Why Is The L.A. Times Refusing to Release Tape of Obama Praising Khalidi
Posted on October 30, 2008
Filed Under Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, Mainstream Media |
It’s a very simple question. The answer lies in two parts. The first and most important reason is simply the content of the alleged tape. It doesn’t paint a positive picture of Barry. It’s more evidence of his associations with radicals.
The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and ’80s.
According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a “friend and frequent dinner companion” of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.
In the article — based on the videotape obtained by the Times — Wallsten said Obama addressed an audience during a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was Obama’s colleague at the University of Chicago, before his departure for Columbia University in New York. Obama said his many talks with Khalidi and his wife Mona stood as “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases.”
But on the tape, according to the Times, Obama said in his toast that he hoped his relationship with Khalidi would continue even after the professor left Chicago. “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 second reason the L.A. Times won’t release this tape is that the paper just so happened to endorse Barack Obama on October 19. So you see they can’t let this tape out because it portrays their beloved candidate in a negative light.
Media bias–what media bias?
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