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The L.A. Times Suppresses Obama’s Khalidi Bash Tape

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from National Review Online....Andrew C. McCarthy

October 27, 2008 6:00 A.M.

Obama, Ayers, and PLO supporters toast Edward Said's successor, but the press doesn't think it's quite as newsworthy as Sarah Palin's wardrobe.

Let’s try a thought experiment. Say John McCain attended a party at which known racists and terror mongers were in attendance. Say testimonials were given, including a glowing one by McCain for the benefit of the guest of honor … who happened to be a top apologist for terrorists. Say McCain not only gave a speech but stood by, in tacit approval and solidarity, while other racists and terror mongers gave speeches that reeked of hatred for an American ally and rationalizations of terror attacks.

Now let’s say the Los Angeles Times obtained a videotape of the party.

Question: Is there any chance — any chance – the Times would not release the tape and publish front-page story after story about the gory details, with the usual accompanying chorus of sanctimony from the oped commentariat? Is there any chance, if the Times was the least bit reluctant about publishing (remember, we’re pretending here), that the rest of the mainstream media (y’know, the guys who drove Trent Lott out of his leadership position over a birthday-party toast) would not be screaming for the release of the tape?

Do we really have to ask?

So now, let’s leave thought experiments and return to reality: Why is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a videotape of the 2003 farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack Obama lavished praise on the guest of honor, Rashid Khalidi — former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat?

At the time Khalidi, a PLO adviser turned University of Chicago professor, was headed east to Columbia. There he would take over the University’s Middle East-studies program (which he has since maintained as a bubbling cauldron of anti-Semitism) and assume the professorship endowed in honor of Edward Sayyid, another notorious terror apologist.

The party featured encomiums by many of Khalidi’s allies, colleagues, and friends, including Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, and Bill Ayers, the terrorist turned education professor. It was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), which had been founded by Khalidi and his wife, Mona, formerly a top English translator for Arafat’s press agency.

Is there just a teeny-weenie chance that this was an evening of Israel-bashing Obama would find very difficult to explain? Could it be that the Times, a pillar of the Obamedia, is covering for its guy?

Gateway Pundit reports that the Times has the videotape but is suppressing it.

Back in April, the Times published a gentle story about the fete. Reporter Peter Wallsten avoided, for example, any mention of the inconvenient fact that the revelers included Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers’s wife and fellow Weatherman terrorist. These self-professed revolutionary Leftists are friendly with both Obama and Khalidi — indeed, researcher Stanley Kurtz has noted that Ayers and Khalidi were “best friends.” (And — small world! — it turns out that the Obamas are extremely close to the Khalidis, who have reportedly babysat the Obama children.)

Nor did the Times report the party was thrown by AAAN. Wallsten does tell us that the AAAN received grants from the Leftist Woods Fund when Obama was on its board — but, besides understating the amount (it was $75,000, not $40,000), the Times mentions neither that Ayers was also on the Woods board at the time nor that AAAN is rabidly anti-Israel. (Though the organization regards Israel as illegitimate and has sought to justify Palestinian terrorism, Wallsten describes the AAAN as “a social service group.”)

Perhaps even more inconveniently, the Times also let slip that it had obtained a videotape of the party.

Wallsten’s story is worth excerpting at length (italics are mine):

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See link for more.

So, is there any justification for an organization such as WikiLeaks?

http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/10/28/la-times-obama-video-obama-praises-rashid-khalidi/

More on the suppressed video and the relationship between these two Islamofascists, Rashid-Khalidi and 0b0z0.

http://www.bittenandbound.com/2008/10/28/la-times-obama-video-obama-praises-rashid-khalidi/

“While many remedies were suggested for reversal of this process of defeat and contraction [Ottoman Empire], the one most generally accepted by regional elites was the adoption of Western forms of government and military organization, and the reforms of education and the legal system. By contrast, others in society rejected some or all Western values. They saw the only hope for improving the situation in a return to what they believed were Islam’s original values, which they argued had once made their ancestors powerful and feared. There were many examples of such a reaction taking place in different regions and eras, from the Wahhabi movement in the Arabian Peninsula starting in the eighteenth century, to that of the Mahdi in the Sudan in the late nineteenth century, to more recent groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928.

Rashid Khalidi - Resurrecting Empire p.11

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Great article. Will bookmark along with some of the embedded URL’s on Said and Khalidi profiles.

