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White House party crashers and Khalidi Rashidi associates, Tareq and Michaele Salahi are insisting that they did not crash the fete but were invited guests. This revlation came during a whinefest on NBC’s Today show. The publicity obsessed couple hoping to score a show on Bravo are now bleating about unwanted attention. “Everything we worked for . . . for me 44 years, it’s been destroyed,” according to Michaele. This from the couple who managed to run the family business into the ground and are defendants in multiple lawsuits for not paying the bills for their lavish lifestyle. Predictably, the...

Not only did they pose for a previous photo with Barack Obama, one of them, Tareq Salahi, has ties to some of the same radical Arab interests that backed Obama. WorldNetDaily reports that Tareq Salahi served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine (ATFP), where Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi served as vice president. Khalidi was a close friend and associate of Obama. Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has a Google cache identifying Tareq Salahi as a member of the ATFP. Amid all the questions about the actions of the Salahis, it must also be...

Evidently, the well dressed White House party crashers were allowed into the White House to get them in out of the rain. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss), chair of the House Comittee on Homeland Security announced plans to hold a hearing about the White House party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi. The fun seekers will be “invited” to testify, according to the Washington Post: “The Committee plans to invite testimony from Mr. and Mrs. Salahi, who managed to attend portions of the State Dinner without proper White House and Secret Service clearance, and Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, who is responsible...

Ostensibly, White House party crashers Tareq Salahi and his wife could facilely be dismissed as another pair of publicity infatuated cretins. Commentators have been quick to compare them to the deranged Balloon Boy parents, desperate for fame at any price. Obamanutz devotes an entire chapter to the putrification of our pop culture that has spawned and enabled this kind of narcissism. Two strangers getting access to the President of the United States is disturbing enough by itself. We were told early on that Salahi is “half Palestinian.” That’s not the half of it. The Salahi’s are deeply in debt as...

President-Elect Obama's Palestinian Buddy Rashid Khalidi sat down on the Radically Left radio show Democracy Now. You might remember Khalidi, it was a tape of his "Going Away Party" Featuring Barack Obama the LA Times refused to release during the campaign. Khalidi has been described as the former PLO Spokesman. Calling him a spokesman is like saying Jabba the Hut has a slight weight and/or slimy skin problem. As Reported by WND: Khalidi director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO was based in Lebanon and committing scores of anti-Western attacks...

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip. THE GAZANS Most of the people living in Gaza are not there by choice. The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and villages outside Gaza like Ashkelon and Beersheba. They were driven to Gaza by the Israeli Army in 1948. THE...

Biased Middle East studies professors are nothing new, but what about a professor who actually states in his course syllabus that he has no intention of presenting a scholarly, balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict? This is how Vassar College history professor Joshua Schreier introduces the syllabus for his fall 2008 course, "The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict": Students should keep in mind that this course is NOT designed to present "an objective" account of a "two-sided" conflict. The fact that there are supposedly two sides does not obligate us to portray each as equally right and/or equally wrong. The...

As the red-and-blue posters start to fade, this bit of Big-Brotherism comes along: US president-elect Barack Obama is to make the first YouTube address to the nation on Saturday, recording a talk not just on radio but also on video, a spokesman said Friday. “President-elect Obama will record the Weekly Democratic Radio Address on video and radio,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said. “The address will be turned into a YouTube video which we will post on www.change.gov,” the official website of the Obama transition team, he said. “No president-elect or president has ever turned the radio address into a multi-media opportunity...

A curious thing has happened as Americans were choosing their first black president. Democracy suddenly ceased to be a bad word for many genuine democrats in the Middle East. In the aftermath of the war on Iraq and as part of President George W. Bush's attempts to win the hearts and minds of Arabs, a public democracy campaign was launched aimed at injecting Arabs with the democracy virus. Millions of dollars and years later, the effort had been pronounced a failure. Democracy salespeople had a problem selling their goods while the Bush administration was occupying Iraq, supporting the continued occupation...

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): From: [redacted] To: [redacted] Sent: Mon Oct 27 18:28:41 2008 Subject: Please release Khalidi’s 2003 tapeDear Madam or Sir,It has come to my attention that the LA Times in in possession of a tape recording a 2003 farewell party for Rashid Khalidi. In an article, the LA Times said:“The...

