Posted on 04/17/2010 11:20:03 PM PDT by Nachum
The blogosphere abhors a vacuum. So when the mainstream media (MSM) leave holes in a given narrative -- in this case, the biography of the president -- bloggers individually, incrementally, and indefatigably strive to fill in the blanks -- sometimes successfully, sometimes less so.
In his comprehensive, 600-plus-page biography of Barack Obama titled The Bridge, New Yorker editor David Remnick lays down the baseline of what the mainstream media know about the president -- or at least what they want us to know.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I didn’t miss the discussions and I joined in but I can honestly say that I could never say with certainly that I saw 10 fingers. It sure looks odd, but I can’t clearly see the 10 fingers, the 2 fingers or the arm. I don’t know how to explain it. But you can clearly see in the photo where they cropped the Paki out, that they shopped it to remove his foot because the rug and couch are blurry. They didn’t do a very good job.
I believe the same. Didn’t you work in that area around that time?
Thank you for that mojitojoe.
Let’s just say that ‘something’ has been done in that photo and guess we may never know when, why or who did it.
Regards, I’m off now.
You blow that up so we can clearly see 10 fingers instead of a blob, because that’s all I see and I used a magnifying glass. Just a blob. Also, why in the world would the NYT’s want to publish a photo of Barry holding hands with a gay Paki? The answer is, they wouldn’t. Now I sure would not rule out they blurred the hands then added the arm and 2 fingers you think you see. I think the hand just looks odd.
It drives me crazy when people think pictures are photo shopped and they present a little “proof”. Most of the photos that have been discussed here on FR as being shopped, I really don’t see it, but I’m no expert.
They would photo shop things they wanted us to believe, you think they photoshopped it to make it appear they were holding hands? The NY TIMES? Are you kidding me?
I don’t know anything about Phil Boerner or his recollections that he relayed to the newspapers.
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That’s a good place to start. They are all still friends, they donated to his campaign fund. Yet you think they provided a picture that showed him holding hands? Come on!
Nobody was inserted. The photo is real, it is what it is, blurry hand and all. Nobody in the O administration or elsewhere has EVER disputed that photo.
Thanks for ping. Read from posts #124 forward for Potlatch photoshop opinion of the Obama/Siddiqi photo and lively Freeper discussion.
…In Dreams from My Father, he talks of having a Pakistani roommate when he moved to New York, a man he calls Sadik who “had overstayed his tourist visa and now made a living in New York’s high-turnover, illegal immigrant work force, waiting on tables”… During his years at Occidental College, Mr. Obama also befriended Wahid Hamid, a fellow student who was an immigrant from Pakistan and traveled with Mr. Obama there, the Obama campaign said. Mr. Hamid is now a vice president at Pepsico in New York, and according to public records, has donated the maximum $2,300 to the Obama campaign and is listed as a fund-raiser for it. Mr. Chandoo is now a self-employed financial consultant, living in Armonk, N.Y. He has also donated the maximum, $2,300, to Mr. Obama’s primary campaign and an additional $309 for the general election, campaign finance records show.
His memoir, Dreams from My Father, talks about this time, but not in great detail; Siddiqi, for example, is identified only as “Sadik” _ “a short, well-built Pakistani” who smoked marijuana, snorted cocaine and liked to party. Obama’s campaign wouldn’t identify “Sadik,” but The Associated Press located him in Seattle, where he raises money for a community theater.
Not everyone who knew Obama in those years is eager to talk. Some explained that they feared inadvertently hurting Obama’s campaign. Among his friends were Siddiqi and two other Pakistanis, all of them from Karachi; several of those interviewed said the Pakistanis were reluctant to talk for fear of stoking rumors that Obama is a Muslim. “Obama in the eyes of some right wingers is basically Muslim until proved innocent,” says Margot Mifflin, a friend from Occidental who is now a journalism professor at New York’s Lehman College. “It’s partly the Muslim factor by association and partly the fear of something being twisted.”
His freshman roommates were Imad Husain, a Pakistani, who’s now a Boston banker, and Paul Carpenter, now a Los Angeles lawyer… Obama had an international circle of friends _ “a real eclectic sort of group,” says Vinai Thummalapally, who himself came from Hyderabad, India. As a freshman, he quickly became friends with Mohammed Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, two wealthy Pakistanis.
Obama spent “about three weeks” in Pakistan, traveling with Hamid and staying in Karachi with Chandoo’s family, said Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary. “
Siddiqi offered the most expansive account of Obama as a young man. “We were both very lost. We were both alienated, although he might not put it that way. He arrived disheveled and without a place to stay,” said Siddiqi, who at the time worked as a waiter and as a salesman at a boutique… In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walkup on East 94th Street. Siddiqi managed to get the apartment thanks to subterfuge. “We didn’t have a chance in hell of getting this apartment unless we fabricated the lease application,” Siddiqi said. Siddiqi fudged his credentials, saying he had a high-paying job at a catering company.
message on his answering machine: “My name is Hal Siddiqi, and I approve of this message. Vote for peace, vote for hope, vote for change, and vote for Obama.”
They are all fake, ALL of them, the ones from grade school, Occidental, Columbia, Harvard, and on. All photshopped. Damn, he needs a full time staff to handle all the photoshopped pictures. Sometimes the paranoia really irritates me. When and if they photoshop it is to make him look better, why in the hell would they want to stick him on a couch next to a gay Paki and they give it to the NYT. It defies logic. I will leave you to your delusions.
No this photo is the one I was referring to. Where they cropped the Paki out and then tried to fix the couch and rug.
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb09/alumni_corner
That's cause Siddiqi was likely picking up guys.
But if BHO was doing the same, we'd likely be hearing from so of those guys as well.
It's as if Obama just appeared in a puff of smoke, with a sketchy "legend", but no real prior life.
Sorry mojitojo but this is not the first time it has been brought up.
I saw this picture a long time ago and never thought a thing about it except for the fact Obama and this guy were REAL cozy (as I suspect most of us did). Then a few months back there was some comment about fingers and something between the crotch. I hadn't been in on the beginning of the conversation so I asked either LucyT or Fred Nerks (can't remember which one) what was that all about? They said take a look at the fingers and what was between his crotch. I got out my magnifying glass and had a big laugh because sure enough there were waaay to many fingers. At first I thought that coloration in his crotch could be the heel of his boot, but after further studing I realized it wasn't the heel of his boot. I just knew it couldn't be what some were suggesting as I don't believe anyone could be that endowed. LOL!
And after being so gung ho, Kalpen has already quit. He’s going back to make another DTV Harold and Kumar film.
When I go to movies with a male friend, we leave a space between us that we jokingly call the “homophobe seat.”
I suggested it was “something else”. It was sarcasm..... just joking.....
Thank you Spunky. I gave a pretty good description of that in my post #38 and some others.
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A. I doubt that any queers from NYC in the 80s remember any one 'hook-up'.
B. Most of the queers in that life (anonymous sex) in NYC at that time are dead.
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