McCain Calls on Paper to Release Video
(CBS)
(MIAMI) – After dropping the references to Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers for most of the past couple of weeks, John McCain brought it back up today during a radio interview here.
“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. The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public,” McCain said. “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 is referring to a story in the LA Times, published in April, that says Obama attended a party for Rashid Khalidi, a professor at Columbia University who has been critical of Israel and an advocate for Palestinian rights. The Times has a videotape of the event, but has said they promised the owner of the tape not to release it.
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See all 138 CommentsDuring 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. (There is a pdf available on the web - Google it and see grant number 5180, "West Bank: CPRS" on page 14.)
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."
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin sat down together on the Isle of Malta. That didn''t make the first two communist nor the last one Democratic.
Let them know how you feel!
You love to spread misinformation. Are you one of the "dirty tricks team" ala President Richard Nixon?
McCain is absoultely right! If this were any kind of indication that a Republican was attending a dinner and praising a questionable individual, you betcha it would be the lead story on this site. Also, cbs would have a dozen reporters and cameras hounding that Republican.
Wake up cbs! Your news ratings have fallen faster & further than the DOW. Your treatment of this story is the reason why!
An Obama is 100% truthful right? Lets just say that the only reason he is putting his own personal "Social-mercial" on TV tonight is beacuse HE LIED about public financing!
I see an end to the nightmare of stupid, arrogant, dishonest, reckless and incompetent republicans in office.
It has been 8 long years, seems like 80. What a relief it will be to get these criminals out of office."
Are you including the "second bill of rights" that Obama wants to add to the Constitution ?
You misidehtified yourself. You are a loon. Address you next president as Senator Obama.
No. Former IRA bomber Gerry Adams is welcomed at the White House as a peacemaker.
Posted by melnycgirl-1 at 12:57 PM : Oct 29, 2008
You''re right...but the problem is that we are not getting the truth. All this information needs to be disclosed to the American People so we can decide. It shouldn''t be filtered by the media.
Not Sure about the poster of that statement, but vividly remeber those days. Nixon and his gang were wrong then and Obama and his hit crews are wrong today.
There are many people who can tell what is wrong with both sides of the aisle. How many Democrats are defending the MA state senator Dianne Wilkerson today?
You are full of ***. The media is not protecting Senator Obama. If full disclousre were in play more would be presented in the media about Senator McCain''s failures in judgement, inluding philandery, Keating Five scandal, Tailhook scandal, poor performance in the Naval Academy, poor performance as a Naval fighterpilot prior ro being shot down in Viet Nam, etc.
Thank you Barak for keeping yourself above the fray. You have proven yourself to be a model for Presidential politics. Kudos to you!
You are full of ***. The media is not protecting Senator Obama. If full disclousre were in play more would be presented in the media about Senator McCain''''s failures in judgement, inluding philandery, Keating Five scandal, Tailhook scandal, poor performance in the Naval Academy, poor performance as a Naval fighterpilot prior ro being shot down in Viet Nam, etc.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:04 PM : Oct 29, 2008
How can you say I am full of ***...Obama himself knows its true hence why he bashes foxnews. And I beleive the media should be disclosing all information on all people runnning for president. So not sure why you are bringing up McCain when I was talking about Obama. It was just a comment and my opinion. Believe what you want but the media is backing Obama and hiding the truth from you. That is why you are so willing to criticize me on a post.
It is fact - and this is supported by filed tax documents as well -that McCain as chairman of the IRI funded Khalidi''s works.
And by the way, if the media did not disclose the information you stated how the F do you know about it. Foxnews...probably because they are the only ones that report the truth.
LOL...first thing son, find a real story, not a blog...
Secondly, Obama himself has never once publicly denied the fact he lied about it. You are not going to find a direct quote that says "I never said I would not do that"
Go ahead vote for him, give complete control to Obama/Pelosi/Reid. Do that, and you better hope he is serious about spreading the wealth, because millions more in this country wont have jobs. Barney "The Riddler" Frank wants to cut defense spending by 25% at the same tim eObama wants to take the troops from Iraq to Afganistan. Yeah, that what this country needs...another brilliant idea from Barney Frank!
Other House Dems are already planning to overhaul the 401K syayem and replace it with yet another government entitlement program. The same government that was supposed to watchdog the financial industry is now going to manage ALL of America''s retirement money! ...if we really are dumb enough to elect Obama and give these liberal fruit cakes total control of the Congress...then we deserve it I guess.....
BLACKOUT OBAMA OCT 29th
TURN THE GARBAGE OFF.
