When Will MSM Report Obama's Support for Kenyan Tyrant Odinga?

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While many in the media are accusing the McCain campaign of throwing everything they have at Barack Obama in the closing weeks of this presidential election cycle, other than Mark Hyman's Washington Times commentary today and World Net Daily's online coverage, little is being discussed about Obama's support of Kenya's tyrant Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

This popular internet video at 6:26 in cites Obama's connection and support for Odinga. An edited version of this internet video exists here and an Obama/Odinga on the campaign trail is here.  All 3 video embeds are at Eyeblast.tv.

The Odinga association may be even more devastating than the Bill Ayers link, because Obama cannot make the "I was only eight years old when this bad stuff happened" excuse.   Also,  questions are being raised if Obama may have violated the Logan Act.  Additionally, Odinga's thugs were involved in the slaughter of thousands of Kenyans.

Hyman's article in the Times says the following (my emphasis throughout):

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By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.

Hyman goes into Obama's coordinated support for Odinga:

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

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Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.

"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

 Author of "The Obama Nation" Jerome Corsi was recently detained in Kenya and later deported. He was in the country promoting his book. While the western media covered Corsi's detainment and deportation, the bigger picture was ignored.  

Why was the Odinga government protecting Obama to the point of attacking one lone American author? More importantly, the media needs to address this: How does a tyrant like Odinga benefit from an Obama presidency?

More videos on the Raila Odinga-Barack Obama relationship continue to spring up on the web.  Many questions still remain unanswered. By omission, the mainstream media is delinquent with the scant coverage of this story, and it may already be dangerously too late.

Kerry Picket is an associate producer at the Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv

—Kerry Picket is an associate producer with the Media Research Center's Eyeblast.tv video site.


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It seems that the MSM are

It seems that the MSM are guilty of malpractice or are in collusion with one another. There is definately a concerted effort to black out any bad news about Obama. The power to censor vital information that voters need to make informed decisions is scary. If Obama wins, the media will be largely responsible for it.

No, the media will be the

No, the media will be the SOLE cause of Obama's victory. If it did it's job with the same zeal that they have pursued McCain/Palin, McCain would be leading by 20 points.

Kerry...

Corsi has obtained emails and texts between Obama and Odinga as late as last fall, and will be shown on an episode of Hannity and Colmes. Obama CAMPAIGNED for Odinga during his election bid. Odinga eventually lost and riots and violence resulted.

The MSM has been unable to cover up ACORN and Ayers, and this will be no exception.

Drill ANWAR

I've been wondering

I've been wondering what happened to Corsi after he was 'detained' in Kenya.   Would be great if he could make the connections but I despair the info will make any difference.  Hannity did a bang up job linking '0bama and his friends' to everyone from the PLO to Rezko, Acorn, Ayers, and the Fannie Freddie mess but it didn't even get a comment on Drudge. 

Barak Obama - Afraction American

Kerry... Thank you for

Kerry...

Thank you for this excellent work here you did.

The msm is not going to report on this for the very reason they haven't reported on everything else that is evil about Obama from the start... ...and they aren't going to.

It would be a cold day in hell before they would ever do as such.

I am looking forward to clicking your links and watching them...I can't at the moment...but I sure will later.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Odinga Connection?

And just where was the pirated ship carrying 33 Russian-built T-72 tanks and an assortment of heavy weapons headed to? 

That's right - Kenya.

Hey Barker...that's right! I

Hey Barker...that's right!

I had forgot about that...excellent mention of the connections.

...but when it comes to the brain-dead msm...it is always...I SEE NOTHING!

Intentionally, of course...as we all know.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

BT,

Boy, you seem to have a way of saying something that fires my creative synapses! ;^)

"I SEE NOTHING!"

Maybe we should call them the SSM... you know, the "Sergeant Shultz Media."

 

The Democrat Party: Creating, Defending and Using Slavery, Jim Crow and Segregation for Over 150 Years... and Counting. 

LOL IJ... Yeah I see you

LOL IJ...

Yeah I see you are on a roll with my lines today...

...which makes me smile...which is so much needed now in this political environment.

I will be so glad when this election is over...this has been non-stop since 04.

I just hope we can get enough of our repubs in congress...that is my main worry...we were on a roll about a month ago or so..with Palin hot and heavy on the campaign trail...to where I was so hoping and felt the numbers were changing to our side of the aisle, the enthusiasm was strong from state to state...I really saw the possibility of possibly even making some gains, instead of losses.

