ed said anti-israel speech
Posted on 09/30/2009 9:29:06 AM PDT by thisisthetime
JERUSALEM – The Los Angeles Times has no plan to ever release a video it stated it obtained of President Obama attending an anti-Israel event in which he delivered a glowing testimonial for Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian professor who excuses terrorism.
At the 2003 event, poetry reportedly was read comparing Israelis to Osama bin Laden and accusing the Jewish state of terrorism.
"The story ran in 2008 and we pretty much said everything we are going to say about that event," Peter Wallsten, the Times reporter who claimed to have obtained the video, told WND yesterday.
Asked for details of the footage captured in the video, Wallsten replied, "I wrote an extensive article that described the event."
Wallsten referred to a previous statement from the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton, explaining, "The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it."
"The Times keeps its promises to sources," Stanton said.
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As pathetic excuses go, this one is right up there. No one gives a tape to a newspaper with such a condition. It's contrary to the reason for providing the tape.
Asked for details of the footage captured in the video, Wallsten replied, “I wrote an extensive article that described the event.”
...like what you fool!? “...after Obama realized that Israel was being picked on, he scampered from the room and denounced the terrorist in the room”!
The media are communist collaborators.
apparently they don’t recognize this as “news” in this so-called “news”paper
and someone asking for info about a story they ran in the past is just so boring...
There has been so much thrown at us lately, but the other day, I was wondering why this issue had been dropped. I hope someone is making an attempt to keep it on one of the thousand front burners. This IS relevant.
Can’t someone in the Times be convinced to expose this .. in the interest of the Nation, our liberties.. and because it’s the right thing to do? You’d think there would be one brave stealth patriot employed there, wouldn’t you??
Barack Obama’s Islamist ties to Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said and Ali Abunimah
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3602
In 1998 Obama and his wife attended a banquet at which the virulently anti Israel professor Edward Said was the keynote speaker.
btt
The sooner the LA Times goes bankrupt and ceases publication the better. Who needs this left wing rag?
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3602
Barack, Michelle, Edward and Mariam
Abunimah’s report included a photo of Obama with his wife Michelle seated at a table with virulently anti-Israeli Professor Edward Said and his wife Mariam, in what Abunimah said was a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Said gave the keynote speech.
In an interview earlier this year for the leftist radio show “Democracy Now!,” a daily TV and radio news program hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Abunimah said he knew Obama for many years as his state senator “when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time.”
“I remember personally introducing him onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank,” he recounted. “And that’s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation.”
“The media are communist collaborators.”
And we have a communist in the White House.
I never thought I would see this in the USA.
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I guarantee you that if it was turned around being a conservative that the left would find a way to disclose such. This is why republicans of today, who have no real deep convictions are & will always be on the losing side.
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