Hume's report citing LA Times article on Khalidi event omitted Times' report that Obama "called for finding common ground"
SUMMARY: Reading from a Los Angeles Times article, Fox News' Brit Hume stated regarding a 2003 going-away party for then-University of Chicago history professor Rashid Khalidi attended by Sen. Barack Obama: "A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Senator Barack Obama. Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife and conversations that had challenged his thinking." But Hume did not note that the Times article also reported that "Obama adopted a different tone in his comments and called for finding common ground."
On the October 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report, reading from an April 10 Los Angeles Times article by staff writer Peter Wallsten about a 2003 going-away party for then-University of Chicago history professor Rashid Khalidi attended by Sen. Barack Obama, host Brit Hume stated: "A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Senator Barack Obama. Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife and conversations that had challenged his thinking." Hume added, "Wallsten writes that a young Palestinian read a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism. Another speaker likened Israeli settlers on the West Bank to Osama bin Laden." However, Hume did not note that in the April 10 article, in the sentence following the reference to bin Laden, Wallsten reported that at the 2003 farewell celebration, "Obama adopted a different tone in his comments and called for finding common ground."
Moreover, Hume reported that "[t]he celebration was a farewell for Khalidi as he left Chicago for a job in New York," but did not note, as Wallsten did in his April 10 article, that Khalidi was leaving his position as a professor at the University of Chicago and in Wallsten's words, "now occupies a prestigious professorship of Arab studies at Columbia."
From the October 28 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume:
HUME: And now the most enthralling two minutes in television, the latest from the "Political Grapevine."
The McCain camp has now joined those demanding the Los Angeles Times release a 2003 video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians hostile to Israel.
Peter Wallsten wrote in April about Obama's association with former Palestinian operative Rashid Khalidi. The celebration was a farewell for Khalidi as he left Chicago for a job in New York. Wallsten called Khalidi a, quote, "critic of Israel and advocate for Palestinian rights."
He says, quote, "A special tribute came from Khalidi's friend and frequent dinner companion, the young state Senator Barack Obama. Obama reminisced about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife and conversations that had challenged his thinking," end quote.
Wallsten writes that a young Palestinian read a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism. Another speaker likened Israeli settlers on the West Bank to Osama bin Laden.
Wallsten confirmed he has the tape, but he told the political blog Gateway Pundit he does not plan on releasing it, and the newspaper itself declines comment.
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 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.)
The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html
Sorry Pearlene, you got it first.
No problem Prince, I knew the Reptiles would eventually play this card.
It probably won't get much play, the Dingbat has upset the Geezer. She just announced that she's not only in this for VP slot. If they lose (she hopes), she's got plans for 2012.
She should get rid of Stevens and appoint herself Senator. Then we will see Her Maverickness go to Washington and clean house. Speaking of which, who is cleaning her house right now. Anyone see the First PW Dude lately.
Does she think that no one knew this was her plan? I think she believes she is slick..You've come a long way baby, now go home. Alaska really needs you. I think her real "quote" was...'2012, I'll cross that bridge once they give me the money to build it.'
That M17&3/4 "Innocent Jew Killer" is a pround moment in american weapon design, I say. You have some commie ethics interfearing with god driven capitalism..or what? Think of the possible spinoffs, the profits, the rarely seen corpses, the chutzpa, the hubris, the M&Ms!
Off topic: The american jewish population looks to be 75% for Obama. Someone should tell them of their silly error
I haven't figured out that "75% for Obama" part myself. From personal experience I know that there is a feeling within the Jewish community that the GOP represents racist white men. And the liberal movement is an opposition to that. My own theory is that a significant percentage of Jewish Americans have little to no connection to Israel. And being a very liberal community they tend to side with liberal ideology which is very critical of Zionists. For example: Rabbi Michael Lerner. He is very critical of Israel. Personally I don't think the PLO hates Isreali's. I think they hate Jews no matter where they are from. And Obama's associations concern me.
A statistic I noticed somewhere today.
Seems like you have a position that isn't going to be argued away in a paragraph or two. I don't believe its one that will lead to any reconciliation between the populations. You can always point to the anger of one side and declare it impossible. The anger being insurmountable.
Read up on the Palistinian and Jewish histories. Plenty of each doin what they shouldn't do. Then study conflict resolution, how it works, how it fails.
How much would you like this conflict of cultures to be resolved? Does the conflict allow you to do and say things that its absense would leave without support?
I haven't figured out that "75% for Obama" part myself. (gg)
That's 3/4. Use scratch paper if you need to.
How do you spell that? Free thourths?
If the whole country goes collective insane (including Barack), that just might happen.
It just occurred to me why this bullsh*t works on the Troglodytes. The idea of working or socializing with someone who disagrees with their religion or politics horrifies them. They don't understand how Pointy Headed Academics like Obama can be in the same room with someone like Ayers or Khalidi without absorbing their opinions. They don't understand that, among intellectuals, conversation with people who disagree is considered.... enlightening and interesting. OMG!
Here's a hint..... it has to do with that whole gray-thinking gene, which Conservatives seem to lack. For example, I have socialized and worked among Evangelical Troglodytes and Jingoistic Righties all my life, and I'm STILL a pointy headed Liberal. See? It is possible.
That's it, Nerz. When you make it your mission to divide the world into Good and Evil, it can be pretty confusing trying to understand how some people can interact socially or professionally with people they should be trying to kill.
Did anybody else notice Palin's mob booing at the very mention of Khalidi's name? I'd be surprised if many of them would recognize his name, even if she hadn't pronounced it KhaLAdi. The base seems to be reduced to reflexive trained seals, cheering All-American names like "Joe", and hissing at the furrin' ones.
that happens at all rallies, no matter who is speaking.
i did catch the mispronunciation, but she is not the only person to have problems with foreign words. the only tv person i know of who can properly pronounce haareretz, the israeli newspaper, is brit hume, and it took him a while to get it right. it's pronounced, hah ahretz, they generally say haretz.
the report is that absentee ballotting in Israel is running 3 to 1 in favor of McCain, which sounds about right as orthodox jews in the u.s. support McCain in similar numbers. the problem is the non-orthodox or secular jews who are liberals before they are jews.
Where'd you get those numbers FM?
Probably the same place he got the "facts" that all people at all rallies boo foreign sounding names, and secular Jews are a "problem".
i wasn't referring only to foreign names, but if you listen to any rally, when the candidate makes a point that is supposed to elicit a response, it elicits a response. maybe they use signs like on game shows, i don't know.
jpost.com as for the absentee ballotting. the 78% i read a few weeks ago, and don't recall where
it's also on the international herald tribune
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-McCain.php