It is gone now.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Not to worry, BT,

Nothing has really changed since a month ago. I mean, really changed. The left just wants you to think that, don't give them the satisfaction.

Polls? I don't buy 'em, pure and simple. Know why? Well, when "polls" show Indiana is still a "toss-up" when it went for Bush by 15-20% in the last two elections, let's just say I have my doubts. And we've seen plenty of examples of "over-polling," and "adjusting," and "weighting," and any other things you can think of. I hear that AOL poll still shows McCain way ahead. That's not "pushed," or "selected voters" or "liberal" or "conservative." That's just people saying who they'll vote for. More accurate, I think, than these "professional" polls. Hm, just found that AOL poll has been replaced by one that you have to be a member of AOL to vote in. But, they now have two polls that you don't have to be a member for: Does vote fraud concern you (70% yes), and does Obama's connections to ACORN concern you (65% yes). So there's a big "trust factor" working against Obama.

And the only thing that's changed with Palin is the left is in full-throated roar against her. They know how much she hurts their guy. If they weren't worried about her, then I'd be worried.

So, chin up. The only dark cloud I see at the moment is if Mac and Sarah do win, we'll have a continuation of BDS, with new targets.

Btw, saw "An American Carol" last night, and thought it was pretty good. Great? No, but better than I expected, after reading comments here when it was released. My main disappointment was how empty the theater was. But the folks there laughed a lot, and applauded at the end.

I recommend it. Might cheer you up.

 

The Democrat Party: Creating, Defending and Using Slavery, Jim Crow and Segregation for Over 150 Years... and Counting. 

Hey IJ... That is good

Hey IJ...

That is good news about A Christmas Carol, I have it on my list of what I want to get for Xmas gifts...I saw the first review here too and was disappointed ....anyway, I'll be able to get it cheap enough and see for ourselves...any distraction from every-day life and some humor makes me happy at times.

Thanks for your review...after-all it is all in the eye of the beholder...our own view-finder in life.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

I have not read very many

I have not read very many movie reviews that I agreed with. Prime example - Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ.

Kerry - and it gets even more interesting

Kerry -  thank you so much for posting this - And it gets even more interesting. From Jan. 08 in the UK Telegraph:

I'm Barack Obama's cousin says Raila Odinga

How does Obama respond? "Mr Obama has not commented on the Kenyan opposition leader's claim to be a relative." Isn't silence golden?

There seems to be a lot of unsettling news out there on this. In the uprising that followed the election in which Odinga lost, his supporters apparently locked folks in a church and burned it and with it, them to death.

And an aside to the story of of Obama's support here of this Socialist/Marxist cousin of his, there is still the story of Obama's 1/2 brother sitting there in Kanya "living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi."

 A couple of days back, WTH posted a piece, Time's Beinart: Republicans Hate Obama For His Kenyan Father, it's 'Racism', 

The NY Times decides to use the problems of Obama's connections to Kenya against the Republicans. In addition to the posted topic, Democrats and Republicans should care about why Obama doesn't care about George Hussein Onyango Obama: Barack Obama's 'lost' brother found in Kenya.  To be fair, I did catch one MSM news clip of Obama's brother being interviewed. There was no follow-up in the larger media. To be sure - the voters are not familiar with the story. In the video clip, it seemed obvious that this brother of Obama is a deeply troubled young man.

Highlights of Gorge Hussein Onyango Obama's life:

According to Italy's Vanity Fair his two metre by three metre shack

"I live like a recluse, no-one knows I exist."
"If anyone says something about my surname, I say we are not related. I am ashamed," he said.

The Illinois senator mentions his brother in his autobiography, describing him in just one passing paragraph as a "beautiful boy with a rounded head".

George added he was no longer in contact with his mother and said:"I have had to learn to live and take what I need.

"I live here on less than a dollar a month."

 

May I suggest to Senator Obama that you should practice a little bit of "family outreach" here.

Is the MSM protecting Obama from all of this because he'd  be so damn embarrassed being exposed that he, this powerful attorney and Senator and presidential wanabe, has never reached out to his family to help - to love - to care - to show compassion.

How can any journalist interview, even talk about Obama, and not demand that he address these issues? Obama fully vetted? My arse. gary

Gary... Thanks for the

Gary...

