The mainstream media are willfully ignoring many questionable ties and friendships of Barack Obama. The list does not end with the radical racist preacher Jeremiah Wright and unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers. They have totally ignored Obama campaigning for the socialist revolutionary Raila Odinga in Kenya. They have also ignored his ties with radical Islamic extremist Khalid Al Masour.
LA Times takes things to the next level. They are going beyond the level of ignoring to the level of willfully witholding informative evidence from the public. The associate of Barack Obama in question this time is Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative and best friend of William Ayers. The LA times has a video of Barack Obama toasting this friend of his while attending a Jew bashing dinner, and they are refusing to release the video to the public.
Gateway Pundit has the scoop and what I summarize here is lifted from him.
Here is a video that explains his history and ties with Obama. He is a long time friend of Obama and shares a mutual friend, Bill Ayers.
Barack Obama funnelled thousands of dollars of cash to Rashidi’s anti-Israel Foundation through his work on the Woods Fund.
In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to “political enlightenment,” threw a fundraiser for his friend Barack Obama.
LA Times writer Peter Wallsten wrote about Barack Obama’s close association with former Palestinian operative Rashid Khalidi back in April.
“During the dinner a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, “then you will never see a day of peace.”
One speaker likened “Zionist settlers on the West Bank” to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been “blinded by ideology.”
….His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases… It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”
…The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times.
Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) talked to Peter Wallsten from the Los Angeles Times about the article on Obama and Khalidi on Wednesday.
I asked him if he was planning on releasing this video of Obama toasting the radical Khalidi at this Jew-bash. He told me 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.
So, the LA Times has video of Obama attending a Jew bash and toasting a radical former PLO operative, and they are not sharing it with the public. I think we all know they would immediately release the tape if it were Sarah Palin making the toast.
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If not for double standards
October 25, 2008 - 15:48 ET by bigtimerIf not for double standards the media would have no standards at all.
My hair is on fire I am so hot right now!
Something has to be done about this...Fox is our only hope as far as networks go...radio I hope catches fire with this too...Hannity, Rush, Levin and others...
This is just another unbelievable act of looking the other way for their messiah...and as far as I am concerned...an enemy within...that has so may ties with enemies world-wide that it is spooky!
The msm won't even look into his foreign campaign contributions.
God help us all if this man gets elected.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Evening, bt....do you think
October 25, 2008 - 19:50 ET by motherbeltEvening, bt....do you think they have realized that this could turn out to be the October Surprise??
Not going to go back and find it but I had quoted someone this AM who said the media has gone far beyond simple bias and are now actually acting as advocates for Barack Obama.
I thoroughly agree with your last sentence.
Odinga
October 25, 2008 - 15:51 ET by Josh SNThe election in late 2007 in Kenya was close. The exit polls showed that Odinga had won. No group from America pushed harder to denounce the results than the Republican Party's IRI.
The EU and US got together and (basically) pushed a power-sharing agreement on Kenya. This power-sharing agreement created the office of Prime Minister, and gave it to Odinga.
If Odinga is such a radical socialist, why did the Bush administration try so hard to give him power in Kenya?
Here is the BBC's rundown of power-sharing agreement.
"If Odinga is such a
October 25, 2008 - 18:14 ET by ckc1227"If Odinga is such a radical socialist, why did the Bush administration try so hard to give him power in Kenya?"
Yeah, I'm guessing it's because his supporters were killing folks over his loss. They weren't pushing to put him in power because they wanted him in power, they were pushing for a solution to stop the violence. That's why it's called a power SHARING agreement.
By the way, exit polls don't decide who wins. Ask John Kerry.
Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.
Already did.
October 25, 2008 - 15:53 ET by superconSo, the LA Times has video of Obama attending a Jew bash and toasting a
radical former PLO operative, and they are not sharing it with the
public. I think we all know they would immediately release the tape if
it were Sarah Palin making the toast.
I have watched a video of Sarah Palin welcoming the Alaska Indepence party to a convention.I believe it was picked up by the media.
I can't say that I'm surpised however as they also wouldn't touch the Edwards story until he confessed. I think what is more interesting is how the rest of the media will ignore this as well.I read about this a week ago so I know it is out there.There is a nation wide media lockdown on anything that will hurt Barack Obama.If only our Congress could be this united.
Victory in Iraq.
Liberals suck.
McCain for Preznint.
Biden Warning
October 25, 2008 - 16:02 ET by flyingmonkeyObama has made it crystal clear that he plans to sit idly by if Israel is attacked by it's enemies. I believe that Obama has taken a lot of campaign funding from the Middle East in exchange for a position of neutrality. This could be what Biden was referring to when he said an international crisis would happen in the first six months and that we would not like how Obama was handling it.
I hope Obama isn't so naive as to believe that Israel will meekly allow itself to be "Pushed into the sea." They have over 150 nukes and I hope to God they have the nerve to use them.
