Anti-Obama author gets out of Kenya
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Jerome Corsi, author of ‘The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality’ was briefly detained before leaving Kenya. The AP reports that he was ‘kicked out of’ Kenya for failing to obtain a work permit.
Corsi planned to launch the book, which the nonpartisan group FactCheck.org describes as ‘a mishmash of unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.’ Top of the Ticket goes into more detail, noting it is ‘a bestselling book whose assertions — that Obama was raised a Muslim and is secretly seething with ‘black rage’ — have been widely dismissed as false and based on little more than the author’s desire to derail the Democrat’s presidential candidacy.’
This is not the first time Corsi has published a volatile book of questionable veracity aimed at a Democratic presidential candidate. In 2004, he was a coauthor of ‘Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.’
Corsi’s Kenya trip was also intended for research into Obama’s background, according to an e-mail sent by his publisher to Kenyan journalists. The Kansas City Star reports:
An e-mail sent to Kenyan journalists before Tuesday’s book launch said that Corsi would ‘expose details of deep secret ties’ between Obama and certain Kenyan government officials as well as a ‘subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya’ if Obama is elected president.
Kenyan newspaper The Standard called Corsi ‘the author of a smear crusade,’ adding, ‘A statement inviting the Press to the launch today makes no secret of the intention to hurl dirt at Obama and undermine his campaign from his ancestral home.’
Could Corsi have another book in the works before November? Or is he assuming that he’ll need to attack Barack Obama again in 2012?
— Carolyn Kellogg
