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LA Times Won't Release Video of Obama Publicly Praising Former PLO Operative Rashid Khalidi
Gateway Pundit via Hillary Clinton Forum ^ | 10-6-08 | staff

Posted on 10/07/2008 10:53:24 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary

Not only does Barack Obama's church of 20 years support Hamas and Hezbollah but Barack Obama also has a long close friendship and financial association with suspected former PLO operative and Israel hater Rashid Khalidi. Last night Sean Hannity dared to report Barack and Michelle Obama's radical associate and friend:

Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi's anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.

In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.

Although he is described as a former PLO operative, via Free Republic, this is what Rashid Khalidi has to say about Palestinian terrorism against Jews:

On Palestinian violence. Khalidi glorifies anti-Israel violence as contributing to “political enlightenment”[vii] and unsurprisingly admires those who carry it out. His loyalty to Palestinian terrorist groups run so deep that he actually dedicated his 1986 valentine to the PLO, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives . . . in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.”[viii] The book whitewashes PLO violence against Israelis and Lebanese, as well as the Syrian occupation. The LA Times wrote an article about Obama's association with Rashid Khalidi in April:

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." The LA Times acknowledged it has a video of this tribute Barack Obama gave to the Khalidis at their going away party. But, the LA Times won't release this video before the election. It's hard to imagine that they would hold onto a video of Sarah Palin praising an anti-Israeli radical and former PLO operative... But, that is today's mainstream media.

Tom Maguire has more on this radical friend of Barack and Michelle Obama.

UPDATE: The LA Times may not release the video of Obama praising a good friend and former PLO operative but they did publish an attack on John McCain's military service today. Barack Obama was never in the military, of course.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; democrats; elections; khalidi; nobama08; obama; rashidkhalidi
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We need to bombard them with emails and calls. This is CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 posted on 10/07/2008 10:53:24 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary
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To: Anti-Hillary
I'm sure if they had a similar tape of Sarah Palin praising the guy they'd hang onto it too. At least until the Pulitzer committee met.

I honestly used to think that 1992 was the worst case of media manipulation I'd ever seen in politics. This campaign makes that one look positively above-board.

2 posted on 10/07/2008 10:56:43 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Anti-Hillary

And only 7 years later this country would even consider voting for this man.


3 posted on 10/07/2008 10:56:52 AM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Anti-Hillary

We need to get operatives into every MSM outlet and stat.

This is supposed to be the media informing the public, not influencing elections! No better than Al Jazeera.


4 posted on 10/07/2008 11:00:08 AM PDT by autumnraine (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: autumnraine

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/Talkradio/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=5&page=19


5 posted on 10/07/2008 11:02:15 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (`Pontius Pilate voted "Present")
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To: Anti-Hillary

The Klein Example
Editorial of The New York Sun | February 18, 2005

If the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, is still trying to figure out the right way to handle the crisis over the Middle East studies department there, one good move would be to give the New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein, a call. When The New York Sun’s Julia Levy broke the news that one of Columbia’s notoriously anti-Israel professors, Rashid Khalidi, was going to be paid to train New York City schoolteachers on how to teach about the Middle East to impressionable school children, the city’s education department dropped Mr. Khalidi faster than one could say Yasser Arafat.

“Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for DOE teachers and he won’t be participating in the future,” Mr. Klein’s press secretary, Jerry Russo, said in a statement.

In that straightforward sentence from the City of New York is encapsulated more sense than anything Mr. Bollinger or his team of Columbia colleagues have been able to muster so far in months of dealing with Mr. Khalidi & Co. The Columbia president has responded to the scandal there by appointing committees and task forces, by hand wringing about the First Amendment, and by paying calls around the city to reassure Jewish leaders that he won’t tolerate bigotry on campus.

In contrast, the City of New York responded by promptly severing whatever relationship it had with the professor. It was plain to the city authorities that Mr. Khalidi shouldn’t be training city schoolteachers.


