L.A. Times Should Release Video of Obama

In these waning days of the 2008 Presidential campaign, a major news organization, the Los Angeles Times, admits that it possesses but refuses to release a video showing Barack Obama partying with and praising a former terrorist PLO operative and advocate for Palestinian concerns.

The McCain campaign is demanding the release of the video.

We agree.

Journalistic integrity demands that a news organization make available to the public all known information concerning Presidential candidates that could potentially impact the ability of the electorate to discern the fitness of that candidate for public office.

Plus, the people have a right to know.

The reason this issue is so crucial to the present campaign is not that it shows Obama's dark and murky associations. All but the hopelessly misinformed already know these things.

But the video the L.A. Times possesses portrays a candidate that has been decidedly on the record against Israel, in spite of his attempts during the campaign to hide that record and appear acceptable to Jewish audiences around the country.

Obama has flirted with disaster with the Jewish vote before, advocating for a united Jerusalem under complete Israeli control, only to retreat from that position in less than a week and advocate for a divided Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians.

But a video that shows the candidate not only praising a known anti-Semitic Palestinian apologist, and celebrating with him at a party, would do much to seal Obama's fate among a large number of Jewish voters who would view such a thing as the last straw.

For more information on the video and the L.A. Times' refusal to release it, click HERE.