LA Times: Barack Obama's Friends Are So Dangerous That Revealing Our Source Would Put Him In Jeopardy

Rashid Khalidi - a moderate one must fear

From Gateway Pundit:

The LA Times is holding a video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gives a toast to a former PLO operative at this celebration. If the American public saw this radical side of Barack Obama it is unlikely he would ever be elected president. 
But, the media refuses to release this video.

Here's the LA Times' latest excuse...
Charles Johnson posted the latest excuse by the LA Times for not releasing the Obama-Khalidi tape:

And yet another version of the excuse, also from Weitman (courtesy of LGF reader ‘jbolty’):

I completely agree about the role of the press being a watchdog on government abuse. The LA Times, as you know, brought this story to light in the first place and described what was going on on the tape. The reporter on the story has written extensively about Barack Obama’s relationship to the Khalidi family. The reporter agreed with his source not to release the tape in return for getting acess to it.

The Times has made it clear (last night online and in today’s newspaper) that it will honor that agreement. That is what you’d want, I would think: protection of a source in return for getting the underlying information. To break that agreement might put the source of the tape in jeopardy. Honoring the agreement allows the newspaper to continue to get information from other sources and assures those sources of information that they can come forward confidentially.

Unreal!
Obama's party friends are so dangerous that revealing the source of the tape would put him at risk!
You've got to be kidding!

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