Despite passing the 9 am deadline, it appears no new details have been released, but Booman has a run-down on what the “stunning” Michelle Obama tape may contain:
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?
If nothing else, this will at least give the other vehemently pro-Clinton sites an opportunity to show some intellectual honesty and maybe rally around a defense of Obama. Will they take it? Is there room for Obama in Hillary’s big tent? Will they behave responsibly like some blogs did during the Mickey Kantor BS?
Meanwhile, an alert commenter passes on this SHOCKING videotape of Barack Obama in his college band:
Appalling!
*** Update ***
OMG- Larry Johnson just emailed me this shocking video of Obama’s first job interview:
cleek
and if you squint at the plastic lawn chair in back of Michelle Obama, it looks just like an alien’s head!
larry johnson = idiot
PeterJ
Like someone wrote somewhere, just a smear campaign, if the video would surface it wouldn’t take very long for it to be discredited. But right now the rumor is spreading that Michelle Obama said ‘whitie’.
So either it will surface late October or it will not surface at all. But the whispering campaign will continue.
This is the shit we’re going to reap from what Clinton has sowed.
D.N. Nation
Meanwhile, Taylor Marsh is getting all huffy about the following commments from Obama’s now-former church:
Wow! SUCH extremism! No preacher/priest/faith-healer/whatever has EVER said ANYTHING like this in the HISTORY of the United States! “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”? Um…never happened!
What loons.
Punchy
Just wait until they release the video of Michelle at a party, with Easy Cheese in hand, asking where all the “crackers” are. That’s just plain racist!
Richardson
“Whitie cut folks off medicaid?”
And all along I thought whitie created medicaid.
Anyway, if you play the tape backwards you clearly hear Michelle saying Paul is dead, Lennon is the walrus, and Bill Ayers praising Charles Manson. You can also hear Roger Stone having a three-way with his pimped out wife, but that’s the part Larry Johnson is still trying to edit out.
over_educated
Eh, the Republicans were going to pull this shit anyway, buck up campers we are in for a long election. Seriously, buck up, adress this stupidity and move on, wallowing in self-pity and angst over these attacks just feeds into the meme. Mock and counter whenever possible.
Barbara
And if you play it backwards you will hear her saying “Paul is dead . . .”
These people are fucked up. Sorry.
nightjar
Excuse me while both cry and LMAO. We need a new fundraiser with Actblue to purchase Larry Johnson the psychiatric help he so obviously needs.
But Why’d (whitie)(Johnson) turn out to be such an idiot?
BAwhaaa haa haa hee hee he!
D.N. Nation
Oh, and I love how Glenn Reynolds was hyping this story this weekend. Deadline comes and goes, and does our intrepid Citizen Journalist And Macho Gun-Toting American Guy do anything to note it? Sadly, no.
Incertus
I’m just wondering what kind of hypersensitive ass-monkey you’d have to be to get insulted at being called “whitey.” The kind who hangs out over at No Quarter, apparently.
Barbara
Maybe he specialized a little too long in Psy-Ops for the CIA?
smiley
Like all of you I hope this is a hoax. Make no mistake, though, if it’s real, even if its authenticity is questionable, it’s going to hurt Obama among independents and others looking for a reason to not vote for him.
4tehlulz
IF I CANT CALL A BLACK MAN A NIGGER, HE CANT CALL ME WHITEY, OR USE CONTRACTIONS.
NO JUSTICE NO PEACE
sunny
An old CIA Psy-Ops spook never dies, he just “retires”.
Zifnab
Its actually kinda nice seeing the Clinton wanna-be surrogates come out swinging with such a ham-fisted attack. Like watching Malkin peak at people’s counter tops. Who’s reputation will be smeared by the end this?
Time was, the GOP could construct a sophisticated and cleverly phrased attack ad that came across as relatively benign on its face but set up a powerfully damaging message under the surface. Rove might not have been a master at long term strategy, but he knew how to throw a wicked screwball. These guys are pitching straight over the plate.