Let's face it. It doesn't
October 25, 2008 - 16:06 ET by suzycreamcheeseLet's face it. It doesn't matter what is dug up from Obama's past or present, the media doesn't care, his groupies don't care, and therefore the information won't reach the masses.
Obama probably doesn't break a sweat whenever a whiff of any impropriety on his part is mentioned. He knows half of America won't ever hear about it. I don't know how journalists these days can stand to look at themselves in the mirror.
Hi suzy... Easy...they
October 25, 2008 - 16:20 ET by bigtimerHi suzy...
Easy...they aren't journalists, they have no integrity and they work for the leftist party...therefore they sold their souls long ago.
I agree with all of your sentiments in your post too...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
From the beginning, I have
October 25, 2008 - 16:14 ET by mostlymoderateFrom the beginning, I have always been open about my dissatisfaction of both Obama AND McCain in general. I think the Democrats were screwed in not getting a competent nominee and the Republicans were screwed in not getting even a MODERATE Republican. However, I am baffled everyday at the utter disregard for fairness and accuracy in the media. We KNOW that if this had been McCain at the same Jew-bashing event, the media would be on it like a duck on junebug.
Bottomline: it isn't that I hate Obama so much as it is the fact that he gets a free ride through this whole campaign which means as President he will have a free ride as well. It's non-democratic, unAmerican and dictator-like.
I have lost all confidence in the American media as well as the democratic process of this nation. The media is destroying 200+ years of hard work!
This is disgusting, but not
October 25, 2008 - 16:16 ET by AuH20girlThis is disgusting, but not surprising.
Whether he wins or not (and I'm keeping faith that the American people are too smart to elect him), we're going to find out a helluva lot about him after the election. And it's not going to be pretty.
All this stuff the media is sitting on is going to come pouring out.
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Sigh
October 25, 2008 - 16:17 ET by Fist of EtiquetteDamn, this site is depressing.
Which Jews were bashed at the Obama Jew Bash Fest?
October 25, 2008 - 16:18 ET by Lame CherryIn the posting it only showed the settler Jews who were bashed. In that, those are mostly American Jewish settlers who answered the call of that fine Prime Minister Begin to settle the land and keep it for the Israeli state.
These are religious Jews for the most part from America and are for the most part the Jews targetted by that "Jew" George Soros who is making treaties with Hamas after the Jews are driven out of the West Bank where he can go in and drill for oil and plunder the minerals there.
This is all backed by "Jews" like Olmert and his European "Jewish" benefactors in the Rothschilds.
In cutting the crap, these "Jews" are communist and marxist like Obama and not Sephardic Judah children with Levi and Benjamin nor the poor Ashkenaz who are converts.
Jews are being sold out today by the same financiers that sold them out in 1939 who were communists. This is where you hear that term NEOCON from as it is Jewish civil warfare inside the ranks in Marxist secular "Jews" spitting at neocons or new reformed communist Jews like Bill Kristol's people are out of and Richard Pearle.
I do not like using the term Jew as it is too all blanket and incorrect literally. Henry Ford gets lambasted fro talking about International Jews........the real term is globalist or communist. Of course pointing out all of the above on sites like Pipes, Spenser and Horowitz get you banned, but there is something very wrong in Soros stoking things up in Georgia so the Russians invade and you want to know who the Russians drove out? JEWS from the Israeli state doing business there.
America almost got into a nuclear exchange with Russia, because Soros who is Obama's supporter and Brzezinski stoked the fuel there to drive Israeli business Jews out of there and away from the pipeline running there all so Soros could get his hands on it.
So it is vital to understand which Jews Obama is bashing as it sure isn't his benefactors who tanked the stock market for him which is a high crime. These Marxist blacks love Marxist Jews and love Marxist Muslims as they are all the same.
Not one word though from meathead Reiner on this or any other American secular Jews. Read the news reports in Soros declaring war on the American Jewish lobby.
What do you think Jesse Jackson was warning Jews about in Obama is going to end their power. Jackson knows these Marxists and he is not one of them.
So clarify "Jews" as this isn't Jews it is communists like Obama.
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Holy Mackerel
October 25, 2008 - 16:28 ET by Josh SNIs this sort of stuff tolerated at NewsBusters?
Its an opinion and like all
October 26, 2008 - 00:40 ET by Dan The Man 2Its an opinion and like all of us here LC has one. I sure hope it is accepted here not just tolerated. Free speech is a trail mix bag and sometimes the nuts get in with the rasins and MM's. And sometimes an opinion may just be the thing you need to get the old noggin to think.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
One doesn't have to accept (
October 26, 2008 - 07:58 ET by motherbeltOne doesn't have to accept ( to give admittance or approval to) an opinion to tolerate (to allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction) it.
