The Los Angeles Time reports that it’s received the video, but a conversation Jim Hoft had with the reporter indicates that the paper won’t release it. Here’s what the LAT reported:
“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.
BO praises Khalidi during the dinner. So what about the tape? Hoft writes:
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 I asked him about the video he said that as far as he was concerned he was through with the story.
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.
The LA Times has video of Obama praising a PLO operative at a Jew-bashing event and won’t release it. Just to protect Barack Obama’s campaign. Unbelievable.
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26. October 2008 at 1:46 pm
That’s okay. I’m sure if they had video of…say…Sarah Palin being blessed by a witchdoctor, they would withhold that as well. Surely.
30. October 2008 at 9:20 am
I have no idea what happened to the once sanctified profession of journalism? The way No-Bama has been handeled with total kid-gloves from the biased media, has been farcical. I am staggered by how low the level of intelligence has dropped in our country too, and the sheer neglect of many to even make mention of this simple fact?
To be fooled so easily by this scam artist (Obama) speaks volumes for the way the masses think. How dangerous.
Looking at stooges like Chris Matthews (who even trumps Joe Biden with his fawning lunacy), and his incessant stupifying comments, and even drooling and spitting as he so often does like an unruly child during so much of his “commentary” all-the-while, proclaiming such unfounded praise for a phoney lawyer-like “politician” like Obama, is actually sickening for me to watch. I have to change the channel.
Obama has done absolutely nothing to even deserve a run at the highest office in our land. The only criteria he has met as far as I know, is the age requirement of 35 years? He is a dangerously inexperienced, radical socialist, who is depending solely on the ignorance of young minority voters, who are beeing mentally conditioned by radical professors in our country and brainwashed with empty promises of “freebies” to vote for him. Not even knowing the destruction that higher taxes and bigger government will ultimately do to America.
I am shocked at the level of corruption too, with so much voter fraud. If any Republican was involved in ANY of the many nefarious activities that the Obama camp is associated with, they would not even be able to continue their campaign for the presidency. They would be instantly decimated and forced to resign their candidacy.
Everday our country looks and sounds more and more like Cuba or parts of South America to me.
Pathetic.