Posted on 10/29/2008 11:08:12 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
McCain stays on Khalidi, L.A. Times
My colleague Lisa Lerer reports that in a morning interview with a Hispanic radio station in Florida, McCain compared Palestinian-American activist Rashid Khalidi to a "neo-Nazi" and sugggested that Bill Ayers attended a 2003 going-away party for a prominent Palestinian-American activist with Obama.
“I think the whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people. Sen. Obama said it was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know much more than that. I don’t care much about an old, washed-up, unrepentant terrorist, and his wife who was on the FBI Top 10 Wanted list,” McCain said on Radio Mambi, according to a pool report. “We should know about their relationship including, apparently, information that is held by the Los Angeles Times concerning an event that Mr. Ayers attended with a PLO spokesman. The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I’m not in the business about talking about media bias but what if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet. I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”
Khalidi and Ayers were reportedly friends in Hyde Park, though it hasn't been reported that Ayers was a guest at the 2003 party. Khalidi is widely disliked in pro-Israeli circles, where he's seen as a defender of violent resistance to Israel in the Palestinian territories. But he's also a professor at Columbia University, with many mainstream defenders. A group he led was funded by the International Republican Institute, which McCain chairs, and he has always denied McCain's charge that he was ever a spokesman for the PLO. At the time of the party, he was a professor at the University of Chicago.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Please call and demand the release of the tape:
Editor: Russ Stanton
213/237-6728; russ.stanton@latimes.com
McCain should stump that all of this is true, and dare the LAT to release the tape to prove otherwise. If they still refuse, then McCain can simply say that what he said about Obama is true or the LAT would have proven otherwise.
-PJ
I think -not- releasing the tape may be doing damage as well because there is so much suspicion surrounding the existence of the tape. It keeps people talking about it.
Publius321
Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. All the "I-wonder-what's-on-the-tape" speculation is better than the contents. Cover-up is always way more damaging than facts. Just ask Nixon.
don’t click on the politico - they are biased against McCain and have insulted Sarah Palin and are unapologetic.
Obama hates Whites, Jews, religious people, gun owners......isn’t it amazing he can be ahead in a poll of American voters?
I want to thank you for keeping the Khalidi video under wraps. After all, it is just a part of the world-wide Jewish conspiracy to take over the world, and we must stop them at all costs. I am glad you are taking a stand to support our fellow Jew Hater Barack Obama win the Presidency.But in all seriousness, if there is a second Holocaust urged on by Obama's anti-Semitism and support for Ahmedinajd, you will have blood on your hands for not releasing this tape, you Nazi.
[Name withheld]
Chicago, IL
If this really is “nothing” - Why doesn’t Obama ask for the tape to be released? It would “clear” his reputation...
He says he never heard Rev. Wright (in 20 years) speak the way we've all heard him speak. Obama only casually knew Ayers - but he had an office in the same building, served on boards with him, and helped him secure funding. And had his "kick off" into public life in Ayers apartment.
Obama says he'll protect Israel but he keeps tapes with terrorists from hitting the media. He could come clean.
If you believe the lies - rather than the facts - then he's a nice guy.
Let him prove the tape is nothing - let him request that the LA times also come clean.
Or he can request that any other person come forward with another copy of the tape. It's NOT goin' happen. YOu know it. I know it. And why? Because the tape makes him look bad.
“Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. All the “I-wonder-what’s-on-the-tape” speculation is better than the contents. Cover-up is always way more damaging than facts. Just ask Nixon.”
From that perspective, if the “cover up” is BETTER than what’s on that tape - it must be pretty friggin damaging. Hmmmm. If this were to reach critical mass, I expect an “edited” version to appear.
“Ding-ding-ding! We have a winner. All the “I-wonder-what’s-on-the-tape” speculation is better than the contents. Cover-up is always way more damaging than facts. Just ask Nixon.”
From that perspective, if the “cover up” is BETTER than what’s on that tape - it must be pretty friggin damaging. Hmmmm. If this were to reach critical mass, I expect an “edited” version to appear.
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