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An LGF reader contacted Columbia University (and a lot of other potential sources, including the LA Times) with a polite request that they help release the tape of Rashid Khalidi with Barack Obama (the video the Los Angeles Times has ... unbelievably ... decided to suppress during a hotly contested ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias, Columbia University, Arrogance
As the media and the Obama campaign continue to cover for Rashid Khalidi, repeating his denials that he was a spokesman for Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization at a time when they were murdering Americans and were listed as a terrorist group by the US, Martin Kramer has exhaustively documented ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias, PLO, Yasser Arafat
The Los Angeles Times’ “reader’s representative” comes out strongly against the readers of the LA Times: Obama, the videotape and informing the public. Notice: the excuse that releasing the video would “put their source in jeopardy” is nowhere to be found in this one. The point of the article is ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Another article by Andrew C. McCarthy on the outrageous journalistic malpractice of the Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Times’s Strange Notion of Journalistic Ethics. Even if you accept for argument’s sake the bunk about honoring the “source’s” supposed wishes, the newspaper wouldn’t need to release the tape in ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
An editorial in the Washington Post springs to the defense of former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, dismissing Khalidi’s radicalism and ridiculing the McCain campaign for mentioning Barack Obama’s long association with him: An ‘Idiot Wind’. If you need one more example of how the mainstream media are completely in the ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias, PLO, Yasser Arafat, Washington Post, Hamas
As the subject of Barack Obama’s friend Rashid Khalidi has gained traction in the media and the blogosphere, one of the talking points parroted by Obama apologists is that Khalidi was never a spokesman for Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization, at a time when it was listed as a terrorist ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias, PLO, Yasser Arafat
LGF reader ‘cblesz’ went to the protest at the LA Times building this morning, and reports that there were about 150 people there — and that LA Times staffers were watching from the windows, smirking and laughing at the protesters. UPDATE at 10/30/08 12:03:21 pm: The Times has settled on ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Martin Kramer has been following the career of former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi for years, and is convinced that Khalidi’s “moderation” is a sham: Khalidi and Obama: kindred spirits. Were we to see the videotape, it might give us some sense of how far down the road Obama went ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
There will be a protest outside the offices of the Los Angeles Times this morning at 10am Pacific. Details on this page: Picket LA Times.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg asks a simple question: What is the L.A. Times Hiding? There’s a video out there of Obama saying kind things about Khalidi, and on the general principle that information in an open society shouldn’t be kept secret and that the voters should make up their ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
There’s quite a bit of information on radical Palestinian professor Rashid Khalidi in Martin Kramer’s book Ivory Towers on Sand, and Kramer has made the book available for free in PDF form: Ivory Towers on Sand: the download. Here’s a direct link to download the book.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
A PUMA blog has done some good investigative work, and pieced together a verified guest list for that party for Rashid Khalidi: The Khalidi Tape: Putting the Bits and Pieces Together with New Details. Verified Information Location: Burbank Manor, 6312 W 79th St., Burbank, Illinois Time: Friday, August 1, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Debbie Schlussel thinks the source of the Los Angeles Times’ suppressed video of Barack Obama toasting former Arafat associate Rashid Khalidi may be Ali Abunimah, of the anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada. It’s certainly plausible.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Dirty Harry’s Place has a letter from Dune Capital Holdings, offering a $150,000 reward for the videotape of Barack Obama toasting former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi. UPDATE at 10/31/08 8:35:34 am: Several readers have emailed to say that this story appears to be another hoax.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Doug Ross has received a tip from a reader he says has been reliable in the past, with some inside information on the videotape that the Los Angeles Times continues to hide: Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
You’re not going to believe this one. I certainly don’t. McCain campaign accuses L.A. Times of ‘suppressing’ Obama video. “The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
The John McCain campaign is demanding that the Los Angeles Times release the videotape of Barack Obama toasting former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi, at a party attended by radical Palestinian activists and former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The Los Angeles Times has pulled their editorial heads ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
At the Washington Post, Howard Kurtz takes notice of the Los Angeles Times’ refusal to release a videotape of Barack Obama at a party for former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi (Kurtz calls him a “Palestinian rights advocate and Israel critic”). And the McCain campaign has noticed this too. The ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
This is how the Los Angeles Times has chosen to respond to requests to release the Obama-Rashid Khalidi videotape, courtesy of an LGF reader. To paraphrase: “No, we’re not going to release the video. Go away.” From: Readers Rep Date: Monday, October 27, 2008 16:14 Subject: RE: Not ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
Andrew McCarthy picks up on the Los Angeles Times’ outrageous suppression of a potentially explosive videotape: The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape. Why is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a videotape of the 2003 farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack Obama lavished praise on the ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
We’re calling on LGF readers to contact the Los Angeles Times and their advertisers to demand that the Times release the videotape they are concealing, showing Barack Obama at a party with radical Palestinian activists, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn, being praised by former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi. They’re stonewalling, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
The Wikipedia page for Rashid Khalidi is being edited to cover up Barack Obama’s associations with the former PLO spokesman: Revision history of Rashid Khalidi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
The Bookworm Room has put together a list of contact addresses for the Los Angeles Times’ advertisers and owners, to ask them to demand that the Times release the video of Barack Obama being praised by former PLO spokesman Rashid Khalidi at a party attended by Obama, radical Palestinian activists, ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
At Australia’s Daily Telegraph, Tim Blair says: “Peter Wallsten, hand over that tape.” Referring to this: The LA Times is hiding an incriminating video of Obama with radical Palestinian professor Rashid Khalidi. Contact the Los Angeles Times and demand that they release this video. UPDATE at 10/26/08 12:24:05 pm: Please ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias
In December 2003, Barack Obama’s friend Rashid Khalidi appeared on the Arabic version of Al Jazeera and let the mask drop completely, in a bigoted, antisemitic rant against the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Dr. Rashid and Mr. Khalidi. By God, I say that the participation of the ...
Election 2008, Barack Obama, Rashid Khalidi, Militant Islam, Los Angeles Times, Media Bias