As part of their ongoing “vetting†process of both President Barack Obama and the “mainstream†media, Breitbart.combrings us the following photo:
Photo courtesy Breitbart.com
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Wait — what is that?
That, dear reader, is a 1997 photo of a young Sen. Barack Obama dressed in a regimental coat and carrying a tricorn hat. And yes, that is a Gadsden flag (“Don’t Tread on Me!â€) to the right of the freshly-elected senator.
That’s odd. Didn’t several members of the mainstream media mercilessly ridicule the Tea Party for adopting colonial imagery? Yes they did.
During a segment titled “Insanitea†(get it?), MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow couldn’t help but join in the “teabagging†fun. The left-leaning Talking Points Memo portrayed colonial-garbed Tea Party member as “weirdos,†as Breitbart’s John Sexton puts it. And let’s not forget the time Bill Maherdecided that wearing a teabag-dangling tricorn hat was really, really funny.
In fact, if we recall correctly, the NAACPeven warned of the insidious implications of Tea Party imagery:
The Revolutionary War-era costumes, the yellow “Don’t tread on me†Gadsden flags from the same era, the earnest recitals of the pledge of allegiance, the over-stated veneration of the Constitution, and the defense of “American exceptionalism†in a world turned towards transnational economies and global institutions: all are signs of the over-arching nationalism that helps define the Tea Party movement.
So where did the Breitbart team find this photo?
“[T]he forgotten photograph has been in plain view for fifteen years. It appeared on the front page of Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald on July 9th, 1997,†Sexton writes. The caption below the picture, as it appeared, reads:
The Herald's caption below the photograph read:
Hey, look over here! Something catches the attention of Sen. Barack Obama (13th), Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (25th), Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th) and Stephanie Franklin as they lead the annual "4th on 53rd" parade.
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By the way, to read a fun take on Glenn Beck’s stance on Tea Party costume-wearing, click here.
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Comments: 77
I know what folks can do to pictures I have seen in action,,
The Chicago Herald didn't photoshop this. They snapped the picture.
Follow the link to the Herald and you'll see the picture AND the story there.
It appeared on the front page of Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald on July 9th, 1997
See, Obama's the president now. He was a Senator back here.
He's not doing a Romney. Romney created jobs; Obama kills them.
The video of Derrick Bell worked just fine. Oh wait, never heard of him, right?
I did not see the word "photoshop" anywhere.......
So is she suggesting that it is ridiculous to believe that Obama would actually have ever made a patriotic gesture? Then what does that say about the contemporary American Democratic party? Doesn't it validate the right's contention that the left is populated by America haters?
And when exactly did favoring national sovereignty become wrong, and OWG right? It was just a few years ago that the JBS was ridiculed for believing that the left favored OWG. Now anyone who does NOT believe in it is ridiculed? When exactly did that switcheroo occur?
Obama favors national sovereignty, just not THIS nation.
next time I see him personally I will ask him..
Wow, how awful of them. NOT! Who are these people, are they not Americans?? Is the prevailing sentiment apologist???? I would have never believed we would come to where the constitution was a dirty word and communism and socialism weren't.
People are waking up then, which is why Obama's losing votes to uncommitted candidates and convicted felons.
We know you're a religious bigot, but that has nothing to do with this post.
Oh, we're racists now? That's a new one; haven't heard that one before.
MWAHAHAHAHA!
Keep throwing out those insults Cookie. Eventually you'll hit something that has to do with this post.
Bush did it: BAD!
Obama does it: GOOD!
How are they capable of doing anything but sit in a chair, rocking, with drool coming out of the corner of their mouths?
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I meta man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away...
Do they even get it...yet?
Just goes to show you they never learned how many millions of people were killed under Communism, and they don't know that they are the ones who will not survive a month once someone else's money runs out.
They don't know a thing about personal responsibility and that leads to starvation because they can't fend for themselves.
