Photo of Obama in Turbin Old News to Boca Tab

[RockaFowler]

This is from a couple of weeks ago, but I thought it worked regarding the comments made yesterday by Obama . . .

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/jose/entries/2008/02/27/photo_of_obama_in_turban_an_ol.html

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton swears she had nothing to do with spreading like a bad Internet virus the now-famous picture of rival Barack Obama in Somali tribal garb.

Even in the middle of politics’ silly season, she may actually be right.

Miami Beach-based cyber-provocateur Matt Drudge earlier this week published the shot on his Web site, underscoring it with an unsourced story that Clinton’s peeps were passing it around.

What most who hyperventilated didn’t seem to know: The conservative-leaning Drudge was far from being first to spotlight it. Anyone in a U.S. supermarket checkout line in May 2007 could have stared at the same picture that has only now inflamed passions.

The May 11 edition of Globe — as in Boca’s AMI, not Boston — featured a two-page story about Obama’s background and ran the picture of the Democratic favorite in ceremonial turban and robe during a 2006 trip to Kenya.

“I’m shocked no one made a big deal out of this months ago,” says Globe editor Tony Frost. “Here you have a man whose middle name is Hussein dressed as a Muslim. I thought it was a great news photo.”

[leftofcool]

1. But the Obama supporters believed Drudge

How sad is that?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Hmm?

"Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton swears she had nothing to do with spreading like a bad Internet virus the now-famous picture of rival Barack Obama in Somali tribal garb."

So when did she start denying it?

"Anyone in a U.S. supermarket checkout line in May 2007 could have stared at the same picture that has only now inflamed passions."

The headline on the original tabloid said that Obama was a member of Al Qaeda.

I have to assume that Clinton was going for the same sort of suggestion when she started spreading it around.

[RockaFowler]

4. But the picture was out there

I thought this was all about the picture. The editor of the Globe even said that they purchased it for $250 in May 2007. I'm confused with some of the Obama supporters. Did Hillary leak the photo - no way. The Globe did!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Did the Clinton campaign spread it around for Islamophobic race-baiting?

Yeah, probably.

[RockaFowler]

6. You make no sense

The photo has been around since May 2007 (and probably even before that). How did Hillary leak a photo that was already out there in the public?? It's not like the Globe isn't in every Supermarket in America

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Just because somebody already prints the photo...

it doesn't somebody else moral license to use it for race-baiting.

[Occam Bandage]

3. That article was about "Obama's al-Qaeda ties." Was Hillary's campaign referencing that article?