L.A. Times Has Video Of Obama Attending Jew Bash
A very well deserved hat tip to Gateway Pundit.
According to Gateway, the L.A. Times is holding a video of Obama attending a going away party for former P.L.O. operative Rashid Khalidi, who was then moving to New York to accept the position at the fakestinian loving Columbia University.
The L.A. Times actually wrote about this Jew bashing orgy in April 2008.
CHICAGO — It was a celebration of Palestinian culture — a night of music, dancing and a dash of politics. Local Arab Americans were bidding farewell to Rashid Khalidi, an internationally known scholar, critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights, who was leaving town for a job in New York.
A special tribute came from Khalidi’s friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Sen. Barack Obama. Speaking to the crowd, Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi’s wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.
His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases. . . . It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”
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At Khalidi’s 2003 farewell party, for example, a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, “then you will never see a day of peace.”
One speaker likened “Zionist settlers on the West Bank” to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been “blinded by ideology.”
Obama adopted a different tone in his comments and called for finding common ground. But his presence at such events, as he worked to build a political base in Chicago, has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than either of his opponents for the White House.
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In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization. In the early 1990s, he advised the Palestinian delegation during peace negotiations. Khalidi now occupies a prestigious professorship of Arab studies at Columbia.
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While teaching at the University of Chicago, Khalidi and his wife lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood near the Obamas. The families became friends and dinner companions.
In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama’s unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama served on the fund’s board of directors.
Anyway, the L.A. Times is refusing to release the video. Here’s how they brazenly responded:
The LA Times told FOXNews.com that it won’t reveal how it obtained the tape of Khalidi’s farewell party, nor will the newspaper release it. Spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said the paper is not interested in revisiting the story. “As far as we’re concerned, the story speaks for itself,” she said.
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A number of Web sites have accused the Times of purposely suppressing the tape of the event — which former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn reportedly attended.
Sullivan said she would not give details of what else may be on the tape, adding that anyone interested in the video should read the newspaper’s report, which was its final account.
“This is a story that we reported on six months ago, so any suggestion that we’re suppressing the tape is absurd — we’re the ones that brought the existence of the tape to light,” Sullivan said.
The Los Angeles Times endorsed Obama for president on October 19.
So there we have it. They won’t release the tape because they know it will hurt their goat fornicating, camel fellating idol. Now can you imagine if there was a video of John McCain speaking at the American Renaissance conference? The media would broadcast it night and day. All we would hear from these pieces of garbage is how racist McCain is, and how his campaign is over (which they’re already doing, but you get the point.)
McCain has now jumped in to demand that the LA Times release the video.
“A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb, citing Obama’s friendship with Khalidi, who is now a professor at Columbia University.
He said the video could, among other things, show how Obama responded to a poem recited at the party accusing Israel of “terrorism” and warning of consequences for U.S. support for Israel, which Goldfarb described as “hate speech.”
“The election is one week away, and it’s unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job — make information public,” he said.
Too little too late! I find it hard to believe that McCain never knew of Obama’s connections to this Arab terrorist Rashid Khalidi. This really should have been brought up in the the debates, but McCain was too chicken.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
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October 29th, 2008 at 9:38 am
McCain knew— but he also knows he was the Chairman of the International Republican Institute that distributed grants to Khalidi’s Center for Palestinian Research and Studies for work in the West Bank in the 1990′s. That One will throw it back in his face but at least McCain didn’t have Khaladi’s kids babysitting for him like BHO.