It really is a race to the bottom with both parties. The Republicans are trashing their own brand with a freak’n sledge hammer. The Clintonites are trying to slash their own parties tires. God willing, by 2008 we’ll be done with this horribly messy purging process. But in the mean time, its entertaining as hell to watch.
Punchy
I agree. Those looking for reasons not to vote for him, including Republicans, Klan members, Big Dick Democrat, and Dick Cheney will certainly use this to convince themselves how unprepared this makes Michelle Obama look to be President.
Rtard
Well yo guys ate up Larry’s lies about 22 indictments and sealed Karl Rove indictments and all the rest when it made you tingly inside. Suckers.
Johnny Pez
Larry?
Is that you, Larry?
The Moar You Know
Sadly, this seems to be the true root of the problem. Lotta whites pissed off about their perceived “loss of privilege”.
John Cole
Some of us didn’t.
sunny
If his supporters have hung with him thus far through Wright, Pflesger, et al, I don’t think Michelle saying “whitey”, except in the context of “killing” said, will make much of a difference.
I think we have to write off, just as Clinton keeps saying, a lot of the centrist white vote anyway and rely on the millions of new voters Obama is registering. Hmmm, wonder why he thought THAT was a good idea?
cleek
i wonder how hard it would be to doctor the audio on the tape (assuming the thing even exists) to turn “why’d he” into “whitey” ? not just assert that she’s saying what she’s not, but to fix the sound so that she actually does say “whitey”… probably not too hard.
i wonder how hard it would be to detect ? probably pretty tough, if the sound quality is poor to begin with.
just speculating, of course.
gypsy howell
Sad thing is, all those rapid Clinton supporters over there at No IQ don’t realize they’re being lead around by the nose by that little Roger-Stone-Wannabe-Republican-Ratfucker Larry.
He’s whipping them up into a frenzy so they’ll vote for McCain in November.
Oh who am I kidding? I’m giving him too much credit suggesting he’s a deep cover republican operative. Larry just friggin’ nuts. I think we’re seeing the result of the CIA winnowing process here. Much as I am not a fan of the CIA, it’s good to know they draw the line somewhere in who they keep employed. That somewhere being Larry Johnson.
libarbarian
OMG Barack’s Wife’s Brother’s college thesis says something some white people don’t want to hear!
OMG He is unelectable!!!!!
From No Quarter:
I haven’t seen the tape. I haven’t spoken with anyone whose seen the tape. However, I have spoken with 5!!! people who have spoken with people who claim to see the tape and OBAMA IS FINISHED!!!
My favorite comment:
4tehlulz
With something like that, all you’d have to do is speed up the playback a tiny bit to cause enough people to hear it.
OriGuy
I think cleek is on the right track. Michelle was talking about white aliens from Alpha Centauri. It’s the same tape as that other one that hasn’t shown up yet.
zzyzx
I think this will effect some people around the edges, but they’re the people who would have been effected by something between now and November.
The one good news about the stupid Vanity Fair story is that the media can’t resist talking about Bill and Monica and this will suck up all of the scandal oxygen.
evie
I thought this was a joke. And this is a guy CNN brings on as a “state department expert.”
What’s wrong with people?
gypsy howell
Yes, let’s just say he lost a bit of ‘deep undercover source’ cred with his Plame affair predictions and prognostications. Same with a lot of folks over at firedoglake.
(Not that I don’t think for a minute that Rove, Bush & Cheney aren’t guilty as hell on outting her, but clearly Larry and all the Firepups [ugh, I said it] didn’t have much of an inside track on what was actually happening in Fitzgerald’s prosecution of the case.)
over_educated
In other hilarity, wathc bill clinton un-ironically attack MoveOn.org, an organization founded to defend HIS LYING ASS!!!!
This campaign is made of awesome.
cleek
alas, Johnson’s little webshite is dead. guess we’ll never get to see that SHOCKING video after all.
nightjar
Isn’t that where Cap’n Kirk calls home?
cbear
Word on the street is that Larry Johnson’s johnson was grievously injured in a freak accident involving his Flowbee, a volatile mix of petroleum products, and a faulty electrical outlet.
