Palin accuses Obama of ties to second 'radical professor'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday said Sen. Barack Obama has ties to a Columbia University professor who she said is "a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization."

The Obama campaign said on its Web site that "ugly insinuations about Barack Obama's relationship with a former neighbor and university colleague ... are completely false." The professor has denied he was a PLO spokesman.

Palin said her assertion "is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their record."

"It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years," Palin said at an event in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/campaign.wrap/index.html

[EFerrari]

1. And we all know how many educated people Palin knows.

lol

[Sydnie]

11. She has to know a professor or two herself

After all, you don't go to 5 or 6 different schools and not meet one or two, right?

She is showing her ignorance and her jealousy of someone who did better than her with less "background" than she claims to have.

[rfranklin]

23. Probably has a Ph.D. in Carnal Knowledge....

Those fundies babes are hot to trot...

[grasswire]

2. not negative to call you on your witchcraft pals, Sarah!

Is it?

[DJ13]

3. Is this the same radical professor McCain's foundation gave nearly $800,000?

She went rouge again.

(Not a mispelling.)

[Athletic Grrl]

31. That's the one.

That Sarah, she can't seem to keep those Jimmy Choo's out of her mouth.

[Zorra]

4. After the election, this corrupt, shrill, and annoying little criminal needs to go away

As in prison.

[surrealAmerican]

5. Perhaps to her ...

... ties to any college professors are a bad thing. She was probably flunked by such people too many times.

[EFerrari]

6. Welcome to DU, surrealAmerican.

:)

[surrealAmerican]

33. Thanks for the welcome.

I've been reading DU for years, but only just joined.

[Sorceress]

8. Man, would I love to have access to her transcript!

[LeftishBrit]

27. Good point!

[Malikshah]

7. Gee, where else did we see an attack on academics and the intelligentsia???

Hmmm?? Where was that now? When was that....

Things that make you go...:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

Thank you Sarah "Eva Braun" Palin for sticking your foot in it again.

[Cirque du So-What]

9. Has Rashid Khalidi ever spent time in prison? NO!

How about G. Gordon Liddy - convicted felon who McAnus is 'proud to consider an associate?' OH, HELL YEAH!

Much has been made of Khalidi's interpretation of international law as it relates to Palestinians shooting at Israeli soldiers, but he doesn't advocate such violence outright. Liddy, however, didn't even try to justify his advocacy of murdering BATF agents as constitutional or lawful:

<snip>

Later, after North signed off, Liddy had this exchange with a caller:

Liddy: When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms thugs come to kill your wife and children, to try to disarm you and they open fire on you. When they come at the point of a gun, force and violence, when you're going to defend yourself, use that Gerand . That thing is 30-06, and it'll take 'em right out.

Caller: And yes, aim for the head.

Liddy: Absolutely.

If Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich or Oliver North missed the Sept. 15 show, the Sept. 6 show would have helped them understand this Republican supporter's character.

Liddy: Arm yourself. Get instructed in how to shoot straight.

Caller: I've got weapons.

Liddy: Absolutely. And don't give 'em up, and don't register either.

Caller: No way. And I'm aiming between the eyes.

Liddy: There you go. That way their flak jackets won't protect them.

For the listeners to Liddy's 250 stations, appeals for the election of Republican candidates were sandwiched between frequent depictions of the Clinton administration as an evil that needed to be resisted with deadly force. That may explain why Liddy was invited to be the guest of honor at the Republican Party's "Salute to Talk Radio."

more...
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1313

This is far from an isolated incident. Liddy repeated that message so often that callers to Liddy's program would greet him with 'head shot' in the same way callers would greet OxyRush with 'dittos.'
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2505

I'm all for calling out fascists, and I can't think of a better place to start than with G. Gordon Liddy.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

29. Then why deny any ties to him?

It just gives the appearance that something is amiss.

David

[DemoTex]

10. Palin's shrill screed is typical of a fanatical know-nothing's contempt of academics.

She uses "professor" like she uses "socialist." "Professor" is, for her, an epithet (most often modified by "radical") that Palin is comfortable using because she was always one of so many professors' marginal-at-best students in the back row of the classrooms of her many colleges. Robert Pirsig nailed Palin's type in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. To paraphrase: The contemptuous look on her face reflects against the whole rational, intellectual process.

On fanatics and zealots like Palin, Pirsig wrote: "When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."

"No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow."

[Peregrine Took]

30. Excellent observation. n/t

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

12. Is this the professor John McCain gave huge sums of money to?

Is this about Professor Rashid Khalidi, formerly of University of Chicago and now at Columbia?

Seems John McShameful has been funding him since the early 1990's.

Another slime story the McShameful-Painful campaign forgot to vett before using it.

