Posted on 09/21/2012 6:24:53 PM PDT by Nachum
This week, Breitbart News offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who produced the infamous 2003 tapes of Barack Obama at an event honoring Palestinian anti-Israel radical Rashid Khalidi. And today, James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times took to his keyboard today to write a diatribe defending the Times’ refusal to make public those tapes. While Rainey gives several justifications for not releasing the tape itself – guarding the source of the tape being the most prevalent – he offers no justification for why the Times refuses to offer even a complete transcript of that evening’s events.
Rainey rips the “Khalidi video mythology … which [Breitbart News] speculates will lay bare the ugly back story of Obama’s disdain of Israel … and his effusive support of Mideast radicals. Such fantastical thinking is rife not just on Breitbart.com but across the conservative Interwebs.” There is nothing fantastical about suggesting that the reason that the Times didn’t originally report Obama’s words at the event, or the more radical words of the evening, was to protect their beloved presidential candidate. Given the Times’ track record of Obama defense, it’s the only rational conclusion to draw.
But Rainey’s condescension continues. “In what will doubtless be a vain attempt to quell the bleating from the political fringe, I offer here a review of the trust history of the ‘Khalidi tape,’” he writes. What was that history that would shed light on the Times’ non-transparency? Not much. He rehashes the original Peter Wallsten story labeling Obama a quasi-moderate, without evidence to support that view. He then states:
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Mr. Rainey,
We were expected to believe chevy trucks spontaniuosly combusted by NBC, forged military records used by CBS to destroy a Republican candidate, MSM attempt to tie a mass shooting to the tea party
movement. Your words are par for the course. Non the less you are not fooling anyone-you are completely full of shit!
So we're back to the old "vast, right wing conspiracy" baloney.
It is not baloney!
The sheep are in the meadow,
repeat: the sheep are in the meadow,
Over
;)
Maybe conservative journalists don’t need the video, according this article Obama & Ayers were funding through the Woods Fund an Anti-Israel group founded by Khalidi:
In Hyde Park during the 1980s, Rashid made the easy transition from Arafat apologist to American academic. So, ultimately, did his wife Mona. In Chicago, Mona, a former top PLO translator, joined with her husband to found the Arab American Action Network, an activist anti-Israel/pro-illegal-immigration organization that was generously funded by Obama and Ayers at the Woods Fund. Later, after Rashid made the move from the University of Chicago to the Edward Said professorship at Columbia, Mona became an assistant dean of student affairs and assistant director of graduate programs at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Link at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/226220/obamas-hyde-park-its-all-family/andrew-c-mccarthy?pg=2
What’s with “interwebs”? Who says that anymore? And why should we take seriously anyone who does?
Would he “own” conservatives by releasing the video? Is this an “epic fail” for Brietbartdom?
Keyes was on the old Ed Hale radio show once and he said he could not remember the incident at all.
I guess somebody got to him, too.
If newspapers could be tried for treason, the LA Times would be at the top of the list, along with the NY Times and Washington Post.
Sometimes the truth is just that simple.
The Chicago Tribune also abetted Patrick Fitzgerald’s coverup of the Obama selling of the Senate seat to JJ Jr. when one of their journos leaked that Fitzgerald, the crook had the Governor’s phone tapped.
I have seen a report that one of his Senior staff members said it didn't happen, I have not seen anything from Keyes himself asserting that it never happened. Do you have a link?
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