I think we should all give him a break during this difficult and trying time.
Incertus
It’s Obama’s fault. He fried Johnson’s servers with his mind ray.
The Moar You Know
You have your lying idiots confused, my friend. That wasn’t Larry Johnson – it was Jason Leopold over at Truthout.
But hey, thanks for playing! Hope to see you again real soon.
Rick Taylor
The tapes in question are, so far as I can tell, barely even mentioned by commenters at Talk Left. The one time I saw a reference to them was BTD chewing someone out for bringing them up. So that’s good.
nightjar
He’s just converting the negative waves over to Double Super Secret reception.
4tehlulz
No no, he’s just taking it to the Freenet so that he can post his
CPshocking Obama video without fear of reprisal from BLACK radicals.Rtard
um no
and
Napoleon
I noticed them mentioned in the comments over at TPM in the past also (at least a week or 2 ago). The fact that they have been mentioned for some time now but have not come out tell you a lot about them/who may be have it if it even exist.
The Moar You Know
CONCERN TROLL IS CONCERNED
jake
Holy God. I just gave vent to the loudest and most deranged sounding guffaw. The co-workers are looking alarmed. Again.
Xenos
“Rat just bit my sister Nell,
Why’d he on the moon?
Face and hands begin to swell,
Why’d he on the moon?”
I don’t know, I just cant work out those damn lyrics. All this hippity-hop music and stuff is just so hard to understand.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Cbear – Johnson doesn’t have a “flobee” haircut, he wears a toupee!
smiley
Those of you who don’t think this, if true, will hurt the Obama campaign, drive up his negatives, are either idiots or haven’t been paying attention.
taodon
So, is this the Clinton/McCain’s campaign’s way of saying all black folk look the same?
Hubris
It saddens me that they don’t have more faith in her subject-verb agreement abilities.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
I have a video of Hillary shitting and pissing on a picture of the Pope. Those of you who don’t think this, if true, will hurt the Obama campaign, drive up his negatives, are either idiots or haven’t been paying attention.
zzyzx
The best thing about this dirty tricks attempt is the wonderful timing. When should you launch a whisper campaign? How about when the voters are all done and only high information superdelegates are left. I’m sure they’ll be convinced by some random dude on the Internet making unsourced claims.
The Moar You Know
CONCERRN TROLL IS EVEN MOAR CONCERNED
smiley
No one could have predicted that would happen.
Mdee
Oh, that Larry Johnson. You mean people are still giving credence to that delusional asshat? I really wish some of the netroots big boys would go Greenwald on these pathetic losers and dig up all the shit they’ve been wrong about when they go off the rails like this. It’s not like there isn’t a record. We have a Friedman Unit based on the joke that Friedman is, why not a LJ Stunner?
Then again, why feed the ego of the disturbed and deranged? We’ve already see what that has done for one or two of the presidential candidates this season. Hint: McClinton.
I suspect they have doctored the tapes so that it has one of those electronic voices saying the “whitey” which then goes immediately back to her voice. Yep, they are just this incompetent.
This sounds suspiciously like another Kantor moment. However, I sincerely doubt the major media will hold back (and least some of them) the way they did with that. When the point of the game is to bury the frontrunner and raise the underdog from the political dead all sense of restraint seems to goes out the window.
Desmond
I think anyone who thinks this tape actually exists (as described) is an idiot.
rachel
I know a guy on one discussion board who’s dumb enough to swallow this hook… But then, he wasn’t going to vote for Obama anyway.
dreggas
So can Larry’s battle cry of “THE WHITEY IS COMING!” be officially designated as crying wolf yet?
Andrew
I think she was talking about Whitey Ford. Damn Yankees.
smiley
disagree = CONCERN TROLL. Please don’t emulate the dittoheadish behavior we mock on blogs like NO QUARTER and TalkLeft.
Who said I believe it exists or if it does, is legit? Not me, that’s who.
jake
No shit. I suppose they could say Mrs. Obama was speaking Jive, the language of her people, but the fact that she’s asking a series of rhetorical questions makes that a bit of a stretch.
