Posted on 01/31/2018 10:15:11 PM PST by Kaslin
A photojournalist withheld publication of a 2005 photograph of a smiling then-Sen. Barack Obama with a beaming Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic, anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam.
The occasion was a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. The photographer, Askia Muhammad, said that almost immediately after he took the picture a CBC staffer called and said, "We have to have the picture back." Muhammad later surrendered the disk with the photo to Farrakhan's chief of staff. "I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy," Muhammad said in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire. "But after the (presidential) nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover."
Why this concern in 2005 when then-Sen. Obama, just elected, had not announced his plan to run for the presidency? The Jerusalem Post writes: "As there was already talk in 2005 of Obama running for president, Muhammad said he and others did not want to harm the Democrat's chances. It isn't clear who was employing Muhammad at the time, but he had previously worked for the Nation of Islam publication, The Final Call."
Would the photo have mattered? Could it have derailed Obama's chance to become president?
Harvard Law School professor emeritus and lifelong liberal Alan Dershowitz says he would not have campaigned for Obama had he been aware of this photograph. Dershowitz says: "Louis Farrakhan is a virulent anti-Semite. He's called Judaism a 'gutter religion.' He's anti-American. He is a horrible, horrible human being.
"And if I had known that the President had posed smilingly with (Farrakhan) when he was a senator, I would not have campaigned for Barack Obama. It would have influenced my decision. Look, I threatened to leave the Democratic Party if Keith Ellison were elected as chairman because of his association with Farrakhan. You don't associate with a bigot. You don't associate with an anti-Semite."
The suppression of the Obama-Farrakhan photo is just the latest example of the degree to which Obama benefited from extraordinarily special treatment.
Obama's longtime association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ would likely have derailed his candidacy had media pounced on this as they did the Trump "Access Hollywood" tape. But for Fox News' coverage of Wright and the videotapes of his fiery sermons, the other major media would have avoided or downplayed Obama's 20-year association with a pastor who gave fiery sermons critical of America and who had a longtime friendship with Farrakhan.
Ezra Klein, then with The Washington Post, set up a private internet forum he called JournoList, which served as an online gathering place for several hundred like-minded (aka liberal) reporters. When the Jeremiah Wright scandal broke, several reporters on the "J-List" literally schemed of ways to deflect attention from the scandal. About JournoList, Obama and Wright, the Daily Caller wrote: "In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama's relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama's conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, 'Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares -- and call them racists.'"
Then there's the Los Angeles Times, which, to this day, has not and will not publish even a transcript of the "Khalidi tapes." Rashid Khalidi, an Obama friend and a University of Chicago Palestinian-American professor of Middle East studies, had a going-away party to celebrate his new post at Columbia University. Someone gave the Los Angeles Times a videotape of this 2003 event that Obama attended, where he reminisced about their friendship in a tribute to the professor.
Khalidi was an outspoken supporter of Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization. But what he said and what others said at this farewell party, we will never know. Were attendees bashing Israel? Did Obama bash Israel? The Times says it promised the unnamed source who provided the videotape not to air or reproduce the tape. The paper, whose editorial board endorsed Obama, claims it simply kept its promise to a source. If a tape could have ended Trump's 2016 campaign, would the LA Times, whose editorial board twice endorsed Obama and considered Trump a danger to the world, have sat on it?
Joan Walsh of the liberal website Salon.com described how fellow journalists were "swooning" during the presidential candidacy over the first-time senator from Illinois. "I was struck," Walsh said, "when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January, by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning (emphasis added). I was at a speech. ... The biggest names in our business were there. ... They could repeat some of his speech lines to one another. It was like a Bruce Springsteen concert where the fans sing along."
Still, Trump won. Amazing.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Now I am done with you and do not wish to discuss this matter further!!!
Sorry. Gotta call bullshit on this. Anyone who was paying even just a little bit of attention knew Obama was hanging out with anti-semites. I mean look at his "church". Dersh is full of crap.
The liberal media’s job is to be the powerful, non-stop propaganda machine, brain-washing machine working for liberal progressive cause.
I remember being in a small dining facility in Khowst and watching the videos of the church services from Rev Jeremiah Wright. I also remember telling some friends to put a fork in Obama because no real Christian would stand for the kinds o things that were being said.
Yet those same Christians turned out in mass to vote for him, believing every lie he told, because they did not want to be perceived as racist.
Well, duh! We at FR knew this ten years ago.
I disagree with the contention that it would have made a difference. Maybe Dershowitz would have done things differently ... maybe, regardless of what he says today ... but it’s not as if he’s influential.
I doubt it.
Reverend Wright should have been more than enough to knock out Obama. There was abundant video evidence of Wright's anti-Americanism, coupled with the fact that Obama had contributed tens of thousands to his church.
But the worthless sheeple are the worthless sheeple, low-information or not!
The media deliberately and intentionally suppressed anything that could hurt their pretty boy, and hyped things that promoted him. The media is the most anti-American force in this country.
“Anybody that couldn’t recognize Obozo as a crooked, incompetent, homosexual, muslim grifter just wasn’t paying attention.”
Exactly. The photo is redundant. It won’t be newsworthy any further than a segment on Tucker’s show.
The picture would have helped him get more votes
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. A photo with Louis Farrakhan would have prevented Obama from becoming president, yet being born in Kenya, to a non-citizen father and an under age mother ineligible to convey citizenship, being an America hating communist, being an avowed homosexual Muslim degenerate, DIDN’T?
Obama was a “Manchurian Candidate”, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
Conspiracy theory my ass. No “theory about it. Just a “Conspiracy”.
If the media did their job, more people would have known Rev. Jeremiah Wright is an apostate - former Mooselimb.
The L.A.Times would have released the video of Obama and Rashid Khalidi.
The media would have found or not found a Birth Cert.
The media would have found all his college transcripts.
But, the media DID do it’s job...it was to protect Obama at all costs.
No chik....
To make such a statement, larry illustrates beyond all doubt his gross ignorance.
The raison d’etre of the media is to create the propaganda that got Obama elected. Propaganda is their job.
saving
So many broken thought processes.
Yep...............brain dead more like it.
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