voting for McCain. I do not think Obama had a hand in this.
4 more years. .. 4 more years .. 4 more years.
The past eight have left us so well off. .. So
4 more and we will be looking for jobs planting rice for the Chinese.
What a brave man…
This is the same swift boat sleazebug who’s making a living off nutballs who believe Obama’s an Al Qaeda agent, right?
#3 – Brenda Lee
>>What a brave man…
Yeah, those World Net Daily reporters are real heroes. Slinging mud, pandering to the basest instincts of their KKK readership, all that yellow journalism. TEE HEE!
And I love the way they shamelessly pimp Corsi’s “tell all” book about Obama on their web site.
#4 – Your Holiness
>>This is the same swift boat sleazebug who’s
>>making a living off nutballs who believe
>>Obama’s an Al Qaeda agent, right?
Yep, Corsi is a real gem. From my favorite source (Wike-whatever):
“Conservative author and pundit Debbie Schlussel has accused Corsi of plagiarizing elements from columns that she has published, and subsequently posting them under his byline in his WorldNetDaily column.[95][96]
Corsi has been criticized for making anti-Islam, anti-Catholic[97], anti-semitic and homophobic statements[98][99] as well as accused of “exploit[ing] racial fears [and] hate in [an] effort to scare white America.”[100] Corsi has admitted to having written in online discussions on the Free Republic Web site in 2002 and 2003, among other inflammatory remarks, “So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that’s probably about it”; and, “Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn’t reported by the liberal press.”[101] As reported in Media Matters for America, “Corsi also called Islam ‘a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion’, and a ‘cancer that destroys the body it infects’ and claimed of Muslims: ‘RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters — it all goes together’.”[102]
At least he’s an equal-opportunity hatemonger.
Come on people. Freedom of the Press in Kenya?
#6. Mustard- Obama needs to hire you as his official attack dog. I know you love the guy, but CRIPES!
Of course, this just brings up the question once again… Why doesn’t Obama send a couple sawbucks over to his half brother?
#9 “Of course, this just brings up the question once again”
Forget about that. I’d just like a logical explanation from Obama on how raising taxes on the majority of small businesses is going to increase jobs and strengthen an already weak economy, rather than the opposite.
#8 – McC
>>Obama needs to hire you as his official attack dog.
There are worse jobs to have.
But in this case, I wasn’t attacking for Obie, I was attacking against yellow journalists like Corsi. He and his “newspaper” make ambulance chasers look like saints.
# 6 Mister Mustard, from your quotation, it seems that Corsi is obsessed with “Boy-Bumpers”, a sure sign he is one himself !!!
This never happened! It is nothing more than a publicity stunt. They need it to bring attention to the lies they are trying to spread.
scary black man knows scary black men and worse, he even knows scary african black men, and he knows muslim black men
boo!
scaring conservatives is so easy, and good fun!
boo!
(gotcha again, didn’t i? oh what fun!!)
#15 “scary black man knows scary terrorist and worse, he even knows scary mafia men, and he knows racist black preachers too”
Fixed.
#17 – O’Furniture
Figures you’d be scared by black men. Typical right wingnut stance. Not as wide as usual, but typical.
You all need to grow up
#18. Did I say something false?
I’m hardly afraid of cheap South Chi pols.
#17
boo!
(gotcha again, didn’t i?)
#21 “boo!
(gotcha again, didn’t i?)”
Umm, no. I’m not a spook and don’t scare like one…
#20
the fact that you can only slag obama because of the people he’s met in life only proves that you don’t believe in your own candidate.
mmcain dumped his wife for the younger and wealthier cindy — horrible family values.
palin belonged to an organization that promoted secession from the union — traitor.
so what? i don’t care! i actually have read and profoundly disagree with their policy ideas.
and in the end that’s what this election should be about.
didn’t palin herself advise us not to look to the past?
#23 “the fact that you can only slag obama because of the people he’s met in life only proves that you don’t believe in your own candidate.”
I don’t have a candidate…
#24 – O’Furniture
>>I don’t have a candidate…
That’s great news! So the rest of us get to pick for you.
Thanks, buddy!
oh,
well then…
i still think slagging obama because of people he met is grasping at straws.
#25 “So the rest of us get to pick for you.”
Bottle of poison A or B.
Knock yourself out.
Hmm… this guy was going to have a press conference possibly about an alleged (dare I say non-existent) al-qaeda connection two days after the McCain started in on the Ayers crap. Is a helping terrorist meme starting to emerge?
Desperation calls for desperate measures.
# 16 pedro
You are so stupid pedro. You are ripe for a propaganda brain wash. Did you not read the parts that said.
“Unconfirmed reports say Corsi has been taken by government officials to the airport. ”
“An official with the Embassy of Kenya in Washington said he was unaware of Corsi’s detention.”
They have zero “0” proof he was ever even approached much less detained.
They simply are using this fake “scandal” as a launch pad to spread the lies they want to tell. You dimwitted moron.
Oh what ever happened in that Palin email crime? Oh that’s right it just simply went away didn’t it? Just like I said it would. It was bullshit from the get go and that is the story you will never hear about. The reason they never got an indictment against that kid is because it was bullshit and they had ZERO “0” evidence against him. Makes it hard to get what is considered easy with even the flimsiest evidence.
These are the tactics that the Republicans have used for over 20 years. They are known and they are not effective anymore.
For those of you who believe this is some kind of operation to swing votes towards McCain….you know NOTHING about Corsi or Worldnet daily. Don’t believe me, research it.
#26 “i still think slagging obama because of people he met is grasping at straws.”
You mean like his mentor for 15-20 years? Or, the terrorist he’s actively worked with for years and has defended on TV, or maybe the shady crim type he got “loans” from?
I’ve met a couple of psycho racists in my time but I’d never have them as a spiritual mentor and NEVER let them near my kids…
Thanks for playing.
“That’s great news! So the rest of us get to pick for you.”
Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!