Debunking the ‘Whitey’ Video Rumors
Jim Geraghty does a marvelous job debunking the rumors about a supposed video on which Michelle Obama can allegedly be seen and heard insulting white people. What has Jim found? Well, that the rumors spread by Larry Johnson of No Quarter bare close resemblance to… a thriller novel.
The book: Stephen Frey’s The Power Broker, published in 2006 by Ballantine Books.
Jim’s last words on this subject:
Why is a conservative blogger putting this much effort into dispelling a rumor that, on paper at least, would hurt Obama? Because those who prefer a president besides Obama should not go through the summer and fall convinced that a magic-bullet devastating tape is going to appear as an October surprise to save the day.
Also, there are a lot of good reasons to vote against Barack Obama; but what people claim Michelle Obama says on a tape that no one can produce and no one has seen isn’t one of them.
Quite right.
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And yet people keep talking about the likely-fictious tape. This was the most successful plant of a non-story as I’ve seen in a long time. Hundreds of journalists and bloggers have covered it and brought it to the point where the candidate was bullied into answering it (a really stupid move on Obama’s part).
It’s like the old LBJ story, where he told his campaign guy he wanted to start a rumor that his opponent was a pig-fucker. The campaign guy tells the President that nobody would believe such a rumor. The President said: "Of course not. I don’t need to make anybody believe it; I just want to make the son-of-a-bitch DENY it."
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I FOUND IT!!