Khalidi of the PLO

UPDATE: Free the tape!!! Photos and video outside LA Times***Obama's babysitter just another guy in the neighborhood Rashid Khalidi continues to deny he was a PLO spokesman when it was classified as a terrorist organization by the State Dept. Via LGF, Martin Kramer, Olin Institute Senior Fellow at Harvard:

As for Khalidi's denial, there are ample grounds to question it. In 2004, when he made it, Khalidi wrote that between 1976 and 1983, "I was teaching full time as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies and Public Administration Dept. at the American University of Beirut, published two books and several articles, and also was a research fellow at the independent Institute for Palestine Studies." Khalidi claimed he had time for little else. "I often spoke to journalists in Beirut, who usually cited me without attribution as a well-informed Palestinian source. If some misidentified me at the time, I am not aware of it."

Now if someone misidentified me on the pages of the New York Times—Tom Friedman, no less—I'm sure I would be aware of it. So would you. Yet Khalidi did not seek a correction of Friedman's characterization at the time, although the Times regularly issues corrections of such mistakes, and presumably would have done the same for Khalidi.

The NY Times says so so it must be true...this time we will give them the benefit of the doubt. We still want to see the tape MSM. More from Kramer:

Khalidi's self-description as being a preoccupied professor while in Beirut also contradicts a statement he made in a 2005 interview. After listing the stations in his academic career, he was asked this question: "You were also involved politically as well?" Khalidi: "Well, yes. I was deeply involved in politics in Beirut."

It is worth explaining what it meant to be "deeply involved in politics in Beirut" during the civil war in Lebanon. It was not at all like community organizing in Chicago.

Not quite.

UPDATE: Jaw-dropper response from the LA Times. Gateway Pundit. Hugh Hewitt on the wreck that is the LA Times.