Thanks for the links...

...as to Obama being fully vetted..heck, he hasn't even had one page opened by the msm, plus we know they and politico's backing Obama know all about all of this...

We the people just aren't suppose to...not in mass numbers...it's their job, it's what they do.

Silence is golden indeed.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Yea bt

I was in the middle of looking at some of the news there when Kerry's post popped up. In all fairness, I had not watched the video she linked nor read the WaTimes column when I posted. Just the same the older links do serve a purpose  - our MSM has had ample time - for goodness sakes Harry Smith has interviewed Obama 8 times now! Charlie Gibson?

So much to learn about Obama - so  little time.

Gary,

There is something else I have noticed about Barry-O.

In any of his campaign appearences, and that includes the convention, did any of his past associates, family or otherwise, stand up and talk about what a swell guy Obama has been in his life?

Other than Michelle, I mean, who apparently has fallen off the planet of late. 

-Dave

Barrack Hussein Obama must be defeated.

R D Helm...

That's a good point.. not even from his Senate comrades. Then again, he didn't even hold hearings for his subcommittee. On the other hand, perhaps Ayers has been speaking out on their friendship - with the media deciding not to report. (:~> gary

"Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama

"Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies."

I saw this on CNN and NBC did a one-hour special today linking obama to yet another crazed killer; the NBC show ended with Tom Brokaw asking 'how can Americans vote for obama?' and Andrea Mitchell saying 'the USA is doomed if obama wins'.

Nah, I'm only foolin!!!!!!!

Answer to the question is

Answer to the question is that it won't be widely or seriously reported until after the election if it is ever even reported at all. The joke is on all who care about truth.   ICABOD

But, but, but, Barrack Hussein Obama was only 46 years old!

He couldn't possibly have known that Odinga was a bad, bad man!   :-^)

Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

Gee, you don't suppose this is one of the reasons the MSM has kept this story under wraps, do you?

We all know what the other reason is.

I think its time Barrack Hussein Obama was forced to cough up his official, for-real birth certificate. The American people deserve to know who this goober really is.

-Dave

Barrack Hussein Obama must be defeated.

Undecided?

Looking at the company he keeps, obama has some very serious judgement issues.  Very serious and very, very scary for all Americans.

Do you really think that any American would/could vote for obama? 

If you are an undecided and are reading this post: DO NOT FALL FOR THE LIES obama/Main Stream Media tell you!!

 

Odinga will only arise when people start prodding Limbaugh

Look people, until the Limbaugh subscribers start avalanche on Limbaugh, until Joseph Farah hears subscription cancelations and until Hannity starts hearing sponsors getting letters, our beloved mouth pieces who flex with Drudge to put stories into the MSM's mouths are not doing their jobs.

A few posts by Farah over Jerome Corsi being kidnapped by Obama's people in Kenya and not even terming it as that with Corsi now sitting on the story is hardly covering a story but is instead assisting Obama.

There are factors in this as I suspect Limbaugh wants not to be blamed for black riots, but this dance between Clinton's people and the hog trough multi million dollar right media of both having the stories to topple Obama and no one using them is beyond repulsive.
It is my money and millions of other people on the right who paid for the luxurious lifestyles all these people on the right are living in.

That twirp from the Times along with Peggy Noonan have been outed as globalist shills in their rants against Gov. Palin. They both have made immense checks and livings off of Conservatives and are now part of the Obama camp.
It is equally disgusting that Bill Buckley's son is annoucing he will back Obama and is related to the people who run this site. These patricians are the problem and unless they are booed and ridiculed knowing they are going to loose their occupation they are going to sell out America.

No major media type on the right is doing their job and it is disgusting. None of these people are that stupid in not getting the point in what matters to Americans and yet for months they have done nothing but go off on tangents which do not matter.
I take it personal, because for the month of August they were silent on Obama and only my blog was laying leather on the messiah. I note this because of the letters written to me in people cheering as they were desperate for someone to anything in nailing this guy.

NoQuarterUSA, American Thinker should be applauded for their Pulitzer work for basically nothing but love of country.

I actually pleaded with Newsmax in their writers to try and get them to explain to me their silence on Obama and none of these people on the "right" are doing a thing deliberately which is causing an Obama push.

