Protest at the L.A. Times: Free the tape! Updated
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Several southern California readers send word that there will be a protest at the L.A. Times building today at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern over the suppressed Obama/Khalidi tape.
Here’s the info:
I just got word that there is a planned protest to try and force the LATimes to release the video of Obama/Rashid Khalidi. If people cannot physically attend the protest at the LATimes Headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles, they are encouraged to call the offices at (213) 237-5000, fax a request to release the video or complaint against their current stance to (213) 237-7679.
Your participation in this is of the highest priority to provide information to the voters in time to present a clear picture of the Democratic candidate’s coziness with individuals possessing extreme views in direct opposition to US foreign policies.
For more information, please go to the website of the organization leading the protest effort -
www.freedommarch.orgLA Times Headquarters
202 W. First St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
main phone 213-237-5000
fax 213-237-7679
There’s also a petition here.
From Jeffrey Goldberg at the left-leaning Atlantic:
I understand that the tape was leaked to the Times by a source or sources unknown, and that an agreement was struck with that source to keep the tape hidden, but the tape has been described in a Times story already, and it quite obviously contains no state secrets. I also suspect that the tape could be posted in such a way as to obscure its origins. The Times, however, won’t discuss in detail why it’s keeping the tape from its readers, and the newspaper’s “readers’ representative,” Jamie Gold, has lined up against the readers, and argued against the release of the tape.
There is another reason why the tape should be posted: It might actually create interest in the L.A. Times. From what I understand, the mainstream media is in a bit of trouble these days. Perhaps — this is just a thought here — the L.A. Times could better its position in the world by drawing readers to its website.
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Inspired by commentators on the Internet and cable television, thousands of people e-mailed and phoned The Times to demand the release of the tape. Hundreds of others expressed support for the paper’s decision.
The controversy stems from an article by Times staff writer Peter Wallsten that the newspaper published on April 10, exploring Obama’s relationships with Palestinian Americans and Jews in Chicago. The article explained how Obama had managed to be held in high esteem by both groups. It described a party in 2003 for Khalidi, a renowned scholar on the Palestinians who in the 1970s had acted as a spokesman for Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization.
Some participants at the event spoke sharply against Israel. One young woman accused the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of the Palestinians. Obama “adopted a different tone,” according to the article, “and called for finding common ground.”
The reporter and his editors said they found it ironic to be criticized now for allegedly trying to protect Obama, noting that the story had drawn strong rebukes from Obama supporters. Commentators at two websites — the Nation and Talking Points Memo — charged that the newspaper had unfairly suggested that the Democrat could not have allies in both communities.
Wallsten said he had worked on and off for several weeks to gather information on Obama’s relationships in the Palestinian American community, with sources speaking only on condition of anonymity, including one who had the video.
The reporter’s editor said the paper would have preferred to be able to post the video on its website but could not get the source to agree.
“If we had not reached this agreement, we would not have had access to this tape at all. Then no one would ever have known Obama attended this event and spoke at it,” said the editor, Aaron Zitner. “We were pushing to say the most we could and to present the most we could to readers about what happened. And we did that.”
Update: Omri Ceren has photos and video.
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WOW!!!
Just in time for the October suprise!
Believe this story broke in the LA Times last April. Who had an interest at that time in seeing Zero go down?
HILLARY RELEASE THE TAPES!
They’ll probably release it on November 5.
I just went to the link to sign the petition. It says there are only 5 signatures — but the most recent is ~7:30am this morning. Mine did not show up. They are either holding them to batch them together, or there is a problem…
Nevermind!
/emily littella
I just went back, and it’s up to almost 3k. Mine’s there now.
I see 2,959 now. Maybe just a hiccup.
The irony being that if it did contain state secrets, they’d have already published it.
Obviously, since the Slimes says so.
I’m not so sure about this. The LA Times seems to be holding the tape out like bait knowing good and well that there is nothing on it. When pressed hard, they can release it and take all the wind out of the McCain sails.
FINA-friggin’-LLY.
Sambo – your reasoning makes a lot of sense.
The tape is being held in slavery. Michelle Obama must surely be proud.
Who’s to say when the tape is released, that it won’t have been edited?
it won’t matter much, if america’s jews don’t know that BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA won’t be a friend to israel or jews by now, they deserve what comes. get ready for the reimmigration of all those upper west side going to israel to do my part liberals. as always with liberals, doing my part doesn’t include fighting or danger or inconvenience.
