Posted on 10/29/2008 11:24:46 AM PDT by pissant
BOWLING GREEN, OH - Sarah Palin joined her running mate's attacks against Barack Obama and the media Wednesday, suggesting the Los Angeles Times is withholding a videotape that shows Obama watching as a former Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman bashed Israel.
Palin departed from her stump speech to talk about Obama's "assortment of friends from Chicago." She described Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO spokesman, as "another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years." She said Obama was at a party for Khalidi in 2003, when he described Israel as the perpetrator of terrorism.
But she saved her hardest criticism for the newspaper that currently holds the tape, saying they was refusing to release it to aid Obama.
"It must be nice for a candidate to have major news organizations looking after his best interests like that," Palin said. "In this case, we have a newspaper willing to throw aside even the public's right to know in order to protect a candidate that its own editorial board has endorsed. And if there's a Pulitzer Prize category for excelling in cow-towing, then the L.A. Times, you're winning."
Palin's comments echoed criticism John McCain has voiced in recent days. The Los Angeles Times has said they are not producing the tape because it was given to the newspaper with the condition that it not be released. But the paper documented the substance on the tape in an April 2008 article.
The Alaska governor said the newspaper could restore its credibility by producing the tape.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com ...
ebonix?
... and the Arnold tapes from 2 years ago, just before the election.
to the modern neo-liberal mantra of today “THE PUBLIC HAS NO RIGHT TO THE THRUTH!!!”.
Yeah, I can see the CHANGE that this Obama crowd is bringing.
Yes, on Fox this morning they said this Khalidi is friends with Obama...much more than just “some guy in the neighborhood” ...they said he “babysat” Obama’s children.
Billybob,
I just cut’n’pasted. It’s not my spelling. I’m sure they get their copy editors from the same place the cable news guys get their chyron writers.
CNN and MSDNC are not reporting on this, but if Sarah keeps repeating this, they will be forced to!
What if they already HAVE the tape?
She’s been on fire for the last two or three days. McCain must have told the staff to lay off and let her do her thing!
Bounty on “the tape” is now up to $200K
Is there a single editor anywhere on the planet who is actually competent anymore?
You don't really need an answer, do you? LOL.
Oh she is scathing and hitting the target. You beautiful Barracuda you!!!
There is a picture of Michelle and Barack Obama sitting at a table at this event. It is the picture with Obama’s hand to his head. There is a white guy with blue shirt sitting behind Michelle. You can only see half his face but it looks like Ayers to me, he was reported to be there. He is dressed casually (I have never seen a pic with Ayres dresssed up). I tried to copy the pic and flip it to get the full face but it was too distorted. The pic is at the 3rd post in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118724/posts
SCREAM IT TO THE HEAVENS.
TELL EVERYONE WHAT’S ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey guys, I was at the Sarah Rally today in BG, Ohio with Todd and Joe the Plumber! It was great and she was perfect, large crowd with great support.
We quite cordially disagree. However, let us set aside those differences for a week and just work as hard as we can to get the McCain Palin team elected.
The Liberal media is in shock now.
McCain is closing in all the polls and gaining steam against a paper tiger, which they knew all along. Joe Klein, George Soros, Jack Cafferty, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Katic Couric, Brian Williams, David Zucker, Oprah, Ellen, NYT, LAT, WaPo, SF Chron, et al supported him knowing he was an empty suit.
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