So don't look for the MSM to do a thing in bringing the facts out as the media front the right has relied upon is silent and aiding Obama by going off on stories which do not make one difference to voters and then going silent on stories that should be pushed.

The last thing these multi millionaires on the right want is someone with a memory posting daily and logging their wrongs reminding everyone their Peggy Noonan moments.
Someone posted enough on Rush Limbaugh deceiving people with Roger Hedgecock over bio fuels that he shut up as did this site when the facts were posted and masses of people learned the Truth.
The same virtues can highlight Joseph Farah in his cashing in on "none of the above" which hands the election to Obama to the non coverage of Hannity.

The internet is forever and postings last, inform and logical points convince one, then 3, then 7 and the next thing you know is several hundred thousand people are noticing things which show up in lost ratings and sponsors not paying out the big bucks.

Mordecai the Jew in the book of Esther told her to do her job or God would raise up someone who would do the job He intended.

I don't expect the lying liberals who want Obama to do their job, but when I start seeing this garbage going on from people who have a responsibility once they take money from millions of "fans" to do their job........not doing their job.
Then I'm going to start noting it often and repeatedly with whatever else in God's Grace is pointed out to me.

God bless

agtG

 

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

To answer the headline question

The 12th of Never.

 

 

Obama wanna lead us to Hell

If they wanna be led...then let 'em.

 

This election is over!!  Thank God!  Let the Dems inherit this mess.  Is it as bad as they're saying?  No!  But the responsibility needs to be shifted from the destroyed Repubs to the Dem/Soc/Green/etc.

 

The country isn't going to fall apart just because Obama wins.  The MSM has jammed everyone full of hate and now they'll be forced to un-jam it.

 

Believe me, things will get better.

 

Palin/Romney in 2012

(No Joke)

 

Man oh man

The MSM is covering their ears to this news and then when it even gets close to the light of day they act as if the McCain campaign is throwing a hail mary.

How ridiculous all of this foolishness is.  If the MSM did half the job they were "entrusted" with, this asshat would not even be in the race,

Buyer beware Liberals.  Buyer beware.

0bama must have figured

0bama must have figured that the threat of violence worked so well for Odinga, it must be a great idea.  How many times have we heard the "not a threat, just a prediction" line about there being riots if 0bama loses?

If the images from Kenya disturb you, keep in mind that it will only take one provocative "leader" to convince some people, even here, to resort to massive violence--attacks, arson, etc.  And 0bama's already shown himself to be aligned with the type of people who have no reservations about resorting to just that type of tactic.  I don't wish to be a fearmonger, but 0bama must be defeated in ALL his ambitions.  His is a very dangerous mind, indeed.

HockeyKid

Here's some recent violence committed  in the name of Obama. A couple of punks decided to firebomb a John McCain sign in front of a house.

Prove me wrong...

I believe all the hyperventilating about racism is an attempt to preempt THIS story.

Hannity will be all over this on Monday.

Everybody check out Hannity's America 8pm cst...he might cover it tonight!!

Ster.

Watching it tonight

I plan to watch...watched his show last week...it was a review of what he's been covering on his radio show.

I get annoyed at Hannity's "golly gee" approach, but his Irish button's been pushed lately!

Drill ANWAR

»→ TheSter

If Obama's suckling at the teats of Wright, Farrakhan, and Ayers isn't sufficient to give Americans pause, this story won't make a difference either.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

Cool, I would add that Saul

Cool, I would add that Saul Alinsky was also extremely influential in forming Obama's world view as well as his political strategy.

Alinsky dedicated the first edition of his book, "Rules for Radicals,"
to Satan: He wrote in that book, "Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment
to the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the
establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own
kingdom – Lucifer."

As many have said before, Obama is a very dangerous politician because, it appears, his mentors and heroes are evil to the core..

Hey, I could go for that.

Barack Obama, President of Kenya.

Shew fly. don't bother me... shooo FLY don't bother me..CRA

Moreover,THE ONE could he still have his bro

workin above his pay grade?

CRA.. spread the word... as good as swiftboating.. most bang for the buck..Go forth and spread the word.

And the word is this: Community Reinvestment Act.

Did jimmy as smart as he is! really truley for sure  come up with the CRA?  FIRST

..Share with us the first time you got that tingle.utl

Jimmy?

OOH & AND BY the way,Clinton PUMPER HE IS ;Ree-up the CRA? RIGHT??

Man oh Man soo data richh!!!

