Hahahahahaha. Larry Johnson is a total idiot...he got chumped by the rethugs.

[yourguide]

So whackjob Johnson's last update on the "Whitey" tape stated it was Michelle Obama on a panel with the wife of Farrakhan at the 2004 rainbow/push coalition.

Someone found a cached version of the full program online here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040811233750/corona.tpsgi.com/rpc/Conference_Schedule.htm

Not only is there NO Farrakhan ANYWHERE on ANY dais but the supposed panel that Michelle went 'whitey' on was hosted by not 1 but 2 ABC 7 anchors meaning that this tape would have exploded back in 2004 because ABC reporters were on site hosting the panel she was on!

Congratulation Larry Johnson, it is now confirmed you are an incredible fucking "moran"!!!

[Windy]

1. hahahahahhahahahhahaha.... He is toast. He needs to slink away.

what a total sorry excuse for a human being!

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. ZOMG!!!1!!1 IT WAS A WOMEN'S LUNCHEON!!1!ELEVEN!

You know how crazy those can get! :rofl:

[billyoc]

56. It's practically a suicide bomber school!

:rofl:

[Pisces]

3. Bwhaaaaa haaaaaa

[faithfulcitizen]

4. sure he wasn't part of the Central Idiot Agency? hehe.

[blogslut]

5. Well,

It's not like Larry needed any help in being an idiot or chump. But affirmation is always good. :)

[npincus]

6. K & R

what a jack-ass. Why does he hate Obama so much? Does he prefer a crazy old warmonger?

[tammywammy]

7. Recommended

[Occam Bandage]

8. There's only one way this makes sense.

Let's ignore all the inconsistencies in the year, place, time, content, format and everything else regarding rumors of "the tape."

If the tape is held by Hillary supporters, they would have released it after South Carolina.
If the tape is held by McCain supporters, they would have kept it under wraps until the General Election.
If there is no tape, and if people wanted to smear Michelle Obama, they'd keep feeding rumors of a "tape" of her saying racist things.

[chieftain]

30. Great analysis, you nailed it. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

52. Yes, I think you're right.

[Name removed]

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[Windy]

10. Number one, there is NO WAY that Michelle Obama would say anything like what has been alleged

Her husband was a senator. And did you see the stellar list of participants? And as you pointed out, no Farahkan in the list.

This guy should be sued for Libel!

[WeDidIt]

16. Her husband was a State Senator at the time

but it was the MIDDLE of the race for the Senate seat he currenlty holds.

Jack Ryan had been pushed out over revelations from his divorce and everybody was trying to dig up the dirt on Obama.

I remember the time well. John Kass was all self righteous and he would have DEFINITELY known had anything like the lie LArry Johnson is pushing happened.

[VeraAgnes]

17. Agreed.

Obama is a lawyer too!

[Windy]

11. someone needs to post this link on NoQuarter. I would do it, but I don't want fleas! n/t

[sundancekid]

12. chump is as chump does - perfect tag line for LJ

[WeDidIt]

13. Plus, THIS WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE SENATE RACE!!!

Everybody was digging for dirt on Obama. Had Michelle Obama gone off, IT WOULD HAVE DESTROYED HIS CANDIDACY.

[vaberella]

14. Rev. Jesse Jackson was also the KEYNOTE speaker!! Where there is Jesse, there is news!!

It's been shot to hell.

The link posted by the OP is found in the article on this site by Jim Lindgren. Also JET has news on it too, if it's true. JET would have a video tape as well.

However, FarraKahn's wife was there. But no Farrakahn is true. The entire crap just kept changing.

http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_06_01-2008_06_07.shtml

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Trying to debunk the internet rumors about Michelle Obama.— As many of you know, there has been an ever-shifting internet rumor launched publicly by an extremely unreliable pro-Clinton blogger, Larry Johnson, that there is a video recording of Michelle Obama saying some intemperate things at Trinity United Church. The way that this story is being spread leads me to think that there is little or nothing to the rumors, which is why I haven’t posted on the issue here until now.

