Threepeat: LA Times/Chicago Tribune again help Obama make the close
This is off topic, but I’m blogging on it because I was there.
The Los Angeles Times’ refusal to cough up a damaging video of Barack Obama kabbitzing with PLO friend Rashid Khalidi should come as no surprise.
The LAT/Chicago Tribune sisterhood has been aiding and abetting Obama for years.
Jack Ryan
In 2004 Republican Jack Ryan ran against Barack Obama for US Senate.
Ryan was divorced from actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager and Boston Public fame. Their divorce records were sealed, as requested by both. They shared a young autistic son who they were trying to protect.
Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, interned for the Chicago Tribune in college and then worked there in “a high-profile job as the lead political reporter,” according to the New York Times, from 1977-84….
Does the following have anything to do with Axelrod’s ties to the Trib? It sure smells.
The Chicago Tribune decided to go after Ryan’s child custody papers. Its sister newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, went to court in CA, where the custody was finalized.
The LAT fought and won, violating the expressed wishes of the Ryans, making the LAT’s current protest against showing the Khalidi video out of supposed respect for the informant’s wishes laughable.
Obama’s part in the Ryan drama? From Wiki:
People alleged to be backers of Barack Obama emailed reporters about the divorce controversy, but refrained from on-the-record commentary about the divorce files…..
On June 22, 2004, the Ryans’ divorce papers were released. In them Jeri accused Jack of taking her to sex clubs and wanting her to engage in public sex. Ryan denied the allegations, telling me and the world he took Jeri to an “avante garde” club in Paris but left when she expressed discomfort.
I believed Ryan and was the only woman in a group of loyalists to express support of him at a press conference that night. Along with others, I chalked Jeri’s allegations up as just that, never proven and made during a messy divorce. The fact that she didn’t want them revealed to the world said something.
I knew Ryan before he ran for the Senate, spending a day with him where he taught at Hales Franciscan High School, for instance, to write a story for the online news org I worked for at the time, The Illinois Leader. Ryan was a multi-millionaire who left his cush job at Goldman Sachs to teach at this all boys Catholic school in Chicago’s inner city. Ryan came from a large philanthropic family.
Ryan went down on June 25, was replaced by Alan Keyes, who alienated everyone, and Obama won in a landslide.
Before that?
Blair Hull
Obama’s main primary contender for US Senate was Blair Hull, who was beating Obama in the polls. According to Wiki:
In early media polls leading up to the March 16, 2004, primary election Hull enjoyed a substantial lead and widespread name recognition resulting from a well-financed advertisement effort. He spent over $28 million of his personal wealth on the campaign…
A month before the primary elections a news story broke regarding his divorce from his ex-wife. The controversy ended up destroying the Hull campaign. Hull tried to keep the divorce records sealed, but pressure from journalists and his opposing candidates forced him to release them.
The papers claimed that his ex-wife alleged that during a physical fight between them he had threatened to kill her. This led to his arrest for battery, however no charges were ever filed.
From what newspaper did the news story break? The Chicago Tribune. Reported the New York Times:
About a month before the vote, the Chicago Tribune revealed, near the bottom of a long profile of Hull, that during a divorce proceeding, Hull’s second wife filed for an order of protection. In the following few days, the matter erupted into a full-fledged scandal that ended up destroying the Hull campaign and handing Obama an easy primary victory.
The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had “worked aggressively behind the scenes” to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that Axelrod had an even more significant role – that he leaked the initial story.
Now the Tribune newspaper group is going for the trifecta, trying to help Obama – who wouldn’t be where he is today if not for them – win the final victory.
[Ryan photos courtesy of CBS News; Axelrod photo courtesy of the New York Times; origin of Hull photo unknown]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I just want to point out, a connection to McCain has been drawn to Khalid as well, so in all reality it would come to a wash in the ened, as both would fight the allegations and paint each other with the same brush.
