Well, well, well … would you look at this?
The photo that never saw the light of day: Obama with Farrakhan in 2005 https://t.co/nUrPbYVy0q pic.twitter.com/MrjqRdJy9G
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 25, 2018
Amazing. A photo of Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan Remained Secret and Unpublished Until Today >>> https://t.co/NjSfBKD9rq via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 25, 2018
Just “amazing.”
No, completely predictable actually pic.twitter.com/U8webdniX7
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/956610688516083712
It’s the opposite of amazing, actually.
“A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005…but did not make public because he believed it would have “made a difference” to Obama’s political future.” https://t.co/3lkfYVXkU5
— Jimmy (@JimmyPrinceton) January 25, 2018
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 25, 2018
Now, why would they have kept something like that under wraps?
2/ Kind of amazing little story. Photographer shot the photo at a CBC meeting in 2005. Immediately got a call from CBC staffer basically saying, not cool, cough up the photo. And he did. Handing over the digital copy to Farrakhan's son-in-law.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 25, 2018
3/ But he kept a copy for himself. He never revealed it because he thought it would hurt Obama's political career as he moved toward the Presidency. I have no doubt it would have hurt him. Possibly quite a lot.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 25, 2018
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And there you go.
This is the story of Obama's career in a nutshell. https://t.co/KvsVfKqWAC
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) January 25, 2018
Yep.
I cannot imagine being a journalist and sitting on a photograph _because_ it would have made a difference to a politician's career. This is super not okay! https://t.co/675XTdcWxQ
— Dara Lind (@DLind) January 25, 2018
Well, to be fair, “journalist” doesn’t mean what it used to.
“Journalist” https://t.co/jgXH9zSpoU
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 25, 2018
Then he's not a journalist. https://t.co/OCqDwKsmLI
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) January 25, 2018
Not an honest one, anyway.
https://twitter.com/jasonelevation/status/956611506770243584
It’s not like that’s what they’re doing … it is what they’re doing.
Integrity! https://t.co/YEeu0OJAXe
— The Nats Won The World Series (@EsotericCD) January 25, 2018
So Barack Obama’s palace guard did their job.
I'm curious why TPM of all places would write about this?
— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) January 25, 2018
Because it doesn’t matter anymore
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 25, 2018
Nothing matters.
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