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A tip from a 'concerned citizen' helps a reporter land the scoop of a lifetime
SFGate ^ | 12:36 pm PST, Sunday, February 3, 2019 | Paul Farhi, The Washington Post

Posted on 02/03/2019 2:39:28 PM PST by conservative98

The reporter who exposed Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's racist yearbook photo said a "concerned citizen" led him to the story that has prompted widespread outrage and calls for the Democrat's resignation.

Patrick Howley, editor in chief of the website Big League Politics, first reported Friday the existence of a photo on Northam's page of his medical-school yearbook depicting a figure in blackface standing next to another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood.

"It's very easy to explain," Howley, 29, said in an interview Saturday. "A concerned citizen, not a political opponent, came to us and pointed this out. I was very offended (by the photo) because I don't like racism."

The tip came after Northam's comments on Wednesday about late-term abortions, he said. Howley declined to give any further information about his source, citing a confidentiality agreement. But he said it took him just a few hours to confirm that the photo was authentic.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; alexjones; bigleaguepolitics; blackface; bonjino; breitbart; concernedcitizen; costume; costumes; kkk; ls; nationalfile; northam; patrickhowley; qanon; sethrich
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1 posted on 02/03/2019 2:39:28 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Sounds like Hillary or Barack.


2 posted on 02/03/2019 2:41:30 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: conservative98

Not remotely believable!


3 posted on 02/03/2019 2:41:35 PM PST by Reily
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To: conservative98

IMO, to save this nation, we need millions of concerned citizens and patriots digging the dirt of political hacks and exposing them.


4 posted on 02/03/2019 2:42:16 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: conservative98

I always love it when the media (an agency that works in free speech/free press/free expression) lectures us about how such things should be both punishable and illegal.


5 posted on 02/03/2019 2:42:36 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: conservative98

Big League Politics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Big League Politics is an American conservative and far-right[1] media website founded by former Breitbart News employees.[2] Its editor-in-chief is former Breitbart reporter Patrick Howley. In early 2018, Big League Politics was acquired by Mustard Seed Media.[3] The website has promoted conspiracy theories, including the Qanon conspiracy theory and the Murder of Seth Rich.[2]


6 posted on 02/03/2019 2:42:48 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Sure, sure.

OK, who did it?


7 posted on 02/03/2019 2:43:36 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: bray

concerned citizens
8 posted on 02/03/2019 2:44:41 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Dan Bongino said someone shopped the photo to him back in October, so it sounds like it’s been a hot potato for quite a while now. Bongino said he couldn’t confirm its validity.


9 posted on 02/03/2019 2:44:47 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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The dems needed to get his horrible abortion demands out of the news ASAP- which is much more horrible than that 30 year old photograph. Probably Pelosi and Chuckie.


10 posted on 02/03/2019 2:46:26 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: conservative98

Virtual non-reality has hit Prime Time.


11 posted on 02/03/2019 2:46:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ExTexasRedhead

And a few political pros who know what they are doing.


12 posted on 02/03/2019 2:46:38 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: conservative98

What else has Doctor Northman been up to:

Edmarc Hospice for Children.

This organization has been euthanizing babies/children since 1978 masqerading as a wonderful Hospice for infants.:

Who speaks for the baby before it is euthanized?

Established in 1978, Edmarc Hospice for Children was the first hospice in the nation designed specifically for children. It is now handling up to 50 babies per day!

Ralph Northam, MD – Emeritus Status
Pediatric Neurologist and Medical Director, Neuro Development Center, CHKD

Established in 1978, Edmarc Hospice for Children was the first hospice in the nation designed specifically for children. Founded by members of Suffolk Presbyterian Church in Suffolk, Virginia, Edmarc was named for Edward, their minister who died of cancer, and a young couple’s son, Marcus, who needed hospice care because he had a progressive neuromuscular disease.

https://edmarc.org/about/


13 posted on 02/03/2019 2:46:40 PM PST by Grampa Dave (DJT, "A wall, not because we hate the people outside of it, but because we love the people inside!")
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To: conservative98

Maybe not directly from a political opponent, but certainly from someone, who knows someone with a political opponent.


14 posted on 02/03/2019 2:46:47 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: MayflowerMadam

Dan Bongino said someone shopped the photo to him back in October, so it sounds like it’s been a hot potato for quite a while now. Bongino said he couldn’t confirm its validity
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Obviously he isn’t part of the DNCmedia. If someone had that kind of dirt on a republican they wouldn’t care if it was fake or if they could validate it.


15 posted on 02/03/2019 2:47:20 PM PST by shelterguy
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‘Rats most effected ...


16 posted on 02/03/2019 2:48:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: conservative98

Liberals have the goods on all other liberal politicians.
That way, when something big comes up (like his comments on abortion),
they can quickly get that subject off the front page.
Abortion and gun regulation are the “holy grails” of liberalism.
They will do *anything* to get it off the front page.


17 posted on 02/03/2019 2:48:20 PM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Bongino should have reposted it to FR or some place instead of blowing it off.


18 posted on 02/03/2019 2:48:57 PM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

“...Qanon conspiracy theory and the Murder of Seth Rich.[2]”

Both of which are true.


19 posted on 02/03/2019 2:49:06 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: conservative98

Concerned citizen’ my ass LOL. It just had enough legs to make the story...just another break in the hate-Trump train.


20 posted on 02/03/2019 2:49:13 PM PST by max americana (Happily Fired every stupid liberal at every election since 08' at work. I hope all liberals die.)
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