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The Michelle Obama "Whitey" Hoax
Houston Chron. blog ^ | 6.3.08 | desperado

Posted on 06/03/2008 6:37:58 AM PDT by rface

If anyone wants a perfect example of the depths to which some will descend, and the hatred and vitriol some will display in order to attempt to destroy a candidate they despise, look no further than the current hoax going around the blogosphere about the alleged tape of Michelle Obama screaming about "Whitey" while seated next to Louis Farrakhan.

This was all started by Larry Johnson on his site, No Quarter. I’m purposely not posting a link so as not to give him any more traffic.( but here's the link anyways) If you want to Google it go ahead, but I would suggest not wasting your time.

This is what he posted:

"I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about "whitey" describe it as "STUNNING." I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks. Whoops!!"

First of all, there is no tape. This rumor has been going around for weeks with no evidence yet. It is either the "October Surprise" that the Republicans plan to spring on Obama, or the reason Hillary Clinton is hanging around, depending on which version of the lie one believes.

Secondly, this screwball is ranting about something he hasn’t even seen. Personally, I think if such a tape existed, with the desperation of the Clinton camp, we would have seen it by now.

More about Mr. Johnson. I don’t throw this term around lightly, but he is a nutjob with a capital N. Lest anyone think Johnson is a right-wing kook, a conservative website that I frequent, Sweetness & Light, has this to say about him:

"We have refrained from commenting on this preposterous rumor because it is such a transparent ploy from a man who is (in my opinion) a notorious America-hating buffoon and pathological liar."

There is a history of Johnson posted there also, where his previous statements and predictions further prove he is worthy of every word in the above sentence.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; farrakhan; hoax; michelleobama; obama; whitey; wright
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To: Ann Archy
You have been asked several times on another thread and now on this thread....How do you know??? You are screamming at the top of your lungs what Michelle my Belle is REALLY saying and nobody knows if a tape even exists? Why are you ignoring everybody's question?

I ask again....How do you know?

......waiting.........

21 posted on 06/03/2008 6:54:47 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (A good man has come home to San Diego! Thank you Congressman Hunter)
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To: library user

Thanks — just saw the other thread...


22 posted on 06/03/2008 6:55:45 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees ...)
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To: RabidBartender

Yes, I was Rick Rolled.


23 posted on 06/03/2008 6:55:52 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: WayneS

Because I don’t want us going off the cliff with this! It’s a HOAX! She didn’t say “WHITEY”...she said “WHY’D HE” and I am a TRUTH SEEKER!


24 posted on 06/03/2008 6:57:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

I think there IS a tape. Too much smoke not to be any fire..and I can hardly wait for it to explode.
I want Obama brough to his knees.
I want him humiliated.
I want his career destroyed.


25 posted on 06/03/2008 6:57:15 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: library user

There are probably hookers that can back up Beckels story..:-)


26 posted on 06/03/2008 6:58:11 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: CAluvdubya; Ann Archy

I think you’ll be waiting awhile for an answer.

I’ve asked twice in the past hour and still no reply.

Ann, have you seen the tape?


27 posted on 06/03/2008 6:58:15 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: mplsconservative

No.....the “RUMOR” is there IS NO TAPE!


28 posted on 06/03/2008 6:59:19 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rface

His site says that Obama is behind in the latest polls for today’s primaries. Is this true?


29 posted on 06/03/2008 7:00:14 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you, Jimmy Carter for all you've done to make the world a safer place.)
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To: mplsconservative

I’ve asked too. She strikes me as unstable.


30 posted on 06/03/2008 7:01:04 AM PDT by spacejunkie01
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To: frankjr

Sorry - had to do that once before I died. I always miss out on all the internet fads that the cool kids do (All Your Base Are Belong To Us, Chuck Norris, ORLY Owl, and the dancing baby). Now my life is complete.


31 posted on 06/03/2008 7:01:19 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: PGR88

>>Whether real or not - we all know Michelle is capable of it<<

In the words of Dan Rather, “True, not factual”.

Let us not become DemoRATS when critical of the Obamas. Get them on facts, loud and often.

I have taken to telling my family members to go ahead and vote Liberal - first, put up $4-5000 extra in taxes, EVERY YEAR FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.


32 posted on 06/03/2008 7:01:41 AM PDT by NTHockey
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To: WarToad

There are certainly enough racist whack-jobs on OHB’s side right now anyway.


33 posted on 06/03/2008 7:01:48 AM PDT by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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To: Ann Archy
"I am a TRUTH SEEKER"

Do you have t-shirts and stuff?

34 posted on 06/03/2008 7:02:37 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: Ann Archy

“It IS a hoax! She is saying “WHY’D HE” not “WHITEY” !!! The Clintons would have been all over this but instead they are trying for a TWO-FER...SMEARING us by putting this out about Michelle.”

Nice to see an Obama operative posting the same thing over and over and over again on every thread involving “the tape.” Since no one has seen it, how do you know what it says or doesn’t say?


35 posted on 06/03/2008 7:03:01 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: RabidBartender

No problem. In fact, here is one of Obama in his early days practicing to be the warrior he is today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCRWBRiU6w


36 posted on 06/03/2008 7:03:16 AM PDT by frankjr
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To: frankjr

I find Rick Rolled to be a breath of fresh air...