Dork
Apparently I’m both a dork and an idiot.
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
CONCERN TROLL KNOWS HE’S CONCERN TROLLING.
rachel
“It’s just your jive talking. …” /Bee Gees
jibeaux
If there were a video of Michelle Obama biting the head off of a live kitten, drinking its blood, then arranging its entrails into a pentagram, I think we could agree that it would probably be damaging. So when a notorious asshat claims that Republicans told him they saw such a video, and that he’ll release it Monday morning, and Monday morning comes and goes without the kitten entrail pentagram video surfacing, then we ….discuss how awful that video would be if it existed? This is why you are concern troll.
El Cid
Maybe he misinterpretated their complete lack of any detectable reaction whatsoever as them being “stunned”.
The Moar You Know
CONCERN TROLL IS GETTING REALLY PISSED OFF THAT NO ONE TAKES HIM SERIOUSLY
Krista
But it’s NOT true. So your entire premise is ridiculous. You could spread a rumour that there is a videotape showing Hillary sodomizing kittens with a Mont Blanc, and if I said “This video, if it exists, could really hurt Clinton’s campaign”, then of course I would be laughed at.
Rick Taylor
Uhhh. Ok. If that’s the way we’re playing it, then I’d like to point out that if that video of McCain officiating at a Klu Klu Klan ceremony ever becomes public, he’s finished. And if that video of Hillary juggling dead babies is ever released to the press, forget 2008 or 2012. Anyone who who thinks that those videos, if they exist, won’t drive up their negatives, is an idiot.
cleek
i get the feeling we’re all going to learn a lot about the laws regarding libel, especially as they apply to web sites and unfounded rumors, in the next few months.
Dennis - SGMM
This won’t matter once the supers come to their senses and realize that a campaign based on divisiveness and victimhood has a much better chance than one based on unity and optimism.
Mary
God damn it, Krista, if this site becomes the number one Google hit for “sodomizing kittens with a Mont Blanc”, I’ll – I’ll – I’ll be very proud of you.
/tears up
Martin
It’s not real until Malkin’ Donuts says its real.
Zifnab
Anyone who takes a guy named “Rtard” seriously is just asking to get spoofed. Just say’n.
Chris Johnson
I’m disappointed in you, Mary, and you, Krista, for even putting together the WORDS sodomizing kittens with a Mont Blanc. Shame on you, and I won’t be party to your nefarious plot.
The Other Steve
Larry Johnson kind of reminds me of the time I questioned whether we should trust Kevin with the little kids. A year later I found out Kevin was arrested for child porn.
I’m not saying Larry John is a pedophile, mind you, I’m just saying I never really trusted the guy in the same way I didn’t trust a guy who turned out to be a pedophile.
And if you think I’m spoofing, I’m not. I’m actually quite serious. I really did know a guy named Kevin who turned out to be a pedophile, and he really does remind me of Larry Johnson.
Again, not that I think Larry Johnson is a pedophile, he just reminds me of one.
Tim F.
Free advice – commenters who piss on smiley are making themselves look bad. He’s perfectly right that if Johnson’s claim of Michelle Obama on a stage with Farrakhan making racially charged statements holds water then the Obama has an undeniably serious PR problem. The only meaningful question is whether this ever happened.
Johnson’s word isn’t enough (ref: Plame indictments) so it could easily be a sex-with-a-pig scenario. He’s an integrated unit of the Clinton campaign, so if the Clintonites played it that way Johnson would be a preferred outlet. No proof, no story. People should try harder to separate that point from the obvious fact that such a thing would be damaging if it existed.
KC
Vanity Fair story is pretty lame. I guess the video tape is too.
Chris Johnson
Was that first video clip Eddie Murphy singing? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that one. It was awesome :)
jake
Damn it rachel, now I’ve got that song stuck in my head.
Uh huh. There wasn’t a single piece of fried chicken, watermelon or can of OE 800 in sight. No one “busted a cap” upon anyone else (in front of the camera at any rate). It was quite a shock, don’tyerknow.