The video might be in black and white and they don’t want to appear racist. More important to them than truth.
No, I disagree. If there was nothing on the tape, release it now and give Obama supporters fodder for a, “See, they’re just hysterical losers!” meme until Tuesday.
Besides, tomorrow is Friday and the weekend means a downturn in those paying hard attention to news cycles. Unless the tape is released early tomorrow or Monday, they’ll hold it long enough to help Obama potentially win.
L.A. Times releasing the tape? That wouldn’t be the same paper that pushed to release sealed divorce documents of one Jack Ryan, would it? You know, the guy that Barack defeated by making him drop out of the race.
Move along.
What are they hiding?
cheapseat said:
“it won’t matter much,… “
True enough, anyone who doesn’t know who BHO is by now doesn’t want to know.
Perhaps there is someone else is on the tape who would not like it known…
Speaking of liberal media…did anyone see this?
Huffington Post Writer Stabbed Ex-Lover 220 Times
On October 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am, sonofdy said:
What are they hiding?
Snodfy, that is what I, too, would very much like to know.
If Obama has no reason to be ashamed of this tape, what’s the big deal? If there’s nothing TO hide, why hide?
RELEASE THE TAPE.
Why leak the thing and then insist that it be kept a
secret? Something stinks (naaaaah) at the la times.
.
We no longer have a “free press” or a 1st Amendment if the Times refuses to release the tape.
They will have become a political organization.
A new newspaper will need to be created to keep checks on the government.
At least we still have MichelleMalkin.com…. at least until Pelosi passes the fairness doctrine.
Captain Obvious says
“Duh. The tape has information about the Chosen One. The tape is in the hands of a syncophantic mouth piece for the Chosen One. It’s quite likely that an appointed minion of the Chosen One has expressed to the syncophantic mouthpiece that the Chosen One would look with great disfavor on any media outlet that steps away from the script as issued by the Chosen One. Therefore, the syncophantic mouthpiece will hold on to this tape like a three-year-old grips a lollipop for at least five or six more days.”
If this ever sees the light of day, it will be long after it ceases to affect this election cycle. Believe it.
I agree. Looks like they would put it up on their site, to draw interest in the paper; but then again, maybe that’s why they’re holding back – to pique the public’s interests in the tape into a fervor, and then release it.
However, regardless of the LAT’s reasons for holding it back, I think it is a disservice to the public good for them not to release the tape before the election and I wish the protesters the best of luck.
I mean, isn’t the purpose of the press to inform the public, to help them make informed decisions based on the information there is to be gathered, especially during an election? Isn’t that what they are specifically charged with doing in the Constitution?
How these MSMs cling (bitterly!) to their faith in the righteousness of liberalism! They’ve watched their newspapers and broadcasts hemorrhage readership/viewership, and yet they steadfastly refuse to question themselves as to what might be wrong. Yes, recovering liberal that I am, I can readily remember when I thought conservatives were quaint and confused. But I wasn’t running a multi-million-dollar business into the ground based on those arrogant attitudes. What are they telling themselves?!?
Bottom line for me is …. if he has nothing to hide why doesn’t Obama just tell them to release the @#$%$ tape.
nlebou – Obama does have something to hide. I never doubted that. Smoke..fire. Walk.Quack.duck.
Halloween would be such an appropriate time to release this tape.
uh, it might get Obama’s interest on Jan 20th. Then they won’t be sactioned as a ‘State approved’ newspaper.
I think it’s a certainty that the tape has already been edited, or is being edited now, so all embarrassing actions of or references to Osama Obama are left off.
BTW: The LA Slimes ran an editorial today tut-tutting over the Palin effigy hung in front of a house in West Hollywood. They essentially said it was “unfortunate,” even though it would have been awful if it had been a black man effigy.
A little hypocrisy there?
I tried to post a comment but when submitted it drew a “server failure…try again later” response.
The Slimes can’t fail fast enough to suit me.
