I have 5 bills in my wallet right now.

Tell me the name of the newguy and I will send them out.

LOL now that made me laugh

I vehemently disagree with your presumption that anyone should "drop" this. We should know about BOTH! And once again, we know less about a presidential candidate than we do about a certain "undocumented" plumber from Ohio. In my line of thinking, the term MSM and all of its connotations, and those associated with it, are now along the lines of barely despicable scum, and hardly worth the effort to scorn their foolishness. Most of them should have their broadcast licenses revoked and be forced to apply for entertainment licenses, because there are few, very few with the onions to report NEWS anymore.

I mean, we are talking about the LA Times here, for God's sake! Not the National Enquirer. I begin to wonder if the tabloids don't deserve a little more respect. At least you know their stuff is BS. But now with a supposedly highly respected news organization, there has to be money involved to release a newsworthy story that they already HAVE? It's not like some private citizen is holding the tape and trying to make a few bucks for himself, we are talking about something that they already have. Absolutely digusting.

While your facts are correct, there is no evidence of an actual personal relationship between McCain and Khalidi.  So McCain is the Chairman of the IRI and serves on the board with like 20 other people.  The level of involvement of a board varies with every organization, but they tend to rely on the leadership team of the organization (Pres, etc.) to make the normal operating decisions, which in this case is deciding where to allocate their available resources.  It is highly improbable that McCain himself researched each group that received funding.  He would have relied on other people to do that research and at most, would be working off of high-level summaries to keep up to speed.  Did McCain know of the grant to Khalidi's group?  Probably, through a top-level review of the organizations activities; but did he meet the guy and toast him at a Jew-bashing party?  Not very likely.  So there is really no comparison between McCain's relationship to Khalidi and the one Obama shares.

Regardless, that is only one of the problems with the issue at hand.  The other, and perhaps slightly more important, is the very fact the Times is withholding this newsworthy video.  In essence, if their duty is to relay news and hold people/gov't accountable, they are breaking their duty by supressing evidence.  In the end, that will spell their demise.

   He is a good good good little socialist pushing socialist huffington propaganda! He was spoon fed soviet propaganda when he was young and now has a special silver spoon for his propaganda special just for you gullibles. Yummy J. Yummy!

For Immediate Release
October 29, 2008

Washington, DC – “Questions have arisen regarding the International Republican Institute’s (IRI) work with Palestinians in the 1990s.

“In the 1990s, IRI gave grants to the Center for Palestinian Research and Studies (CPRS) for polling in the West Bank/Gaza. The polls measured support for the peace process, for various Palestinian political groups, and for efforts to enhance governance in the West Bank/Gaza. At that time no other organization could credibly conduct polling in the West Bank/Gaza.

“We understand that Rashid Khalidi was one of the many founders of CPRS, and we understand that he was for some (unclear) amount of time a board member. IRI did not in the 1990s conduct background checks of grantees’ founders or board members. IRI did on a number of occasions vet CPRS as an organization, including, as was our custom, with the Israeli government, and we were given no cause for concern.

“We do not recall any contact between Mr. Khalidi and IRI, and there is no evidence that Mr. Khalidi benefited in any way from IRI's grants.

“Other organizations that reportedly gave funding to CPRS include the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for International Private Enterprise, the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, the Japanese Embassy, and Germany’s Friedrich Naumann Stiftung.

“IRI’s relationship with CPRS ended in 2000, and we understand that it no longer exists.”  

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

That's enough for me!  I'm convinced.

I mean, how many times have we all heard on national tv Sen. Obama saying "You like no?"  Everyone agrees he is very inarticulate.

And the fact that the first settlers of Illinois were French Arcadians - who knew?  And the fact that they could influence a young Barry Obama across the nation or the world?

To quote Al Franken, "Wow!"

I certainly would agree with you - you've got an exclusive here!

Very interesting.

But all this really seems to show, unless there's more to it, is that Obama had a ghost writer with Chicago roots like Ayers', or else he had a heavy-handed editor who with those same speech patterns.

I'd LIKE to think McCain could get traction out of this, but it sounds too much like right-wing kool-aid, much more rare than the left-wing kool-aid.

   Rover

Don't give up so fast. There have been well over a million people that have died defending this great nation. Nobody in their right minds would let all those die for nothing.

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Juan Williams was just on Foxnews saying that it probably helps McCain more not to have the tape released, and I agree.

If it was released, who's going to show it?  PBS?  ABC?  SeeBS?  Let's be serious.

McCain can get more millage out ofhammering LAT for not releasing the tape.  I hope they hold that tape until at least December.

"Dewey defeats Truman ! "  --Chicago Tribune, 1948