Michelle Obama 'Ghost Tape' May not be a Mirage

American Thinker ^ | 6/4/08 | Rick Moran

[pissant]

All I can say is after reading this from a pro-Hillary site, the author either has a vivid imagination or Obama is about to be put in a world of hurt by his wife:

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.

Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.

Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.

Michelle Obama spoke at the Women's Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant --- his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems. The tape was apparently available from Trinity United until March when they scrubbed the website.

The question of what she said gets a very detailed answer:

For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on "whitey", and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.

Again, my skeptical sense is on full alert here. If the tape was so readily available, why wasn't it seen by someone - anyone previously? Yes there were thousands of tapes for sale on the website. But wasn't there some kind of reference index that might have listed Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Farrakhan appearing together? That would have sent up a red flag for any researcher.

The bottom line is, I think it more likely that the tape exists but am still not 100% convinced of it. Call me a 50-50 guy on this issue.

[pissant]

FWIW

[Incorrigible]

No reference to the notorious Larry Johnson in this article?

Can this article be part of the rumor of a nonexistant tape?

[kcm.org]

Nothing here move along please...

[kms61]

I’ve made several posts on this so I won’t keep beating a dead horse. Bottom line, WHERE IS THE TAPE? When somebody can show me this thing actually exists, I’ll start paying attention again. Until then, it’s just another internet rumor.

[C19fan]

It is 4:30 pm on the East coast and no tape. Where’s the tape!!! LOL!

[gridlock]

I do not concur...

[NeoCaveman]

The day is practically over and still no Great Pumpkin.

Bob Beckel promised.

This is the worst Fitzmas ever.

[gridlock]

There are still another 16 Business Hours until the 24 Business Hour deadline!

[Lakeshark]

Has to be a rumor. If it was out there Shrillary would have sent this to all the press through some surrogate already.

[top 2 toe red]

If this tape existed you can bet Rush/Hannity would have been playing this on an endless loop and EVERY SINGLE Super Delegate would have already received their own special courier delivered copy!!!

You can take that to the bank! JMHO.

[ctdonath2]

The curious thing is: seems there’s a gap where a tape is supposed to be (copies of recording of major event for sale ... but nobody can find them).

What a great way for X to get the tape out without being seen as the one to do it: get the rumor mill talking about it, whip up a frenzy, and let some PJ blogger find a copy and release it.

[AppyPappy]

“WHERE IS THE TAPE?”

Waiting on a check.

[AppyPappy]

That would depend on who owns the copyright.

[VictoryGal]

If this thing existed, Clinton would have found it and exploited it by now to forestall her demise.

Color me skeptical.

[top 2 toe red]

Suurrrre. That’s the ticket.

[bcsco]

FWIW

What's interesting to me, is that rumors such as this tend to die over time, the storyline getting weaker...and weaker.

Not so here. The story has grown and now has democrat mainstays such as Mark Penn and Bob Beckel giving it some headway.

Not to say it isn't a fraud; those who know aren't talking much it seems. But I'm not skeptical anymore; just 50-50.

[cdchik123]

Sorry, I don’t buy it yet. If this Clintoon backer can give us the tape and has seen it why is he holding it back? It was suppose come out today, it was suppose to come Monday, it’s suppose to come out in October, it’s suppose to come out before the convention... Put up or shut up, Larry.

[San Jacinto]

I have a copy of the tape. If you want to see it, Freepmail me $20,000 in small bills . I will leave the tape in a brown wrapper under the second pink flamingo in your front yard. The tape is much hotter than any of the rumors have indicated. She claims Jimmy Carter offered her $75 to dress up in a maid's uniform and call him "massah" while he pretended to read "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" wearing nothing but a red silk smoking jacket.

You can see the tape--but remember--we are saving it til October.

[Jeff Head]

It will not matter a whit to his core, kool-adi drinking worshippers.

Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lenin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

[BubbaBobTX]

The tape is in Al Capone’s safe and will be opened on Fox News tonight by Geraldo Rivera!

[airborne]

I don't believe it.

It's just another lie made up to make the right look desperate and racist.

And from all the uninformed, completely baseless threads here on FR and elsewhere, I'd say it's working.

[Jeff Head]

LOL!

[Ann Archy]

Vile Bob Beckel AND EVIL Larry Johnson promised.....waiting....waiting.....

[LegalEagle61]

If it does indeed exist, it’s release would be dependent on whose grubby little hands has it, if it’s a repub it won’t appear until closer to the general. If Hillary has it she is thinking of how to release it without any trace of it going back to her.

I do hope it exists, would be so interesting to say the least.

[Doogle]

WHERE IS THE TAPE?

..depends on how close BHO gets to McNutty over the next month. Scary part is spineless McNutty wouldn't used it.

[Snurple]

I believe it exists and that its content is as advertised. I also believe it will not make 1 iota of difference to obama supporters or the rest of the public. The people who love him will keep on backing him and the people who hate him will keep on opposing him. The news media will give him a free pass and obama will give some kind of milquetoast explanation (as usual) for it.