Until today, the rumors have been too vague to be debunked, but they have now become specific enough that the currently most prominent version of the rumor could potentially be determined to be false. A specific conference for the remarks has been specified: the 2004 Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Annual Conference starting on June 26, 2004.

In an attempt to get the information necessary to put this matter to bed, I drove over to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition National Headquarters, which is in the opposite corner of my Hyde-Park/Kenwood neighborhood. I spoke with Robert (Bobby) Lewis, Director of Studio Services, who apparently handles the recordings of events.

Lewis said that the recording of events from 2005 and earlier was farmed out and most or all of the existing recordings (listed on the website) had not been conveyed in-house to the National Headquarters. He said that he did not know if the organization had a recording of the 2004 conference. In response to my more specific question, he said that the one-hour Saturday broadcasts on the 2004 Annual Conference (June 26, 2004, and July 2, 2004), which are listed on the website for purchase, are not available, since they come from the earlier outsourced period.

I was very surprised when he informed me that I was the first person to have contacted them about this matter. Given the furor on the internet, I suspect that many of you are skeptical about this claim, but he really seemed unaware of the flap. He wanted to know the name of the website that had the story about the conference. And at first, he thought I was talking about a panel on which Barack, not Michelle, had spoken. In manner, he was gracious and he didn’t seem to be particularly guarded or defensive.

As I write this, I am aware that it seems unlikely that Barack Obama’s campaign would not have scoped this out with Rainbow/PUSH long ago. Either the Obama campaign neglected to do so, or Rainbow/PUSH picked the right person to persuade outsiders that no inquiries were made, or — more likely — there was nothing to scope out.

I suggested to Mr. Lewis that he try to find a copy, since he was likely to get inquiries. He said that he planned to get on it right away, since I was probably only the first of many more requests.

I hope that if Rainbow/PUSH locates a copy they release it as soon as possible to prevent this rumor from snowballing. In its limbo state, this rumor does damage to all three candidates, as well as to the political process.

Given the tenor of comments I have seen elsewhere on this rumor, I have not turned on comments. If it proves to be false (or true), I will then post with open comments. Until then, the most civil discussion I’ve seen is here.

By the way, the Rainbow/PUSH Headquarters are just a few blocks from Barack Obama’s house and a few blocks from Louis Farrakhan’s house. When I drove past Obama’s house on the way home, there was an Obama for President sign on the front lawn of the house next door to the Obamas’s, but none visible on the Obamas’s house.

UPDATE: There are some anomalies in the story so far: according to the rumors, the Rainbow/Push conference was supposed to be held at Trinity United, yet schedules posted at Hillbuzz and elsewhere do not show the event as taking place at the church. Further, the schedule shows Michelle Obama as a "Special Guest," not a speaker. Last, if it wasn't at the church, why would the DVD have been on sale there? I remain highly skeptical that this story will amount to anything.

2d UPDATE: More on problems with this story: Does it seem at all plausible that anyone would go into a 30-plus minute racist rant during a "Woman's Luncheon" at the Sheraton Hotel, moderated by two mainstream local TV news reporters/anchors from the Chicago ABC affiliate? Consider also that Michelle Obama was listed only as a "Special Guest," not even listed as speaking (the Keynote Speaker for the luncheon was Jesse Jackson).

Here is the program for the luncheon:

12:00p.m ~ 2:00p.m.

SHERATON BALLROOM 1-7 Womans Luncheon

M.C.’s: Cheryl Burton and Karen Jordan, ABC 7

Keynote Speaker: Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Special Guests:

Shoshana Johnson, Retired United States Military

Michelle Obama, University of Chicago

And then somehow this supposed rant at a non-church event held at the Sheraton Hotel was for sale on the Trinity United website. Thus, I think that the most common version of the story (put forth by Hillbuzz) is almost certainly false.

[atufal1c]

15. Johnson is chumping everyone else.

He's doing this for the money and for the profile, he doesn't care whether there's a tape or not, just like the liars that started the rumor.

