Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Obama-Khalidi-Ayers and the MSM

The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza is a regular and very welcome guest on the program. Prompted by Ace of Spades, I asked Chris on Tuesday prior to the presidential debate about MSM's treatment of Joe Biden's serial misstatements at last week's VP debate. The transcript is here.

At the conclusion of the interview I inquired if Chris knew of Rashid Khalidi, and Khalidi's friendship with Bill Ayers and Khalidi's long association with Barack Obama. Chris didn't, which didn't surprise me as I hadn't know about it either until an interview with Stanley Kurtz on Monday.

What Kurtz explained to me is that Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi are very close: [long history, snip]

What all of this suggests is that the Hyde Park community of hard left intellectuals was tightly knit, and that Obama was at the heart of it. MSM's indifference to this community and its impact on Obama is nothing short of astounding, like leaving his Vietnam experiences out of Kerry's bio in 2004.

[yet it's being ignored]

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