Move over Christian fundamentalists. The real religious battle in this year's campaign is finally breaking the surface. The LA Times has a video of a going away party for Palestinian New Historian Rashid Khalidi in Chicago in 2003 where Barack Obama apparently spoke. It won't release the video, despite a lot of pressure from rightwing bloggers, because it says it got the video from a confidential source and can't burn the source. (Brad Greenberg takes the LAT's side.) The Times says, Hey we reported on the party last April. This is as we say in the French news business, bullsheet. The LA Times should do more. Can't it post an edited version of the video that does not compromise its source? It should post a typescript of Obama's statement at the party, and all the Palestinians' statements about the "Zionist settlers of the West Bank," and other true facts. As it is, the Times is holding out important information. This is very important: Palestinians are important, Obama's freer thoughts re Israel/Palestine are important, the debate is extremely important. The Palestinians Obama hung out with are important. And Rashid Khalidi's important. And his wife Mona, whom Obama praised, is a great woman. Let's have it out, dude, and let all the American Jews who are for apartheid stand up and be counted. P.S. Khalidi disagrees with Walt and Mearsheimer on some stuff; why isn't this getting debated on "60 Minutes"?
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Just saw a pig fly by my window. And I believe that there are now snowballs in hell. I agree with this one.
I agree too. The transcript and the tape, both.
It'll never happen. There's a reason billionaire Sam Zell — a man who had never in his life shown any interest in journalism — bought the money-losing L.A. Times last spring.
Actually I take that back. Journalism has sometimes been called "storytelling," and Zell has indeed demonstrated an interest in storytelling: As a child he worked as a coulselor at Jewish summer camp, where he would "regularly transfix his campers with tales of his family’s escape from Nazi-occupied Poland."
I see the LA Times has been tracking the AIPAC spy case rigorously–you see that great article they had on October 28th last when the case was back in court? Good to see there's something left of our Fourth Estate.
You want the LA Times to consider their word to their source inconsequential?