Tribune "reporter" Naftali Bendavid, apparently based in DC, writes an Obama propaganda piece, "Obama courts Jewish vote as doubts persist".
The doubts come from Obama's own words and actions which continue to be reprehensible, but Bendavid joins the whining Barack chorus claiming it's some kind of "far right" conspiracy by his use of sanitizing words and neglecting to mention salient facts. Obama fundraiser and professor friend Rashid Khalidi is described by Bendavid as a "Palestinian activist" when he in fact was a PR operative for the terrorist PLO. Khalidi was a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982 (this was at a time that the US State Department considered the PLO a terrorist organization).
As far as Obama's recently departed foreign policy adviser Robert Malley, Bendavid describes him as "less friendly to Israel". Bendavid doesn't mention in the Trib article why Malley has "severed his ties to the Obama campaign". He was meeting with Hamas, another terrorist organization. Bendavid quotes the Obama campaign, who describes Malley and Zbigniew Brzezinski, another foreign policy adviser (exposed as an anti-Semite) as "merely among hundreds of people who have offered counsel". And Obama's friend Bill Ayers is Mr. Rogers. I'm happy to offer my counsel too, though I'm not an Obama supporter.
I hardly think Rep. Jan Schakowsky should be giving testimonials, her record on Israel is as suspect as his, her silence in the past has been damning, along with other Democrats and Barack Obama. His happy talk now tellingly slips from time to time.
And it's not just conservatives who have been disturbed by Obama's history. Back in January, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen brought up Farrakhan, and Obama only repudiated Farrakhan under duress.
Lately even Jewish moderates have been shocked at the kind of virulent anti-Semitism that is openly spoken.
And Obama's 20 year association with the Rev. Wright only underscores the validity of their concerns.
Maybe if Mr. Bendavid did some actual reporting bloggers wouldn't have to.
UPDATE: Tribune columnist Clarence Page, RCP "Obama's Culture War":
Big of him. But it's not just blue-collar voters who have doubts about Obama. Intellectually. Viscerally.Obama's weak appeal to blue-collar voters is tied to his other liability, his newness on America's political stage. Lower-income voters tend to be the least knowledgeable of "the skinny kid with the funny name," as Obama cheerfully introduced himself during his Senate campaign. In his presidential campaign, they have been the most likely to believe the false rumors that he is a Muslim, refuses to salute the flag, hangs out with radicals and doesn't appreciate the values of people who work hard for a living.
Obama's awareness of that cultural gap probably explains why he's taken to wearing his American flag lapel pin again. It may be a small thing to him intellectually, as he has said, but it does a lot to shatter some of the false Internet-fed impressions about him that have been allowed to grow and harden in some neighborhoods.
And MSM reporters and columnists don't help matters by lumping together false rumors like Obama being a Muslim with legitimate issues and matters of fact.
Who is dumbing down and practicing a double standard?
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