Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The Michelle Obama "Whitey" Tape

Is there a damning tape of Michelle Obama, as Roger Stone claims?

He writes:

The Presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is likely to be roiled in coming days by revelations that Michelle Obama made racist comments in a speech for which there is allegedly an indelible record. This is why Hillary Clinton is still in the race and why her people have been in a race with Republican Opposition Researchers to get their hands on the offensive recording.

Jim Geraghty reports on the rumors of a tape on which Michelle Obama denounces "whitey."

The tape is said to show Michelle and Louis Farrakhan on a panel at Trinity United Church of Christ.

Geraghty concludes that rumors of this devastating tape are false. He believes the whole thing to be a hoax.

No Quarter dissects the tape issue.

The Obama campaign is telling reporters from major news organizations that the videotape of Michelle Obama railing against “whitey” at a panel alongside Nation of Islam maximum leader Louis Farrakhan is nothing but a “scurrilous lie,” according to one of those reporters who called for an answer.

But at the same time the Obama campaign has disseminated either a doctored or concocted transcript of the supposedly nonexistent videotape. Major Obama donors went to the campaign demanding explanations after the posting of my story on No Quarter about the contents of the videotape confirmed to me by several reliable sources, all Republicans with access to knowledge but who do not know each other.

So the campaign created a would-be transcript of the video it says doesn’t exist. In the Obama campaign produced transcript Michelle says “why’d he” instead of “whitey.” Very clever. Then the campaign sent this transcript to key Obamaton bloggers to circulate. And the campaign sent it to the donors to prevent them from having a nervous breakdown.

In other words, the Obama campaign is a two-faced operation, telling the national press one thing and using eager little bloggers as propaganda stooges. But now they’ve been caught in obvious dirty trickery. Will the press play along? The Obamaton bloggers who happily allowed themselves to be exploited have exposed themselves as just junior media whores.

What was that about Obama being an agent of change? No more politics as usual?

Never mind.

Sweetness and Light refers to the tape issue as a "preposterous rumor..., a transparent ploy from a man who is (in my opinion) a notorious America-hating buffoon and pathological liar."

That liar is Larry Johnson.

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