Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'

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[Sub-Driver]

Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago

Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife.

The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama's candidacy this fall.

"No such tape exists," the campaign responds on the site, http://www.fightthesmears.com. "Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word."

The site is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It's a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online.

[Sub-Driver]

whatever.........

[Mike Bates]

[Parley Baer]

So Michelle Obama has never used the words “whitey”. We shall see.

[avacado]

Doesn't matter at this point: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Obama, just keep chasing those rumors. It's all your qualified to do.

[Just another Joe]

Ahhhhh, must have been, “Honkey Cracker Mo Fo”.

[jrooney]

So when the tape, which is real and surfaces, Obama and his wife will be known around the world as the liars we already know they are. Good..... deny, deny, deny. When a video tapes shows otherwise, this election’s landslide for McCain will rival 1984.

[Miss Didi]

How news is manufactured and action lines are set.

Rush Blamed for "Whitey" Rumor

[Paladin2]

“That’s not the same tape I’ve known for the last 5 years”

[Paladin2]

“Honkey running dog imperialist racists”

[wolfcreek]

When you have to constantly pupu rumors, eventually that’s all people remember.

[italianquaker]

I forgot I was reading the news and thought it was odumbos press release

[Oshkalaboomboom]

So when the tape, which is real and surfaces, Obama and his wife will be known around the world as the liars we already know they are. Good..... deny, deny, deny. When a video tapes shows otherwise, this election’s landslide for McCain will rival 1984.

So when is it going to surface?

[Neoliberalnot]

Well this just settles it. He must be telling the truth. sarc

[pissant]

No mention that it was started by a flaming liberal Hillary supporter???

[Migraine]

Then, when the dvd emerges, he just says: “My bad. I was under the impression she had said “peckerwood”.

[Kaslin]

Check this out

Fight the Smears

Make sure you read it from the top to the bottom

[Sacajaweau]

On the other hand...When Wright said it...she never failed to smile...

[cricket]

Sure. . .(lol) Anyway; thought rumor had it that she was giving a speech for Rainbow folks or somesuch; so not necessarily in 'pulpit'. . .

So 'whatever'.. .you know, they still talk about GW doing coccaine; and being a 'wife-beater'; and that he is still, an illigitimate President. . . so they can just get over this. Am hoping against hope; that there are some 'just deserts' here. . .

[jrooney]

After the democratic convention and Obama is officially the democrat nominee and locked in.

[Triple]

Obama should show is the speech in question. The one with farakan present

[plangent]

Gotta parse this:

Didn’t speak from the pulpit; how ‘bout from a lectern, or a microphone in the sanctuary? or a ... you name it.

Didn’t use the word “whitey”; how bout “whites”? or “white people”...etc.

[The_Reader_David]

"Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word."

From the narrowly drawn denial, may we infer that Michelle Obama has used other depricating terminology for Americans of European ancestry at a location other than the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ?

[Dacula]

AWESOME!

[cricket]

Love the 'fight the smears' here. They were talking on Fox as if this would/should lay to rest all the illitimate/unfair/outrageous 'things' said re Obama. As if none had merit worth investigating; much less contemplating. . .So, onto 'real' issues of question.

So, guess, 'deny, deny', deny'.. .click heels three times; and they just make it so. And we are to buy it or be labeled, I guess. . .as no more than 'right-wing hate mongers'. (Worse; mis-named and demi-gogues as 'swiftboaters' - whom WE know, did tell the truth.) Of course, Kerry et al; know they did too. . .but that is not a history kept.

[nickcarraway]

Even if the tape exists, it doesn’t seem like something that will make much difference.

[Unlikely Hero]

Why does this remind me of this guy?

[Domandred]

That’s hillarious

[bpjam]

would she like to make a public declaration that she has never used the word ‘whitey’ or anything like it?

I remember a poor schlub named George Allen who was asked if he had ever used the word nigger before. This was all over the word ‘macaca’ which is a meaningless word which nobody has any idea of its meaning.

If Michelle would like to make a public declaration, I’d love to hear it. And then we can ask her to explain herself after we uncover more of his history.

[jrooney]

It will to the majority of White Americans.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“The one with farakan present”
Thought I read here on FR that it was his wife that was present, not the scumbag himself??????

[fightinJAG]

But Barry did use the term “typical White Person,” did he not? Isn’t that, like, the gussied up version of Whitey?

Just askin’.

[Charles Henrickson]

Just for fun, let’s pretend for the moment that what she COULD say she DID say. Click the tune and sing along!

MICHELLE BOMBSHELL
Tune: "Michelle"

Michelle bombshell
She says words that won't go over well
That Michelle

Michelle bombshell
Once again the wife, she drops the bomb
She drops the bomb

"We're being kept down by the white man"
That's what she had to say
Her words won't go away
Like, "What's up with Whitey? Why'd he go and screw us again?"

Michelle bombshell
Once again the wife, she drops the bomb
She drops the bomb

Barack is beginning to wonder:
"What's with my bitter half?
Oh, not another gaffe!
What's up with Wifey? Why'd she go and screw up again?"

It's like glue . . .

Barack is preparing to throw her
Far underneath the bus
With all who cause a fuss
What's up with Ayers and Wright and Rezko, Pfleger and friends?

Michelle bombshell
Once again the wife, she drops the bomb
She drops the bomb

And what's up with Wifey? Why'd she go and screw up again?
That Michelle . . .

[fightinJAG]

I like how you think. I remember that poor schlub, too. Before he was a poor schlub, I thought he just might be President or Vice President one day.

[eureka!]

My guess- a technically correct denial, it was not from the “church pulpit”.

[Chode]

and he has the tape to prove it right??? i doubt it...

[hdbc]

I don’t think you should be giving the enemy ammo to use against this and other conservative sites by writing stuff like that.

[Beckwith]

My guess- a technically correct denial, it was not from the “church pulpit”.

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was allegedly filmed between June 26th and July 1st, 2004, in Chicago, IL, at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, specifically the women's panel.

Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks, wife of the hateful Rev. Meeks.

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.

The "tape" is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.

It's also being reported that ABC-7 news anchors moderated a panel at the Conference that appears to be the one Michelle Obama participated in.  If so, then it's reasonable to believe ABC-7 in Chicago has footage from the panel discussion.

The Obama File

[y6162]

Interesting.. a preemptive denial.. she said why’d he..

I’m beginning to think the tape exists...

[CaliforniaCon]

That guy? Mark? I loved that guy!

[RoseofTexas]

WHY does this come to mind every time I come across a POST DEFENDING Hussein Mohammad OsAMA!!

"Today’s Guardian reports that Barack Obama is setting up an entire unit to combat ‘virulent rumours’ about him on the internet.”

Don't be fooled with some OsAMA posters here either!

[dan1123]

So when is it going to surface?

I vote late-October

[rdl6989]

bttt

[snippy_about_it]

I understood it was at this luncheon.

[valkyry1]

BS,

She has probably used the word ‘cracker’ also.

O bama represents that segment of the black population that thinks ‘they’re owed’, that cant see the problem with their beliefs until it becomes inconvenient for them.

Its going to be a dark dark time for this nation should he get in office, especially ‘for ‘Whitey’.

What is it, approx 13% of the population and 70% of the violent crime? And it’s all Whitey’s fault.

[eureka!]

re#39 'Morning.

So I understand. As to ABC, they supposedly only archive the snippets used in the broadcast, or so I have read. I think that there is something and it will out in due course...