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McCain stays on Khalidi, L.A. Times
Ben Smith's Blog —
... Khalidi and Ayers were reportedly friends in Hyde Park, though it hasn't been reported that Ayers was a guest at the 2003 party. Khalidi is widely disliked in pro-Israeli circles, where he's seen as a defender of violent resistance to Israel in the Palestinian territories. But he's also a professor at Columbia University, with many mainstream defenders. A group he led was funded by the International Republican Institute, which McCain chairs, and he has always denied McCain's charge that he was ever a spokesman for the PLO. At the time of the party, he was a professor at the ...
Delusions
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Khalidi, schmidi, McCain has his own problem on this one. ...
McCain gave nearly a million bucks to anti-Jewish terrorist spokesman
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
McCain is criticizing Obama's ties to a guy McCain gave a million bucks to. Now that's ballsy. And more than a tad erratic. ABC's Jake Tapper has more. ...
McCain Calls on LA Times to Release 2003 Khalidi Video
44 —
... damaging for Obama. And on Tuesday, McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb called for the Times to release the tape. "A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and Rashid Khalidi," Goldfarb said. "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." ABC News reported today that "McCain has his own connection to Khalidi," in that McCain has chaired ...
10/30: Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Blogometer —
... claims that the video features "Obama condemning Israel" and urges his readers to call the Times and tell them to release the tape. Liberal bloggers, meanwhile, are pointing out that John McCain chaired an organization that "funded the organization Khalidi founded and served on to the tune of $448,873 in 1998" . They're accusing McCain of demonstrating ...
Hannity Asks, “Why Do Obama Associates Look So Guilty?”
News Hounds —
FOX News' Obama smearathon continued on last night's (10/30/08) Hannity & Colmes. The show opened with reporter Griff Jenkins ambushing respected scholar and author and Palestinian advocate Rashid Khalidi, the latest vehicle for GOP/FOX News attacks on Barack Obama. Not surprisingly, Khalidi refused to talk to Jenkins. Sean Hannity offered this “fair and balanced” framing for the ensuing discussion: “So why is it every time we find one of these associates of Barack Obama, they run away and refuse to say anything? Why do they all seem to look so ...
Ann Coulter's Ludicrous Defense Of Mccain's Grant To Khalidi
News Hounds —
... about Obama's ties to Khalidi, it's always Colmes, not “fair and balanced” FOX News who brings up the fact that McCain helped fund Khalidi's work in the amount of about half a million dollars. ...
As Mark Steyn says: McCain -- faute de mieux
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Yes, sports fans, I do know all about how the International Republican Institute, while McCain was chairing it (which he apparently still does), gave goo-gobs of money to a Rashid Khalidi founded Center for Palestine Research and Studies specifically, $448K, which would be about six times what Khalidi's Arab American Action Network got from the Woods Fund under Ayers/Obama. I also know that McCain ...
Ira Forman: Grasping at Straws
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Moreover, Charen is well aware that McCain served as the Chair of the International Republican Institute when that non-profit made several grants to a Khalidi foundation. For example, a 1998 filing showed this McCain-led group gave a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank. ...
John McCain’s Ties to Rashid Khalidi
PoliGazette —
... Times’ possession (which they should release), where Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama toasts Khalidi at a going away party before Khalidi left to become a professor at Colombia University, has been reported here at Poligazette.
However, Republican presidential candidate has his own connection to the pro-Palestinian Khalidi. Namely: McCain is the chair of an institution that gave money to an organization set up by Khalidi.
ABC’s Jake Tapper reported the story on October 29th:
In 1993, McCain ...
Through the Iron Cage
Obsidian Wings —
... , which provides some interesting longer-term perspective on the ongoing tragedy. Below, then, are just a few scattered thoughts on the book that are hopefully relevant to recent events. (Khalidi is the moderate and well-respected scholar that McCain shamelessly attacked in the closing days of the election). ...
