Bookworm on Oct 26 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Islam, Israel, Media matters, Muslim violence
The LA Times has admitted that it possesses a video of Barack Obama cheerfully attending a radical Muslim meeting at which the speakers hurled the usual violent and threatening invective at Jews and at Israel. Also attending were Ayers and Dohrn.
One might think that, given next week’s election, the LA Times, which is another failing [...]
Bookworm on May 14 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Charles Johnson, at LGF, working off the top of his head, put together a list of Obama’s troublesome associations:
* Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years.
* Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada.
* Unrepentant Weather Underground [...]
Bookworm on Apr 24 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Media matters
Yesterday, I write a long post opining that the attacks against Obama because his friends would automatically trigger in liberals an urge to analogize the situation to the 1950s anti-Communist hearings, which would, of course, raise the “guilt by association” mantra. I also explained why, in Obama’s case, guilt by association is an appropriate [...]
Bookworm on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
On the liberal side of the American political world, one of the lingering horrors of the McCarthy era is “guilt by association.” Certainly that was the lesson I, a young liberal, took away from teachings about that era. As I learned it, it wasn’t that the HUAC hearings were aimed at discovering genuine [...]
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