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Name:	PikeSki -	Reply
Subject:	LA Times phone number - email
Date:	10/29/2008 1:09:04 PM

In case any one is interested. Here is the number for the LA Times. Please call them to demand that they publically release this video of Obama and another one of his terrorist buddies which shows Barack Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet at his home:

Los Angeles Times
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 237-5000
Fax: (213) 237-7679

readers.rep@latimes.com

Name:	lowpool -	Reply
Subject:	LA Times phone number - email
Date:	10/29/2008 1:20:07 PM

Thanks...I emailed them and sent the info out to my entire contact folder...

Name:	mbk -	Reply
Subject:	LA Times phone number - email
Date:	10/29/2008 1:46:15 PM

If you want to read the LA Times article from April 2008 go to
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamamideast10apr10,0,1780231,full.story

A few excerpts that are important to me. You may choose different ones.

" . . . the warm embrace Obama gave to Khalidi, and words like those at the professor's going-away party, have left some Palestinian American leaders believing that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say.

Their belief is not drawn from Obama's speeches or campaign literature, but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association with the Palestinian American community in his hometown of Chicago, including his presence at events where anger at Israeli and U.S. Middle East policy was freely expressed."

In Chicago, one of Obama's friends was Khalidi, a highly visible figure in the Arab American community.

In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. In the early 1990s, he advised the Palestinian delegation during peace negotiations. Khalidi now occupies a prestigious professorship of Arab studies at Columbia.
While teaching at the University of Chicago, Khalidi and his wife lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood near the Obamas. The families became friends and dinner companions.

In 2000, the Khalidis held a fundraiser for Obama's unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, a social service group whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from a local charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, when Obama served on the fund's board of directors.

Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada . . . in a Times interview and on his website, said Obama seemed sympathetic to the Palestinian cause but more circumspect as he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004. At a dinner gathering that year, Abunimah said, Obama greeted him warmly and said privately that he needed to speak cautiously about the Middle East.

Abunimah quoted Obama as saying that he was sorry he wasn't talking more about the Palestinian cause, but that his primary campaign had constrained what he could say.

What more needs to be said? Remember about a month ago when I said "look at what politicians have done, not what they say they will do".

Name:	NautiMinded -	Reply
Subject:	A Flame?
Date:	10/29/2008 2:37:24 PM

Seriously?
Grow up and wear your big people panties.

Name:	NautiMinded -	Reply
Subject:	From the Washington Times
Date:	10/29/2008 2:48:34 PM

October 29, 2008, 1:26 pm
McCain Accuses L.A. Times of Holding Back Obama Video

Laura Meckler reports from Miami on the presidential race.

John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, today accused the Los Angeles Times of withholding a videotape of an event that he asserted was attended by both Barack Obama and 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers. The campaign has repeatedly argued that Obama has not been straight about their relationship.

The videotape, described in an April L.A. Times story, was of a 2003 banquet honoring Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian activist and scholar. At the dinner, Obama spoke of their friendship and how much he had learned from him.

On Tuesday, a McCain spokesman first called on the newspaper to release the videotape, saying it would shed light on the relationship between Obama and Khalidi. Today, McCain repeated the call in an interview with a Cuban radio station, accusing the newspaper of bias and asserting that Ayers was at the event as well—a point that has not been reported anywhere. Palin made the same points from the stump.

The newspaper said it had promised the source who provided the video that it would not publish it.

McCain accused the Times of covering up the information.

“We should know about their relationship including, apparently, information that is held by the Los Angeles Times concerning an event that Mr. Ayers attended with a PLO spokesman,” he told WAQI, also known as Radio Mambi. “The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I’m not in the business about talking about media bias but what if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet, I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”

In Bowling Green, Ohio, Palin issued a blistering attack on the newspaper, the latest charge of media bias from the McCain campaign.

