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Media bias at its finest: journalist who took photograph of Barack Obama with Louis Farrakhan...
wordpress ^ | January 28, 2018 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 01/29/2018 4:13:24 AM PST by grundle

Media bias at its finest: journalist who took photograph of Barack Obama with Louis Farrakhan says he kept it secret because he didn’t want to hurt Obama’s chance of getting elected President

According to this article from North Star News Today, in 2005, a journalist named Askia Muhammad took this photograph of Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan:

However, Muhammad did not let the photograph be published at the time.

It wasn’t until after Obama left the White House that Muhammad let it be published.

Muhammad said that he held the photograph back from publication because, regarding Obama’s chance of getting elected President:

“I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference.”

Given that Muhammad is a professional, award-winning journalist who had “doggedly covered” Obama since the 2004 Democratic National Convention, this is an extreme example of media bias.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: mediabias

1 posted on 01/29/2018 4:13:24 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

The media kept JFK’s affairs secret.

The media kept LBJ’s racism and cursing secret.

The media tried to spike the Monica Lewinsky story.

This is no surprise. We do not, and never have had, a free and fair press in this nation.

It is the rise of the internet and citizen journalists (like Drudge) that is finally restoring some honesty to the information we receive.

I am sure that over the next 20 years, even more will come out about Obama that was buried by a sympathetic media.

Citizens have more work to do.


2 posted on 01/29/2018 4:24:16 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Liberal bastions are full of misogyny, drugs, pedophilia and racism (Hollywood, Academia, DC))
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To: Erik Latranyi

‘I am sure that over the next 20 years, even more will come out about Obama that was buried by a sympathetic media.’

You got that right.

+1


3 posted on 01/29/2018 4:34:12 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Erik Latranyi
It is the rise of the internet and citizen journalists (like Drudge) that is finally restoring some honesty to the information we receive.


Drudge is no longer honest and now spikes stories on his own (FBI collusion, etc.).

Most Americans are busy with life making ends meet and are more interested in sports than politics for relaxation.

Sorry, but that's the way it appears to be.

4 posted on 01/29/2018 4:38:32 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( #ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: grundle

Not a journalist, but a digital warrior for the Nation of Islam.

This had nothing to do but being a press cheerleader for Farrakhan.


5 posted on 01/29/2018 4:46:34 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: grundle

Same with the photographer of Obama smoking pot.

She showed the photos after he was safely in office and she could profit from it.

Meanwhile the LA Times still suppresses the video they claim to have of Obama toasting a promoter of Islamic terrorism.


6 posted on 01/29/2018 4:51:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The Clintons also had photos----of Obama dressed as a Muslim.But Uncle Teddy warned
the Clintons not to use them. Teddy and Caroline heartily endorsed the Muslim's candidacy.

Even Obama looks befuddled at the ringing endorsement.

7 posted on 01/29/2018 4:53:26 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Barack’s 20 year association with Jeremiah Wright should’ve tanked his candidacy.

Barack’s association with Pentagon bomber and traitor Bill Ayers should’ve tanked his candidacy.

Talk about radical Left...

Pot and more black separatists only confirmed what was already known and admitted to.


8 posted on 01/29/2018 4:53:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie
Most Americans are busy with life making ends meet and are more interested in sports than politics for relaxation.

This is true. Many Americans treat politics like sports with "my team" over "your team" mentality.

This is why so many do not vote on the integrity of the candidates, but on the political party they belong to.

9 posted on 01/29/2018 5:08:50 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (Liberal bastions are full of misogyny, drugs, pedophilia and racism (Hollywood, Academia, DC))
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To: Fantasywriter

I think we will eventually see his Occidental College records where he applied as a double “diversity” student listing him as African born and being the adopted son of an Indonesian citizen and applying to study as a citizen of that nation. That’s why the records have been hidden both by the college and the media who wanted to have a “ diversity” President even if he wasn’t Constitutionally eligible. I personally am not sure where he was born but his father never became a U.S. citizen so he is a citizen but not a natural citizen but if he claimed Indonesian citizenship as an adult college student even with U.S dual citizenship (not sure if Indonesia is a nation that allows dual citizenship) then again he’s not a natural citizen. Of course the media says this all a conspiracy theory but this could easily be put to rest by allowing access to all the Occidental College transcripts.