Bump.

Sort of reminds me of the couric interview with hillary and bill that was edited.

Ernest: I am parking this photo and info here because of the photo you posted. Pinging you also in the event that you find it of interest. I did a search and have not found this photo, Twitchy post, or Free Beacon article on FR.

BTW: Here is the link to the JAWA Report for the photo you posted:

Its original source: Ali Abunimah- The Electronic Intifada, 4 March 2007

Odd that Ali Abunimah had never posted this "new" photo before 2013

May 25, 1998

#ThrowbackThursday winner: Young Barack Obama dines with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said

Posted at 9:18 pm on July 25, 2013 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

Believe it or not this is an old picture of Obama having dinner with Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abunimah: http://t.co/gP9SjMVo5S—
Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 25, 2013

We shouldn’t be this surprised to see a photo from President Barack Obama’s past that we haven’t seen before. That’s him, all right, and he appears to be dining with Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah and radical Palestinian academic Rashid Khalidi of the fabled “Khalidi tape” stashed somewhere in the bowels of the Los Angeles Times.

The photo was posted by Murtaza Hussain, a contributing writer for Al Jazeera English. The source of the photo is Abunimah, who tweeted it in March with the message, “Back when this photo of me, Obama, Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said was taken, even I didn’t expect him to be THIS bad.”

Back when this photo of me, Obama, Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said was taken, even I didn’t expect him to be THIS bad http://t.co/9mxhjObCOu—
Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 20, 2013

@mazmhussain How old is it? Doesn't look like Obama was running for President yet.—
(@Zendette) July 25, 2013

@Zendette sometime in the late 90s—
Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 25, 2013

Much as Muslims were less than thrilled with President Obama’s Ramadan greeting, this flashback isn’t sitting well.

@MazMHussain Yes, it is from May 25, 1998, when Obama was our local state senator and before he had taken his first innocent life.—
Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 25, 2013

@aliabunimah Such an unfortunate transformation he's had.—
Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 25, 2013

@MazMHussain Yes, even I didn’t see it coming at that point. But eventually I did, before many others electronicintifada.net/content/how-ba…—
Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 25, 2013

@aliabunimah Very good piece, depressing. He doesn't seem to have many real moral convictions it seems.—
Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) July 25, 2013

@MazMHussain I think he may be a sociopath.—
Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 25, 2013

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Free Beacon carried the photo and an article on March 20, 2013, the day Abunimah posted. Twitchy did not pick it up until several months later.

Obama’s Radical Dinner Date:Anti-Israel advocate tweets 'unpublished' photo taken with Obama prior to his election

One of Israel’s loudest critics released Wednesday what he claims is a previously unpublished photo of himself enjoying dinner with President Barack Obama and controversial anti-Israel professors Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said.

Ali Abunimah, cofounder of Electronic Intifada, a website often criticized for its anti-Israel and anti-Semitic viewpoints, tweeted the photo early Wednesday as Obama began his two-day trip to Israel.

The picture shows a young, pre-presidential Obama sitting around a dinner table with his wife, Michelle, as well as Abunimah, Said, Khalidi, and others.

“Back when this photo of me, Obama, Rashid Khalidi and Edward Said was taken, even I didn’t expect him to be THIS bad,” Abunimah wrote along with the photo, implying that he believes the president has been too pro-Israel during his tenure in office.

“In case you’re wondering, that photo has never been published before,” Abunimah followed up.

The photo sparked much interest on the social networking site, prompting several users to inquire when and where the picture was snapped.

Abunimah did not respond to these questions or to a Free Beacon request for more information that was sent via Abunimah’s website.

However, the photo may have been snapped at a 1998 Arab community event in Chicago. Abunimah posted a similar photo that appears to have been taken at the same event on his website in 2007.

Obama has faced fierce criticism for his ties to Khalidi and Said. Critics maintain that these relationships are a sign of Obama’s inherent distaste for the Jewish state and its policies relating to Palestinians.

Abunimah’s website is a hotbed of anti-Zionism. He has been criticized in the past for referring to Zionism as “one of the worst forms of anti-Semitism in existence today.”

Khalidi and Said are widely known for their anti-Israel views.

Obama came under fire during the 2008 presidential campaign for his attendance at a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi.

FR keyword: Ali Abunimah