Babalu Blog: The tape! The tape! Our Kingdom for the tape! (UPDATED x 2)

October 29, 2008

The tape! The tape! Our Kingdom for the tape! (UPDATED x 2)

Rand Simberg:

OK, since we're apparently free to use our imagination, here's what I think happened at that party.
There are PLO and Hamas flags decorating the room, along with Che and Mao posters. Khalidi, Ayers and Obama are slapping each others' backs, raising their glasses and toasting the upcoming destruction of the racist Zionist entity, all the while laughing at the thought of the final Final Solution. Obama says, "You know, when I take over, the first thing I'll do is withdraw all aid from those fascist kikes, and I'll give the Palis a couple nukes." Then he turns to Ayers, and asks him if he's come up with any fresh schemes for mass murder of the millions of recalcitrant capitalists, so that they can be implemented in the first one hundred days. After dessert, they get out an American flag, crumple it up on the floor, and jump up and down on it, shouting "Death to Capitalism, Death to America."

No?

That's not how it went down? Well, prove me wrong, LA Times. Show the tape.

He's got more, right here.

UPDATE: From Stop The ACLU by Special Contributor

Quotes from Hidden LA Times Video of Obama at Jew Bash?
Doug Ross gets a note from a reliable source:

Saw a clip from the tape. Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.” It would be really controversial if it got out. Tha’s why they will not even let a transcript get out.

If the above is true, no wonder the LA Times won’t release it. However, if its true that tape needs released more than ever. I trust Doug, but right now the above quote is only rumor. It will remain to be only rumor until we have evidence. We can not have evidence without the tape being released.

Prove us wrong, LA Times.

UPDATE #2: A veritable rogue's gallery of terrorists, ex-terrorists, America-haters and anti-Semites, along with an assortment of sycophantics politicians. I'll leave it to you, dear reader, to determine which is which...

Verified Information
Location:
Burbank Manor, 6312 W 79th St., Burbank, Illinois

Time: Friday, August 1, 2003
6pm - Reception
7pm - Dinner and Reception

Those who attended:

AAAN (Arab American Action Network)
Not In My Name
Ali Abunimah (a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago who helps run Electronic Intifada, who met Obama in 2000)
Bernadine Dorhn and Bill Ayers
Barack Obama
Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley
Rashid Khalidi
Mona Khalidi
Gihad Ali, a Palestinian spoken word poet
NPR Worldview host Jerome McDonnell (not McDonald as written in the e-mail)
Camilia Odeh (director of SWYC Southwest Youth Collaborative)
Sanabel debka troupe (traditional Palestinian dance group)
Hatem Abudayyeh
Others - Up to 50 to 500 guests

(H/T Little Green Footballs)

Posted by Val Prieto at October 29, 2008 02:05 PM

Comments

Heard at the LA Times - "...where is Rosemarie Woods when you need her..." -S-

Posted by: Dr.Shalit at October 29, 2008 01:34 PM

The MASSIVE double standard of the hypocritical MSM is now beyond dispute. Anybody who tells me this stonewalling would be happening if a potentially damning tape involved a Republican is either seriously stupid or a hypocritical liar.

Posted by: asombra at October 29, 2008 02:54 PM

And of course, if the tape is ever released, any attempt to call Obama to account will be labeled as either "desperate" or racist or both.

Posted by: asombra at October 29, 2008 02:57 PM

This is from the LA Times editorial:
Jamie Gold, the newspaper's readers' representative, said in a statement: "More than six months ago the Los Angeles Times published a detailed account of the events shown on the videotape. The Times is not suppressing anything. Just the opposite -- the L.A. Times brought the matter to light."

The original article said that Obama's friendships with Palestinian Americans in Chicago and his presence at Palestinian community events had led some to think he was sympathetic to the Palestinian viewpoint on Middle East politics. Obama publicly expresses a pro-Israel viewpoint that pleases many Jewish leaders.

In reporting on Obama's presence at the dinner for Khalidi, the article noted that some speakers expressed anger at Israel and at U.S. foreign policy, but that Obama in his comments called for finding common ground.
If you want to change the vote for Mc Cain, you should point your investigating direction elsewhere. No big news here...but keep looking.....

Posted by: sueinmi at October 29, 2008 05:51 PM