On October 30th, 2008 at 11:58 am, recovering liberal said:
How these MSMs cling (bitterly!) to their faith in the righteousness of liberalism! They’ve watched their newspapers and broadcasts hemorrhage readership/viewership, and yet they steadfastly refuse to question themselves as to what might be wrong. Yes, recovering liberal that I am, I can readily remember when I thought conservatives were quaint and confused. But I wasn’t running a multi-million-dollar business into the ground based on those arrogant attitudes. What are they telling themselves?!?
First off, just wanted to tell you that I love you online name! Remember, one day at a time . . .
Second, I think you hit the nail on the head, probably due to your “recovering liberal” status. You, no doubt, have insights that those of us who have never needed “recovery” from liberalism or who are “liberals in denial” do not have.
What if it is like the notorious and ubiquitous “unnamed source” and they’ve been busted because it really isn’t there? Hmmmmmm.
Gene
NEVER FORGET
Why do you think somebody might A) film a tape like this B) leak it to the LA Times so they can “describe” the important things on it C) Ask them not to actually show it to anyone???
Think it might be too obvious who did the actual filming?
The word about his relationship with Odinga needs to be spread far and wide too.
(Scary stuff)
The LAT knows it could deny The One his divine right, so it’s sitting on it like the goose on the golden egg.
Like I’ve said, we no longer have a free and independent press. We have Pravda.
I really think it was Obama’s team that gave the tape over to the Times.
Why do they think it’s their right to tell the world every probing detail of the personal lives of every Palin family member,
but when it comes to vital National Security issues and information that could help prevent a possible Jihadist, Communist Revolutionary from becoming President of the United States, they don’t think we have a right to know?
(The answer is they want that candidate to win)
Why can’t the Department of Homeland Security, Attorney General, and the Justice Department get a search warrant and get the tape?
This is seriously a vital National Security Issue.
Hey 9/11 Truthers, how do you feel about this cover up?
Barack Hussein Obama, what did you know about the events of 9/11/2001, and when did you know it?
Barack Hussein Obama, Tell me again about those “57 states” with
“one left to go“…
Russia is an observer nation of the “57 states” of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), whose flag:
The Adhan is the Islamic call to prayer, and begins with four recitals of the words “Allahu Akbar“.
Truth: Barack Hussein Obama chose to proudly recite, repeatedly, with a first-rate accent, the same words (”Allahu Akbar”) that were the last words of the 9/11 hijackers whose intended target was the US Capitol Building.
I called at 9:30. I got through after a short wait to the editorial staff. Talked to a man who immediately upon hearing the subject transferred me to an answering machine (very rudely). I left my message on the machine.
I have yet to hear Barack Hussein Obama chose to proudly recite,
even one time, the words
mmm-maybe they shouldn’t release the tapes?
Obaminites-LA Times?
Choices, choices always choices.
Vote McCain
Not Hussein
OT, I got this off Fox:
They do the same thing here, but their weapon of choice is words.
Someone ought to offer a million dollars for this.. it could easily swing the election if it shows Obama chanting the last words of the terrorists.
The contents will not matter to the Obama supporter no matter what is on it.
The Koolaid has already been digested.
As for the LA Times the best, really only protest that matters is canceling subscriptions.
Even that matters slightly, the LAT is in line for the MSM bailout BHO will offer as their reward.
My guess is the payoff will be 5 to 15 billion for the newspapers. This will be enough to buy off their loyalty through 2012.
That would be a Trinitarian declaration which would offend both his mohammedan and Marxist sensibilities.
But again as Mohamed was justified in lying to the Meccans and the Marxist lie to everybody BroBama might even say Jesus is Lord to fulfill and justify his convoluted twin loyalties. I do know many people are confused by the notion of a Mohammedan/Marxist–it is sometimes called Sukarnoism or the Indonesian Answer but it does exist.
You know, what they may not realize, is that far more damage can be done to the campaign of Capt. Big Ears and His Boy Blunder by keeping the contents of that tape a secret than actually releasing it.
That tape may contain absolutely nothing. It may have the opposite on it than what people think. It may actually reinforce his supporters, rather than turning the “undecideds” to McCain.
However, by not releasing it, McCain’s supporters are more than welcome to speculate as to what is on it as much as they want, doing far more damage with rumor and innuendo than with actual knowledge.
Few things are more damaging than rumors, and so long as they refuse to play it, they lend credence to the claim that it is as damaging or worse than what they say it is.
If he is not what we have been saying he is, then they should release it and prove us all wrong, solidifying his win and prooving us all to be what they claim.
