Politics | Election 2008 McCain Camp: LA Times Is Suppressing Obama Video Paper accused of concealing candidate's links to Palestinian scholar By Rob Quinn Posted Oct 29, 2008 3:14 AM CDT Copied Palestinian-American historian Rashid Khalidi speaks during a press conference at the Geneva press club in Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 24, 2003. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, File) The McCain campaign is accusing the Los Angeles Times of shirking its journalistic duty by sitting on a tape of Barack Obama speaking at a 2003 dinner in honor of a Palestinian-American scholar and activist. The Times—which wrote about the tape in an April article on Obama's ties to Chicago-area Jews and Palestinians—says it is merely keeping its promise to its confidential source. Read These Next Driver kills 3, then asks, 'Why should I apologize?' He was an Olympian. Now he's the FBI's most wanted. A Canadian man just lost a whole of cash found by cops in his rental. Researchers believe simple test could save thousands of lives a year. Report an error