McCain Camp Demands LA Times Release Video

[FVZA_Colonel]

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

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."
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They're seriously still trying to go with "Obama has radical connections?"

What exactly are they trying to say with this? That Obama really does hate Israel?

[Bicoastal]

1. Woooooo, scary.

:eyes:

[musette_sf]

2. mmm. okay Johnny Magoo

let's chat a bit about Pinochet, shall we?

[ErinBerin84]

3. oh yes.

The head of the Middle Eastern studies department at Columbia...obviously a real troublemaker. Why, I bet some friends of Meghan McCain have even taken classes with him. Plus, Obama and Rashid Khalidi's kids go to school together...so fucking what. Hannity is officially running the McCain campaign.

[FVZA_Colonel]

8. The Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia.

Truly a threat to American national security.

[MarkInCA]

4. The LA Times should instead run a big story about

the possible Navy coverup of a car accident caused by McCain that seriously injurted someone in 1964.

I would love to see that hit MSM.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html

[Rainbowreflect]

32. That would be cool!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I don't know what the big deal is the video has been out for a while and there's nothing .See for

yourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[beachmom]

21. Oh. my. God. There is NO WAY Obama can recover from that. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

36. Yep that's it pack it up folks. nt

[NJmaverick]

6. Yeah it's political

by with holding it, it allows the imagination to run wild.

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. The worst they have is "Obama listened to a poem."

What they plan to do with this, I have no idea.

[WeDidIt]

7. The L.A. Times is owned by rightwingers

If the L.A. Times had such a video, it would have been released weeks ago.

[DrToast]

11. They said they have the video in the article. n/t

[oviedodem]

9. Seriously, Obama needs to watch who he is around. He has no wiggle room.

[WI_DEM]

13. seriously, this was in 2003 for a fellow professor's going away party. It's another nothing issue.

[oviedodem]

23. If you have not noticed the MSM always vilifies the democrats, therefore

democrats have to play by different rules. Now if there is this so-called anti-Israel statement with Obama there, if he does not show visible disgust or walk out the MSM and the RW will say he agrees with the statements. I am getting tired of our democrats getting shelled for every move they make

[dennis4868]

28. Dems...

have a higher standard to live up too...no room for error....for example, can you imagine the MSM outrage if Biden was found to have violated ethics laws and abused the power of his office....a repub does it and you hear nothing about it....INCREDIBLE!

[beachmom]

24. Yeah, how DARE he associate with colleagues at the an ivy league university,

obviously a radical extreme organization.

<snark>

[oviedodem]

25. I agree BUT if there is anything close to anti-semitic speech in that room and he is there you know

what they will say

[ErinBerin84]

30. like a Jews for Jesus lecture?

Shoot, that was Sarah Palin.


In all seriousness though (about Dems being held to a different standard), I know what you're saying, but I really don't think this is going to be an issue.

[high density]

26. If the guy's name was Bill Smith, McCaca wouldn't even be floating this absurd shit.

[CreekDog]

29. why? if they don't have anything real, they just put out fake stuff.

and the real stuff is so underwhelming, i almost welcome it.

[WI_DEM]

12. desperation. Obama attends a going away party for a fellow professor

[FloridaGrl]

14. what about demanding the release

of the whitey video? 2003 and they expect us the believe it would not have been shown to the public. These people have nothing left.

[IndianaJones]

15. uh oh...October Surprise. nt.

[TwilightGardener]

19. Oh please, Hannity has been railing about this shit for months. They're just

trying to raise the specter of Obama consorting with Ay-Rabs.

[Median Democrat]

16. Why Not The Release Of Meeting Materials Between Cheney and the Energy Industry?

[TwilightGardener]

17. We are now on to the second-stringer "bad associations", having exhausted Ayers.

Palestinian = enemy, now? Maybe for Israel, but we're not Israel--Republicans keep forgetting that. Or maybe they're just trying to get an Arab-sounding name in the news, connected with Obama, at the last minute to scare the low-info's.

[Median Democrat]

18. This Has As Much Meaning As McCain Speaking At Acorn In 2006

Where he praised their work.

[beachmom]

20. No way can the LA Times release it now. Plus if the article was from

April, why not make that request earlier?

There is no way the LA Times is going to put something out on the request of a campaign a week before a presidential election. They have no interest in putting themselves in that position.

[The Stranger]

22. Well, the GOP has managed to be bigoted towards both Jews and Palestinians.

That is quite an accomplishment.

From Palin's bizarre reference to "your Jewish agency" to their campaign's hateful, bigoted racism toward Palestinian college professors, these GOP hatemongers will do anything and everything to get elected.

[dennis4868]

27. WHAT ABOUT....

the CNN video of McCain telling a reporter that we have to respect Hamas since they won the election and that we shouls sit down and talk with them....this interview was a few years ago...home come Jews are not up in arms about this? Oh yeah, it's a repub who said it so all is well in the world....WTF?

[ProSense]

31. Dear McToast, no one gives a shit.

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.

OMG, he said that? :sarcasm:

So the guy is a professor at Columbia? Hmmmm...

McCain is going to lose, and it's obvious he's desperate. Maybe he should go back to claiming that judges are like terrorists.

[Inkyfuzzbottom]

33. Then John McCain is a communist...

based on this type of logic where they insist one must share the same values and beliefs as those you live near and work with, I must conclude John McCain is a communist. After all, he lived with the North Vietnamese and interacted with them regularly for 5 and a half years! He's a communist I tell you, a COMMUNIST!!!!

[Window]

34. Damn. They have it really bad. Desperation is not a pretty sight.

[Madam Mossfern]

35. Yet another distraction

Can't the McCain camp deal with the real issues facing us?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

37. McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

[stillcool]

38. Egads..so Obama attends a party..

and <gasp> was friends with a Professor, whose organization John McCain funded. See now there's bi-partisanship!!

[Sebastian Doyle]

39. There are a handful of right wing Likudist Jews who are trying to paint Obama as another Hitler

And McCrazy's foreign policy team just happens to be made up of some of them - the wing of PNAC that even Cheney thought was too crazy to work with.

Here's what these asshats have been up to in PA....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7630866&mesg_id=7630866