I’m wondering if the Hillsterics will make Larry Sinclair their new BFF before this all ends. Bets?
Gus
No. SATSQ.
Chris Johnson
Tim- yes, but I think people would allow Michelle to be on a stage ranting at BUSH.
If it’s a ‘why’d he let New Orleans drown’ thing, that’s not a racially charged thing at all, it’s openly railing against Bush, something I for one would like to hear more people do.
In the absence of the actual video, I say it’s a bunch of ‘why’d he get us into Iraq?!?’, and more power to her.
zzyzx
No bet; they were already doing that at the Saturday protests.
Krista
We’ll have to work on that.
And Chris, why should everybody else have all the fun? Sometimes I get tired of being “the nice one” on here.
Justin
The Michelle video is nothing compared to the video of Barack being released from prison:
[This should be the third video in the OP–Garrett Morris singing “I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I seeeeee!”]
jake
Yes indeedy. And if it is true that Obama smoked crack & got a BJ in a limo it would be exceedingly damaging for his campaign. Wait! Don’t whiz me bro, I’m just stating a fact!
Please, if you expect anyone to worry that every damn rumor about the man (and his family) might be proven to be true (or in the case of the video, not proven to be untrue), we may as well O.D. on Pepto-Bismol and have done with it.
Thelonius
Well, it’s not quite sodomizing kittens with a Mont Blanc, but here’s an incriminating video of Barack threatening a honky for hitting on Michelle.
This is going to destroy Obama with white heterosexual males. I don’t see how the superdelegates can give him the nomination now.
Mary
Of course, there’s this other classic Eddie Murphy bit.
Dan
Obamites (is that it? Obamabots? Obamatrons? I can’t keep up) crashed the NoQ site. Bastards
Kevin K.
LOL Flowbee
nightjar
I don’t think smiley was concern trolling and wouldn’t pee on him/her for taking a hypothetical to it’s end conclusion. I just don’t agree that it would be that great a hit on Obama. First, because it wasn’t Obama himself allegedly trashing whitey, and second, the people who support Obama were reminded by the good rev wright that Obama is black and hangs out with other black people, some of whom are mad at white folks and sometimes say bad things about them (not unlike vice-versa for white people). These are the people black and white who live outside the outrage machine of political activists, in the real world. Some will take umbrage and not vote for Obama, if Johnsons ravings have some truth behind them. I suspect most of these people have already decided against voting for Obama anyway. I could well be wrong and am speaking for myself only, so please nobody pee on me, as I’m wearing my last clean shirt and don’t feel like doing laundry.
Throwin Stones
Yes. A true classic.
nightjar
LOL. It’s good to be bad sometimes.
Kevin K.
C’mon, no one’s linked to this look into what an Obama presidential press conference will be like yet?
Dork
Fixed. Wow, you really dont know this website very well yet, do ya? ;)
w vincentz
Has anyone gained access to the alleged video that it’s rumored to be circulating, that involves John McCain, Joe Libermann, and a Rabbi? From what I heard, the Rabbi is getting a very nice blowjob, and the other two xxx actors actually swallow.
I sure hope this is a rumor.
Throwin Stones
Mary,
I can’t get YT here at teh Borg. Is that the one where he dresses up as a white man, and the banker throws money at him – “pay us back whenever, or don’t, we don’t care”
?
John Cole
You are insane. Here is one floated rumor about what the tape contains, from Michelle Obama at a Farrakhan dinner at Trinity United:
If a tape exists with his wife saying that, at Trinity United, home of Rev. Wright, sitting at a table with Louis Farrakhan, his campaign is done.
Finished. Kaput. One foot in the grave, another on a banana peel. Over. Put a fork in it, roll the credits. This is an ex-Presidential parrot.
Now personally, I don’t think any such tape exists, and I have a hard time believing Michelle Obama would be that stupid, and I additionally realize I am not voting for her, but for her husband, but even with all that, I can fully admit his campaign would be over and it will be time for me to break out the Bob Barr/Ron Paul 2008 bumperstickers (because Clinton isn’t winning WV).