6 posted on 10/07/2008 11:04:36 AM PDT by jessduntno (Good Grief.)
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To: jessduntno

Link for the above;

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/klein-example/9477/


7 posted on 10/07/2008 11:05:54 AM PDT by jessduntno (Good Grief.)
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To: Terry Mross
It's the radical news media and the indoctination of our kids by radical teacher's run a muck that have brought us to this point.

We have to find ways of creating new markets to counter this crap from the left.......AM radio and FOX have gone a long way to get out the truth but we need to address the issues of the radicals polluting our school systems by demanding vouchers....everywhere! It the only way I see of breaking their precious monopoly in our local schools.

8 posted on 10/07/2008 11:08:32 AM PDT by thingumbob (McGenius-Palin beats O'bomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
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To: jessduntno

I’ve been thinking that we might ought to swallow our pride and start bombarding Bill Clinton with e-mails. Akppeal to his “legacy” and ask him to save our country. He has the power to do it. He hates obama and his ego would be stoked to stop forward and bring down this POS.


9 posted on 10/07/2008 11:09:59 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: thingumbob

I am tired of the media doing this injustice to the American people. We have the right to know everything and make up our own minds and not have the liberal loser media do it for us. This is another socialist principle and attempt at mind control.


10 posted on 10/07/2008 11:09:59 AM PDT by LegalEagle61 (If you are going to burn our flag, please make sure you are wearing it when you do!)
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To: Anti-Hillary

CONTACT THE LA TIMES AND DEMAND THEY RELEASE THE OBAMA VIDEO OF HIM PRAISING KHALIDI!

readers.rep@latimes.com
ph 1:(877) 554-4000
ph 2: (213) 237-5000

Use their form: http://www.latimes.com/services/site/la-comment-national-cf2,0,5329431.customform?sId=National


11 posted on 10/07/2008 11:11:08 AM PDT by AmericanGirlRising
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To: Anti-Hillary

Can someone file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against them?


12 posted on 10/07/2008 11:13:06 AM PDT by rintense (Chuck Norris wears Sarah Palin pajamas.)
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To: Stillwaters

Media bias alert


13 posted on 10/07/2008 11:13:32 AM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
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To: Anti-Hillary

Sean is AWESOME and FEARLESS... Kudos to this man


14 posted on 10/07/2008 11:19:53 AM PDT by NYC Republican (In furiate the MSM- vote for Palin/McCain)
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To: LegalEagle61
I wonder if we could go after these b@st@rds under the freedom of information act?

That would be an interesting angle (especially since the left keeps saying the Constitution is a living document)........they would claim copyright and we would claim right to know and the people's greater good .....who would win depends on the court that hears it.

15 posted on 10/07/2008 11:21:53 AM PDT by thingumbob (McGenius-Palin beats O'bomber-Hide'n (Remember, dead terrorists don't make more terrorists!))
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To: AmericanGirlRising

thanks for the link....email sent!


16 posted on 10/07/2008 11:41:07 AM PDT by Wonderama Mama
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To: Anti-Hillary

They’re just waiting for the Sunday edition just before the election so as to maximize it’s effect. Isn’t that how they always handle these high-impact political stories? /sarc


17 posted on 10/07/2008 11:43:17 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: Anti-Hillary

I am astounded to find this on a Hillary website.

I have to say, Hillary made a HUGE tactical error when she did NOT attack Obama on his associations. She would have beaten the crap out of him.


18 posted on 10/07/2008 11:47:04 AM PDT by Danae (Read my Lipstick: I AM Sarah Palin)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

FReeped


19 posted on 10/07/2008 11:51:30 AM PDT by Danae (Read my Lipstick: I AM Sarah Palin)
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To: thingumbob

Nope, FoIA only applies to the government.


20 posted on 10/07/2008 11:55:22 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (For real change stop electing lawyers: Fighter-Pilot/Hockey-Mom '08.)
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