If he is exactly what we claim him to be or worse…then by all means…hold on to the tape and let us all run with the rumors as to what is there.
See? Good things happen!
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I Luv the Guv: John McCain’s best decision yet
Two years into the OBummer administration, when even the MSM genuflectors are compelled to foresake their salivating investment in Him, it is possible the nation will be in such a “malaise” that the universal chorus of “How could we have voted for this?” will drown out even the most rabid of current-day BDS.
It’ll be intersting to see how that plays out.
retfireman #49 i was thinking the same thing. BHO has so much to hide it is ridiculous. Everyone knows the LA Times is part of the shill network. BHO is trying to run the clock out now and it shows. Even if it turns out he is not corrupt…sure does look like he is. He is a cockroach hiding under the sink after the light has been turned on.
Me thinks it time to boycott all the worthless media and their sponsors!
I keep calling , press 5 for ‘news’ and wait for a couple minutes ONLY to be HUNG UP ON.
Yep…they’re hanging up on readers.
KEEP CALLING.
(213) 237-5000
Called (213) 237-5000
Chose #5 “news”
Had to leave a voicemail.
Rush emphasized that it is this very rag that released information concerning Obama’s opponent in Illinois about his disabled child and divorce.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
Anti-semites, all.
As of 11:45 (PDT), the Slimes’s webpage reaction to this is:
*crickets*
As if a handful of people marching around their building — or even a jammed phone line — would make them violate journalistic ethics the way they did in ‘04 when they pounded a false story about Schwarzenegger and posted spurious audio….
There will be malaise allright. Obama and his fellow Communists know how their policies destroy. They have destroyed every nation in which they have been tried. Jimmy Carter nearly did it in less than 4 years by the very same policies which Obama now desires to deploy. He wants to weaken our defenses for the sake of “negotiations” with terrorists. He wants to restrict our supply of energy. He wants to destroy industries with greater regulations, forcing unionization down the throats of every business, and driving capital in to hiding with punitive tax rates.
Now they know the mistake Carter made. He did not destroy the opposition. He did not rig elections. He did not threaten violence. He did not confiscate the peoples weapons. Obama won’t make those same mistakes. The country rejected Marxism when they overwhlemingly voted him out of office in 1980. Obama knows that will be his fate unless he suspends the Constitution or intimidates the populace. I believe that he is willing to do that. Regardless of what the Left has said about George Bush, he will leave office peacefully in January. Better watch, because that will probably mark the end of the noble experiment that was America.
What if: the LA Times agreed to use what is on the tape on the condition that they not release the tape itself? And the original story came out in April so this all smacks of desperation.
They need to release the tape. It is unjournalistic to withhold information as such and if they do not, I wish them failure for their disregard of journalistic objectivity.
The LA Times has no qualms about posting classified information that can hurt this country regardless of the source.
I’ve never trusted that “anonymous” source or we have to “protect” our source excuse. The newspapers have abused that trust too many times.
They are very selective in their enforcement.
Off topic, but hilarious…
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=209213
Oxymoron = journalistic integrity
Exactly right! Obama has hidden so much information that should be public, i.e. his LSAT scores, birth certificate, Columbia records, tried to hide the Annenberg project files, etc., etc., that you can’t help but wonder what he is hiding.
The facts:
1) if the tape is nothing, then there is no harm in releasing it. Why does the LATimes even have it, if there was a stipulation never to use it?
2) if the tape is something, then hiding it when everyone knows of its existence is potentially more damaging, as you state. Everyone knows that you get damaging info out early and make a statement. Hiding just leads to trouble.
3) the refusal to release the video is tacit admission that it could hurt Obama in some way, and that the rumors are true.
4) The LATimes is in bed with Obama.
It is Kerry and the military records all over again!
If it was a tape of some national secret the tape would have already been released and Boooosh would have already been blamed.
Kerry is lucky he was in the Navy. The Marines or Army would have had him courtmartialed.
Speaking of tapes, the BBC wrote an article talking about the most viewed Youtube election-type video (video included). 11 millions hits.
Taqiyya. Taqiyya. Taqiyya.
OBinghole is practicing it to a T. And the LA Times is so dhimmified, they know not that they are enabling Moslem perpetration on our political system.