One doesn't have to accept
October 27, 2008 - 04:16 ET by Dan The Man 2One doesn't have to accept ( to give admittance or approval to) an opinion to tolerate - I agree one does not have to accept the premise of an idea or action or that of being to tolerate. I accept LC's posts yet don't disagree with them (don't really read many), I go beyond toleration.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
THANK YOU!
October 25, 2008 - 16:33 ET by mostlymoderateTHANK YOU!
If you're so smart -- tell
October 25, 2008 - 17:08 ET by ThisnThatIf you're so smart -- tell me. Why, then, wouldn't Obama and the Times want the video released? Huh?
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Three Groups of Jews
October 25, 2008 - 22:29 ET by Gat New YorkThere are 3 groups of American Jews:
1. Pro-Israel Jews
2. Marxist secular Jews you referred to
3. Intellectually lazy Jews
The 3rd group are the most predominent who have been life long Democrats who take the word of the media at face value as well as Democratic mantra. They have no idea of the depth of Obama relationships with anti-Israel radicals. They also have no idea that every one of Obama's foreign policy advisors are anti-Israel advisors.
The 2nd group are socialists and you will find a few of them as front pagers on Daily Kos.
Unfortunately there is not enough of the first group and when McCain refused to use Wright as an issue it handed the Jewish vote to Obama.
A friend of mine who is an
October 25, 2008 - 23:30 ET by stratmanA friend of mine who is an Iraeli-American told me that:
My friend also said that despite his Israeli and European friends telling him for years that Americans are stupid about politics, he never felt that way until this election.
Given the elevation of Obama, I now have to agree that too many Americans are blissfully ignorant about politics. Unfortunately, the rest of us suffer for their incompetence.
Obama and a bulletproof Democrat Senate and House will will harm this country for years.
Israel
October 26, 2008 - 06:09 ET by Gat New YorkPolls that have been conducted in Israel show that they have been overwhelmingly opposed to Obama.
In fact the current Prime Minister situation reflects the american election. The Israelis could balance the American presidency with a stronger Prime Minister. Livini so far canot bring together a coalition cabinet which could open up a general election and the possibility of Benjamin Netanyahu who is a hawk.
Obama is a Jew hater?
October 25, 2008 - 17:07 ET by wdhorningThe fools of the world will vote for Obama. Does this include Jews?
Look, Obama could hold a
October 25, 2008 - 17:34 ET by KevpotLook, Obama could hold a baby in his arms on live television, snap its' neck, and the media would say, "That's not what it appeared to be folks, that baby was going to die anyway"
Well, you do know how
October 25, 2008 - 17:36 ET by bloolooWell, you do know how Ahmadinejad (and friends) feel about Israel and
it occupants and the imams have made it painfully clear that they are
hoping for an Obama victory. If the shoe fits...
"The fools of the world
October 25, 2008 - 18:18 ET by ckc1227"The fools of the world will vote for Obama. Does this include Jews?"
Yes, American Jews anyway. But so are a lot of white people, despite him sitting in a racist church fro 20 years. We are officially living in la la land.
Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.
Well, if a copy was given
October 25, 2008 - 18:21 ET by ckc1227Well, if a copy was given to the times upon request, maybe someone else should request a copy too, someone who won't sit on it.
Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.
Well, if a copy was given
October 29, 2008 - 09:18 ET by Jinx McHueWell, if a copy was given to the times upon request, maybe someone else should request a copy too, someone who won't sit on it.
Agreed. I cannot believe that the LA Slimes copy is the only copy in existence.
Disgusting
October 25, 2008 - 20:12 ET by stratmanWe may not be allowed to see the Jew bashing supporter Obama video, but we can still see a video which documents Obama's intersecting relationships with Khalid al-Mansour, Tony Rezko, William Ayers, Percy Sutton (former attorney of Malcolm X) and others.
Sutton appears to be the fulcrum that assisted Obama admission into Harvard Law School as well.
We are witnessing the world's biggest coup d'tat in history, all without a drop of blood shed.
Folks ...
October 25, 2008 - 22:08 ET by Dave PierreThis is a HUGE story.
If there is any integrity left in the MSM, they will be all over this.
Like John said, if this were Sarah Palin, this video would be front-page news.
The LAT has been on a Palin-bash for the last two months, and they withhold this Obama video. 'Nuff said ... Bias, bias, bias.
The "Palestinian" hoax ...
October 26, 2008 - 06:29 ET by Jaykeis being adopted by the leftists in this country because they have the same goal as the Mohammedans. The weakening of individual freedoms in the West. What the left doesn't realize is that Mohammedans are far more ruthless and these whiners will be the first ones to be silenced by the new Caliphate. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Having friends like the Mohammedans can be murder. Just ask Obama's handler Khalid Al-Mansour and his main benefactor Al-Waleed.
There is a email that is
October 28, 2008 - 15:19 ET by goonThere is a email that is going around that we can send to the LA Slimes and demand that they release the video. Of course they wont because they are in the tank for NOBAMA.