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As the red-and-blue posters start to fade, this bit of Big-Brotherism comes along: US president-elect Barack Obama is to make the first YouTube address to the nation on Saturday, recording a talk not just on radio but also on video, a spokesman said Friday. “President-elect Obama will record the Weekly Democratic Radio Address on video and radio,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said. “The address will be turned into a YouTube video which we will post on www.change.gov,” the official website of the Obama transition team, he said. “No president-elect or president has ever turned the radio address into a multi-media opportunity...

A curious thing has happened as Americans were choosing their first black president. Democracy suddenly ceased to be a bad word for many genuine democrats in the Middle East. In the aftermath of the war on Iraq and as part of President George W. Bush's attempts to win the hearts and minds of Arabs, a public democracy campaign was launched aimed at injecting Arabs with the democracy virus. Millions of dollars and years later, the effort had been pronounced a failure. Democracy salespeople had a problem selling their goods while the Bush administration was occupying Iraq, supporting the continued occupation...

An LGF reader contacted Columbia University (and a lot of other potential sources, including the LA Times) with a polite request that they help release the tape of Rashid Khalidi with Barack Obama (the video the Los Angeles Times has ... unbelievably ... decided to suppress during a hotly contested election): From: [redacted] To: [redacted] Sent: Mon Oct 27 18:28:41 2008 Subject: Please release Khalidi’s 2003 tapeDear Madam or Sir,It has come to my attention that the LA Times in in possession of a tape recording a 2003 farewell party for Rashid Khalidi. In an article, the LA Times said:“The...

‘It is this world … where white folks’ greed runs a world in need[.]” Barack Obama was writing his memoir, Dreams from My Father, and quoting his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Wright is a racist proponent of Black Liberation Theology, a Marxist creed that depicts America as an imperial, terrorist, apartheid state. It was a black-separatist creed that Obama and his wife, Michelle, chose to make a core part of their lives. Year after year, they attended Wright’s Trinity Church. They contributed tens of thousands of their personal dollars to it — and Obama added tens of thousands more when he...

Per Debbie Schlussel Peculiar Detail About L.A. Times Reporter Who "Watched" Tape As you know, the Los Angeles Times refuses to release a tape of Barack Obama at a dinner honoring his good buddy, anti-Israel Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, at which anti-Semitic and anti-Israel poems and statements were made.We know why they refuse to release it: it shows Obama doing something really bad, and they don't want us to see it. Now, Reader Yochanan tips me off to this from Doug Ross, quoting one of his sources: Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can't release it is because...

"Conga the LA Times" Monday, November 3, 2008 9AM – NOON FreedomMarch.org is continuing the LA Times protest to inspire the newspaper to finally release its Khalidi-Obama video. Senator Obama was allegedly taped toasting former PLO spokesperson, Rashid Khalidi. Please join us for an hour, or all three, to demand that the LA Times fully disclose all information regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama. "Conga the LA Times" Monday, Nov 3, 2008 9AM - NOON. Bring your own flags, cameras, and signs. Travel via Metrolink is recommended. LA Times HQ 202 West 1st St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 The Los...

Skin Deep USweekly Staff We liked Oprah. We liked Obama. When the two joined forces in 2007 we were excited. What new ideas and innovative solutions would these two produce? Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine they would produce the show we saw on the trail in South Carolina. Obama angrily rallied crowds with "they shot us with hoses" and "they set dogs on us". Oprah said having Barack Obama as President of the United States would be "living the dream". "Us against Them" and "We shall Overcome" were themes. It was uncomfortable and disturbing. Since then we've...

We need all hands to jump on this ASAP. Major Freep Mon 11-3-08. Please spread fast. (We're getting friendly media coverage and bloggers galore.)Here's a partial press release: "Conga the LA Times" Monday, November 3, 2008 9AM – NOON FreedomMarch.org is continuing the LA Times protest to inspire the newspaper to finally release its Khalidi-Obama video. Senator Obama was allegedly taped toasting former PLO spokesperson, Rashid Khalidi. Please join us for an hour, or all three, to demand that the LA Times fully disclose all information regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama. "Conga the LA Times" Monday, Nov 3, 2008 9AM...

