Posted on 10/29/2008 11:36:58 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Sarah Palin was just in Toledo, Ohio this morning and talked about the LA Times protecting Obama by refusing to release the tape it’s holding of him enjoying himself while anti-Semitic comments were made at a dinner honoring Palestinian Rashid Khalidi in 2003.
It feels to us like the pump is being primed for something to break on this tomorrow.
It also seems like FOX anchors know more about what’s on that tape than humanly possible without actually seeing it.
We personally believe tomorrow morning that tape will indeed be released, to steal the thunder of whatever Obama’s doing tonight on his big TV special. The exact same way McCain stole Obama’s thunder from the last night of the Democrats’ convention by announcing Sarah Palin as his VP the next morning.
Nobody talked about Obama’s speech the next day, because they were all talking about Palin.
Our hunch is nobody’s going to be talking about the Barack Obama Variety Half Hour TV Extravaganza tomorrow morning because they are going to be talking about the Khalidi tape instead — and quite possibly showing Obama nodding, laughing, and maybe even cheering as anti-Israeli remarks are made by Palestinians at this dinner.
Palin’s remarks today were very well crafted, and expertly delivered. Her choice of words was careful, deliberate, and somewhat out of normal syntax for her. We can usually spot the lines in a speech a candidate’s been given by campaign writers — and those the candidate incorporates from her or his own personal style. Everything to do with the Khalidi tape and the LA Times was straight Steve Schmidt. The rest of the speech was Palin being herself.
So, something is up with that. The speech in Toledo was on energy needs, which is not a natural point of departure for Palin to go off the reservation and start talking about Khalidi on her own. Plus, she’s too good of a politician to do that anyway, and we’ve seen her in person a handful of times (as well as watching her speeches on TV), and she’s never veered off script before. She’ll toss in little jokes to the crowd that are spontaneous and of the moment that she’s in, but she’d never just start talking about Khalidi because she suddenly felt like it.
So, we expect FOX to start airing the tape tomorrow. But, in the public’s mind, the tape’s 100% associated with the LA Times. There’s also been offers of rewards for the tape circulating the last day or two, with the price tag on that up to over $125,000 from what we last saw.
To us, that looks like great cover for someone to bring that tape forward without it smelling like an “October Surprise”, when that’s exactly what the Khalidi tape is.
There are two other possibilites that we can think of as well, which are both less likely, though plausible:
(1) There’s nothing on the tape at all, and the Republicans know it; they also know the Times won’t release it, so they are making noise about the tape just to plant doubts about both Obama and the media in the public’s imagination. Horror movies from a generation ago are more terrifying because they didn’t have the budgets to show you the aliens or monsters that lurked in the closet or deep in the woods: your imagination took care of what could be out there, and it was far worse than anything the director could have shown you. That’s why today’s CGI-fests are so unfulfilling…there’s nothing left to imagination anymore. The unreleased Khalidi tape, however, is a great mystery — it sticks in your craw and won’t go away; you’re left wondering how bad this tape could REALLY be for Obama if the Times refuses to release it because it will devastate him. So, not only do you imagine Obama doing all sorts of terrible things at this dinner, but you also resent the media for once again protecting their favorite candidate. All of this inspires negative feelings towards Obama, and a net positive for McCain the underdog. It’s brilliant strategy, really…and watch, this is what’s going to end up being the most likely explanation for pushing the story about the Times and its mystery tape.
(2) The other possibility is that there is nothing bad on the Khalidi tape, but the Republicans want people to just think about tapes in general, which might either make them remember Reverand Wright or focus more intently on the Chicago audiotapes of Obama advocating socialism and maligning the US Constitution. Obama does not want his name appearing in the same sentence as “tape”, not when there are thousands of YouTubes out there of Jeremiah Wright damning America and talking about chickens coming home to roost. So, once again the motive behind pushing the LA Times story is for psychological gamesmanship, focusing the public on all the various tapes out there that reveal Obama for who he truly is.
Somewhat on a tangent, but we don’t see how the LA Times ever recovers from this — at this point, it should really be held in the same regard as a high school or college newsletter, and not an actual newspaper. We bet it ends up being the first major daily to end its printed run and go 100% online in the next 5 years. Because after this, people probably won’t want to even wrap fish with the LA Times. On the airwaves, MSNBC will be the first to share a similar fate. When the books are written on this campaign, the LA Times and MSNBC will be recorded as the two biggest cheerleading protectors of Obama — and we think, two of the main reasons he loses next week.
My thoughts this morning. Both Mac and Sarah hitting this hard over the past few days.
Fox has the API tape from Kenya...
IMHO, this indicates that the Clinton’s have a copy of the tape and the tape will “mysteriously” be available very soon.
I do think Obama has set himself for something big to come out right after his informercial.
A lot of people have been praying that “truth” would be revealed and God’s timing is perfect. We will have to wait and see.
To us, that looks like great cover for someone to bring that tape forward without it smelling like an “October Surprise”, when that’s exactly what the Khalidi tape is.
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Oh, baby. Please!
I do think Hillary has something.
I pray that your right and we expose the Messiah for the Bigot he resembles.
Stick a fork in Bambi. He is done.
The only thing that is going to save him are the same morons who would vote for Hitler if there was a (D) next to his name.
Sergeant Schmidt you magnificent bastard!
From your keyboard to God’s eyes!
By “the tape”, I mean the Obama/Khalidi party tape.
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
I’ll believe that when I see it. :o/
I know He’s ALWAYS watching!
I hope the LATimes announces their intent to release it to MSNBC/NBC and ABC. Then, when they refuse to to air it,a unmarked copy will “happen” to show up in the mailroom at FNC. I just want the world to see (one more time) how the MSM plays politics with the American people.
What conservative in their right mind watches or reads this garbage. How can they make money pandering to liberals only?
BUMP!
Let it be so, Lord.
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