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  • 2015-09-17 (xsd:date)
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  • Does a Photograph Show Obama Wearing an Aleister Crowley T-Shirt? (en)
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  • In September 2015 a several-year-old image of President Obama wearing a shirt bearing the name and image of English occultist Aleister Crowley began recirculating online, thanks to web sites such as The Gateway Pundit: This image has been steadily circulating online since it was first posted on April Fool's Day 2012 by ac2012.com, a web site that sells Crowley merchandise, with the following message: This image, however, is a fake. The photograph on which this image was based was taken during a visit by President Obama to Team Rehab, a physical therapy clinic and wellness center in Decorah, Iowa, in August 2011. The photograph snapped there was posted to the web site USSKirk.com by student Michael Foster: When the altered image of President Obama wearing an Aleister Crowley shirt initially began circulating in 2012, some viewers aseerted that it was Michael Foster's original image that had been doctored to remove the Crowley symbol from the President's shirt. That was not the case, of course, as documented by a story published on 16 August 2011 on Decorah News about Obama's visit to Team Rehab which featured another photograph of the President wearing the same plain grey shirt: (en)
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