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Hypocrite McCain Watch #1
Talking Points Memo —
... McCain attacking Obama for tie to Palestinian Professor that McCain himself gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of grants to the same guy. ...
McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... at Columbia University. -snip- 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.) Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-... FAIL!
Media notes
Ben Smith's Blog —
... a bit, but here are some more links for insomniacs:
Two channels aimed at African-Americans, TVOne and BET, pick up the big Obamacast.
ABC competes with it.
Jewish Dems gloat about an apparent error in a Jewish Republican ad.
Heritage says Obama's using a misquote of one of its analysts in a healthcare ad.
McCain puts a coal ad up in West Virginia.
Ohio Republicans put up a vote fraud ad.
ALSO: The IRI funded Khalidi's institute, impeding efforts to paint him as a radical. ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... they might have a friend in Obama because of his friendships in that community, despite the fact that his positions have never been particularly pro-Palestinian. "A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb.... The campaign hadn't previously demanded the video.... (Never mind the fact that a group McCain chaired in the 1990s gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Khalidi.) Then -- by astonishing ...
Morning Roundup: Around the Web with Radical Rabbit
The Latest on Air America —
... thing? The Huffington Post's Seth Colter Walls discovers a link between McCain and a Palestinian his campaign tried to pin on Obama. The Financial Times hits the peak oil button, wants you to know ...
Around The Campaign 2008 Sphere
The Moderate Voice —
... One Hitch For McCain & Co On This Charge: The Huffington Post reports that McCain once helped fund this scholar’s work. What this means: this topic will rage on blogs and on conservative talk radio and probably make it into the mainstream media. But the mainstream media coverage will likely include some info from the HP piece, which means the issue will have most impact on the GOP base. To independent voters it’ll seem like one more political tempest that upon investigation proves not to be what it appears to be if you listen to Sean and Rush. ...
HuffPo’s attempts at moral relativism fall flat
Sister Toldjah —
... Yesterday, the HuffPo attempted to link McCain to former PLO operative and longtime associate of Barack Obama Rashid Khalidi: ...
McCain Gave Money to Khalidi
Matthew Yglesias —
One of the many recent rightwing freakouts is about the idea that the media is covering up some kind of close relationship between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi and this in turn shows, I guess, that the US is going to adopt a left-wing Arab nationalist perspective toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But Sam Stein reports:
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 ...
McCain's Palestinian ties of his own
The Swamp —
... But "the latest guilt-by-association target that the McCain campaign is using to hit Barack Obama could carry some collateral damage for its own candidate,'' the Huffington Post notes. ...
LA Times will not release Obama tape
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... information for Obama's benefit, while claiming that Khalidi was a PLO adviser and pointing out that 60's radical-turned-University professor Bill Ayers was also in attendance. Meanwhile on the other side, Huffington Post is reporting on McCain's ties to Khalidi's organization. ...
Woops: McCain Funded Rashid Khalidi
Firedoglake —
... organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. " . . . The election is one week away, and it's unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job -- make information public."
Poor Goldfarb. Unleashed on campaign stooge duty once again. From the Huffington Post: ...
Delusions
Taylor Marsh —
... In 1993, McCain became chairman of the International Republican Institute. He still chairs that respected organization.
[...] According to tax returns the McCain-chaired IRI funded the organization Khalidi founded and served on to the tune of $448,873 in 1998 (click HERE to see the tax return)* as first reported by Seth Couter Walls at HuffPo. ...
Attempted smear of Obama backfires - McCain has ties too
News Hounds —
... teasing the story that the LA Times will not release video of a party attended by Barack Obama that honored fellow professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obama camp is "very nervous" about the tape, says FOX, insinuating that Obama has more to hide about a relationship with the Palestinian activist. The Friends apparently didn't get the memo to shush up about it and addressed it again today 10/29/08, but expect the big smear to fizzle out over the course of the day as word spreads that John McCain has deeper, longer ties to the scary fellow. ...
Guilt-by-association watch
Political Animal —
... stood up well to scrutiny. As long as McCain wants to go down this road, though it's probably worth fleshing out his own ties to the same professor. 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 ...
What the Right Doesn’t Want You to Know About Khalidi
Comments from Left Field —
... Therefore, by implication, anyone who met him must be against Israel, antisemitic, support terrorism, blah blah blah.
One small problem with this argument that the Nutters are failing to tell their readers:
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.
The Huffington Post has the full story.
