I am glad that the mainstream media has finally begun to ask hard questions but I cannot help but wonder why they failed to do this years ago (starting with Ronald Reagan’s claim, which was later revealed to be fabricated, about a “welfare queen” driving around in a Cadillac).

Khalidi is also the guy who supposedly funded Obama’s Harvard Law education, because apparently Obama wouldn’t have been able to afford that himself. This is according to people too stupid to know that the Obamas just recently paid off their law school loans, and that anyone with a decent credit rating can afford to go to Harvard Law because someone who gets into an Ivy League law school is one of the best credit risks out there; lenders know you’ll probably make lots of money and pay back the loan, and even if you don’t, it’s government-guaranteed. You can even get loans specifically to tide you over the two months you’re studying for the bar exam, before you can start work.

I’m not sure this makes Wright an anti-Semite, but I think he is very disregardful of the history of how Jews have been treated in the world, the reasons for the establishment of Israel and the reasons for the U.S.’s continued friendship with and defense of Israel. However, since all of that is too complicated for a McCain spokesman, who like McCain just wants to know “Who’s the villain?” then I’ll summarize by saying that if people are to be categorized as either anti-Semites (an absurd misnomer when talking about Israel/ Palestine — they’re ALL Semites) or pro-Israel, Wright isn’t pro-Israel.

I love the anchor’s totally sarcastic “THANKS SO MUCH” at the end.

The general consensus seems to be that Goldfarb meant the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but he couldn’t say the name because McCain had marked Wright as off-limits. So Goldfarb will smear Obama by claiming that he is close to anti-Semites, while clinging to the letter of the law by having Wright be He Who Must Not Be Named.

It reminds me of when I was little and Mom would say we couldn’t watch TV until our homework was done, so I would turn on the TV, sit with my back to the TV holding a mirror, and watch the image on the mirror; then if Mom asked if I’d watched TV, I could “honestly” say no. I suspect Goldfarb’s mama never whupped him for trying to dodge the rules, and today we see the result of his not getting that ass-whupping he needed.

pick your metaphor – but the bigger story I see developing is the media’s sudden interest in taking a remote interest as to the voracity, validity, or source of a claim. I think they’re finally realizing that the gig is up and a good chunk of Americans are over their carnival sideshows framed as “news”.

It’s maddening to me that the MSM has gone so far in the ditch on the right that they view KO and Rachel as far left, when in fact those two are the only ones out there that bother to fact check and push back on bullsh!t.

So many of these wimps don’t call their guests’ bluffs. That goes for Matthews, Brokaw, you name them…