[papapi]

18. Confirming my suspicion - larry johnson has rocks in his head.

[WeDidIt]

19. That is an insult to rocks everywhere!

[shadowknows69]

20. Maybe he should have asked Jason Leopold about how important it is to check those sources

:hide:

[Jersey Devil]

22. oof - just being reminded of that makes me wince (nt)

[texasleo]

28. lol

[Puzzler]

21. A lot of people at hillaryclintonforum.net...

... seem to be waiting the the tape to surface... a bit like waiting for the "rapture":

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=14779&page=1


They're clinging to the hope that any second now the tape will surface and Obama will be history.

[papapi]

27. open ass - - - insert head.

[yourguide]

32. That entire site has gone batshit since the announcement last night

they are actually suggesting how smart she is for playing it like this and she has them right where she wants them.

:rofl:

[Arrowhead2k1]

34. HUGE denial issues over there.

I'm actually starting to worry about some of their mental health. No joke.

[DangerousRhythm]

41. Wow...

"finally the news about the tape !


Obama can not care much about being a father I am sorry but for all that is coiming out about him wait til kids come up to his and says I saw your daddy with a erection and start telling them about how decietful that thir daddy is !!


no morals"

WTF is this person on about? :freak:

[Kaylee]

43. I need a shower after reading that post....

this person has issues.

:puke:

[DangerousRhythm]

62. I know! And still...

...I have no damn clue what that person was on about. Some sick fantasy perhaps? Seriously, wtf?

:crazy:

[Bill219]

38. After reading through that thread over there

I am shocked that those people are Democrats. Sound more like scum dwelling Repubs to me

[JohnnyCougar]

49. Holy smokes!

What a bunch of losers!

[LTR]

23. Good point on the ABC7 anchors

WLS-TV (ch. 7) is owned by the network. Since two of their personalities were there, there would definitely be video of it.

Seeing as Obama was running for the U.S. Senate at the time, they would have likely archived it, or the event organizers would have it.

Yes indeed, the supposed 'whitey' tape is a red herring.

:rofl:

Excellent post. I'd recommend it all day if I could.

[wowimthere]

24. Her surrogates will do anything.

[Teaser]

25. PWNED

I love it when a douchebag gets thoroughly owned.

[Junkdrawer]

26. He relied on the HillBuzz blog - Guess who's the featured columnist....

Ann Coulter

http://hillbuzz.blogspot.com/

:rofl:

[vaberella]

29. I thought she was a Republican who disliked Hillary Clinton...didn't she bash Clinton during a book

interview.

[Junkdrawer]

31. Say...you don't think that the RW nuts just SAID they supported Hillary...

because they knew they had a TON of dirt on her and Bill?

Shocked. I am shocked.

[vaberella]

35. LOL. I've been following Ann Coulter for a while, because..I know I'm weird I like reading her

books. There are some things in there that are of interest. She lost me though when she went on Bill Maher show and said that the Katrina people should have learned how to fix their own dams. I'm like they didn't build the dam in the first place. At that point, I was liek she's full of nonsense.

But she was never shy about bashing Hillary Clinton. When she came out with her book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism, it came out the same time as Hillary's autobiography...she was the bash queen on like every station everywhere.

Not only that, it was Ann Coulter who wrote, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, and this was her first book. She didn't like the Clintons one bit. I have to agree that most of the women are making threats are just Repubs aimng towards Hillary Clinton not because of her policies but ONLY because she's a woman. The assumption is fair and easy to discern.

These women who are going batshit aren't all sincere.

[Exilednight]

55. This is the old Cheney WMD tactic. Feed a story to a source then use the story, that you .......

planted, as a source to prove there's something there.

From the Hillbuzz blog: But, logically, this seems to be the most likely source of the tape people have been talking about at NoQuarterUSA.net

From NoQuarter: VISIT HILLBUZZ and thank them for their reporting.

Both quotes come from their first post about the alleged video.

