April 10, 2008: LA Times publishes Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama. This story goes over the going away party of Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian scholar (and dinner companion of Barack Obama) whose comments critical comments on Israel over the years have stirred various contreversies.
During this going away party, according to the LA Times story, poetry was read accusing Israel of terrorism, while others compared "Zionist settlers" to Osama Bin Laden. To put it plainly, there was plenty of Jew bashing going on that night.
On the second page of this story, the LA Times writes "The Event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times". No mention of a confidential source.
From October 24 to 28, there are multiple stories of various news agencies requesting a copy of this tape. All requests were denied without any mention of a confidential source.
On October 28, Ben Smith of Politico, gave the times the benefit of the doubt as he wrote:
Critics have suggested that the Times is witholding the video for political reasons, but there are other possibilities: competitive reasons, or simply out of tradition. In the mechanics of reporting, there's another possibility as well. The video may have been given to the paper on the condition it not be released, or releasing it could compromise its source.
This is the first mention of a confidential source, speculated by a reporter from a different news agency.
October 29: The Times makes a first mention that the tape was obtained from a confidential source on the condition it would not be released. The story actually says this was originally mentioned on the 28th, but after a thorough search I did not find any mention of this prior to the 29th. Hopefully The Times will send Mr. Smith a thank you card for inadvertently providing the idea of a confidential source.
Calling this BS is an understatement. Let's see the tape, because I'm sure if this had John McCain (or Sarah Palin) on it, it would have been out on the front pages back in April.
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Only one of MANY shady associations of the Marxist that could possibly be the next President of the USA!
This guy LIES even more slickly then Slick Willy himself. We can only HOPE that the American people are NOT stupid enough to buy the scam from the Invented Man that is Barrack Hussein Obama!
Good article!
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