"There is much, much worse from Obama on the tape than this thread claims."
If that isn't the tease of the cycle I don't know what is.
The LA Times has done this before. Back before the CA Recall when Gray Davis was riding high there was a rumor about a laptop. A Davis' fundraiser had an affair with a high level Davis staffer. The fundraiser's husband found out and she moved out. Husband sat down on the lazyboy and reached down to kick out the footrest and he found the fundraiser's laptop computer she forgot when she moved out earlier in the day. He allegedly fired it up and right there in a spreadsheet was the details of Davis' fundraising. Who and where to meet and the donor's favorite issue/cause and how much to ask for and how much they recieved. The data explicitly detailed a quid pro quo in Davis' fundraising operation. This rumor was confirmed by one of the LAT's main political writers at the time, but there was no way it was ever going to see the light of day.
I'm sure the laptop is in a big LA Times warehouse like the one in Raiders of the Last Ark, full of items kept from public view. This tape is probably on a nearby shelf or near a very powerful magnet.
If the LA times received the tape from some other source, surely there are copies of it out there.