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McCain renews attacks on Obama links to radical
2 hours ago MIAMI, Florida (AFP) Republican John McCain renewed his attacks on Barack Obama's ties to a 1960s radical here Wednesday as he targeted voters in the key battleground state of Florida. McCain, who has refrained from linking Obama to Bill Ayers during recent campaign speeches, went ...
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McCain Puts Ayers, PLO in Play
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... In a Miami radio interview, the candidate again pounds on Obama's ties to William Ayers and blasts the LA Times for not releasing a videotape said to depict Obama with a former PLO spokesman. "The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I'm not in the business of 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." ...

Guilt-by-association watch
Political Animal — GUILT-BY-ASSOCIATION WATCH.... Apparently, some years back, as part of his career in academia, Barack Obama attended a going-away party for Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian American. John McCain and ...

McCain wages war on the Times (the other one)
Political Animal — ... ). The Times has a video from the party, which it used as the basis of its report six months ago. McCain, Palin, and right-wing activists want the Times to release the video . "The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I'm not in the business of 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," [McCain] said. For her part, Sarah Palin said the Times is Obama's " ...

Our news is not your news!
Classical Values — ... said the other day.) As to the "investigative journalists" who might get to the bottom of this and track down the Khalidi video, they're too busy going after Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, who unlike most politicians is not afraid to fight back. What's interesting about the Ayers angle is that the LA Times (which is withholding the tape) didn't report that Ayers and Dohrn were there : "But 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." McCain ...

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