{"id":2753,"date":"2008-10-30T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:45:23","slug":"2008-10-30-cnn-and-the-khalidi-affair-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2753","title":{"rendered":"CNN and the Khalidi affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>This is an actual sentence from a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/tag\/cnn-political-producer-peter-hamby\/\">CNN report<\/a> on Sarah Palin attacking Barack Obama over his relationship with eminent Palestinian scholar Rashid Khalidi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Khalidi has been a stern critic of United States foreign policy towards Israel and has accused the country of \u201coccupying\u201d Palestinian territories, but he has denied acting as a spokesman for the PLO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How dare Khalidi suggest that Israel may be &#8220;occupying&#8221; (let&#8217;s use quote marks to underline the outrageousness of it all) Palestinian territories? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipweiss.org\/mondoweiss\/2008\/10\/cnn-shocker-khalidi-accused-israel-of-occupying-palestinian-territories.html\">Philip Weis<\/a>s says, this is the result of the disastrous effect of the Israel lobby and the skittishness with which US media approach the issue. But I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolf_Blitzer\">Wolf Blitzer<\/a>, former AIPAC lobbyist, will look into that.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the Khalidi business does make Obama look bad &#8211; it along with other decisions to distance himself from former friends makes him look like he&#8217;s opportunistic and ready to dump his friends at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note: <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Joe_The_Plumber_attacks_Obama_would_1028.html\">Joe the Zionist<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>This is an actual sentence from a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/tag\/cnn-political-producer-peter-hamby\/\">CNN report<\/a> on Sarah Palin attacking Barack Obama over his relationship with eminent Palestinian scholar Rashid Khalidi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Khalidi has been a stern critic of United States foreign policy towards Israel and has accused the country of \u201coccupying\u201d Palestinian territories, but he has denied acting as a spokesman for the PLO.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How dare Khalidi suggest that Israel may be &#8220;occupying&#8221; (let&#8217;s use quote marks to underline the outrageousness of it all) Palestinian territories? As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipweiss.org\/mondoweiss\/2008\/10\/cnn-shocker-khalidi-accused-israel-of-occupying-palestinian-territories.html\">Philip Weis<\/a>s says, this is the result of the disastrous effect of the Israel lobby and the skittishness with which US media approach the issue. But I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolf_Blitzer\">Wolf Blitzer<\/a>, former AIPAC lobbyist, will look into that.<br \/>\nIncidentally, the Khalidi business does make Obama look bad &#8211; it along with other decisions to distance himself from former friends makes him look like he&#8217;s opportunistic and ready to dump his friends at the drop of a hat.<br \/>\nOn a related note: <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/Joe_The_Plumber_attacks_Obama_would_1028.html\">Joe the Zionist<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}