Why would the LA Times...

Perhaps it damns their guy? Fair and balanced media.... How long do you think they'd sit on this if it were the other side?

Do those blinders work well on starting gates? I've seen drag racers use them, so I was just wondering.

Oooooh you mean Obama might have attended a dinner for a fellow professor at the University of Chicago? Where other professors from the university of Chicago might be at. Or give a speech to a crowd of Arab americans where he didn't praise Israel blindly.

Yup, that there's some pretty damning evidence. Does this mean Obama's a muslim again, or is he still a bad christian? You guys can't make up your mind and I'm trying to focus my fear and hatred in the right direction, but you have me going around in circles.

Peter Wallsten from the Los Angeles Times about the article on Obama and Khalidi:

Wallston was one of the few mainstream media reporters to report on this radical Obama associate.

Wallston said that the article was written after he watched video taken at the Khalidi going away party. When asked him about the video he said that as far as he was concerned he was through with the story.

Asked if he was planning on releasing this video of Obama toasting the radical Khalidi at this Jew-bash. He said he was not releasing the video. He also would not comment on his source for the video. Wallston also said he did not know if Khalidi's good friend Bill Ayers was at the event or not.

(if there actually is one)

I read the thread topic and I read the article too.

The article was asking why the LA times wouldn't release the video and run a FRONT PAGE STORY about Obama's participation in this event to celebrate a terrorist.

I think the reason why they haven't bothered to make a news item out of it is because it's not newsworthy. It was a university function for a fellow professor. Sounds like a respected one at that.

Perhaps Andrew C. McCarthy doesn't agree with the professor's politics, but he's an expert on middle eastern affairs who was born in and works in America. He's a well respected professor who is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the Middle East, which describes itself as "a national organization of Jews, Christians and Muslims dedicated to dialogue, education and advocacy for peace based on the deepest teachings of the three religious traditions.

He's also never been a mouthpiece or adviser for the PLO. The piece was a far reaching hack job trying to link Obama to terrorists. It's pathetic and easy for anyone who can think for themselves to see through. If you didn't swallow everything that came through your inbox hook line and sinker you might have known that too.

The TFS school of reporting...

LA Times today:

The Times on Tuesday issued a statement about its decision not to post the tape.

"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," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton. "The Times keeps its promises to sources."


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-video29-2008oct29,0,5458024.story

Anybody know Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein's net worth these days?

think about it.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Khalidi is an Arab

Arabs are terrorists

Therefore, McCain funds terrorism


There you have it

That's it!

Let's just give in already. Fox news is right .. Obama is a Muslim terrorist who spent 20 years in a Christian church listening to Anit American hate speech.
All of his friends are Terrorists intent on overthrowing the US by supporting him. He is incredibly unpatriotic as are his followers. His wife has never been proud of America. He is in favor of killing babies ,infanticide ummm let's see, oh yeah won't say the pledge of allegiance and wants Israel destroyed at once. He wants to turn the US into Communist China or Socialist France (not sure which) He's is a celebrity, He of course is an Elitist and uppity. He's to smart to young and most important we don't know enough about him

Oh and Fox news and the McCain campaign are not getting personal They are only speaking to the issues that matter.