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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:34.0 | I was curious after the episode last week where we talked about Barack Obama and asked whether he was gay. |
| 0:41.0 | Based on the article that had been published in Tablet Magazine where writer David Samuels had interviewed |
| 0:48.0 | Adrian David Garrow. |
| 0:50.0 | David Garrow was the one who wrote the definitive biography of Barack Obama. |
| 0:54.0 | And in this definitive biography of Barack Obama, David Garrow claimed that Barack Obama had written a love letter |
| 1:00.0 | to one of his ex-girlfriends in which he talked about either being homosexual or fantasising about having gay sex with men. |
| 1:09.0 | And we did a whole episode on it and I think it was a good episode. |
| 1:13.0 | The questions that I had or something I was curious about after the episode is in this letter that was written. |
| 1:19.0 | We didn't actually have the letter even in David Garrow's biography. |
| 1:23.0 | The letter wasn't included. |
| 1:25.0 | In fact, the only part that was included of the letter was everything but the juicy part. |
| 1:29.0 | The juicy part was redacted. |
| 1:31.0 | So I was left wondering, and I know I'm a skeptic by nature here, but I was left wondering, well, is it what it's being portrayed to be? |
| 1:38.0 | Is what Barack Obama said about fantasising about having gay sex with men? |
| 1:42.0 | Did he actually say that? How was it phrased? What's the context here? Is this being exaggerated? |
| 1:46.0 | And I wondered how soon it would take for the actual content of that redacted paragraph to surface. |
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