I read today that even Condi Rice is extolling obama now. Im just waiting for Bush and Cheney to come out and endorse him.

It has become a bizarro world.

[Ann Archy]

Amen...Bingo...Right On!! That’s what I was trying to tell everyone yesterday and got called every name in the book.

[Snurple]

LMAO! Thats good!

[NeoCaveman]

No, yesterday you were invested in the “Why’d he” theory.

[safeasthebanks]

Great point. I can't believe some are falling for something so obviously made up to pander to the sterotype that some on the conservative side have of Ms. Obama.

Sheesh! It's almost embarrasing.

[Cedric]

No, you were ranting on and on and on and on and on about how she said “Why’d he”, clearly indicating that you thought the tape existed.

[bigbob]

Well if the Rs have a copy, they’ll want to sit on it for 4+ months, and if the Clintons have it, they’re probably using it as a bargaining chip right now.

[airborne]

People are so hard up to believe there’s some silver bullet to end this idiot’s chances that they’ll swallow anything.

There’s no ‘there’ there.

[Ann Archy]

I did say that...and also IF.

[okie01]

Has to be a rumor. If it was out there Shrillary would have sent this to all the press through some surrogate already.

Of course, it will come from Hillary's campaign.

But, if it exists, and before it hits the air, it must be made to seem that it came from the GOP.

Thus, all the disinformation and misinformation that is exuding from Larry Johnson's website.

It would be self-defeating if Hillary was seen as the source for this tape. Presuming, of course, that it exists.

[AJSHOPE]

Well someone has a link to the conference schedule and Michelle Obama and Farrakhan’s wife are listed as speakers. Maybe I can find the link. but if someone else has it readily available, go ahead and post it.

[tuwood]

I’ve been watching the news all day for “the tape”.... where oh where is it... lol

[Republican Red]

I believe the tape exsists. Too many details emerging to not have something to ignore. Michelle Obama appeared on a luncheon panel on June 28 with Mrs. Farahkan. Michelle Obama is seen in the picture below at the event the rant proportedly took place. I've read that Rudy's investigators found the tape. Don't know what to think about that, but, if any Republican has this tape, why on earth would they go public now? I'd wait until Oct 31.

[Snurple]

obviously made up to pander to the sterotype that some on the conservative side have of Ms. Obama.

Michelle Obama has proven herself to be a racist, you know, by stuff she said and attending a racist church for 20 years. How is calling her what she has proven herself to be a stereotype?

[Revolting cat!]

Here's the tape. Now , do you believe me when I say that it exists? As you can plainly see, we have a problem -- machines to allow us to view the contents of this tape no longer exist anywhere on the planet. What to do?

[Taffini]

>>>McNutty wouldn’t used it.

That’s because he is the New Mr. Rodgers

[steveo]

The tape was apparently available from Trinity United until March when they scrubbed the website.

Internet wayback machine?

[LegalEagle61]

Just heard that BHO’s other buddy (Rezko-this one of his criminal cronies and biggest supporters financially) was just found guilty in Chicago 16 of 24 counts...

[Lakeshark]

If she had it, she would have laundered it a whole lot better than this.

Already.

This is one desperate woman, and even if she had to put it out directly she would.

[Cedric]

You guys are nuts!

McCain is one vicious psycho. Woe be tide the misbegotten soul who commits a (perceived) offense against him!

[Concerned]

REVOLTING CAT! wrote: "Here's the tape. Now , do you believe me when I say that it exists? As you can plainly see, we have a problem -- machines to allow us to view the contents of this tape no longer exist anywhere on the planet. What to do?"

I have a Betamax available. Let's have the video.

[safeasthebanks]

The stereotype is of the half-crazed, furious, out of control minority who gets up in a very public setting and starts screaming about the problem with "whitey" and making all kinds of other extremist comments. THAT stereotype. No half way intelligent wife of a man with SERIOUS political aspirations would ever do that. EVER. And to think so is ridiculous.

Now do I think ol' Michelle harbors some of those feelings deep down in her miserable self....that's another question.

[Jedidah]

This information is from a blogger who does NOT have the tape, just knows about it and, like any Hillary supporter, wants it out.

http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/

The Clinton folks are saying the Republicans have it, that it was discovered by the Guiliani team some time ago, and that it’s being saved till the fall campaign.

If it exists, that would be best, as much as I’d like to see it now.

We’re all just going to have to sit back and see what happens.

[Sleeping Freeper]

It's easy to believe that Michelle Obama would make such a rant... look at who she was with, and where she was at... Read her “senior thesis”... she has it in her and I for one believe that the tape exists. Much was made of the “blue dress” rumor with Bill Clinton before it put Drudge on the map as well. There's even been some MSM and Dem mention of this tape... It would not be good timing to release the tape now... too convenient... wait a few days, I believe it will surface... as other posters have suggested, I think there is probably both money and political favors changing hands as we speak on the issue.

[Jeff Chandler]

Wait for it...wait for it...