I am shocked, SHOCKED!!!! The Main Stream Media is indulging in partisan political shenanigans. Round up the usual suspects.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_A4Skusro&feature=related
yor bro ken
Posted by: Dan at October 31, 2008 12:07 PM
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The difference is that if the LA Times or any other member of the MSM had a tape of McCain rubbing elbows with an unsavory character like Khalidi they would have published/broadcast it at the time calculated to do the most damage.
Which begs the question, where are all McCain’s questionable associations? There must not be many, even after almost 30 years of political life.
yor bro ken
Thats Obama’s media for ya. Now it’s Axlerod who is part of the corruption as well.
sneaky evil people.
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Dan,
That a lie you won’t get away with here.
It’s true that McCain distributed several grants, including one worth about half a million dollars, to the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, or CPRS, a West Bank organization once associated with Khalidi.
What you fail to mention is that CPRS is pro-Western and can be characterized as pro-Israel.
Khalidi left CPRS. The Khalidi organization Obama helped fund as a board member for a nonprofit, alongside domestic terrorist William Ayers, has taken a flagrantly anti-Israel line. Khalidi’s Arab American Action Network has hosted scores of Israel-bashing events, including at least one reportedly attended by Obama.
I don’t see a problem with Khalidi.
Hal, Isn’t it time for another vacation?
Jill, all I’m hearing is “Boo-hoo-hooooo! Obama might not even be where he is if his opponents hadn’t been huge hypocrites! Why oh why did the news media have to publish their hypocrisy?? Then we could’ve elected big hypocrites instead of that hope-mongering smartypants Obama! It’s all the newspapers’ fault!!!”
As for Khalidi, McCain gave the guy more than $400,000. Isn’t that a bit more significant than attending a going-away party for the guy?
I remember these stories in the news and the media pressure was relentless. Shameful.
it’s time to clean out the MSM and have people who report facts and BOTH sides of the story.
Oh, I forgot! Stupid me! There is only the liberal secular humanist side of any story. There just isn’t any other way….
20 lashes with a wet noodle….
Posted by: Patricia at October 31, 2008 1:26 PM
Don’t you know the MSM is not biased? They only publish/broadcst the ‘correct’ view? They do that as a service to all us ‘lame brained knuckle draggin’ NOT bitter, but still clingin to our GOD and guns americans who are not intelligent enought to figure things out for ourselves.
yor bro ken
Chicago politics at its best.
yes kbhvac – I realize the incredible “service” the MSM provides :-( to us “sheeple”
I love that word
Our education system creates sheeple, that’s why they hate the homeschooled kids cuz they actually THINK for themselves….
Being from the Chicago area we of course have seen the excesses of corrupt one party rule for generations. That the MSM is part and parcel of the Dem mob machine here is a major reason that the public is kept in dark about so many of the back room deals and political hack machinations.
Barack’s buddy and major campaign contributor Tony Rezko is an example of the slimy reality we call Chicago politics. This too would have been swept under the rug if it were not for Patrick Fitzgerald taking down the big boys one by one. The Tribune, supposedly a Repub paper, has shown its true colors this year in their endorsement of the local kid. Maybe it is a survival thing, as we see you are put off the plane if you disagree with the Obama people (or investigated if you are Joe the plumber).
The stunning double standard when it comes to ignoring calls for release of Obama tapes, all the while doing a full court press in digging up dirt on the Obama opponents is just another example of how the insiders can really play dirty when it comes to putting their guy in a position to win.
Reality, 12:57PM
Speaking of the “hope-mongering” Obama, did you ever wonder why he would consult “political fixer” Tony Rezko, who was under federal investigation, about buying a home? Don’t most people consult a real estate agent?
You do know that McCain gave money to the same figure that you allege to be a terrorist.
The Huffington Post has the details. So either McCain likes terrorists too or this guy isn’t all that bad.
I don’t see a problem with Khalidi.
Posted by: Hal at October 31, 2008 12:53 PM
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Hal:
So you are not only anti-unborn babies you are an anti-semite?
Do you know that Khalidi was a partipant in the Munich Olympics murder of Jews?
