Okay, I’m in campaign overload anyway–and this one’s been a doozy.
But that was one of the most surreal events in a bizarre series of frankly mind-boggling WTF offerings by the McCain camp. Now media spokescritters play 20 questions with interviewers? “We on national TV? Cool! How 'bout a quick round of Bottecelli? I’m thinking of a name and you have to guess who it is!”
Both of them looked like pole-axed steers by the end of that fiasco.
Stellar inadvertent comedy though.
What is the evidence that even Khalidi is antsemitic?
I assume that Goldfarb dipshit was alluding to Wright, but Wright never said anything antisemitic so it still doesn’t make much sense.
There isn’t any. Goldfarb and the McCain campaign are just hoping that people will think Palestinian (or Palestinian-American) = anti-Semitic = terrorist.
Khalidi is not anti-Semitic. This is just another obscene smear.
I guess we’re being invited to infer that being Palestinian is prima facie evidence of antisemitism.
I noticed this when Joe the Surrogate suggested that Americans look into why he might have said Obama would be the death of Israel but refused to explain himself, and I think it’s coming from the same directive. It’s, like Drew Carey said about drive-through liquor stores, almost a good idea. After all, being specific at this point is only getting them destructive attention because they have so little of substance to work with, and their target audience doesn’t give a fuck about the details anyway. They just want validation from men in suits on TV that it’s okay to say crazy shit about Obama. The less tangible the points they press now, the harder it is to make a story out of how wrong they are.
disregard.
He was bluffing, he got caught. That’s it.
It’s worse than that. According to FoxNews, he has been sharply critical of Israeli policies!!1!11one! By gum, if that doesn’t make you a terrorist, I don’t know what does.
Why not go for gold? I say he meant Osama Bin Laden.
No pussyfooting around over here.
Am I the only one who thinks he wasn’t talking about anyone? Sanchez asked him to name someone, he tried to deflect to Ayers, then to just generalize, then he stared blankly and said nothing, then went with the whole “you know who I am talking about” thing. There wasn’t anyone else, he got caught in a lied to tried to get out of it.
It bothers me that McCain’s campaign lies and makes shit up, but its simply amazing how they aren’t even any good at it.
Honest question (maybe asked before and I missed it) and slight hijack:
Why isn’t Ayers or Khalidi or anyone else suing for defamation over these smears. It doesn’t strike me as okay to smear people’s reputations to make someone else look bad. It does seem to me if you call someone a terrorist that was never convicted of terrorism or you call someone anti-semitic, there’s a case to be made for defamation.
How strong would these defamation cases be against McCain, Palin and other members of their campaign? And why wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) the parties pursue them?
I was going to ask the same question. It occurs to me that both of these men could be in real danger from the nutballs that get riled up at these rallies. At least Ayers did what they say he did, but the accusation against Khalidi is complete fiction according to everything I’ve read. I would think that would be actionable.
About the same number they read before picking Palin–and of the same quality.
Did he? There are no convictions or even charges pending. Whatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
I could be wrong, but I thought Ayers admitted to his actions.
They still lay it on a little thick with things like, “his organization killed Americans.”
The only Americans they killed were themselves.
Khalidi:
Gotta love a guy who quotes Bobby D.
Don’t you mean HITLER?
Geez, it’s obvious that he’s talking about that other anti-semite with the “muslim”-y sounding name.
This is my new, favorite video.
I was a bit disappointed, though, that Sanchez didn’t really hammer it home. If I were him, I would’ve ended the interview right then.