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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.

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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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To: PetroniusMaximus

“the Murder of Seth Rich.”

Yes, this fellow was beastly murdered. It’s sad that no one cares why.f ff The other thing I don’t know about!


61 posted on 02/03/2019 4:11:01 PM PST by jocon307
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To: All

This reeks of DIVERSION.

My guess is a Democrat instigated the leak to a Conservative website in an attempt to divert attention from the Baby Killing. And it seems to have worked,


62 posted on 02/03/2019 4:18:43 PM PST by Iowa Granny (Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

I just wonder why Bongino didn’t research harder. Old yearbooks often are online. College libraries have them. In any case, it’s out there, and it’s insignificant compared to a pediatrician killing already born children.


63 posted on 02/03/2019 4:18:56 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: MayflowerMadam

Bongino “could not confirm” the picture? He is either lazy or dumb as a box of rocks. For $50.00 he could have gotten a college kid to go to VMI and look at the yearbook. UGH!


64 posted on 02/03/2019 4:26:50 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: conservative98

Lies. Picture had been around for a while according to a few sources. This is like CNN being conveniently parked in front of Roger Stone’s house at 4:00 a.m. when the FBI showed up.


65 posted on 02/03/2019 4:49:04 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: shelterguy

Ed Gillespie must have been offered it too, but never used it. Bet he is kicking himself now.


66 posted on 02/03/2019 5:24:28 PM PST by tinamina
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To: conservative98

How do Virginian Republicans feel now? Had they uncovered the information during the campaign, the Republicans may well have won.


67 posted on 02/03/2019 5:32:03 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: conservative98
WTF is Hillary doing there?
68 posted on 02/03/2019 5:32:07 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Well I’ll be damned.

The governor is a literal babykiller rather than politically theoretical one


69 posted on 02/03/2019 5:38:48 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: Grampa Dave
That’s my issue with Hospice in general— often they help people die sooner than they need to, or in many cases, want to. “Going on hospice” is often simply an acceleration of death and dying disguised as compassionate care.
70 posted on 02/03/2019 5:42:29 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: conservative98

"Yes, I am simply an ordinary citizen!"
71 posted on 02/03/2019 5:46:51 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Nope, but Hillary does carry Hot Sauce in her Purse.

Well, it’s probably Pepper Spray to keep the little people at bay, but it’s close.


72 posted on 02/03/2019 5:59:05 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: All

Well, at least it wasn’t due to ‘reporter’s instinct’ like CNN claimed on the Roger Stone thuggery.


73 posted on 02/03/2019 6:23:30 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: richardtavor

You beat me to it.


74 posted on 02/03/2019 6:26:35 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: BenLurkin

Ben Lurking you are right on. Both Governor Northam and Lt. Governor Fairfax are involved with Planned Parenthood, and have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions. Planned Parenthood masquerades as a pro woman’s health and empowerment organization but Gov. Northam let the cat out of the bag with his “let me tell you what happens when a baby is born alive and a doctor and mom make a decision to let the baby live or die.” Gruesome, destroys the Planned Parenthood narrative. The pictures of Ralph Northam in his med school yearbook are then released.


75 posted on 02/03/2019 6:28:06 PM PST by Yolanda
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To: Paladin2
infected.

That too.

76 posted on 02/03/2019 7:48:36 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Dr. Killing would seem to have Bad Optics...


77 posted on 02/03/2019 8:03:27 PM PST by Paladin2 (Venezuela and CVuber ar e he onew runnin g amok[socialist uber allew...].)
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To: dfwgator

Prove it’s not.....


78 posted on 02/03/2019 8:04:49 PM PST by Paladin2 (Venezuela and CVuber ar e he onew runnin g amok[socialist uber allew...].)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Google should not be used as the arbiter of anything. The only reason it is tagged as Hillary is that people who posted the pictures tagged them as Hillary. Doesn’t make it so.


79 posted on 02/03/2019 8:28:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: bray

So it was outrage over the infanticide comments
I just thought it was Democrats behind it


80 posted on 02/03/2019 8:48:54 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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