Cow-Towing
Kowtowing
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 ...
Kowtowing
What The Los Angeles Times is doing —
is COMPLETELY ILLEGAL !!
I’ve thought alot about people calling Obama the Messiah and I realized that if were really a Christian he would be the first to say, Do not call me that. I am not the Messiah.
But he does not, his form of Christianity is very strange to me.
Wow! She’s the best. :-)
National Journal can't afford to hire a homeschooled journalist?
Exactly! Thank you:)!
According to one source, this is likely the source:
“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 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”
This blog has done an excellent job of piecing together both the LA Time article and an old NY Sun article mentioning the event in passing in 2005:
http://blog.changeandexperience.com/2008/10/khalidi-tape-putting-bits-and-pieces.html
These are the people who likely attended:
1. Rashid Khalidi (is the main reason this event was held)
2. Arab American Action Network (AAAN, founded by Rashid Khalidi)
3. Barack Obama (who gave a special tribute)
4. Mona Khalidi (Rashid Khalidi’s wife)
5. Local Palestinian Leaders
6. Not In My Name (left wing anti-war group)
7. Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada)
8. Bill Ayers (ex-Weatherman domestic terrorist)
9. Bernadine Dohrn (ex-Weatherman domestic terrorist)
10. Gihad Ali, A poet
11. Richard Daley (Mayor of Chicago)
12. The Sanabel Debka dance troupe
People need to call the LA Times , editor Russ Stanton. I just did..
Must be easy for McCain and Palin.
Barry and his minions are a wealth of new material everyday.
But it's too late for that now. We can only hope that Sarah Barracuda somehow manages to drag the elderly white-haired guy across the finish line next Tuesday.
It's the pro-infanticide kind.
1. Rashid Khalidi (is the main reason this event was held)
2. Arab American Action Network (AAAN, founded by Rashid Khalidi)
3. Barack Obama (who gave a special tribute)
4. Mona Khalidi (Rashid Khalidi’s wife)
5. Local Palestinian Leaders
6. Not In My Name (left wing anti-war group)
7. Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada)
8. Bill Ayers (ex-Weatherman domestic terrorist)
9. Bernadine Dohrn (ex-Weatherman domestic terrorist)
10. Gihad Ali, A poet
11. Richard Daley (Mayor of Chicago)
12. The Sanabel Debka dance troupe
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So ... the crowd at the cantina in Mos Eisley on Tatooine got nuthin on this gang, right?
ping
Scream it at him:
Russ Stanton
work
202 W 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90012-4105
(212) 237-7196
Job title: Innovation Editor
Company: Los Angeles Times
This Khalidi radical is on your Obama Ties List. Have you updated it lately?
I seriously love this woman.
LA Times Toll free number will be at www.schnittshow.com this afternoon. It’s getting lots of calls.
How are the PUMA’s doing? Go PUMAs!
Maybe Todd Schnitt is the first victim of The Fairness Act?
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