Gee Hal, if this were 1935 you’d probably be rooting for Hitler.
Jill, please ban Hal. I don’t think the Lord is pleased with allowing him to spread his psychopathology and hatred for everthing that resembles the apple of God’s eye like unborn babies and Jews.
What good is his presence on this blog? Absolutely none……
“Obama worked with terrorist
Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence
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Posted: February 24, 2008
5:44 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Barack Obama
JERUSALEM – The board of a nonprofit organization on which Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director alongside a confessed domestic terrorist granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” and supports intense immigration reform, including providing drivers licenses and education to illegal aliens.
The co-founder of the Arab group in question, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, also has held a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi is a harsh critic of Israel, has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror and reportedly has worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was involved in anti-Western terrorism and was labeled by the State Department as a terror group.
In 2001, the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based nonprofit that describes itself as a group helping the disadvantaged, provided a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, or AAAN, for which Khalidi’s wife, Mona, serves as president. The Fund provided a second grant to the AAAN for $35,000 in 2002.
Obama was a director of the Woods Fund board from 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, according to the Fund’s website. According to tax filings, Obama received compensation of $6,000 per year for his service in 1999 and 2000.
Obama served on the Wood’s Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.
Ayers, who still serves on the Woods Fund board, contributed $200 to Obama’s senatorial campaign fund and has served on panels with Obama at numerous public speaking engagements. Ayers admitted to involvement in the bombings of U.S. governmental buildings in the 1970s. He is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The $40,000 grant from Obama’s Woods Fund to the AAAN constituted about a fifth of the Arab group’s reported grants for 2001, according to tax filings obtained by WND. The $35,000 Woods Fund grant in 2002 also constituted about one-fifth of AAAN’s reported grants for that year.
The AAAN, headquartered in the heart of Chicago’s Palestinian immigrant community, describes itself as working to “empower Chicago-area Arab immigrants and Arab Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy, education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive relationships with other communities.”
It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.
The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver’s licenses to illegal aliens a “bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims.”
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.
The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, “The Subject of Palestine,” that featured works related to what some Palestinians call the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding in 1948.
According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948 forcibly expelled hundreds of thousands – some Palestinians claim over one million – Arabs from their homes and then took over the territory.
Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs also were driven out by Jewish forces while they were trying to push back invading Arab armies. At the same time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel was founded.
The theme of AAAN’s Nakba art exhibit, held at DePaul University in 2005, was “the compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life … under [Israeli] occupation … home demolition … statelessness … bereavement … martyrdom, and … the heroic struggle for life, for safety, and for freedom.”
Another AAAN initiative, titled, “Al Nakba 1948 as experienced by Chicago Palestinians,” seeks documents related to the “catastrophe” of Israel’s founding.
A post on the AAAN site asked users: “Do you have photos, letters or other memories you could share about Al-Nakba-1948?”
That posting was recently removed. The AAAN website currently states the entire site is under construction.
Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as ‘sympathetic’
AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. Khalidi’s wife, AAAN President Mona Khalidi, was reportedly WAFA’s English translator during that period.
Rashid Khalidi at times has denied working directly for the PLO but Palestinian diplomatic sources in Ramallah told WND he indeed worked on behalf of WAFA. Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference in 1991.
During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an “apartheid system in creation” and a destructive “racist” state.
He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings response to “Israeli aggression.” He dedicated his 1986 book, “Under Siege,” to “those who gave their lives … in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.” Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.
While the Woods Fund’s contribution to Khalidi’s AAAN might be perceived as a one-time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi evidence a deeper relationship.
According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.
Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama’s failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi.
Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor Show of New York’s WABC Radio and Los Angeles’ KFI Radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser for Obama.
“I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician,” Khalidi stated.
Khalidi said he supports Obama for president “because he is the only candidate who has expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause.”
Khalidi also lauded Obama for “saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can’t talk with the Iranians.”
Asked about Obama’s role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had “never heard of the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago.”
He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama.
Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer WND’s questions about the AAAN’s involvement with Obama.
