An Oct. 2 WorldNetDaily article states that “WND author and staff writer Jerome Corsi has arrived in the Kenyan capital to investigate Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to the prime minister, Raila Odinga,” adding:
Corsi came at the invitation of Christian missionaries who contend the rise of Islam in the African nation has been spurred by an agreement Odinga signed with Muslim leaders in an effort to win the presidency last December. Odinga lost but now shares power with the Kenyan president to appease Islamic leaders.
Who, exactly, are these “Christian missionaries”? What organization do they belong to? Are they paying for Corsi’s trip? Why are they associating themselves with Corsi, who has only partisan intent in his trip? By facilitating, if not paying for, Corsi’s trip, are these “missionaries” implicitly endorsing John McCain and, thus, potentially violating federal election laws that prohibit political endorsements by religious figures?
Lest anyone doubt Corsi’s (and WND’s) partisan intent in his trip, the article adds:
Corsi also plans to utilize contacts in Kenya and the Kenyan media to set up a private meeting with Obama’s “lost brother,” George Hussein Onyango Obama, who was featured in a London Telegraph story.
George Obama said he lives on $12 a year in a six-by-nine-foot shack in the shantytown of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi, according to the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.
Obama met his brother on two trips to Africa, according to the Telegraph, including during the Illinois Democrat’s 2006 fact-finding tour. Corsi said he is carrying a $1,000 check for George Obama from WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah.
WND fails to note that, as we’ve previously noted, the Times of London has reported that George Obama has disputed that reporting: “It seems there are people who want to destroy me and my family. … They say I live on a dollar a month, but this is all lies by people who don’t want my brother to win.” George Obama has also said, “I was brought up well. I live well even now. The magazines, they exaggerated everything.”
Since Farah purports to want “none of the above” to win (despite mounting evidence showing the opposite), will Farah also be cutting a check to the half-sister that Cindy McCain is trying to keep hidden?