OK, since we’re apparently free to use our imagination, here’s what I think happened at that party.
There are PLO and Hamas flags decorating the room, along with Che and Mao posters. Khalidi, Ayers and Obama are slapping each others’ backs, raising their glasses and toasting the upcoming destruction of the racist Zionist entity, all the while laughing at the thought of the final Final Solution. Obama says, “You know, when I take over, the first thing I’ll do is withdraw all aid from those fascist kikes, and I’ll give the Palis a couple nukes.” Then he turns to Ayers, and asks him if he’s come up with any fresh schemes for mass murder of the millions of recalcitrant capitalists, so that they can be implemented in the first one hundred days. After dessert, they get out an American flag, crumple it up on the floor, and jump up and down on it, shouting “Death to Capitalism, Death to America.”
No?
That’s not how it went down? Well, prove me wrong, LA Times. Show the tape.
[Late morning update]
Doug Ross writes that he has gotten a tip from a person who claims to have viewed it:
Reason we can’t release it is because statements Obama said to rile audience up during toast. He congratulates Khalidi for his work saying “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine” plus there’s been “genocide against the Palestinian people by Israelis.”
It would be really controversial if it got out. Tha’s why they will not even let a transcript get out.
Yes, don’t want to have a little controversy disturb an upcoming coronation.