Should the LA Times Release the Obama/Khalidi Tape?

from JoeUser Forums

The LA Times, a very liberal newspaper, has a copy of a tape of Obama and another terrorist supporter (how surprising) Khalidi.  There is already a $175,000 reward for the tape, and supposedly it's very damaging to Obama.

The LA Times is refusing to release the tape, and the demand for them to release it is quickly growing.  Of course, if this was McCain or Palin, it would never have been released, it would have been placed everywhere, but once again the media is covering for Obama.

We have someone running for President who is an unkonwn.  He has a shady past, with several instances of "missing time" that he will not account for.  We need to know more about this man.  We need to see this video!

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Maybe their saving it for the impeachment.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Nitro, reply 1
Maybe their saving it for the impeachment.
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Yea right!  Hard to impeach when your head is up Obama's ass.

SHould they?  Yes.  Should they be made to?  no.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, if witholding this video without arguing against it does not make people wonder, then I say let Obama win and let people get what they deserve. I hear Mexico is nice during January.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Sight, the free fall this site is in. That this rubbish gets featured.

Khalidi is no terrorist supporter, but someone who is (very) sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

If you want proof that he is no terrorist, look to the money McCain (rightly) approved as part of his Senate commision work to Khalidi's organization.

Furthermore the tape is withholden because the person who provided the LATimes with the tape requested it. So the LATimes is just keeping its word.

Case closed.

 

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Furthermore the tape is withholden because the person who provided the LATimes with the tape requested it. So the LATimes is just keeping its word.

Case closed.
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Uh, can you show where they did that every time before?

Case re-opened.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Khalidi is no terrorist supporter, but someone who is (very) sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.
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Then why doesn't hew come forward to clear it up? If he supports the PLO fine, other in the US do as well. Don't you think the voter has the right know Obama's associations? Heck it might even push some undecided Muslims to vote for him. Do most of Americans have to wait until he's president to learn what he real is all about?

Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top

You know what, associasions are important, you're right. So let's put it out there who is really associated with Khalidi....

John McCain is associated with Khalidi, and there is a money trail.

Obama may have only been in the same room with Khalidi. But in the 1990's when McCain was the Chairman of the International republican Institute, that organization gave $448,873.00 to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies which was co-founded by Khalidi.

Sarah Palin has said on numerous occations in the past week that Khalidi has ties to the PLO.

Well by using that logic, then John McCain has funded a terrorist orginazation. If Obama's being in the same room with Khalidi means he's "palling around with terrorists", then what does that make John McCain?

John McCain is the money man for the PLO.

 

 

Now, you see how these Rovian politics work?

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

if there is nothing damaging on the tape, then why doesn't Obama make a very public request to release the tape? he has nothing to hide, right?

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

BigDaddyCoolID, those are some very serious accusations that would change my mind on mccain... do you have any source or verification other then your word?

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

PS. I ask that on all accusations, made of mccain or obama... I have yet to see damning evidence against mccain, but i have seen against obama (among many fakes attributed to obama unjustly. Which if anything is hurting the cause because of it)...

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

I am really starting to wonder wether this tape really exists, or it's not just another conspiracy theory invented by some conservatives. Why would the LA Times not release such tape? It's in their economical interest to do so: you've got a scoop.

The sheer rumor of a tape is ennough to hurt Obama, because if LA Times denies the existence of such tape, many people will simply say it got destroyed, and LA is actively pro-Obama. It's a simple ploy where your target is in a lose-lose situation.

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

I am really starting to wonder wether this tape really exists, or it's not just another conspiracy theory invented by some conservatives. Why would the LA Times not release such tape? It's in their economical interest to do so: you've got a scoop.
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Not by conservatives - by the LA Times.  I think they enjoy the spotlight (as they get 3rd string behind the NY times and washington post).  YOu could be right, but if it was conservatives, the LA times would not be saying they cant release it - only that they did not have it.  If they denied it existed - yes, it would look like a VWRC issue.

Reply #13 from PolMach Forums Top

BigDaddyCoolID, those are some very serious accusations that would change my mind on mccain... do you have any source or verification other then your word?
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Well if you google John McCain Rashid Khalidi you get a lot of results detailing their "relationship".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-video_thuoct30,0,744362.story

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/30/fact-check-does-group-mccain-chairs-have-link-to-columbia-professor-khalidi/?eref=politicalflipper

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/IRIForm9901998.pdf

That last one is the copy of the IRS filing that the International Republican Institute made. The evidence is on page 14, and it is grant # 5180.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

The Huffington post?  Get real!  Try some at least non lunatic sites (and the Chicago one is good - as it has nothing about McCain and Khalidi).

Reply #15 from PolMach Forums Top

Uh, if you read the entire article, you will find this near the bottom:

McCain also has connections to Khalidi.

During the 1990s, while McCain served as chairman of the International Republican Institute, the group distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including a $448,873 grant in 1998 to his Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.

And, since 1993, when McCain joined IRI as chairman, the group funded several studies run by Khalidi's group in the Palestinian territories, including more than 30 public opinion polls. Khalidi helped found the center, "an independent academic research and policy analysis institution."

"Instead of giving lectures on media bias," LaBolt said, "John McCain should answer why, under his own chairmanship, the International Republican Institute repeatedly funded an organization Khalidi founded."
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And when you mean "non-lunatic sites" you're talking about, what, FIXED News?!?

Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top

personally, id like to see what tipped everybody off to the tape in the 1st place. sure LA could have denied its existance to protect Obama, but since they didnt, they are getting all kinds of publicity.

Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

And when you mean "non-lunatic sites" you're talking about, what, FIXED News?!?
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If you think a blog site run by left wingnuts is a news site, then I guess everyone right of Mao is a right wing nut to you.

Get real!

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

If you think a blog site run by left wingnuts is a news site, then I guess everyone right of Mao is a right wing nut to you.
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One of the biggest problem with the ideological schism in America right now is that everybody see his own news source as "moderate and true" while he sees the other's as "propaganda". Doc, you can't win this one, nor can he.

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

One of the biggest problem with the ideological schism in America right now is that everybody see his own news source as "moderate and true" while he sees the other's as "propaganda". Doc, you can't win this one, nor can he.
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ONly with the wingnuts.  At least here at JU, blog sites are not considered authoratative, especially ones taht only allow lunatics to post.