And we have a late entry in the fake news awards.
Whom are you going to believe? The media or your lying eyes.
Unreal: 'Journalist' Reveals 2005 Photo of Obama and Racist Farrakhan, Kept Secret to Protect Obama's Career https://t.co/Z0SnvJE1mB
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 25, 2018
Here's the Daily News' editorial.
In 2005, a news photographer took a picture of Barack Obama smiling beside Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus. It didn’t surface until yesterday.
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We should be clear: There is no sign that Obama ever palled around with Farrakhan, or that he gave quarter to his anti-white, anti-Semitic hate. To the contrary; he condemned it repeatedly. Guilt by association is odious, especially when it comes with an extra layer of racism.
The only racism here is Barack Obama "palling around" with the leader of a hate group who believes that white people, Latinos and Asians are members of an inferior race. And who praised Hitler.
Instead of condemning Obama for meeting with a racist, and then lying about his ties to him, the Daily News condemns critics of Obama-Farrakhan as racists.
The sign that Obama palled around with Farrakhan is that very photo that the New York Daily News is reporting on. The paper is denying the very story that it's reporting on. And the evidence for the story is the photo that forms the basis for the story.
The Daily News won't deny the photo. But it will deny what the photo shows.
The excuse will no doubt be that it was a casual meeting. But Farrakhan had claimed that they had a relationship back in 2016. And that he had a photo to prove it. And look, there's a photo.
And here's another sign.
A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.
Farrakhan in 2016 claimed that Obama had known his son-in-law, Leonard Farrakhan Muhammad, his chief-of-staff who had kept the photo hidden. Will anyone in the media ask Obama about that?