[redqueen]

33. Yes... it is now confirmed...

but most of us had that figured out a while ago already. :D

[vaberella]

36. It looks like some of them might be seeing that this is a ruse. I mean I feel bad they've been

taken for a ride. But there is proof. Our guy at Volokh even gave geographical proof as to where he went and just to add even more verification, cause that's how they are over there (I really love that Blog), he mentioned details anyone in Chicago can check on. In the end he's basically proved it's a hoax. A hoax that could be easily checked and verified.

Two ABC 7 anchors were there, JET magazine was there, this was a national convention where Bill Clinton was speaking. Rev. Jesse Jackson was the speaker at this meeting, which was made up of both BLACK and WHITE women. Unlikely anything took place.

Added to that, the story kept changing over and over and over again.

[Blue-Jay]

37. Is this your homework Larry?

[RainDog]

50. You Are a Beautiful Soul, Blue-Jay

because, yes, that's Larry's homework.

Ben David will hopefully apologize for posting Atlas Jugs lies too.

Isn't it interesting - Atlas Jugs and Ann Coulter running the attack on Obama's wife. They are what is known as Ratfuckers.

I called this as a ratfucking when I first saw it. The aroma was classic republican ratfucker. eeeeuuwwwww.

Ironically, or actually not ironically at all, Ann Coulter was one of the "pixies" who, as Joe Conason noted in his book, The Hunting of the President, worked with Ken Starr's office, basically, to feed rumors about Clinton.

Skanky is as skanky does, Ann.

[Lugnut]

39. K&R for Larry.

And to think I used to respect the man.

[vaberella]

40. Nothing left to respect. Every detail in the story changes and this tape is more of a joke when the

latest info posed to work against them and become even more unlikely. I really just feel bad for the Hillary Clinton people who are sincerely supporting her and aren't Repubs in drag, and who happen not to like Obama. Those people's votes are joked and mocked and basically being manipulated.

It's unfair to them and it's unfair to Obama and his supporters as well as his wife who gets the worse rap for nothing. Anyway it makes the people pimping this story into asses and complete jokes without any merit.

[jgraz]

42. Really sad collapse. I used to respect that guy when he spoke on intelligence issues.

:shrug:

[Hissyspit]

51. He was against the war.

He spoke against it when it wasn't popular. I don't know what happened to him.

[jgraz]

63. Another victim of Clinton Soul Cancer.

[myrna minx]

44. K&R n/t

[Eurobabe]

45. pwnd.

what a douche. :eyes:

[Jackpine Radical]

46. **BEEP**BEEP**BEEP He is NOT an idiot. His mission was accomplished.

It is not necessary that there be any truth to the accusation. The notion is now firmly planted that Michelle is a black racist. The truth will never catch up to the lie.

[glitch]

48. Standard old style CIA smear campaign. But how well will it work now?

I mean really take hold? Debunkings happen almost as quickly as the smearings on the net now a days.
Typical that they would be so old-fashioned.

[jefferson_dem]

47. Larry is exposed.

Besides the fact that we know Michelle and she wouldn't go off like that --- remember that Barack was in the throws of his senate race at that time. Any craziness would have be scrutinized by the media, not to mention oddball Alan Keyes and the rethug bunch.

[Teaser]

53. A visual history of the Larry Johnson smear

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP0bc89C6Cw

[Sultana]

54. ...

:puke:

What a LOSER!

[guruoo]

57. Larry Johnson, Truthout, and Will Pitt now share something in common

Each has now experienced what it's like to be taken for a ride
on the DU under the bus bandwagon...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Truthout+punked&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22will+pitt%22+punked&btnG=Search

[OneAmerica]

58. Thank god

I feel bad for ever having doubted Michelle.

[Bleacher Creature]

59. Jesse Jackson Sr, the first African American POW, and two local tv anchors.

Sounds like a rabble rousing panel to any of you?

[DerekJ]

60. Kick for the truth. Pass it around.

[grannylib]

61. *lol* That's freakin' hilarious. Buh-bye, Larry. Split the scene already.