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McCain stays on Khalidi, L.A. Times
My colleague Lisa Lerer reports that in a morning interview with a Hispanic radio station in Florida, McCain compared Palestinian-American activist Rashid Khalidi to a "neo-Nazi" and sugggested that Bill Ayers attended a 2003 going-away party for a prominent Palestinian-American activist with Obama.
“I think the whole issue of the relationship with Bill Ayers needs to be known by the American people. Sen. Obama said it was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know much more than that. I don’t care much about an old, washed-up, unrepentant terrorist, and his wife who was on the FBI Top 10 Wanted list,” McCain said on Radio Mambi, according to a pool report. “We should know about their relationship including, apparently, information that is held by the Los Angeles Times concerning an event that Mr. Ayers attended with a PLO spokesman. The Los Angeles Times refuses to make that videotape public. I’m not in the business about talking about media bias but what if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet. I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”
Khalidi and Ayers were reportedly friends in Hyde Park, though it hasn't been reported that Ayers was a guest at the 2003 party. Khalidi is widely disliked in pro-Israeli circles, where he's seen as a defender of violent resistance to Israel in the Palestinian territories. But he's also a professor at Columbia University, with many mainstream defenders. A group he led was funded by the International Republican Institute, which McCain chairs, and he has always denied McCain's charge that he was ever a spokesman for the PLO. At the time of the party, he was a professor at the University of Chicago.
McCain returned to the subject in a second intervew.
“Apparently, this is a tape with a dinner that Mr. Ayers, the former and now still unrepentant terrorist, was at and also one of the leading spokespersons for the PLO. Now why that should not be made public is beyond me. I guarantee you if there was a tape with me and Sarah Palin and some neo-Nazi or one of those, you think that tape wouldn’t be made public? Of course, Americans need to know, particularly about Ayers, also about the PLO. Hopefully, there will be enough pressure on the LA Times that it’ll come up, but it’s really unfortunate that we have to go through this," he said.
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