Tuesday, December 10, 2013

NBC deletes without comment report of Obama shaking the hand of Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe's rule of Zimbabwe has been marked by 30 years or tyranny and the murder of up to 20,000...

Here is what NBC first posted:
Briefly laying aside differences hardened over decades, President Barack Obama on Tuesday shook the hand of the president of Cuba at the memorial service for Nelson Mandela.
The handshake appeared to be the first between American and Cuban presidents since 2000, when Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro greeted each other at a United Nations luncheon in New York, and only the second since 1959, when Castro took power.
It was Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul, named president of Cuba in 2008, who shook Obama’s hand on Tuesday. [...]
On his way to the rostrum, Obama also shook the hand of Robert Mugabe, the strongman ruler of Zimbabwe, and hugged Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, who has stridently opposed spying by the National Security Agency and criticized the U.S. government.
Here is the edited version.
On his way to the rostrum, Obama also hugged Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, who has stridently opposed spying by the National Security Agency and criticized the U.S. government.
Did he shake Mugabe's hand or not? The Telegraph still has a story up claiming he did, but I can't find a picture or video. I think it is just poor journalism, but they should just fess up to it. 

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