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Anyone think the LA Times would suppress a video of McCain (or Bush) cavorting with white separatists or anyone else for that matter that is openly against any number of the oppressed victim groups that call the Democrats home?

Yes, here we are just a week away from electing the next leader of the free world and the LA Times refuses to release a video of Obama at a party for Obama friend and Palestinian terrorist supporter Rashid Khalidi.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/McCain_camp_demands_LA_Times_video.html?showall

McCain camp demands L.A. Times release video

John McCain's campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release a video of a party for a prominent Palestinian activist that Barack Obama attended in 2003.

The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian.

"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.
The campaign hadn't previously demanded the video, though conservative bloggers have, and neither other reporters nor McCain's researchers have been able to dig up a copy.

Khalidi is a controversial figure, reviled by pro-Israel activists, though not a marginal one. A former professor at the University of Chicago, he's now Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia, and respected by many in academia. He's been criticized most for saying that Palestinians have a right to resist Israeli occupation and has been described as a former P.L.O. spokesman, a label he has denied.

The paper hasn't explained its unwillingness to release the video, and Peter Wallsten, who found the tape and wrote about it, declined to discuss it with me last night. He forwarded an e-mail that the paper has sent readers who have complained as conservative blogs raise the issue.
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Andouille, Oct 28, 2008

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The media will do whatever they can to get him elected, with the obvious exception of FOXNews.

LSUfan71, Oct 28, 2008

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Andouille said: ↑

Yes, here we are just a week away from electing the next leader of the free world and the LA Times refuses to release a video of Obama at a party for Obama friend and Palestinian terrorist supporter Rashid Khalidi.
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Boy are the republicans desperate. :lol:

Your usual exaggeration and spin at work. Obama and Khalid were both professors at the University of Chicago. A lot of people were at the going away party. The story does not call Khalidi a "terrorist" supporter either. You made it up.

From your own source:

The Times described the going-away party for former University of Chicago professor, and Obama friend, Rashid Khalidi, in a story in April. The story reported that Palestinians thought they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian.

"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."
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He's guessing at a made-up scenario. He hasn't seen the video and he is simply suggesting that it must contain something bad.

Khalid is from Palestine. Of course he is a supporter of Palestinian independence. There is no evidence to suggest that he is a supporter of any terrorists. Only unattributed, unfounded allegations with a political motive from McCain supporters..

More attempts at guilt by association and this one is a really big stretch. Doesn't your candidate have any virtues you'd like to talk about or are you just going to post inflammatory hate stories like this for the next week?

red55, Oct 28, 2008

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red55 said: ↑

He's guessing at a made-up scenario. He hasn't seen the video and he is simply suggesting that it must contain something bad.
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Ok, so why not release it?

LSUfan71, Oct 28, 2008

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I would like to see the video to form my own opinion. Maybe there's something to it. Maybe it's nothing.

This is another example of the media selectively deciding what type of "news" the public "needs" to see.

I guess it was more important to tell us about Palin's clothes. :huh:

This sounds like another reason to cancel your newspaper subscriptions and turn off the national news stations.

...and some say the media is not biased. :nope:

PURPLE TIGER, Oct 28, 2008

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God all the love for Feaux News is just worrisome.

Don't you all realize they are ALL biased!

Rex_B, Oct 28, 2008

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Obama's PLO pal Khalid?

MY GOD PEOPLE!! How many dots have to be connected before you realize that this Obama dude ain't what he claims to be?

Is there just a teeny-weenie chance that this was an evening of Israel-bashing Obama would find very difficult to explain? Could it be that the Times, a pillar of the Obamedia, is covering for its guy?
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SabanFan, Oct 29, 2008

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Re: Obama's PLO pal Khalid?

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Re: Obama's PLO pal Khalid?

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So? You want to suppress it? I didn't see any other threads on the subject.

Answer the question. It's a valid one.

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Re: Obama's PLO pal Khalid?

What is your question? It looked rhetorical to me.

Obama's PLO pal Khalid?

How many dots have to be connected before you realize that this Obama dude ain't what he claims to be?
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Rex_B, Oct 29, 2008

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