CRA survived President Bushish attempt in 2003 to, KILL it!!!!!

Data Rich!!!! Spead the truth..

2004 Swiftboat

2008 CRA!!!!

NBers V.S. MSM

Make it sooo..

 

CLIMATE CRISIS

IranianUranium

The Obama & Odinga show

Even if it was reported...

NOBODY would care. I can't believe that none of you have realized this. Fox News has been POUNDING Wright and Ayers for months and nobody cares, and fox has the highest ratings of them all.

Do you really think the average American knows who the hell Odinga is? NO!

We need to hit him on lack of expierience, immaturity in his time in US Gov., and too much spending that he will enact.

The character associations DON'T WORK and you aren't very smart if you think all of a sudden people will start liking them.

NEWSFLASH: when two guys "debate" and only one (hint: its not our guy) stays cool and manages to not refer to people as "that one" its pretty hard to paint him as a radical Arab that wants to bomb the entire Northern Hemisphere with some 60 year old hippie who now hides his radical cloak in his locker at the University of Chicago Illinois.

Hit Obama where he is lacking, who he knows obviously hasn't worked and is only making McCAain look like an idiot everytime he has to tell some nutjob to cool down at one of his rallies...they then of course BOO HIM. Then again, alot of people who post here are those same nuts' who still want to call him a Muslim.

We're giving this election away because our party hasn't changed. Until we realize that the American people truly want to see something different out of Washington then it will be too late and the Dems. will hold the presidency for at least 4 years, if things go good for them it could be 20 years before we see another Republican president or Congress.

And I love Gov. Palin but lets face it, she won't ever be POTUS, nobody except for the Republican base likes her anymore and at this rate I'd be mildy surprised if she even gets re elected in Alaska. 

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan

NEWSFLASH: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism

I can't believe that none of you have realized this

Do you really think the average American knows who the hell Odinga is? 

...you aren't very smart if you think all of a sudden people will start liking them

...but lets face it, she won't ever be POTUS, nobody except for the
Republican base likes her anymore and at this rate I'd be mildy
surprised if she even gets re elected in Alaska

 

My, aren't "we" a great big bundle of condescending pessimism?

Is that why the polls are tightening?

 

 

 

Tightning?

No, that's why McCain is down 10% in every poll I see. He's at 40% and its generally impossible to poll below that.

When we lose by 10% what will the excuse be? What, that McCain didn't playthe name game enough? All the media's fault?

At some point we need to organize a better ground game and prop McCain up like he needs to be to win, not tear Obama down enough to help McCain not lose.

Am I being a bit of a pessimist? Yes, because for the past few months we've had talk radio and Fox hammering his strategy home and its only made things worse. Now with a down economy people want to hear even less of it so now McCain decides to go with more of it?

People want to hear about how you will make things better for them, not who Obama knows or doesn't know. that ship sailed when the stock market bottomed out.

I lost $40,000 since this issue arose ans Wright, Ayers, Odinga, whoever while odd and somewhat troubling are not nearly enough for me to care more than me losing my $40,000.

The last time the market diped this bad I lost $200,000 and I don't want that to repeat itself again, it took me a year to build that back up and I don't need to focus the next year on that with Obama in office because all you people wanted to talk about was some damn Hippie professor that bombed the Pentagon with a lets face it a homemade flashbang that wouldn't wound a dove. So what? His pastor is nuts, yea, fine, how long beofre I make my money back and how long before people want to start buying and selling houses again to where its worth it for me to attempt to make a profit off of it?

Oh, that's right, he maybe kind of sort of saw Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March along with a few hundred thousand other people that could be seen that day. He also knows a guy that's friends with him and he knows another guy...knows a guy...knows a guy, whatever. Yea, thank G-d we wasted our time talking about how popular he is when we all could have been talking about how McCain saw this whole damn mess coming. You think the American people would have trusted him a litle more than they do had we been doing that? 

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan

IAR... Go here...and

IAR...

Go here...and while you're at it...read, watch, listen.

This is very informing for people like you who are hoping information put together like this doesn't get out to the msm in mass before the election..

I'm passing this on to all I know.

Ct...thank you.

Excellent work my friend.

..I just had in those last two words...couldn't help myself.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

More ammo for McCain...

.. but, unfortunately he prefers an unloaded weapon.

 

PALIN/McCain 2008