Larry Johnson, whose blog I used to link here but no longer do, has been all huffin’ and puffin’ about some tape of Michelle Obama he says he’s going to release tomorrow, in which she supposedly disses “Whitey.” (Great oppo stuff, if true, huh?)
But of course, come to find out, that’s not what she said. From BooMan Tribune (and I’m quoting the post in full because it’s so sad; go there for the comment thread too):
My old friend, Larry Johnson, knows about manipulating elections from his training with the Central Intelligence Agency. He doesn’t want Obama to win the nomination for whatever reason, and he’s in full propaganda mode to do everything he can to frighten the superdelegates. He claims to have a shocking tape of Michelle Obama ranting in some anti-white diatribe. He promises to produce this tape tomorrow at 9am.
From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.
How you’d write it:
Why did Bush cut folks off medicaid?
Why did Bush let New Orleans drown?
Why did Bush do nothing about Jena?
Why did Bush put us in Iraq for no reason?How you’d say it:
Why’d he cut folks off medicaid?
Why’d he let New Orleans drown?
Why’d he do nothing about Jena?
Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?How Larry Johnson wants you to hear it:
Whitie cut folks off medicaid?
Whitie let New Orleans drown?
Whitie do nothing about Jena?
Whitie put us in Iraq for no reason?I’m going to be honest with you. Both SusanHu and Larry Johnson have been friends of mine. They have both done a lot for me and I am grateful and indebted to them. Any issues I’ve had with their activities in this election I have kept private. I haven’t visited their site in four months because I found it too personally painful to read what they were writing and I did not want to be tempted to respond. I thought I owed them that. But loyalty can only go so far. If they publish this allegation tomorrow, I will no longer speak with them. And I say that with great sorrow.
This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That’s all I say. This is too painful to me.
The word element that comes to my mind in connection with Clintonistas like Larry Johnson and Taylor Marsh is “path-” . . . as in “pathetic” and “pathological.” And oh how they earn their daily loss of traction.
Have heard about the tape. One rumor is Cavuto has a copy of it and will release it this week. Its pretty bad, yada, yada, yada. I’ll believe it when I see it. As we all know, just because it appears on blogs don’t make it so.
Larry Johnson said yesterday there was going to be a huge development about this tape this morning. And the development was– he’s talked to someone who talked to someone who has seen it. He hasn’t seen it. He hasn’t even talked to anyone who has seen it.
He even posted this morning sneering at people who had read his touting yesterday to promise the mysterious video. In fact, his posts yesterday promised confirmation of the video (not necessarily the video, although that is not an unfair reading of his posts) and this morning he has delivered nothing of the kind. I think he was trying to do 2 things: Pump up belief in the existence of the video, and pump up traffic on his site. He accomplished both, and everyone who paid attention has been snookered.
His site is melting down from the attention its getting; I was on it a half-hour ago to try to read his would-be stunning revelation, and not surprised to discover it wasn’t stunning or a revelation.
This is exactly the level of “evidence” you see with the typical urban myth: “I know someone whose uncle know someone who”– oh, was in a bar, passed out, and woke up in a hotel bathtub filled with ice and their kidney removed, or something like that.
The Booman post is just as much an urban myth– he’s not seen it either, and hadn’t even seen Larry Johnson’s posts this morning. Booman is just another person snookered by Johnson’s touting.
Larry Johnson, NMC, not Davis.
One of the beauties of the internet is that in a few seconds you can check out facts people assert. One of the curses is that, because it is even easier to just post without checking, instead of making that small and simple effort, people just run off at the mouth without checking.
NBC is quoting Bill Clinton, “[T]his may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind.”
Um . . . he won’t be campaigning for the party’s nominee? I dunno, the rate he’s been going, the Obamans might not want his “help.”
we can hope and pray he means by “this kind” to mean the primary race. I hope. if that’s what he means, “last day” is evermore good news.
This has been a bad day for the Clintons’…Drudge is being accused of favoring Obama for The Breath Taking Picture they ran the day he was in Portland, people as for as the eye could see, while today they have a picture of RHC in PR entitled last day, and Vanity Fair’s long long article of Bill’s behavior, which is written by Dee Dee Myers husband, an employee of VF. No suree’ Bill has locked himself out of Air UCK One.
Obama made it pretty difficult to get any useful help from Bill Clinton by insinuating he was a racist after the South Carolina primary. Seems Clinton had the temerity to observe that Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina. So, yes, he’s probably not going to be helping out.
There’s been plenty of stupidity and lack of class from both camps. It’s hard to imagine so much acrimony would result over two candidates whose positions and voting records are so similar, but here we are. Unfortunately, that stupidity has worked to diminish the sort of help the other candidates’ supporters could have given once the primary is decided.
The Clintons will help out as much as they can. As politicians they’ll be obliged to. The insinuations about the Clintons’ racism, and the insinuations of sexism from Clinton supporters, are going to make that support worth a lot less, though.
As I’ve said many times, I wish people would STFU and think for a second, but that hasn’t happened.
As for No Quarter, I finally dropped them from my blogroll a few days ago. Explanation here. Larry and Susan are good people, but I just couldn’t stand going there any more. To say I didn’t like doing that was an understatement.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is to never trust claims of secret knowledge. Intel guys, and former intel guys, have a reputation with me for such claims. They certainly work, in that they tend to cut off skeptical questions. As NMC implied above, though, skepticism is good. Used correctly, it’s how we get at the truth. It’s the great thing about the Internet – you can look up all sorts of things.
It looks to me like Larry found his own Ahmed Chalabi, and he’s headed down that same sort of road. I hope he realizes what’s happened before too long.
Ms. Gloria doesn’t need a fact checker.
DeltaNative//Thanks I needed that. Just makes you feel good to here her talk.
I don’t know how we made so long without Miz Gloria, DN, I swear I don’t. Thanks for notice of her new post.
(You know, one of the things I really like about living here in my patch of woods is being able to pitch kitchen scraps off the back porch and know that SOME other natural being(s) or other will profit by ‘em.)
What a lovely essay about garbage. I feel the same way sometimes.
Isn’t she the best tonic, Cujo?
Me too Lotus @11. It hurt me so bad to have to throw out some fingerling potatoes that had gone green on me one time. But they went and made babies. I am so silly, I emailed Felder Rushing – who worked with Dr. Dirt – and asked him if it was safe to eat them and would I get botulism from eating stuff that grew in the compost pile. He gently told me it was all dirt, and I was goin to wash them and cook them anyway. Wasn’t I?
And just think, ducky, you got a great little story out of ‘em to boot!
Looks like this comment thread has turned to ……..compost. LOL.
Toadja that Miz Gloria’s a wizard, afotl!
Not even Drudge touched this one.
Hilarity at DKos. (If you ain’t had your quota of laffs today, this’ll fix ya — politics won’t matter a whit once you see that comment thread.)
Faux Crocs!! Hahaha! Now that’s funny.
This is off-topic, whatever the topic is now, but there was some insightful Harvard B-School MBA economic analysis we all missed last week:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080527-9.html
“And so the fact that they purchased the machine meant somebody had to make the machine. And when somebody makes a machine, it means there’s jobs at the machine-making place …
A mighty fine example of the wages of grade inflation Researcher 21.