Well, you've heard the talking point "There aren't any truly communist countries in the world" or "True communism has never been tried" or "We/Obama ARE NOT communist". It comes from the commie professors in the colleges and teachers in our schools who have been telling our kids that communism is a glorious thing and that "WE can to it the right way."
Oh yeah, and that "Che was cool." ...forget the hundreds of millions of human beings killed under the communists.
What do they think all this stuff Obama's done, was for?
Payback for Obama Sr.
All they have to do is read Obama's book and the book, The Roots of Obama's Rage
It really should be a crime for these radicals to dupe these kids like this. They know that the Cloward-Piven strategy does not have the youth in mind.
25% of our youth is currently unemployed. What happens when the whole thing tanks which is about to happen in Europe. Who will pay for their monthly cell phone bills (which may or may not be part of Obamacare). I heard rumors.
Imagine their feeling when the country fell, all guns were confiscated, all forms of employment, the food supply, the fuel supply and fuel production were ALL taken over by the new communist government, and the powers that be told the "useful idiots" "F YOU, we're not sharing ANYTHING. What you gonna do about it?" Ah, just imagine. So far, that's the track record for communism. 100% track record.
"TEACHER, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!!!"
"Yesterday, upon the stair,
I meta man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away..."
That's actually pretty cute. Kudos.
"Well, ya know how the lefties are always changing the meaning of words, [sic] sometimes you have to step down a couple of notches to understand their jibberish."
I refudiate that statement!
Psst...don't tell them Obama's as anti-colonialist as his old man was. They didn't read his book.
In the media, YES! All over liberal blogs? YES!
Did Obama himself poke fun of the movement for their ridiculous costumes?
YES, WATCH!
Obama also knows if he tells useful idiots at a commencement speech that we get "too much inormation from Ipod's and X-boxes" LOL that they should read the Huffington Post once in a while.
And let's not forget his little dig at the Tea Party when he said, a "CERTAIN network that doesn't like me very much".
The leftists are still repeating these statements and he made them in one of his earlier 3,496 speeches.
His whole personal and political life is a work of fiction and they have been duped, and either won't admit it or want the same thing Obama wants, America's demise. Everything Obama's done has been toward that goal.
"In the media, YES! All over liberal blogs? YES!"
Let me assure you that I myself am a registered independent who, come this November, will likely protest the two-party electoral college by voting for Roseanne or writing in "Batman." I don't make fun of teabaggers because Obama is my messiah and neither do the countless anarchists, libertarians, communists, populists, and moderate Republicans who see the teabaggers for the bigoted Luby's patrons they are.
"YES, WATCH!"
Wow! You sure pwned me by finding a video where mean ol' Obama refers to the fact that they wave around tea bags! Boy, is the egg on my face.
"And let's not forget his little dig at the Tea Party when he said, a 'CERTAIN network that doesn't like me very much'."
Gasp! Are you implying that fair and balanced FOX News is unabashedly a part of the teabagger movement? Say it isn't so!
"In order to have 'plausible denyability' [sic] Media Matters, Obama's lying 'Truth Team' the lamestream media, Bill Maher, David Letterman, and the like, get their marching orders directly from the White House, while Obama pretends to be above the frey [sic]. Their [sic] is more than enough proof of exactly that."
Enlighten me. I'm open to any proof you can provide.
This I'm Not Worthy attitude is a little hypocritical since most Obama fans mock religious faith, as Obama does.
Try again with the "I'm not an Obama fan". LOL
Obama's not only part of the occupy fleabagger bowel movement, he's endorsed it. But so has the American Nazi Party and so has the Communist Party USA.
You're going to attempt to berate me and in the same comment say you'll vote for the pig Roseanne? And yes, any woman who grabs her crotch in public, is a pig. Yeah, that'll show me. LOL
Any attempt to insult your intelligence or honor would pale in comparison to your own words, which damage your credibility far more than I ever could.