‘It is this world … where white folks’ greed runs a world in need[.]” Barack Obama was writing his memoir, Dreams from My Father, and quoting his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Wright is a racist proponent of Black Liberation Theology, a Marxist creed that depicts America as an imperial, terrorist, apartheid state. It was a black-separatist creed that Obama and his wife, Michelle, chose to make a core part of their lives. Year after year, they attended Wright’s Trinity Church. They contributed tens of thousands of their personal dollars to it — and Obama added tens of thousands more when he...

Per Debbie Schlussel Peculiar Detail About L.A. Times Reporter Who "Watched" Tape As you know, the Los Angeles Times refuses to release a tape of Barack Obama at a dinner honoring his good buddy, anti-Israel Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, at which anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poems and statements were made.We know why they refuse to release it: it shows Obama doing something really bad, and they don't want us to see it. Now, Reader Yochanan tips me off to this from Doug Ross, quoting one of his sources: Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can't release it is because...

How many ill-fated stories do we have to hear about Obama’s numerous character flaws or how he conveniently overlooks the most obvious evils in his laundry list of dirty life-long associations before we conclude that this guy is in no way suited for a leadership role even at the lowest levels of society? His selective memory is frightening at best. It’s as if half of the nation is under a hypnotic spell. I believe the new term for this phenomenon is “hope-nosis.” In Obama’s own words, he had no idea what he was doing in a life filled with an...

This is the weekend when Americans set clocks back an hour for daylight savings time. Thus, I guess it's only fitting that, given all the current fuss about the Los Angeles Times's refusal to make public even a transcript of Senator Obama's love fest with Professor Rashid Khalidi and his ilk (no doubt, Jews included), I'll turn the clock back as well...but almost three decades. You see, Fox News means well, and while most of the mainstream media in general is either ignoring the story or downplaying it, Fox--and even the McCain people themselves--miss the real problem. It's not that...

"Conga the LA Times" Monday, November 3, 2008 9AM – NOON FreedomMarch.org is continuing the LA Times protest to inspire the newspaper to finally release its Khalidi-Obama video. Senator Obama was allegedly taped toasting former PLO spokesperson, Rashid Khalidi. Please join us for an hour, or all three, to demand that the LA Times fully disclose all information regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama. "Conga the LA Times" Monday, Nov 3, 2008 9AM - NOON. Bring your own flags, cameras, and signs. Travel via Metrolink is recommended. LA Times HQ 202 West 1st St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 The Los...

Skin Deep USweekly Staff We liked Oprah. We liked Obama. When the two joined forces in 2007 we were excited. What new ideas and innovative solutions would these two produce? Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine they would produce the show we saw on the trail in South Carolina. Obama angrily rallied crowds with "they shot us with hoses" and "they set dogs on us". Oprah said having Barack Obama as President of the United States would be "living the dream". "Us against Them" and "We shall Overcome" were themes. It was uncomfortable and disturbing. Since then we've...

We need all hands to jump on this ASAP. Major Freep Mon 11-3-08. Please spread fast. (We're getting friendly media coverage and bloggers galore.)Here's a partial press release: "Conga the LA Times" Monday, November 3, 2008 9AM – NOON FreedomMarch.org is continuing the LA Times protest to inspire the newspaper to finally release its Khalidi-Obama video. Senator Obama was allegedly taped toasting former PLO spokesperson, Rashid Khalidi. Please join us for an hour, or all three, to demand that the LA Times fully disclose all information regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama. "Conga the LA Times" Monday, Nov 3, 2008 9AM...

Obama Served On The Board Of The Woods Fund When It Contributed $75,000 To Mona Khalidi's (AAAN) At Whose Conference in June, 2002 Rashid Khalidi said “…Killing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law.They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different.That’s resistance.” "The New York Sun has obtained an audio recording of a speech Mr. Khalidi gave on June 7, 2002, at a conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. " "While condemning violence against innocent civilians, which Mr....

Post as many links exposing ObamaNation on Digg as possible between now and the election! FLOOD THE PLACE WITH ARTICLES AND VIDEOS EXPOSING OBAMANATION! It’s all about VOLUME (and FReeping them so they don't get buried)!!! To find Digg links on FR, simply type "Digg" into FR's keyword search box. To make sure they can be found, type Digg into keyword section of any "FReep this Digg" post. Also remember, if you have time, saturate Digg with conservative articles/videos exposing the ObamaNation! --------- CONFUSED? What do I mean by "Digg to the top"? Click on the article link that leads...

An anti-American geyser erupted December 5 at a daylong Columbia University conference, entitled “US Imperialism in the 21st Century.” The university’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society and co sponsored the event with its controversial Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures program to honor MEALC founder, the late polemicist Edward Said. [snip] Neither Columbia nor the taxpayer-funded TV and radio networks publicize Khalidi’s reverence for the memory of mass murderers like Black September terrorist Abu Iyad [1] or his support for violence: Palestinian society “comes through during these uprisings,” he said in October 2000. “It is civil society that...

