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 Bodies found at lifetime felon's former home. Looks like we have a date for the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce nuptials. Netflix plan to buy Warner Bros. isn't sitting well in Hollywood. President Trump receives a peace prize, though not the one he wanted. Report an error