10 posted on 01/29/2018 5:31:31 AM PST by bonehead4freedom
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To: grundle

1: Never trust anyone named Mohammed.
2: See #1


11 posted on 01/29/2018 5:31:39 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Liz
Not a lot of FReepers even know of the Kennedy connection to the installation of BH Obama in 2007-08.

The Vanity Fair writeup from 2007 has been cleaned from the archives. - the VF archives.

The subject matter of their reportage suggests that BHO was a test case (in part) to the idea of “how much would the Americans resist a foreign national” in the Oval Office.

12 posted on 01/29/2018 5:34:02 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: bonehead4freedom

Those are great points. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. The claims that Obama applied to Occidental as a non-citizen have been around for what seems like forever. There is something behind those claims. I *hope* it eventually comes out. The truth is something we always need.


13 posted on 01/29/2018 5:41:00 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: atc23

Hah.....”Foreign national” as president....he spent an inordinate amt of time denying it.

His PR team said AFTER he got in....they never answered questions from the preess...they only old them what THEY wanted the press (and voters) to know.


14 posted on 01/29/2018 5:43:44 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: All

The tax-financed Congressional Black Caucus secretly suppressing the picture that depicts Obama’s connection to the Nation of Islam is disturbing.

Is Muslim money being funnelled into the Congressional Black Caucus?

The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized——to follow the paper trail and determine how money changed hands among (a) CBC (b) the CBC Foundation; (c) leftist black identity groups, elected black members, and, (d) Muslim groups.

Taxpayers must Demand that the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals be examined, as to who might be personally profiting and if financing domestic terrorism is being facilitated.

<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of the aforementioned.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire- transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into CBC accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders’ personal use and/or for financing domestic terrorism.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.


<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of CBC checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) CBC correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize CBC members bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> CBC bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts and purchases from luxury outlets.

It is entirely possible that the CBC in collusion with its members and the Obama admin, Congressional Democrats and left wing groups. may have committed federal offenses, including, but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government to obtain tax dollars (may involve several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to funding documents required by ERISA enacted 1974 and other possible offenses including civil and/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government regarding federal funding),

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracies Against Civil Rights). Violation of Civil Rights under Color of law and conspiracy. Conspiring with others to violate conservatives’ 4th amendment rights.

<><> Possibly full investigations centering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with a federally funded enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern” (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District <><> Title 18 U.S.C. §2 41 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional mandates in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.


Taxpayers demand the following agencies commence investigations at once:

<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section

<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.


ACTION NOW-—Contact your Rep and Senators Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

Call President Trump—— Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

TALKING POINTS: (A) taxpayers demand reparations for leftist shakedown schemes; (B) sever all public funds, including federal funds to lawbreaking groups; (C) shut down all identity caucuses on Capitol Hill.


15 posted on 01/29/2018 5:48:58 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

The Press has never been unbiased. Google “yellow journalism” sometime. The Little Rock Democrat-Gazette and Tallahassee Democrat did not get their names accidentally.

However, once upon a time, there was media with editorial policy on both sides - left and right, Republican and Democrat. Now a few corporations own most of the newspapers and there is only left-wing journalism. Ditto for the media.


16 posted on 01/29/2018 6:53:24 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Erik Latranyi
I was in a fast food joint this weekend and they had Crap News Network on the TV.

Haven't seen that channel in many years, I actively avoid them and the other loony one, MSNBC.

They had a graphic across the bottom of the screen that almost made me drop my lunch.

It said "PRO TRUMP MEDIA ESCALATES ITS WAR ON MUELLER" , and they had three talking-head liberal buffoons spewing garbage.
There are many indisputable FACTS that are 100% TRUE and these nimrods were trying to say they were false.

ALTERNATE REALITY.

17 posted on 01/29/2018 7:05:03 AM PST by red-dawg
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To: grundle

Well. There ya go.


18 posted on 01/29/2018 9:13:34 AM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: grundle

Royal idiot and his court LOL.


19 posted on 01/29/2018 10:07:17 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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