Where is Homeland Security on this whole credit card fraud trend. He has raised $600 million. Does this pass the terrorist smell test? Or do the PTB actually believe the takedown of this Nation will be done with bombings alone? DUH.
I am encouraged by the fact that the polls still show a race that is too close to call, despite our kingmaker obsessed MSM fetish of wanting to call this one over.
The LA Times is a gutless organ of the Left.
Fight on. There is but one Messiah.
Bear1909 out.
“….and hell followed with him.”
Drudge has a story about how al queda put out a video praying that Bush gets humiliated. I am not a huge Bush fan, but i admit he accomplished his most important job…to keep us safe. Al queda hates him and it could only be because Bush set back their agenda. BHO is going to please Al Queda, if that is not enough to keep anyone from voting for him then i firmly believe 1/2 of America is retarded.
Do you all feel the same way about some records being suppressed by the Navy concerning some car accident that John McCain was involved in? Should those be released, too?
Same reason he won’t release his birth certificate. He DOES have something to hide.
Why leak the tape to the Times at all if the Times could only print articles and not release the tape. There’s something fishy here.
I am not encouraged by this at all. This election should not even be within 20 points. There should be no reason what-so-ever that a mere 7 years after the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, while we are at war for the very existence of Democracy, freedom and all that each holds dear, that a man of such questionable nature and character was even close to being in Washington, let alone a Senator this close to being President.
This doesn’t make me feel good at all. It makes me absolutely sickened that so many people in this country could be so stupid, so greedy, so…BLIND to rthe realities of this planet as to let something like this happen at all.
I have often wondered just how an entire country could be duped into allowing someone like Adolph Hitler rise to power and plunge the world into the chaos and murder it was forced to deal with for 12 years. I never in my life would have ever thought that I would live to see such a thing ever happen again…especially not in The United States.
Don’t know, will these records prove once and for all if McCain is Consitutionally eligible to run? Was the accident the cause of hanging out with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright or Tony Rezko? Did he get into an accident after dropping off an $800,000.00 donation to ACORN? If so, then yes!!
Keep calling The LA Times!
(213) 237-5000
Choose #5 “news”
They’ve gone to voicemail…imagine that!
Ha! the L.A. protesters are such wusses, send the phillie fans there… lmao…
It’s Killin em and
I Love it!!!
McCain/Palin 08′
#72
Yes, if McCain was driving with known anti-semites and terrorists, that would be relevant.
Thanks for playing.
imjustsaying: no I don’t. There, happy now?
I just checked the LA Times online, cannot find them reporting on this protest.
Maybe the did not know where it was
DITTO
On October 30th, 2008 at 12:54 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:
Not hard to understand Mohammedan/Marxist: OIC.
The Indonesian Answer: Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse
I believe that Obama is not physically capable of saying those three words! God works in mysterious ways, and while I can’t explain a scientific reason why this is true, I still know it is true because it is the infallable Word of God:
No Holy Spirit? Can’t speak those three simple words.
Don’t ask me to explain it.
It’s a God thing, Obama wouldn’t understand…
Michelle Malkin,
Please disregard the multiple comments from me that are in your “to be moderated” queue. I made serveral attempts to post the last comment, and kept thinking it was an offending word, before I realized it had four URL links (and that seems to automatically send it to the moderation queue).
I reduced it to three URLs and it posted, so you can delete the others.
Thanks for all you do,
Red Pill
Must listen!!!
http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3
I bet The One knows the content of the tape and has been in contact with the LAT to make sure it stays hidden.
The reason they are taking so long to release the tape is so they can photoshop John McCain and Sarah Palin into the video.
RetFireman,
I hear you, but actually, given almost 7 years of non-stop propaganda and information surpression day after day after day from the MSM and the unrelenting pounding from the Left, I am amazed WE are within 20 points.
It shows that that there are still many Americans who, while uniformed, can intuitively filter out the “bolshoi” and figure things out.
don’t bet on that one…everything anti-dear leader will be suppressed….
On October 30th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, RetFireman said:
I am encouraged by the fact that the polls still show a race that is too close to call,
I am not encouraged by this at all. This election should not even be within 20 points.
I cannot possibly agree with you more. 50%, or nearly so, of Americans are following after this train wreck of a man? God have mercy on the living.
Hey, L.A. Times, a little reminder:
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”
“1984″ George Orwell