“Maybe some politicians would love to have a pet newspaper of their very own,” she said. “In this case we have a newspaper willing to throw aside even the public’s right to know in order to protect a candidate that its own editorial board has endorsed. And if there’s a Pulitzer Prize category for excelling in kowtowing, then the LA Times, you’re winning. But it’s not too late, and if there is an ounce of credibility there, if the newspaper wants to keep that shred of credibility, let alone its dignity, than I say the public has a right to know. Let’s go to the videotape, LA Times.”

In a story published today, the newspaper said it did not publish the tape itself because it was provided by a confidential source on condition that it not be released. “The Times keeps its promises to sources,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton.

Jamie Gold, the newspaper’s readers’ representative, said in a statement: “More than six months ago the Los Angeles Times published a detailed account of the events shown on the videotape. The Times is not suppressing anything. Just the opposite — the L.A. Times brought the matter to light.”

McCain also used the matter to bring back his charges about Obama’s relationship with Ayers, which Obama has said is casual. “It’s not that Barack Obama was 8 years old when Mr. Ayers was committing acts of terror,” McCain said. “It’s all about the long relationship on foundations…launching his political career in Mr. Ayers’s living room.”

It was not clear whether Ayers was actually at the dinner. Asked for evidence that he was, McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb pointed to a 2005 New York Sun story that mentioned that Ayers had offered a testimonial to Khalidi that was included in a book created for the farewell event, held to mark his departure from Chicago to take a job in New York, where he is a professor at Columbia University.

Asked whether that story really shows that Ayers was at the dinner, Goldfarb said: “We want to know what happened at the dinner–you all need to report the answers.”

Name:	NautiMinded -	Reply
Subject:	LA Times phone number - email
Date:	10/29/2008 2:51:35 PM

I emailed it as well and I tried to call LA Times....they must be getting swamped with demands, I couldn't get through.

Name:	DirtDiva -	Reply
Subject:	LA Times phone number - email
Date:	10/29/2008 3:31:28 PM

I also emailed them and passed this info on. It would be nice to know the "real" truth.

Thanks for sharing!

Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	I love irony.
Date:	10/29/2008 5:13:33 PM

It appears that the entire video has been described in detail, so what could the video show that the description dioesn't? There has to be reason it HAS to be kept secret. I think it is because whoever shot the video would be betrayed by showing it. That person should be afraid, very afraid, if it gets out, but apparently they know this, hence the vow of secrecy.

Now the irony is, by not releasing it, they are doing the one much more harm, not to mention themseves and the MSM in general.

Name:	mbk -	Reply
Subject:	I love irony.
Date:	10/29/2008 5:34:18 PM

Swimmer, you are usually "right on" but what if the video conflicts with the written story? What if OBama actually made pro-PLO comments? What if other people were there? What if ? ? ?

Name:	Swimmer27 -	Reply
Subject:	I love irony.
Date:	10/29/2008 6:00:02 PM

Thats why I say it is causing more contrvesary by being secret. 100% agree.

What if............

If it is as has been reported it would daminate the news cycle for one day then go away. This story may have legs.

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	I love irony.
Date:	10/29/2008 8:51:35 PM

My sources have confirmed that the Committee to Elect Obama has authorized the LA Times to release the video to FOX on November 5, 2008. It appears that some ACORN volunteers are manning the phone bank. The best hours to call according to my source is between 2AM-5AM PST. For those in Alabama wondering to convert to Central Time, just add 2 hours.

Emails must be in Spanish to be read.

Name:	MythBuster -	Reply
Subject:	Khalidi?
Date:	10/29/2008 9:36:48 PM

Anybody who would associate with Khalidi must be a bad guy, right?

"In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. (See grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14 of this PDF.)

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

Of course, there's seemingly nothing objectionable with McCain's organization helping a Palestinian group conduct research in the West Bank or Gaza. But it does suggest that McCain could have some of his own explaining to do as he tries to make hay out of Khalidi's ties to Obama."

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