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   From: cblasey@paloaltou.edu   
      
   This American Presidential election race hasn't been a pleasant   
   thing to watch. In fact, it's been a well-manicured, expensively-   
   buffed torrent of slander, seeking to debase candidates on both   
   sides. All the usual smear campaign tactics have been employed,   
   as you'd expect, but a man named Jerome R. Corsi (above) has a   
   new one to unleash: that Obama is a closeted homosexual.   
      
   Yep, I know, big news right? Big, crazy, made-up news that   
   somehow typifies American political discourse. Anyway, the weird   
   thing is that Jerome isn't just some hillbilly crackpot making   
   outrageous, homophobic claims at an NRA barbecue, but a Harvard-   
   educated journalist who writes for World Net Daily, an ultra-   
   conservative news organisation that boasts headlines like "Kids   
   Drink 'Gay' Kool-Aid". He also likes to appear on white   
   supremacist radio shows, like The Political Cesspool, which   
   might give you an idea of the kind of guy he is.   
      
   Between being a right wing media sensation, he's found the time   
   to write a couple of books on Obama – books that allege he was   
   molested as a child, is a Communist and, of course, that he's   
   gay. I called him up to find out where these accusations came   
   from.   
      
   VICE: So how did you stumble across these allegations that Obama   
   is gay?   
   Jerome R. Corsi: I started researching Obama in 2006 and wrote   
   two books on him. In 2008, I wrote The Obama Nation, then, in   
   2011, I wrote a book about the birth certificate debate. The   
   issue of Obama's sexuality has had rumours surrounding it since   
   I first started studying him. There were rumours even when he   
   was the US senate, in fact. I just needed some sources to   
   validate it.   
      
   Why are those rumours only coming out around election time?   
   Well, Obama has been weakened significantly since he was first   
   elected, when it was difficult to criticise him at all. More and   
   more people are starting to resent or oppose Obama, so, as this   
   happens, more people are ready to talk about these issues.   
      
   And one of the first people to talk was Larry Sinclair, right?   
   Could you tell me more about him?   
   Larry wrote a book about having two homosexual encounters with   
   Obama in 1999, when Obama was state senator.   
      
   Larry's not the most reliable of sources, though. He's a self-   
   confessed fraudster, wanted in Arizona.   
   Yeah, I didn't believe everything he said, but his story was   
   always consistent. Also, a guy called Daniel Parisi brought a   
   defamation case against Larry for writing the book, but a   
   federal district judge threw it out of court, which isn't to say   
   Larry was telling the truth, but this judge clearly didn't think   
   he was lying either. That was the turning point for me. Also,   
   the fact that in his story he was the initiator, always made me   
   think there must be something to it, because he didn't try to   
   make himself look like the good guy. He said he got in a   
   limousine and told the driver to drive around, cruising for guys.   
      
   Who was the driver?   
   I don't know. That's always been one of the problems with   
   Larry's story. He supposedly said to the driver, "I want a guy"   
   and the driver said, "I got the exact guy for ya," then took him   
   to meet Obama.   
      
   Right. And what about Donald Young? How does he fit into the   
   story?   
   Donald Young was a black choirmaster who was killed execution-   
   style in Chicago in 2007. Rumours were that Young had been   
   having a homosexual relationship with Obama and was murdered so   
   the story couldn't get out.   
      
   You've also talked a lot about the mysterious wedding ring Obama   
   wore in his youth.   
   Ah, yes. Obama had been wearing this ring on his wedding finger   
   since he was at Occidental College. When he was president of the   
   law review magazine at Harvard, they did a mock issue and   
   mentioned how he would always deflect questions about the ring.   
   There are also photos of him in Africa in '85 or '86 wearing the   
   ring, so he had it on for at least a decade before he got   
   married. A lot of people suggest it was either to keep women   
   away, or to act as some kind of wink-wink gay sign.   
      
   Yeah, that, or just a fashion accessory, I suppose. There are   
   suggestions something happened with his roommate too, right?   
   Yes. A guy called John Drew said he and Obama had lunch together   
   one day, and saw Obama come in with his Pakistani roommate,   
   Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Drew told me in an interview that he was   
   convinced that they were lovers at the time. Candoo has been   
   married and has children, but he wouldn't be the first guy in   
   history to have a family and be gay or bisexual.   
      
   I guess we'll have to take his word as gospel then. I thought   
      
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