Fox News reports that Rashid Khalidi wrote a 1991 obit of Salah Khalaf (also known as Abu Iyad): "Abu Iyad will be sorely missed by the Palestinian people to whom he devoted his life."

Second news story confirms Obama and Ayers at Rashid Khalidi tribute dinner and a commemorative book signed by the guests

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Republican National Committee: While Teaching At The University Of Chicago, Obama And Khalidi Developed A "Longtime Relationship": "[O]bama's Longtime Relationship With Columbia University Professor (And One-Time PLO Adviser) Rashid Khalidi Has Provoked Speculation In The Israeli Press That He May Be Secretly Anti-Zionist. Another Chicago Academic Ally Of Obama's Is Professor William Ayers, A Weather Underground Radical In The 1970s." (Gene Lyons, Op-Ed, "Obama Gives Opponents Plenty Of Ammunition," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2/20/08) Rashid Khalidi Dined Regularly With The Obamas In His Hyde Park Home. "For years, the Obamas...

5/25/04: "We're nowhere near that toxic no-nothingism in any Arab media. You couldn't possibly get anyone to watch something that was as blindly, blatantly biased as Fox television."

WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama...

Many others have surmised that the Los Angeles Times is running interference for Barack Obama, declining not just to provide the tape of the Rashid Khalidi goodbye event which Obama attended in 2003, but a complete transcript. It is reasonable to ask what could have been so bad about the event. What could possibly have been so objectionable about the speeches or proceedings that might concern voters at this late date? Well, the original Times report gives us only the sketchiest account. But now we have a video of a complete Khalidi lecture from June 2007. It is quite an...

Earlier this month, six months after the original story was published about Barack Obama's ties with Palestinians and Jews, people started calling and sending e-mails to the L.A. Times urging the paper to "release the video." A few notes became a flood of more than 15,000 e-mails by Wednesday morning calling the paper un-American, partisan and worse after Sen. John McCain's campaign accused The Times of "suppressing" a videotape. The e-mails to The Times included links to an Oct. 25 blog post that said The Times was "hiding incriminating" information. Most who called and e-mailed seemed not to have even...

As you all know, the Los Angeles Times is holding hostage a tape of Barack Obama at a 2003 Arab American Action Network (AAAN) dinner at which his friends, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn were in attendance.. It's the story I started when Los Angeles Times plagiarist/"reporter" Peter Wallsten ripped off my January column on Barack Obama's Nation of Islam staffers and friendship with AAAN founder Ali Abunimah. Debbie Schlussel But here's what you haven't yet heard: that a kids' dance troupe that appeared at the event has a history of simulating beheadings and stomping on American, Israeli,...

Blood libel hosted at Barack Obama's official site is consistent with Obama's alleged genocide accusation As reported at Israel Insider and Townhall.com, Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”This statement by Barack Obama is 100 percent consistent with the anti-Israel blood libels that he welcomes at My.Barackobama.com, over which his campaign staff exercises editorial control. "Obama Foreign Policy Dream Ticket:...

Video here. Classic line when she refers to the flag pin, an "accessory" Obama dislikes. Anyone who has pictures of Sarah Palin, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Laura Ingraham, and other both principled and attractive conservative women, please post them all here. Who can post the most? Let the contest begin.

Imagine if 4,000 people – mostly academics proclaiming to be “friends and colleagues” of Professor Eric Rudolph – published a letter defending that terrorist’s association with John McCain, praising his role as a distinguished faculty member in education at a premier university, and willfully ignoring his past as a domestic terrorist. While this particular scenario is easy to dismiss as absurd and unfeasible, that is exactly what has happened regarding Bill Ayers’ association with Barack Obama.

The refusal by the Los Angeles Times to release the videotape featuring Barack Obama's farewell toast to Rashid Khalidi has thrust the Columbia University professor and activist into the center of the presidential campaign, creating particular interest in his ties to Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Liberals have defended Khalidi as a "respected academic," and amid all of the political noise and accusations flying back and forth between the two camps, it's easy to see how some voters would tune out when conservatives refer to him as a former "PLO spokesman." But without engaging in the semantic debate over what...

