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Emmanuel Macron, the new Barack Obama

12 June 2017

9:10 PM

12 June 2017

9:10 PM

Eleven years ago, the US media started to produce glowing, servile reports about the junior senator from Illinois named Barack Obama. I remember reading an article in Time Magazine that had a curious lack of curiosity about it. The Senator was shown in flattering photos with good lighting, his megawatt smile beaming with confidence.

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