Call the stations advertisers and complain about the bad news coverage.
Obama should be spending all that money to help the poor instead of buying the election. I guess he doesn''t WALK THE TALK he is preaching.
I thought that you were a rational GOP supporter... now we all know you get your version of the RNC rag from FIXNEWS!!!!!!
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Posted by melnycgirl-1 at 01:11 PM : Oct 29, 2008
I actually get my opinions from all the media outlets, hence why I am on cbsnews as well. I just like to see what all are saying and they are very biased. Where do you get your information from. I just love how anyone that does not agree with Obama has to listen to foxnews. That is only 1 of so many media outlets out there.
We are getting the truth... The LA Times article was written in May 2008 and it is available for everyone to see and read...
What McCain is trying to do is get the Jewish supporters of Israel that are American citizens to change their support from Obama to him BASED ON FEAR.... Well, McCain has supported the SAME principles of bringing together the Palestians and Israelis and work out a PEACE AGREEMENT!!!!
So spare us the RNC rantings - of b/s associations!!!!!
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BS Associations....very cute...
it is true that one can never underestimate the level to which this country has been dumbed down.
Now, just for the sake of discussion, do you really honestly believe that if this story was flipped, that the LA times, or NY times, or cbs or cnn would "hold" that tape?
Come On now....take a couple of good deep breaths...I know you can come to a real common sense understanding about this if you try....
All I am saying is that we need to here EVERYTHING about ALL PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES...and then ALL OF US can decide on what we want to beleive or determine if it is valuable or not in making our decision.
Are you kidding? The campaign employing dirty tricks is the McCain-Palin one. Karl Rove has used the book on dirty tricks applied in political campaigns written by Richard Nixon for the past 30 years. He and his former sidekicks, currently McCain Campaign advisors, are employing their dirty tricks tactics in his campaign. Prime example: submitting checks in amounts prohibitted by campaign laws to the Obama fundraisning committee under names that sound like Arabs or others suspected of being terrorists, and then calling for a audit of the Obama fundraising practices. This is being done to cause the voters to be suspicious of Obama. The managers of the Obama fundraising team were wise enough to flag these suspicious donations and return them to avoid being in violation of political campaign fundraising laws.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:19 PM : Oct 29, 2008
First off...Obama''s campaign is the one that is accepting these donations. Obama is breaking laws left and right in his campaign and he is getting away with it. If this was McCain the media would be all over it. So if you are going to criticize someone elses post atleast give a good example.
And also no politician is free from corruption...they are politicians and all have skeletons in the closet. But we should be informed of their skeletons.
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Posted by ronrak1 at 01:21 PM : Oct 29, 2008
My point exactly...but there is something to hide that is why they are not releasing it.
I see the opposite. The media covered the Obama-Ayers connection in great detail, even after there was clearly nothing of value in the false claims being made by the MCBush-Palin campaign. The Rev. Wright issue got lots of media coverage. The adultery, Keating five scandal, Tailhook Convention scandal defense, and other missdeeds of Senator McCain do not appear in the mainstream media nearly as frequently as the Ayers-Obama connection. Bloggers have to go back to media coverage of these that occurred years ago.
I never said McCain doesn''t have any skeletons in his closet...all I am saying is that we want to know about them, McCain''s and Obamas. So you should not only be worried about McCain, you should also be worried about Obama.
And I know about McCain''s past...not sure if I know about all of it, but I know he has unethical, immoral things in his past, but its the medias job and mine to figure things out and make the best decision on who is least corrupt and unethical.
There''s an associate - a domestic terrorist.
He was also a member of the US Council for World Freedom - a group that funded and backed ultra right wing death squads and had ties to former Nazi collaborators. Ultra right wing death squads - these are called TERRORISTS.
Then there are his associations with the members of the Keating 5, Hagee, Parsley, and white supremacist Richard Quinn.
Hypocritical much?
Wrong!!!! The managers of fundraising for Obama have caught these and returned the money. They have not cashed the checks. You must be on the McCain-Palin "dirty tricks team" to be repeating this misinformation.
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Posted by mrs_r at 01:28 PM : Oct 29, 2008
All you people keep providing detail on McCain...all I am saying is we don''t have the detail on Obama. Obama dismisses everything as "no big deal" and you people take the bait and brush it under the rug.
Just curious....can you read?
The "article" you linked to....It actually teels you with Barrack''s Own words and actions....HE LIED !
Is there some level of brain damage in your head that prevents you from being able to admit this?
