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Old 06-06-2008, 02:32 PM
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Exclamation Getting back to OP-Believe it or not:

Getting back to the OP-The following was just posted on AOL News:
Obama: 'Whitey' Video Rumor is Crap
You may have seen the link floating around in our comment section. It leads you to one of many a breathless story, or perhaps a Fox News video clip, where the urgent topic is when we'll be seeing the YouTube file showing Michelle Obama on-stage with Louis Farrakhan lambasting Caucasian America with the term "whitey."

The story goes that tape has been kept under wraps, out of view, for use as the ultimate October surprise, sure to kill Barack's chances faster than Hillary Clinton can say "I told you so." The problem? As with so many slurs against Obama, there's no there there. There is no tape. From Politico:.................
http://news.aol.com/political-machin...875x1200410134

Obama denies a rumor and questions the question
Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor, which has not a shred of evidence to support it.

“We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it,” Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign plane. “That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.”

Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question.

“Frankly, my hope is people don’t play this game,” Obama said. “It is a destructive aspect of our politics. Simply because something appears in an e-mail, that should lend it no more credence than if you heard it on the corner. Presumably the job of the press is to not to go around and spread scurrilous rumors like this until there is actually anything, an iota, of substance or evidence that would substantiate it.”..................
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmi..._question.html

Everything's Gonna Be All White
On Monday I blogged about the rumors of a video that shows Michelle Obama making hateful comments about "whitey." I'm now convinced that Larry Johnson, the blogger who's done the most to make the rumors public, is spreading misinformation. At the least, he's been unable to stick to his story...............
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126883.html
More Debunking of the Obama "Tape" Hoax
Jim Lindgren, the Chicago-based lawblogger, has done what the Larry Johnsons of the blogosphere have not on this Michelle Obama smear. He looked for evidence. Lindgren drove over to Rainbow/PUSH headquarters to ask if the organization had a tape of the event Obama appeared at during their 2004 convention, the event that's become the focus of the story since the first few versions collapsed........
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126905.html


Interesting YouTube "show"
Obama rumors dispelled! Is it true about Obama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTgqQ2_KQkc

So, unless something some how does show up, I will end with this:
http://www.26nc.org/History/Rebel-Ye...ebelYell_l.wav
And NO, it is not Howard Dean

Last edited by jon1856; 06-08-2008 at 11:44 AM.
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