Posted on 10/10/2008 4:53:23 AM PDT by markomalley
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO cheer the fact that the Government threw out the anti-Obama author, Jerome Corsi? Boo to the person who made that decision. Whoever you are, you have proved once again that this country is the bedrock of intolerance.
The book is a hatchet job, by most accounts. Corsi probably knows it, hence his attempt to sneak up to us with it. But that is no reason to hound the man out of town. The Big Brother mentality went out of the window ages ago.
You could simply have asked him to apply for the right visa and let him try to convince us that the man from Kogelo is evil personified. There’s no reason to underestimate our intelligence – though you can never be too sure about that when the issue is political.
Instead, you fell into a predictable trap. The man must be crowing to high heaven. Now the discredited Corsi has yet another reason to flog his book to the masses of people who want to see a conspiracy in everything under the sun.
The legend is that Corsi went against the terms of his visa, which indicated that he and a friend were here simply as visitors eager to see the best of our wildlife and game parks.
Launching the book on the man he loves to hate was officially a commercial agenda, and supposedly enough, reason to put him on a midnight flight out of Nairobi.
But there are times when our actions can be hopelessly counter-productive, and we must be on the lookout for such pitfalls. Negative publicity is the last thing we want hanging over our heads right now, no matter how justified the response to provocation.
And that is precisely what Corsi’s business was all about. He must be laughing his head off, wherever he has taken his malicious propaganda. Now he has material for a second book, if he is up to it.
The antidote to people who lie and seek cheap publicity is not to play the game by their rules. Deporting him definitely fits in that category.
Obama Nation is hardly worth the aggravation, going by every account I have come across. We have made a victim of a nondescript writer of a book that has been trashed elsewhere for its inaccuracies.
The knee-jerk reaction to people, things and situations we do not like will be the undoing of this country. We saw it in January. There is no blood on the floor this time round, but the co-ordinates are the same.
Yet there is an undeniable feel-good sentiment about his eviction in many of the people I have met since. There is a good basis for that, if you have a traditional outlook on life.
In this scenario, letting Corsi loose on the Kenyan public would amount to rolling out the red carpet for a guest only for him to turn around and hurl insults at you and your family. You would be a lucky guest if you came out of that homestead unscathed.
INDEED, THE JOKE DOING THE rounds is that the immigration guys need not have done anything more than approve the launch, the only condition being that it would be held at the biggest stadium in Kisumu and advertised widely.
This is the point at which you are supposed to laugh until the tears come to your eyes. But we cannot even afford to smile. Corsi was here for only a handful of days. We have to live day in, day out with the same kind of mindset that his book pushes.
Scare-mongering and deliberate efforts to fire up ethnic tensions is the staple of our politics. In the US, the bogeyman is communists. Here, communities are demonised wholesale because it is politically convenient for the other side to work up fury and tribal tensions in order to cheat their way into power.
Entire communities are fed daily propaganda that they can only survive and do well in Kenya if one of their own is in the top seat. To achieve that, they must stick together and find one “vehicle” that will champion and protect their interests. We are never told how different those interests are from those of other Kenyans, and why those concerned want to hoard the goodies.
We sing and dance to this kind of music virtually every weekend, yet I have never heard of an official reprimand from anyone in Government. Whenever the “incitement” charge is made, it is very selective and soon fizzles out. This is why the action against Corsi rings so hollow.
The political climate we live in is silly, when you think of it, and a greater threat than anything that is happening in America now. But you are more likely to find people who go along with hate speech rather than those who will disagree and ask the authorities to lock up the culprit.
Yet when you buy bread, milk and sugar, you do not instinctively check the label to see where it came from and whose hands processed it.
You can entrust your treasured car to a mechanic from the dreaded community and rush your ailing child to a doctor from the region made up entirely of greedy people, but unquestioningly retreat into a tribal cocoon when it comes to politics. It doesn’t make sense. But then prejudice never does.
I have my doubts about Corsi’s prowess as an academician and researcher, but it is not anything to do with Obama. He was either unusually daring or congenitally foolish to try his latest stunt. The verdict is yours.
Congratulations...and a big thank-you to Kenya!!
Corsi is lucky. Look at the poor folks who were slaughtered on behalf of Obama’s man Odinga.
Think another journalist, Daniel Pearl.
Its not like Corsi is part of the biased liberal media...he has exposed some stuff on McCain, too (esp the Soros ties in his WND articles).
Good to know Corsi is getting attention again from GOP circles...he took a lot of heat for exposing Bush and his North American Union plans
Ummm... no, it hasn't. It's about to come into vogue in America.
Is she lamenting the fact that not enough of her countrymen want to lock up people who say things she disagrees with?
Entire communities are fed daily propaganda that they can only survive and do well in Kenya if one of their own is in the top seat.
I wish Lucy were correct. But her description of Kenyan politics describes all-too-well the situation in America.
We have a Q/R daily thread...here is my brief synopsis:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2102120/posts?page=17
.Also, Q/R will have the full interview up on the Warroom.com later.
Corsi will be posting his latest finding on WND...hopefully more widely viewed/respected sites (Matt Drudge?!?!?!) will run with it.
I’m halfway through Obama Nation and is seems well sourced and quite reasonable to me. I definitely wouldn’t call it a hatchet job, but rather worthwhile reading.
Another admission that Obama was born in Kenya?
“let him try to convince us that the man from Kogelo is evil personified”
Who is the author referring to here, and where is "Kogelo"? Corsi has been writing about OBAMA, not ODINGA. If Kogelo is a city/village in Kenya, then the author appears to be claiming that Obama was born in Kenya.
According to Google, Kogelo is a small village in western Kenya, where they have the "Senator Obama Kogelo School". The author truly appears to have avowed Obama as a son of the nation of Kenya (and NOT the United States).
Corsi was hounded out of Kenya because of his political views; there is no other eason. Why does the U.S. have trade relations with Kenya?
Sure sounds that way to me. She's a pip ain't she? I'm guessing that she never actually read Corsi's book but never the less knows for a fact that it's full of inaccuracies.
Repeat a lie enough times and it becomes the truth.
I'm still waiting for the actual rebuttal arguments...
McCain ought to visit Kogelo, Kenya to lay a wreath at the cornerstone of the hospital where Obama was born.
He's also a little nutty. He claims in his "Black Gold Stranglehold" that oil emanates from the earth's mantle, but does not and cannot sufficiently demonstrate it.
Sorry. This is kind of off subject. But-
I’m not sure what you are referencing. But an astronomer came up with that theory.
“NASA scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface.”
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/jul/HQ_08_193_Titan_lake.html
Methane and some simple hydrocarbons wouldn’t seem surprising at all. The universe is abundamt with these. But something as complex as oil is another world, as they say.
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