Former International Republican Institute President: McCain Supported Grants to Khalidi’s Group

[babsbunny]

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003795

By Ken Silverstein

One of the lowest moments of this entire campaign has been the McCain campaign’s repulsive smear job of Rashid Khalidi. The best remark about the whole episode came from Khalidi himself, who when asked for comment by the Washington Post, replied, “I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over.”

As I’m sure most readers know by now, Khalidi is the Palestinian American scholar and director of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute who Senator McCain recently compared to a “neo-Nazi.” McCain’s camp has also claimed that Khalidi was a spokesman for former PLO leader Yasir Arafat, though there is no evidence this is true. As my colleague Scott Horton noted:

[LynnTheDem]

1. McCain's evil, nasty, sick, disgusting (and major hypocritical) smear of Khalidi was the end

forever of any last vestige of respect I held for that MFer.

There is no "I'm sorry, I chose lying" after that one, mccain.

Dirty sick disgusting motherfucker.