(Just joking....I don’t really believe all that stuff!)
Posted on 04/23/2010 11:14:16 AM PDT by opentalk
Given the extraordinary sudden turnabout in US policy toward Israel under the Obama Administration, I have become obsessed by the repressed 2003 videotape of Rashid Khalidi and Barack Obama. That tape — or so we are told — is ensconced in a safe at the Los Angeles Times building. In the current situation, its release by the paper is more important and newsworthy than ever.
The Khalidi tape could be of tremendous significance in revealing the provenance of Obama’s views on the Middle East and the degree to which the public was misled on those views during the presidential campaign.
I am writing to solicit the help and ideas of Pajamas Media readers for seeking the release of the tape to the public. But first a little background, if your memories are as foggy as mine can be.
Rashid Khalidi — a Palestinian-American historian known for his strong pro-Palestinian opinions — is currently the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia and director of that university’s Middle East Institute. After Khalidi received this Columbia appointment in 2003, a farewell dinner party was held in his honor in Chicago. A videotape was made of that party where many good things were said about the Palestinian cause and many bad things about Israel. Then Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama was in attendance, as were, some say, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
Why? The answer is obvious, isn’t it? Had the LA Times made that tape public prior to the election, Obama would have not won the presidency.
“Why Is the L.A. Times Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape?”
Do you really have to ask???
Now this is getting interesting!
The night we learned of Obama’s snub of Bibi at the WH, I predicted here that if this kept up, it was just a matter of time before the tape leaked.
Why not pursue the Ali Abunimah lead. Most human beings have their price.
I’d contribute to that!
This is going to turn out like the show “24”. I can see it now....
This guy is going to disappear all of the sudden.
(Just joking....I don’t really believe all that stuff!) ;>
(Just joking....I don’t really believe all that stuff!)
Because tehy are Obama lapdogs like the rest of the media.
bump
Free the Khalidi tape!
You would think they could be shamed into honest reporting, but alas, they appear to have no shame.
Why Is the L.A. Times Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape?
Duh.
Why? Because the LA Times could care less about the US and us.
~~PING!
Excerpt:
I am writing to solicit the help and ideas of Pajamas Media readers for seeking the release of the tape to the public. But first a little background, if your memories are as foggy as mine can be.
Rashid Khalidi — a Palestinian-American historian known for his strong pro-Palestinian opinions — is currently the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia and director of that university’s Middle East Institute.
After Khalidi received this Columbia appointment in 2003, a farewell dinner party was held in his honor in Chicago. A videotape was made of that party where many good things were said about the Palestinian cause and many bad things about Israel.
Then Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama was in attendance, as were, some say, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.
That tape, as Leon DeWinter reminded us, was given at some point by an unknown person to Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times.
Wallsten then reported on some of its contents in a brief LAT article of April 10, 2008 titled “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama.”
Perhaps because it was so attenuated, that article engendered a cry for the release of the full tape.
What really happened at the party? What was said? How did Obama react?
People wanted to know more details of the Middle East views of the presidential candidate. But the LAT was effectively mum and sequestered the tape in its safe.
In response to a charge of suppression of information by the McCain campaign, the paper’s editor Russ Stanton said:
“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.”
Makes me sick. Makes me sickER.
I can understand keeping the promise not to reveal the souce. That’s pretty routine for these media guys. But to agree not to release the information in full, that is not so usual, I don’t think.
That’s like saying I’ll give you the Pentagon Papers so long as you never reveal what’s in them.
Everyone with a brain knows full well that Obama hates Israel. It is obvious he hates ALL our allies.
I rekon it wouldn’t take much to get a copy of it.Dems are crooked as hell, just the right person, a few strokes, and a little cash and you would have a copy of it.
Fact is people don’t care. We have enough about Obama to know exactly what a treasonous ba$tard he is. Our work is to get rid of him now, and that is going to be easy. We don’t really need the tape. We already can see Obama’s views on Israel in his implimented policies.We just need to focus the citizens who want the POS gone.
The media in this country is beyond hope now. They are nothing but corrupt propagandists for the marxist regime in power.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.