Remember late last month, when Talking Points Memo published a photo of then-Sen. Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan that hadn’t seen the light of day since 2005?
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
Rather than publish the photo, the journalist sat on it, “because he believed it would have ‘made a difference’ to Obama’s political future.”
The photo was taken at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, and some wondered just how many members currently in the CBC were at that meeting.
Peter J. Hasson, associate editor of The Daily Caller, decided to find out. He determined that 21 members would have been at that meeting and contacted all 21 to ask if they would denounce Farrakhan.
21 CBC members were part of the caucus when it held a meeting in 2005 with notorious anti-Semite/Hitler enthusiast Louis Farrakhan
I asked all 21 if they were willing to denounce Farrakhan. 20 declined, 1 said he's a big Farrkakhan fan.https://t.co/Bg9aAOTSg7 @DailyCaller
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) February 8, 2018
So, for the record, that’s zero out of 21.
Obama was at that 2005 meeting and took a smiling picture with Farrakhan…Which the the caucus suppressed for 13 years to protect his political career…Which tells you they knew exactly what they were doing meeting with him https://t.co/Y76VmHTWI3
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) February 8, 2018
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Farrakhan has praised Hitler, claimed Jews are “Satantic” and said that white people “deserve to die,” among other racist and anti-Semitic statements.
The 21 CBC members, all Democrats, include high-profile Trump critics like Maxine Waters and Al Green, who have long demanded the president’s impeachment.
Anyone surprised?
https://twitter.com/RadGeekpartduex/status/961704742568144896
This right here says it all, regarding several members of Congress. https://t.co/TmohIt6bLZ
— Paul A Marketos (@PaulAMarketos) February 8, 2018
That one CBC rep who praised Farrakhan is @RepDannyDavis https://t.co/Hdej9DQXeI
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 8, 2018
Absolutely disgusting. I don’t want to hear any one of these 21 CBC members make a nazi or Holocaust analogy ever again. https://t.co/EaAXfXqUNN
— JT ? (@JTJrJr2) February 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/brandonjmoody/status/961660933671022592
just IMAGINE the response from the clowns on CNN or MSNBC if 20 white Republicans refused to disavow a white, publicly known, anti-Semite.. https://t.co/2K2H632zw1
— Will. Power (@KIR_bigg50) February 8, 2018
The CBC has a long history of defending criminals and terrorists.
Their support for Farrakhan is their status quo. https://t.co/W2a6qx34nK
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) February 8, 2018
Where is @jaketapper . I thought CNN cared about bigotry? Or @ChrisCuomo ? You boys don't care, showing your true partisanship front and center now? https://t.co/yfeiITB205
— Brandon Saario (@SaarioBrandon) February 8, 2018
did you ask about the spaceship tho https://t.co/YNjuODeuwr
— Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) February 8, 2018
“The other 20 CBC members contacted by TheDC declined to comment on Farrakhan, as did a spokesperson for the CBC,” Hasson writes.
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