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 A Texas man's disappearance is fodder for true-crime mania. Kerr County considered a flood warning system years ago. Cancer claims the life of an MLB champ at 44. See the best BBQ cities in the US. Report an error