LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist - FOXNews.com Elections
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.
Click here to read the original LA Times story: 'Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama.'
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."...
Let's keep it moving, folks. Nothing to see here. Just a guy I worked with at the college. Heck, I was only in my twenties or thirties when this guy was the spokesman for a terrorist organization. How was I supposed to know what he stands...err...uh... stood for way back then?
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Unfair! Senator McCain kept company with radicals and enemies of America in the 1960's for over 5 years IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY! This is well-documented but rarely mentioned by the press!
McCain's whole campaign is chock full of oil lobbyists. Take a look at the record of major oil companies in the third world and then tell me that McCain doesn't associate with terrorists.
Currently Chevron oil is in court for aiding and abetting in the slaughter of innocent Nigerians to clear a village for an oil dig. But I guess they are not militant radicals from the sixties, so slaughter doesn't count.
"Take a look at the record of major oil companies in the third world and then tell me that McCain doesn't associate with terrorists."
McCain doesn't associate with terrorists.
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