Obama’s campaign headquarters did not reply to a list of WND questions sent by e-mail to the senator’s press office.
Obama, American terrorist in same circles
Obama served on the board with Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written about his involvement with the group’s bombings of the New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough,” Ayers told the New York Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001
“Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,” Ayers wrote in his memoirs, titled “Fugitive Days.” He continued with a disclaimer that he didn’t personally set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack.
A $200 campaign contribution is listed on April 2, 2001 by the “Friends of Barack Obama” campaign fund. The two taught appeared speaking together at several public events, including a 1997 University of Chicago panel entitled, “Should a child ever be called a ‘super predator?'” and another panel for the University of Illinois in April 2002, entitled, “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?”
The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct, including illegal surveillance.
Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the “most dangerous woman in America.” Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left 4 people dead.
Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists
The revelations about Obama’s relationship with Khalidi follows a recent WND article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed “concern” about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.
Malley’s contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat’s refusal to make peace for the talks’ failure.
To interview Aaron Klein, contact M. Sliwa Public Relations by e-mail, or call 973-272-2861 or 212-202-4453.”
The Lala Timex not releasing the tapes is a good thing and will backfire on their pretty boy Bonamo.
This just raises the distrust level and confirms any doubts that all of the undecideds have about Bambamaonamaoo. There must be some bad stuff on that tape or they would have released it immediatley with all the pressure they’re getting, the journalistic prostiutes that they are.
Thank you, you brainiac pimps for Obmaismaoam over at the Lala Timex.
Hisman, Your entire post is a joke – WND isn’t a news organization with real journalists – there’s a reason rational people call it WingNut Daily. ANd generally, one doesn’t look for corroborating evidence within the publication one is trying to support – the term “outside evidence” should give you a hint.
What you have there since you can’t seem to recognize it, is a collection of already debunked smears.
JIll, that post was so low, I didn’t think anyone could sink that low – obviously, you can.
Insinuating that Jeri Ryan lied (obviously, a judge thought otherwise). Can you possibly read it generously and think that she wanted to save some vestige of Jack’s reputation? She herself could have trumpeted it to the press – she’s got the status.
You’re also defending a guy who took his wife to “such a place” – now, for most of us rational folk, that’s his business and hers. But your fundie side which usually raises such a who-ha about this type of place is actually defending him. Why do you always make it so easy to say – HYPOCRITES.
phylo,
The personal attacks are getting old.
So your entire basis for this post is that you just want to believe this guy and take his word for it over his ex wife’s word?
And somehow that is Barack Obama’s fault.
Check a mirror Jill, your desperation is showing.
Phylospher:
You’re not one. Pretender would be a better handle.
God bring this demonically “charmed” political insurgency to an end! In the name of THE ONE!
“Jill, please ban Hal. I don’t think the Lord is pleased with allowing him to spread his psychopathology and hatred for everthing that resembles the apple of God’s eye like unborn babies and Jews.
What good is his presence on this blog? Absolutely none……”
I don’t hate unborn babies or Jews.
Care to back this statement up? Or retract it?
“Do you know that Khalidi was a partipant in the Munich Olympics murder of Jews?”
I don’t see how he could have been a participant:
Khalidi was born in New York. He received a B.A. from Yale University, where he was a member of Wolf’s Head Society,[2] in 1970,[3] and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974[4] and spent many years as a professor and director of both the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago before joining the Columbia faculty. He has also taught at Georgetown University, Lebanese University, and the American University of Beirut
“God bring this demonically “charmed” political insurgency to an end! In the name of THE ONE!”
“Posted by: Arlen Williams”
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Okay, so McCain conceded, and you got your wish.
phylo,The personal attacks are getting old.
Posted by: Janet at November 1, 2008 10:26 AM
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And you somehow overlook the stuff posted by HisMan and Yllas, now that’s funny, eh?
Rhovan,
At least HisMan and Yllas are interesting.
HisMan is sort of interesting, as far as seeing how religion can be a pathology. Yllas is an idiot.