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October 26, 2008

BREAKING: FoxNews refuses to release video of Sarah Palin toasting white-supremacist

Oh, wait, my bad

The LA Times is holding a video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gives a toast to a former PLO operative at this celebration. [...]

His many talks with the Khalidis, Obama said, had been "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases...

It's for that reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid's dinner table," but around "this entire world."

...The event was videotaped, and a copy of the tape was obtained by The Times. [...]

On Wednesday I talked with Peter Wallsten from the Los Angeles Times about the article on Obama and Khalidi:

Wallston was one of the few mainstream media reporters to report on this radical Obama associate.Wallston said that the article was written after he watched video taken at the Khalidi going away party. When I asked him about the video he said that as far as he was concerned he was through with the story.

I asked him if he was planning on releasing this video of Obama toasting the radical Khalidi at this Jew-bash. He told me he was not releasing the video. He also would not comment on his source for the video.



Nothing to see here. Move on.

Posted by Darleen at October 26, 2008 10:23 AM

Comments

Anyone who supports Obama and all that comes with him can only be a:

American hating, terrorist loving, anti-Semitic racist.

On Nov 4th we will discover how many millions of Americans fall in that category.

Posted by: ML at October 26, 2008 11:06 AM

Yes yes, anyone who criticizes Israeli policy must be a Jew-hater. Meanwhile ignore all the anti-Semitism from people like John Hagee. I bet you are a big fan of Yigal Amir.

Posted by: Josh at October 26, 2008 10:12 PM

Where's the video Josh?

Posted by: Darleen at October 26, 2008 10:21 PM

Big difference between criticizing Israeli policy and planting bombs only meant to kill or wound innocent civilians, being the big tough guys those mythical “Palestinians” are.

Posted by: ML at October 27, 2008 12:05 AM

Probably in a secret vault with the Michelle Obama whitey tape, Darleen. Or the tape with "African Press" that ML was so excited about.

Posted by: Josh at October 27, 2008 07:15 AM

John Hagee is not the personal pastor of anyone on the Republican national ticket. Who the fuck is Yigal Amir? How is this relevant, other than as a distraction?

Posted by: Chris at October 27, 2008 07:49 AM

Meanwhile ignore all the anti-Semitism from people like John Hagee

Josh
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee
The San Antonio B'nai B'rith Council awarded Hagee with its "Humanitarian of the Year" award. It was the first time this award was given to a gentile.

Strange that a Jewish group would give an award to an anti-Semite.

Posted by: ML at October 27, 2008 09:28 AM

The issue is whether Darleen actually cares about anti-semitism or just wants to throw the charge around, dear Chris.

John Hagee on the Holocaust:

"'And they the hunters should hunt them,' that will be the Jews. 'From every mountain and from every hill and from out of the holes of the rocks.' If that doesn't describe what Hitler did in the holocaust you can't see that."

He goes on: "Theodore Herzl is the father of Zionism. He was a Jew who at the turn of the 19th century said, this land is our land, God wants us to live there. So he went to the Jews of Europe and said 'I want you to come and join me in the land of Israel.' So few went that Hertzel went into depression. Those who came founded Israel; those who did not went through the hell of the holocaust.

"Then god sent a hunter. A hunter is someone with a gun and he forces you. Hitler was a hunter. And the Bible says -- Jeremiah writing -- 'They shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and from the holes of the rocks,' meaning there's no place to hide. And that might be offensive to some people but don't let your heart be offended. I didn't write it, Jeremiah wrote it. It was the truth and it is the truth. How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel."

Hitler as instrument of God's will vis a vis the Jewish people. Lovely friends McCain has.

Posted by: Josh at October 27, 2008 10:04 AM

First of all, that is Hagee's interpretation of Scripture. He may be right, he may be wrong, but that's his opinion on what that passage means. Second, the idea that God allows evil is entirely unremarkable to believers. Since God is omnipotent, He is by definition more powerful than any evil, even Satan. This is a given for evangelicals. Therefore, whenever a great evil takes place, it is obvious to believers that God ultimately allowed it to happen. Why is another matter. Hagee has his opinion on Hitler. I understand the logic behind it, whether I agree with it or not. The fact remains that Hitler killed 6 million of God's chosen people, and that God ultimately allowed it to happen. God may have intended that secular forces be His instrument, but they failed. God could have intervened directly in some way, but He did not, and the Holocaust took place. Some of the deepest thinking about God and His relationship to man takes place when bad things happen to good people. There is a reason that the book of Job is thought to be the oldest book of the Bible.

If you don't like Hagee's analysis, you can ignore it. It is completely irrelevant to the subject under discussion. John Hagee is a smokescreen, and not a particularly effective one. If you believe that bloggers are required to condemn every utterance by a public figure that they personally disagree with, you are a fool.

Posted by: Chris at October 27, 2008 02:37 PM

Thanks for the freshman theology, Chris. But of course the fact that Hagee's "analysis" is consistent with the twisted illogic of the radical christian right in no way diminishes its fundamental anti-semitism.

And, of course, you once again miss the point. Of course Darleen is obligated to denounce Hagee, but nobody but a fool would think that her objection to Khalidi has anything to do with anti-semitism, which the free pass for Hagee and his ilk amply demonstrates.

Posted by: Josh at October 27, 2008 03:42 PM

Nothing Hagee says is anti-Semitic.

And I am the one who called Khalidis an anti-Semitic, not Darleen.

Then you brought Hagee up.

Posted by: ML at October 27, 2008 03:54 PM

You know nothing of the Christian right, Josh, just like you know nothing of actual believers.

Posted by: Chris at October 27, 2008 07:34 PM

Josh

This is what real anti-Semitism looks like, not your pretend type.

Obama’s racist anti-Semitic church bulletin
Pastor’s Page

Posted by: ML at October 28, 2008 07:51 AM

You know nothing of anti-semitism, Chris, or anything else, really. Hagee thinks Hitler was doing God's work. ML and Chris think Hagee is swell. You guys are going to have to purge the haters if you ever want to be a majority party again.

Posted by: Josh at October 28, 2008 08:39 AM

And in that same vain, you think Obama and his terrorist anti-American friends are just peachy.
His corrupt buddies are also just fine because republicans are such bad racists.

You will have the next 4 years to figure out where the hateful dhimmicrats went wrong.

Posted by: ML at October 28, 2008 05:58 PM

Bet Obama and Biden get into some serious squabbles over this.

Posted by: centristderangementsyndrome at October 28, 2008 07:58 PM