37 posted on 06/03/2008 7:03:21 AM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
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To: Ann Archy
No.....the “RUMOR” is there IS NO TAPE!This might go over at the DUmp but you know, as well as all of us, that FR holds it's posters to a higher standard. We need more than just you posting in caps. We need verification of what you say.

Have you seen the tape? (exasperation setting in)

38 posted on 06/03/2008 7:03:59 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (A good man has come home to San Diego! Thank you Congressman Hunter)
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To: Eurale

You are a new kid on this block, bub....You know nothing of which you speak.


39 posted on 06/03/2008 7:04:16 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: rface
Brings to mind this...

Hillary and the Black Panthers: The Real Story
Richard Poe
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003

I can't take it anymore. If one more person sends me that e-mail about Hillary and the Black Panthers, I'll have to be dragged away screaming in a straitjacket.

You know the e-mail I'm talking about. It accuses Hillary of helping the Black Panthers get away with torture and murder during the early 1970s. With the 2004 presidential race drawing near, the spam mills are creaking to life, flooding the Internet once more with this agitprop classic.

Unfortunately, the e-mail mingles good information with bad, sowing more confusion than enlightenment. Some versions, for instance, carry the byline of radio talk jock Paul Harvey, who says he did not write it. Such misrepresentations help Hillary defenders dismiss the e-mail as a hoax.

The story is no hoax, though. Its basic elements can be found in respected Hillary biographies and exposes such as Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay," David Brock's "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," Joyce Milton's "The First Partner" and Carl Limbacher's "Hillary's Scheme."

Here are the facts:

In May 1969, fishermen discovered the body of Black Panther Alex Rackley floating in Connecticut's Coginchaug River. Rackley's captors had clubbed him, burned him with cigarettes, scalded him with boiling water and stabbed him with an ice pick before finally shooting him in the head.

New Haven detectives learned that the Panthers suspected Rackley of being a police informer. Panther enforcers had tied him to a chair and tortured him for hours. Police arrested eight Panthers and later extradited Panther leader Bobby Seale from California, after a witness accused Seale of ordering Rackley's death. (1)

Campus radicals supported the Panthers. They organized mass protests in support of the so-called "New Haven Nine." Hillary was right in the thick of it.

By the time she entered Yale Law School in 1969, Hillary was already a radical celebrity on campus. Life magazine had featured Hillary in a piece titled, "The Class of '69," which showcased three student activists whom Life's editors deemed the best and brightest of the year. A line Hillary used in her Wellesley College commencement speech appeared under her photo: "Protest is an attempt to forge an identity." (2)

At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action – a left-wing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (3)

A series of hard-Left mentors introduced Hillary to the brass-knuckle realities of revolutionary activism. As a Wellesley undergraduate, she met and interviewed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, whose Machiavellian tactics she admired. Hillary's senior thesis supported Alinsky's call for class warfare. (4)

At Yale, Hillary found a new Svengali in the form of left-wing law professor Thomas Emerson, known around campus as "Tommy the Commie." Emerson recruited Hillary and other students to help monitor the trial of the New Haven Nine for civil rights violations. Hillary took charge of the operation, scheduling the students in shifts, so that student monitors would always be present in the courtroom. She befriended and worked closely with Panther lawyer Charles Garry. (5)

Some believe that the enormous pressure exerted by the Left helped ensure light sentences for the New Haven Nine. Whether or not this is true, the punishments were mild.

"Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977," reports John McCaslin in the Washington Times. "The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board." (6)

Hillary's defenders argue that she played no "significant" role in the New Haven Nine's defense. This is semantic hairsplitting. Obviously, Hillary was less "significant" than Charles Garry or "Tommy the Commie" Emerson. But Hillary served as a trusted lieutenant to these movers and shakers. Moreover, she had a national profile as a campus activist. Hillary was no rank-and-file student protester, as her apologists claim.

Indeed, Hillary's work for the Panthers won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (7) "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (8)

The defense of the New Haven Nine marked Hillary's initiation into the sinister underworld of the hard-core, revolutionary Left. To my knowledge, Hillary has never publicly renounced nor apologized for her role in that movement.

Richard Poe is a New York Times best-selling author and cyberjournalist. For more information on Poe and his writings, visit his Web site, RichardPoe.com. He may be reached at richardpoe@....

References
1. Joyce Milton, The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton. William, Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1999, p. 35. Barbara Olson, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 1999, p. 55.
2. Milton, 1999, p. 34; Olson, 1999, pp. 40-45.
3. Olson, 1999, p. 59-61; Evan Gahr, "Hillary and the Cop-Bashers: Will the Real Ms. Rodham Please Stand Up?" JewishWorldReview.com, June 20, 2000.
4. David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. The Free Press, New York, 1996, pp. 14-17; Olson, 1999, pp. 46, 48, 50.
5. Milton, 1999, p. 17; Brock, 1996, pp. 31-32; Olson, 1999, p. 54-56.
6. John McCaslin, "Hillary for the Defense." Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times, June 12, 1998, p. A9.
7. Olson, 1999, pp. 56-57.
8. Brock, 1996, p. 33.

http://www.legaled.com/hillaryatyale.htm

40 posted on 06/03/2008 7:04:38 AM PDT by ETL
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