Obama Served On The Board Of The Woods Fund When It Contributed $75,000 To Mona Khalidi's (AAAN) At Whose Conference in June, 2002 Rashid Khalidi said “…Killing civilians is a war crime. It’s a violation of international law.They are not soldiers. They’re civilians, they’re unarmed. The ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that’s different.That’s resistance.” "The New York Sun has obtained an audio recording of a speech Mr. Khalidi gave on June 7, 2002, at a conference of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. " "While condemning violence against innocent civilians, which Mr....

Post as many links exposing ObamaNation on Digg as possible between now and the election! FLOOD THE PLACE WITH ARTICLES AND VIDEOS EXPOSING OBAMANATION! It’s all about VOLUME (and FReeping them so they don't get buried)!!! To find Digg links on FR, simply type "Digg" into FR's keyword search box. To make sure they can be found, type Digg into keyword section of any "FReep this Digg" post. Also remember, if you have time, saturate Digg with conservative articles/videos exposing the ObamaNation! --------- CONFUSED? What do I mean by "Digg to the top"? Click on the article link that leads...

An anti-American geyser erupted December 5 at a daylong Columbia University conference, entitled “US Imperialism in the 21st Century.” The university’s Center for Comparative Literature and Society and co sponsored the event with its controversial Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures program to honor MEALC founder, the late polemicist Edward Said. [snip] Neither Columbia nor the taxpayer-funded TV and radio networks publicize Khalidi’s reverence for the memory of mass murderers like Black September terrorist Abu Iyad [1] or his support for violence: Palestinian society “comes through during these uprisings,” he said in October 2000. “It is civil society that...

Fox News reports that Rashid Khalidi wrote a 1991 obit of Salah Khalaf (also known as Abu Iyad): "Abu Iyad will be sorely missed by the Palestinian people to whom he devoted his life."

Second news story confirms Obama and Ayers at Rashid Khalidi tribute dinner and a commemorative book signed by the guests

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Republican National Committee: While Teaching At The University Of Chicago, Obama And Khalidi Developed A "Longtime Relationship": "[O]bama's Longtime Relationship With Columbia University Professor (And One-Time PLO Adviser) Rashid Khalidi Has Provoked Speculation In The Israeli Press That He May Be Secretly Anti-Zionist. Another Chicago Academic Ally Of Obama's Is Professor William Ayers, A Weather Underground Radical In The 1970s." (Gene Lyons, Op-Ed, "Obama Gives Opponents Plenty Of Ammunition," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 2/20/08) Rashid Khalidi Dined Regularly With The Obamas In His Hyde Park Home. "For years, the Obamas...

5/25/04: "We're nowhere near that toxic no-nothingism in any Arab media. You couldn't possibly get anyone to watch something that was as blindly, blatantly biased as Fox television."

WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama...

Many others have surmised that the Los Angeles Times is running interference for Barack Obama, declining not just to provide the tape of the Rashid Khalidi goodbye event which Obama attended in 2003, but a complete transcript. It is reasonable to ask what could have been so bad about the event. What could possibly have been so objectionable about the speeches or proceedings that might concern voters at this late date? Well, the original Times report gives us only the sketchiest account. But now we have a video of a complete Khalidi lecture from June 2007. It is quite an...

Earlier this month, six months after the original story was published about Barack Obama's ties with Palestinians and Jews, people started calling and sending e-mails to the L.A. Times urging the paper to "release the video." A few notes became a flood of more than 15,000 e-mails by Wednesday morning calling the paper un-American, partisan and worse after Sen. John McCain's campaign accused The Times of "suppressing" a videotape. The e-mails to The Times included links to an Oct. 25 blog post that said The Times was "hiding incriminating" information. Most who called and e-mailed seemed not to have even...

As you all know, the Los Angeles Times is holding hostage a tape of Barack Obama at a 2003 Arab American Action Network (AAAN) dinner at which his friends, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn were in attendance.. It's the story I started when Los Angeles Times plagiarist/"reporter" Peter Wallsten ripped off my January column on Barack Obama's Nation of Islam staffers and friendship with AAAN founder Ali Abunimah. Debbie Schlussel But here's what you haven't yet heard: that a kids' dance troupe that appeared at the event has a history of simulating beheadings and stomping on American, Israeli,...

Blood libel hosted at Barack Obama's official site is consistent with Obama's alleged genocide accusation As reported at Israel Insider and Townhall.com, Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”This statement by Barack Obama is 100 percent consistent with the anti-Israel blood libels that he welcomes at My.Barackobama.com, over which his campaign staff exercises editorial control. "Obama Foreign Policy Dream Ticket:...