Giuliani Blasts Obama For Links To Middle East Scholar Previously Funded By McCain
Think Progress —
... Further demonstrating the inaccuracy of the McCain campaign’s characterization of Khalidi is the fact that while McCain served as chairman of its board, the International Republican Institute distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi.” Seth Colter Walls reports: ...
Hannity Has A Hissy Fit Over LA Times' "Suppressed Video"
News Hounds —
... Alan Colmes began his portion by noting that McCain ran an organization that gave more than $448,000 to Khalidi's organizations. “Isn't McCain culpable here?” Colmes asked. ...
McCain Racism, Hypocrisy on Khalidi Issue
Informed Comment —
... Ironically, as the Huffington Post showed, while John McCain was chairing the International Republican Institute, he gave over $400,000 to Rashid Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. ...
The Rude Pundit — ... What Palin says is, more or less, why the whole thing fails: "It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama." That's right - yet another one. The McCain campaign is trying for a radical associate do-over: "Aw, fuck, people stopped giving a shit about Bill Ayers. Let's try a brown one." Nope. That ship's sailed. And, besides, once it was revealed that McCain chaired a group that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund Khalidi's work, the whole thing became just farcical. ...
If You Have a Racist Friend, Now Is the Time for That Friendship to End
Obsidian Wings —
... Ironically, as the Huffington Post showed, while John McCain was chairing the International Republican Institute, he gave over $400,000 to Rashid Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. ...
Still The Same Ol’ Karl Rove: I Wish McCain’s Khalidi Attacks Had Started ‘Last Spring’
Think Progress —
... .” Additionally, while McCain served as chairman of its board, the International Republican Institute distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi. ...
FOX Friends still whining over LA Times tape - journalistic ethics a foreign concept to them
News Hounds —
... Despite yesterday's revelations that John McCain was directly responsible for granting some $800,000 to an organization headed by Rashid Khalidi, FOX and Friends this morning 10/30/08 continued to harp on the LA Times' refusal to release videotape, per an agreement with the source, from a banquet in 2003 honoring the professor and attended by Barack Obama. The Times has already published an ...
10/30: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Blogometer —
... to release a video of Obama praising Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi at a 2003 banquet (a Times spokesperson says they will not release the video "because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it"): MCCAIN: Two Can Play The "Guilt By Association" Game The Huffington Post 's Seth Colter Walls reports that McCain also has ties to Khalidi: "In regards to Khalidi, however, the guilt-by-association game burns John McCain as well. During the 1990s, while he ...
Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’
Think Progress —
... the McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb about its hypocritical criticism of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) links to Rashid Khalidi. After Sanchez noted that McCain, as chairman of the board at the International Republican Institute, had also ...
McCain: Slander First
Wonk Room —
... back when it was headed by John McCain, Goldfarb proceeds to smear Khalidi as “unsavory” and an “anti-Semite” based on the fact that Khalidi happens to be an American of Palestinian descent and a ...
Do they see something we don't see?
It's Not That Simple —
... There's of course been a lot of talk about Obama's connections to noted Palestinians like Rashid Khalidi. However, as recent news reports show, McCain has connections to him as well, funding his organizations with hundreds of thousands of dollars in a relationship that spans from 1993 to 1998. Zbigniew Brzezinski has endorsed Obama but when McCain was asked who he would pick as his representative to the Arab/Israeli conflict Zbigniew Brzezinski was among those he named, along with ...
Ann Coulter's Ludicrous Defense Of Mccain's Grant To Khalidi
News Hounds —
... John McCain gave this guy a grant to do his work. Isn't it a problem for John McCain?”
Coulter first tried to argue that McCain's relationship to Khalidi was “much more distant” than Obama's. But she soon shifted focus and insisted that the work McCain funded was deserving. “What was the work?” Coulter rhetorically asked with her customary flourish. “It was, um, for the Palestinians to have an election. To promote democracy.”
From what I can gather, the grant was for research and conducting opinion polls.
As Colmes began speaking to the other guest, ...
10/31: McCain The Mudslinger?
Blogometer —
... 's Adam Serwer : "Khalidi is a Palestinian academic who has been critical of Israel and has done work trying to promote democracy in the West Bank, and was trustworthy enough for McCain to have given Khalidi's group nearly a half a million dollars in grants while McCain chaired the International Republican Institute. [...] But with the Republican Party releasing web ads and sending out mailers with Obama's face superimposed over maps of the Middle East, I suppose that getting the media to repeat Obama's name alongside Khalidi's every five minutes reflects a perverse kind of ...
What A Waste It Is To Lose One’s Mind
Wonk Room —
... of the $448,000 that McCain-chaired International Republican Institute gave to Rashid Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies: ...
