Of course there’s something highly damaging on that tape for Obama, such as those statements, if true.
One can only imagine if there was such a tape of McCain or Palin what the press reaction would be.
At a minimum, the McCain campaign can use this matter to hit the media bias/inadequate vetting issue as well as to point out that Obama is no friend of Israel. Of course, it wouldn’t be as good of a tape with those words coming out of Obama’s mouth.
The press goes whole hog to dig and expose and ruin average Joe citizen for asking a question.
Then they go into bunker mode when something embarrassing surfaces about their Savior.
McCain, even without the tape, can smoke them out something GOOD on this.
As a journalist myself, this tape should be released.
The media today has to start realizing that the Internet has made this a conversation. We can’t horde things like this to ourselves.
Even if they got the tape on the condition they did not release it, at this point, that needs to be changed. It needs to be released. If you can’t officially release it, leak it.