DESPERATION:
John "The Make-Believe Maverick" and Faux News should have vetted this through his "Whackjob Maverick" running mate for he went down this path. Apparently, she and Mitt Rommney are the new future of the republican right wingnut party.
Wrong!!!! The managers of fundraising for Obama have caught these and returned the money. They have not cashed the checks. You must be on the McCain-Palin "dirty tricks team" to be repeating this misinformation.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:30 PM : Oct 29, 2008
But are they catching all of them and refunding all of them. They should have the controls in place so they don''t have to back track and return the funds. Its just an a$$ backwards way of doing things and it only makes more room for error and loopholes.
DESPERATION:
John "The Make-Believe Maverick" and Faux News should have vetted this through his "Whackjob Maverick" running mate for he went down this path. Apparently, she and Mitt Rommney are the new future of the republican right wingnut party.
Wrong!!!! The managers of fundraising for Obama have caught these and returned the money. They have not cashed the checks. You must be on the McCain-Palin "dirty tricks team" to be repeating this misinformation.
LOL....yeah, right....that is why we have no idea who has given to him.....OBVIUOSLY, WE CAN TRUST HIM AFTER HE LIED ABOUT PUBLIC FUNDING!
hmmm.....check is in the mail.....
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Posted by melnycgirl-1 at 01:31 PM : Oct 29, 2008
What is bs is that you people believe Obama is here to help...he is not going to help anyone but himself. If you actual listen to what he says instead of taking him face value you would realize that he is not for us he is for himself. BS is what you are writing and others that are for Obama.
It seems to be a lot of trumped up nonsense.
I have a very big problem with an Ayers issue brought up in light of McCain''s close friendship with Liddy and is membership in the US Council for World Freedom.
I have a very big problem with a Khalidi event attendance issue on Obama''s part when McCain and the IRI funded this person''s work.
I believe that if such tactics are going to be used, both sides should be equally revealed to the public.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:34 PM : Oct 29, 2008
And we all know they would do exactly the same thing if this story were flipped over and it was McCain or any other Republican on that tape.....please!
Nice "dirty tricks" ploy to try to stimulate suspicion! In your dreams managers of fundraising for Obama will make a mistatke that the Repugs can exploit.
Joe Biden got asked some questions from Orlando WFTV reporter Barbara West on Thursday that where completely false and unprofessional. Biden: "Are you joking? Is this is a joke? Or is that a real question?" Turns out that her husband, Wade West, is a media consultant for Republican politicians! (US Elections 2008)
http://www.bluetidalwave.com/20
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WERE YOU SO ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY ON YOUR MORAL HORSE WHEN THE NY TIMES REPORTER WAS STALKING UNDERAGE TEENAGERS ON FACEBOOK TO TRY TO GET DIRT ON CINDY McCAIN?
WHERE WAS ALL YOUR INDIGNATION THEN ?
Senators Obama and Bicen can handle any lne of questioning the media may throw at them. Obviously the same cannot be said for Govenor Palin.
Nice "dirty tricks" ploy to try to stimulate suspicion! In your dreams managers of fundraising for Obama will make a mistatke that the Repugs can exploit.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:39 PM : Oct 29, 2008
So we are just supposed to trust the Obama Campaign. Like I said before....ALL POLITICIANS are CORRUPT, and I don''t trust any of them.
Also Obama has raised so much money and he has no real audit trail of where this money is coming from. That is skeptical in itself. But if it was McCain, I would think you would have the same views I have right now. But since its Obama he gets the pass. Gotta love it.
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Posted by Texbestest at 01:41 PM : Oct 29, 2008
Are you serious....Biden has made so many gaffs in the past few weeks and just avoids the questions. I know Palin has not done so well with interviews, but she is new to this game and is not a veteran as the others. Plus Obama and Biden are lawyers...they are taught to BS.
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Why Obama Opted Out of Public Financing--and What it Means
Andrew Romano
What''s worse: a broken system or a broken promise?
Barack Obama is betting on the former. In a video sent to supporters at 8:35 this morning (above), the Illinois senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee announced that, unlike Republican rival John McCain, he will refuse public financing for the general election--despite a previous pledge to accept it. "It''s not an easy decision, and especially because I support a robust system of public financing of elections," said Obama.
"Support" is one way to put it. "Said I would opt into" is another. Asked last September on a questionnaire from the Midwest Democracy Network whether he would "participate in the presidential public financing system" if his "major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign," Obama checked the box marked "yes," then outlined his vision for the 2008 contest. "In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election," he wrote. "My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election... If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."
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