Despite Obama Campaign Denials, Long-Standing Relationship Exists

RASHID KHALIDI * Professor of Middle East Studies at Columbia University * Former PLO operative * Has justified as legitimate Palestinian "resistance" that results in death of armed Israelis * Rejects the possibility of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and Director of the Middle East Institute (MEI) at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. In his role as MEI Director, Khalidi presides over a $300,000 annual grant from the federal government. He ranks among the most prominent members of the Middle Eastern studies community...

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Do you really want the Rashid Khalidi videotape that the Los Angeles Times refuses to release? OK, then here's how to either get the videotape, or at least make Obama look bad: ask Obama to help get the tape released.No, really: go to an Obama appearance and ask him this question: When will you be calling on anyone who has a copy of the Khalidi videotape to make it publicly available? If you won't be issuing that call, why not? Get his answer on video, and then upload that to Youtube. Then, contact Drudge. At the very least, asking this...

The meme being circulated by the Obama mafia says that the Obama-Khalidi association really isn’t any big deal. Otherwise, why would John McCain have given over $400,000 to a Palestinian group that Khalidi worked with? It’s true that McCain distributed several grants, including one worth about half a million dollars, to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, or CPRS, a West Bank organization once associated with Khalidi. What the 0-bots fail to mention is that CPRS is pro-Western and can be characterized as pro-Israel.Khalidi left CPRS. The Khalidi organization Obama helped fund as a board member for a nonprofit,...

Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5rmJU4hxm0

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 their excuse now; another reader forwarded the email he received from Gary Weitman, spokesman for the Times’ parent company Tribune: Mr. Smith, I’m sorry you feel this way. I understand this may be frustrating to you. Allow me to explain further. Protecting confidential sources and standing by agreements made in...

There is a building in Los Angeles which used to house a newspaper called the Times. The Times has gone out of business and the building has been converted into a brothel. The company was good enough to offer the journalists retraining and new jobs and they are now working there, male and female, as whores. The company decided on this direction when they realized they could no longer masquerade as a newspaper since they were suppressing a news item, a video showing Barack Obama partying it up with a number of prominent Jew bashers and unrepentant terrorists. The journalists-cum-whores...

While Sam Zell is selling out the future of his own people by refusing to release the tape of Barack Obama toasting known anti-Semite and PLO functionary, Rashid Khalidi, I have been fortunate enough to receive a probable transcript of the toast… HERE IT IS: ****BEGINNING OF TRANSCRIPT*********** Um, ah….Salaam Um….My distinguished guests….ughh….it is an honor to be here… uhh….It is truly refreshing to be surrounded by such a large group of people in which…uh.. I can truly see eye-to-eye with…uh…and completely agree… Reverend Farrakhan..ughh…great to see you tonight…you always look great in a yellow bow-tie…and..uhh…tonight is no exception…. Bill..Bernadine….I...

The Los Angeles Times has a copy of the tape, but won't release it because they said the source--whom I believe is Arab American Action Network (AAAN) founder and anti-Israel Palestinian activist Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada--required it not be released as a condition of sharing it. That's because it likely shows Obama applauding an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel poem that was read at the dinner.

WITH polls showing a tightening presidential race, a bombshell might tip the balance - and that bombshell's name could be Rashid Khalidi. The Los Angeles Times has possession of a video of Barack Obama addressing a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was leaving Chicago for New York City, where he was to assume the Edward Said Chair of Arab Studies at Columbia University. Also at the dinner: Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, former bomb-planting members of the Weathermen.

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By Binyamin L. Jolkovsky JewishWorldReview.com | For the last week, this site has been receiving mail -- lots of mail -- asking that we somehow shame the Los Angeles Times into releasing a videotape they admit to having that shows then Illinois state Sen. Barak Obama praising Rashid Khalidi, the one-time PLO spokesman/adviser during a 2003 farewell party in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, he became the head of the Middle East Studies Department at Columbia University. At what turned out to be a "Jew-bash", Obama, who the polls say will likely be the next leader of the Free World, chose to...

Too bad Obama wasn't wearing a pair of expensive Neiman Marcus pumps at the Khalidi dinner; then the tape would be all over the main stream media right?

The Los Angeles Times has been a huge part of Barack Obama's rocketing to fame and power. It was the Los Angeles Times that sued, persisted and insisted that Jack and Jeri Ryan's child custody files be unsealed in 2004. It was the the Los Angeles Times that insisted their family records be made public against the wishes of both the Ryans, whose agreed-upon intention was to protect their special needs son. Ryan volunteered their divorce records for public scrutiny. It's a totally different story today. Jack Ryan, you'll remember, had emerged from a tough IL GOP primary as the...