KoT and political propaganda

I don't know who told poor Manoah that a list of  "wins" from his master's foreign junkets would quiet the insatiable online hordes. It won't. Kenyans on Twitter, the forty-third tribe, has proven impervious to the inimitability of facts, preferring rank speculation and sordid innuendo. Someone should just tell poor Manoah to ignore the online horde; it will forget that it has been slighted and, as it is its wont, move on to the next bauble that catches it pigeon-like fancy. KoT, poor Manoah should realise, are not awash in erudition or logic, and are unlikely to bring his master to disrepute not his government to its knees. 

If poor manoah doubts this, he should recall how KoT puffed out its chest and vowed to install Peter Kenneth in State House. Poor Kenneth has been reduced to write post-Obama and post-Pope follow-up, self-help columns in the Sunday papers. What he is not is the President of Kenya. And he never will be. That online mirage will never turn out to be an ocean of water. Ever.

I don't understand what these people are worried about any way. So what of the president has made more trips abroad that Baba Jimmi and Baba Moi combined! Who gives a shit?! Since when have presidential junkets had to be justified to unelected windbags on Twitter? Uhuru Kenyatta was elected by over six million Kenyans. His ruling alliance was similarly elected and commands an absolute majority in Parliament. If President Kenyatta's electors, and those of his ruling coalition, thought that he should stay at home and mind the shop, so to speak, they would say so. The jealous whingers should be seen for who they are: sore losers!

There is every possibility, as poor Manoah attempted to show, that the presidential junkets have had a salutary effect on Kenya's foreign relations and its balance of payments. But again, it could also be that poor Manoah and his minions are simply cooking up stuff to placate an online horde of little consequence. If you have been following the saga of the "missing" Eurobond billions, you would have no problem believing the scurrilous allegations that poor Manoah and his assistant cooks are just making shit up to create the impression that presidential junkets are worth their weight in gold!

Poor Manoah and his staff are in uncharted waters. How can they continue to draw a salary when they simply ignore the first rule of effective political propaganda? When faced by a faceless, formless, amorphous enemy, find out who it is before responding. They have been punching at shadows for months now, and the fact that they have yet to admit their folly is starting to worry me about the kind of counsel they offer my President. I'd be worried even more if he listened to their counsel. KoT is not a political constituency: STOP. COURTING. IT.