Huffington Post covered this yesterday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

[DemoTex]

17. Yeppers: Rashid Khalidi, recipient of McCain donations and support.

During the 1990s, while he served as chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), McCain distributed several grants to the Palestinian research center co-founded by Khalidi, including one worth half a million dollars.

A 1998 tax filing for the McCain-led group shows a $448,873 grant to Khalidi's Center for Palestine Research and Studies for work in the West Bank.

The relationship extends back as far as 1993, when John McCain joined IRI as chairman in January. Foreign Affairs noted in September of that year that IRI had helped fund several extensive studies in Palestine run by Khalidi's group, including over 30 public opinion polls and a study of "sociopolitical attitudes."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html

[ShortnFiery]

13. Professors can be snobs and pompous pains in the a** at worst, but they aren't "radicals." eom

[yardwork]

14. Let's talk about Sarah Palin's associations with white supremacists and witch preachers.

[kestrel91316]

15. Our local RW hate radio station, KFI, has a guy on in the morning,

Bill Handel. Libertarian-type conservative, attorney, blah blah blah. He is FOR OBAMA, lol, which totally blew me away.

This AM Handel was talking about this whole Khalidi brouhaha, and basically debunked the whole thing, saying how the guy is a MODERATE who has denounced Palestinian terrorism as WAR CRIMES, and so what if Obama is his friend. I was stunned.

The fact that he is even being allowed to have this sort of chat with the listeners, or that he thinks they will listen to what he has to say, is amazing to me. But he often bucks the RW trend, being very pro-choice and as far as I know pro-gay rights.

Anyway, Khalidi is a HIGHLY RESPECTED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR who hates Palestinian terrorism. But I guess because he is an Arab and a Muslim, he is automatically one of the terrorists to these freaks. Oh, and I think he was born in the US.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Oh, oh. Sarah's done it now. She's outed another terrifying "radical professor."

She even knows where he lives. He's from the "radical professor neighborhood!"

Thank goodness we've got screechy old Sarah, and her mob of henchmen fighting for their rights to rid this country of leftists.

[Blue State Bandit]

18. Background on Professor Khalidi...

Not long after the initial story came to the attention of the political echo chamber, Seth Colter Walls at Huffington Post quickly exposed McCain's own connections to Rashid Khalidi. A connection that, if you were to see such things as a McCain supporter, goes well beyond a rubbing of elbows, which is the allegation purported to be highlighted in the "party video". The McCain/Khalidi connection involves close to $800,000 given to a Palestinian Organization by a group headed by one John McCain.

In McPalin circles, that would be called funding terrorism.

Well, today, the Professor and Historian has a defender, Scott Horton of Harpers Magazine.

Here is a bit of what he had to say.

This doesn’t sound much like the Rashid Khalidi I know. I’ve followed his career for many years, read his articles and books, listened to his presentations, and engaged him in discussions of politics, the arts, and history. In fact, as McCarthy’s piece ran, I was midway through an advance copy of Khalidi’s new book Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (I’ll be reviewing it next month–stay tuned.) Rashid Khalidi is an American academic of extraordinary ability and sharp insights. He is also deeply committed to stemming violence in the Middle East, promoting a culture that embraces human rights as a fundamental notion, and building democratic societies. In a sense, Khalidi’s formula for solving the Middle East crisis has not been radically different from George W. Bush’s: both believe in American values and approaches.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/29/153832/91/854/645960

[BadgerKid]

19. How that Alaskan Independence Party coming along, Sarah?

I figure she's taking advantage of Barack that he won't fling poo back.

[Faygo Kid]

20. This time they are trying someone with a foreign-sounding name. "Bill" didn't work.

Shameless, racist thugs.

[Dems4me]

21. What about your deep long term affair with AKIP (AIP) Sarah?! You Hypocrite. n/t

[underpants]

22. Sarah would you care to tell us about any "ties" you have with any professors

and yes that can be taken more than one way ;-)

[LynnTheDem]

24. The one JOHN McCAIN gave HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO?

That "PLO spokesman"???

[olddad56]

25. Palin has ties to a terrorist organization, the GOP.

[Owl]

26. Seconded!

[Posteritatis]

28. Neighbors? Coworkers? Is this the best they have now? (nt)

[truthisfreedom]

32. The rethug party, where there's so much hatred for education and the educated, immediately connects

a foreign-sounding name with being a professor, and voila, instant "terrorist" association.

Pathetic.

[dugaresa]

34. she is an ass...and a potential book burner

I am sorry...but I really think she is a GOP tool

[cosmicone]

35. When do we see a headline like ...

"Palin accuses Obama of associating with the Penguin and the Riddler?" Will it be after she is committed?

[minnesota_liberal]

36. If hypocrisy smelled like skunk, we could smell Republicans a mile away

[and-justice-for-all]

37. SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LYING BITCH! nt