Today's Daily Schadenfreude: Jerome Corsi

Pardon me while, once again, I point and laugh.

Noted douchebag Jerome Corsi, co-author of the libelous anti-Kerry book Unfit for Command in 2004 and an equally heinous follow-up this year, The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was detained in Nairobi, Kenya, yesterday, then hurriedly flew to London without holding a scheduled news conference in the Kenyan capital. I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Corsi was in the native country of Obama's father ...

Sources vary on whether or not Corsi was deported or merely encouraged to leave, um, right away, but either way, his plans to attack Barack Obama on, in a sense, Obama's home turf were scuttled quite unceremoniously. Indeed, initial reports suggested that there was a paperwork problem and that Corsi lacked the proper visa, but today the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation reports that, in fact, Corsi was unwelcome because of his message:

According to Foreign affairs minister Moses Wetangula, Corsi displayed inconsistent conduct with the expected norms of good behaviour in the country.

Corsi was on Tuesday night deported back to America after he attempted to launch the book blasting White House hopeful Barrack [sic] Obama at a Nairobi hotel.

The initial explanation offered by the authorities for his deportation was that his travel documents were not in order.

But it emerged on Wednesday that his deportation squarely lay on his suspect intentions and mission in the country, the launch of an anti-Obama book.

According to Wetangula, Corsi who was in the country on a tourist visa was ordered to leave the country by the immigration department.

Corsi's scheduled launch of the book at the Laico hotel failed to kick off after a section of Kenyans demonstrated against it leading to his detention by security officials.

In the book, Corsi ridicules Prime Minister Raila Odinga accusing him of supporting the agenda of radical Muslims.

He had also announced he would expose alleged connections to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plots to be executed in Kenya Should Obama win the US election.

Say what you will about censorship but, remember, we're talking about Kenyan law here, not American law. Besides, Corsi is a fucking disgrace, and I think he got off easy with a cushy plane ride from Nairobi to London rather than, say, the imprisonment he deserves.

Anyway, regardless of the reasons behind Corsi's hasty departure, the fact remains that his asinine publicity stunt didn't work. The Swift Boat-style smear tactics of '04 aren't going to work anymore, now that most Americans see them for what they are: lies and obfuscation. And thus Corsi once again is exposed as the charlatan that he is.

Don't feel too bad, Jerry -- sure, you may have been booted from Kenya, but look at the bright side: today's Blast Off! Daily Schadenfreude is for you!