NY TIMES NY Times Pulls Kristof's Piece with Obama's Muslim Call to Prayer UPDATED: It's back ....for now

Remember when  Nicolas Kristof said of Obama here: " Mr. Obama has spoken respectfully of Islam (he told me last year, on the record, that the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset”). Apparently it has been scrubbed from the New York Times web site. Check that out. On the day Obama's freudian slip, "my Muslim faith" - that classic Obama quote disappears. (screen shot hat tip AB)

What are they afraid of?

UPDATE: Omri at Mere Rhetoric advised me that  the 2007 article is  behind a subscription wall. I don't think we have to worry about it disappearing though - it's reproduced on Obama's site here.

Never mind :)

UPDATE: WAIT! Mind! Mind! Diana West emails me that she is a member of the NY Times (woo woo) and she still gets the "server error" message whe she tries to access the "one of the prettiest sounds" Kristof column. "what's up with that indeed"?

UPDATE: It's back!

“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite. (O.K., maybe Mr. Obama should just give up on Alabama.)

Our biggest mistake since World War II has been a lack of sensitivity to other people’s nationalism, from Vietnam to Iraq. Perhaps as a result of his background, Mr. Obama has been unusually sensitive to such issues and to the need to project respect rather than arrogance. He has consistently shown great instincts.

Mr. Obama’s visit to Africa last year hit just the right diplomatic notes. In Kenya, he warmly greeted the president — but denounced corruption and went out of his way to visit a bold newspaper that government agents had ransacked. In South Africa, he respectfully but firmly criticized the government’s unscientific bungling of the AIDS epidemic. In Chad, he visited Darfur refugees.

Odinga is the President? (j/k) He's the Prime Minister, illegal seizure of power.

“My experience growing up in Indonesia or having family in small villages in Africa — I think it makes me much more mindful of the importance of issues like personal security or freedom from corruption,” he said, adding: “I’ve witnessed it in much more direct ways than I think the average American has witnessed it.”

Comments

[Yisrael Medad]

Isn't this what they refer to as the Soviet Encyclopedia maneuver?

By the way, did you cathc that the lawyer for the Pal. Authority, Hibey, was the one that failed Pollard?

[David Anfinrud]

So what do you expect. THis is the type of press the Liberals want. Hide the facts remove anything that puts a liberal democrat in a bad light. It never changes. That is why they want the fairness doctrin. So all news is fair to them by hiding all their faults and dirty laundry. While claiming Republican are the only corrupt political power.
This is the future of news under a Democrat president and Democrat Congress and Senate. IT does not mean McCain will veto it if they make the Fairness doctrine part of a spending bill. But under Democrats this will be the name of the game so that only Liberal ideas are allowed. All others need not apply.

[miira]

Makes one wonder how much scrubbing of unfortunate details (extracurricular activities, political affiliations, religious associations) has taken place at Occidental and Columbia.

There's so much information online that tells us there isn't very much to Obama's platform. Even the NYT ran an article about it
written by Jodi Kantor, January 28, 2007

. . ."His speeches, delivered in the oratorical manner of a Baptist minister, were more memorable for style than substance, Mr. Mack said.

" . . .

. . ."People had a way of hearing what they wanted in Mr. Obama’s words. . . .

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". . .students on each side of the debate thought he was endorsing their side. “Everyone was nodding, Oh, he agrees with me,” . . .

Empty rhetoric is his calling card . . .even since law school.

But, that article is over a year and a half old . . .and note the update at the bottom of linked article re: Biden heh.

Tomorrow will bring further details of Obama's "change" and -

Obama's Own Book Upstaged by Allegations in New Exposé

"The Audacity of Deceit" hits bookstores the same day as Barack Obama's new campaign book, "Change We Can Believe In." The embargoed book will reveal shocking new research and previously hidden information about the elusive presidential candidate.

Shielded from the media by a strict embargo, the contents of "The Audacity of Deceit" have been a well-kept secret. A limited number of advance copies were mailed out to the media late last week. The cover provides a contrast to Obama's previous book, "The Audacity of Hope," and features a rendering of the subject's official Senate portrait.

"It's been noted that Barack Obama has written multiple books and no major legislation, but that's not a coincidence," says O'Leary. "He's tried to hide his true beliefs from the American people behind soaring oratory promising 'hope' and 'change,' but that's just a smokescreen, and one that's been very effective. Until now."

[MGB]

Hilarious that the notoriously left-wing-leaning St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently ran a story about Vlad Putin:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/world/story/0ABE1EF4E666B80E862574BC0012E3E7?OpenDocument

From that story:

"The revival of patriotism has been a cornerstone of Putin's rule, achieved largely through Soviet-inspired images and strategies. The Kremlin engineered the start-up of political youth groups such as "Ours" and "Young Guard" that mimic Communist-era Komsomol organizations. Newscasts on state-controlled television networks long ago shut out critical voices."

Remind you of BO's (and his minions') attempts to control his image, the media, and our youth (Public Allies)?

BO and Putin ought to get along famously.

[heroyalwhyness]

'tis not been scrubbed from the messiah's site:

Obama: Man of the World

/why does the NYT feel it necessary to do so? What else are they concealing?

[seeteufel]

Anybody who has ever spent any time in Cairo will never vote for somebody who calls the call to prayer the most beautiful sound on earth. With a dozen mullahs each trying to outshout each other over antiquated loudspeakers, it makes the trumpeting of a herd of stampeding elephants sound like eine kleine Nachtmusik. Personally I prefer Mozart but will take the elephants and day over the mullahs.