TenguPhule
The Wheel of Stupid never ends.
It just goes round and round again.
Davebo
Johnson’s website is obviously down because all the hip web developers are Obama lackeys.
Just like Red State….
jibeaux
Nah, I’ve been here long enough for that, but considering that she’s a woman who has given birth twice, I’m guessing she’s probably had her fill of skulls in the vajayjay.
jibeaux
I thought we were going with “Show me the tape or STFU.”
nightjar
Well I don’t keep up with floated rumors and don’t measure my comments by them as you do John. You drop a rock on me based on rumors, then claim you don’t believe them. “insane”?
zzyzx
I think you overestimate the power of a scandal. Bill Clinton survived worse than that in 1992. However, I’m not worried at all that anything explosive can remain secret. There probably is some tape somewhere where Michelle says something that isn’t completely bland, but there’s no way a tape like that could remain secret.
John Cole
I don’t believe the rumors. I think it is all bullshit, and am still in the “Show me the tape or STFU.”
But that doesn’t mean I also can not recognize the explosive nature IF THEY ARE TRUE. In fact- that is why they are doing this- because Larry J. and company know that it would be devastating IF TRUE.
Which is why you tell them to STFU and show me the tape.
Rick Taylor
9 AM has come and gone.
As one commenter put it:
The best thing to do is just to ignore this; I’ve given too much attention to it as it is.
Rick Taylor
. . . or laugh at them. I dunno, laughing and shaming might be just as good.
joe
C-I-L-L my landlord.
Rick Taylor
Oh come on, John, Larry’s former CIA. Is that the sort of person you’d expect to sew baseless rumors in an attempt to bring down a Presidential candidate?
Uh. . . never mind.
wasabi gasp
We don’t need no stinkin’ tape. If Whitey says its true, its true. You got a problem with Whitey, whitey!?
sunny
Well now, if Larry Johnson has been holding out on us until the last gasp of the Clinton campaign,there is only one reason why: He’s not trying to help Clinton, he’s trying to help McCain.
Zifnab
They don’t always assassinate you. Sometimes they just assassinate your character. Real assassination they save for the Kennedys.
/conspiracy theorist
nightjar
There was a rumor for months mostly pushed by the wingnuts but some Clinton supporters also. The rumor was about Obama’s pastor and spiritual mentor whose influence on Obama was reflected by Obama titling his book on the wise words of the pastor Jeremiah Wright. Reportedly this pastor blamed aids on the white mans desire to infect black people and that 9-11 was white America getting what it deserved– something bout chickens and roosting or something. Also God-DAmn America. Those rumors turned out to be true. What happened then?
Chris Johnson
Since when do black people say ‘whitey’? Much less mix it up with ‘why’d he’ in a sentence? I call made-up.
w vincentz
I just heard from a source that wishes to remain unnamed that the McCain, Libermann, Rabbi “blowjob” tape will be realeased in late Oct.
Golly, I sure HOPE this is untrue!
mannemalon
LOL @ thinking she’d even use that terminology. Shows it’s a bunch of people who only know of black people through TV.
LMAO @ “whitey”
Mary
Throwin Stones, it’s Eddie Murphy as Tyrone Green:
Dark and lonely on a summer’s night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L my land lord!
jake
Next up: Old Lar really honestly was going to release the tape but the friend of a cousin of a neighbor thought he overheard the garbage collectors say that Obama had sworn he’d kill anyone who released the tape so he had to go into hiding.
Seriously, if you’re going to do anything but laugh at this crap between now and 2012 start hoarding the Prilosec.
wasabi gasp
I don’t know, but I sure miss the good ol’ days when G. Jefferson could throw down the “Shut up, Honky” for a syndicated laugh. He used to iron shirts, BTW.
Rtard
Okay, my basic point is LJ was full of crap but because the crap fit a desired narrative no one on the left took him to task for it and rightly diminished his credibility. Now that his target is Obama, Obama supporters are suddenly questioning Johnson. He was full of it then as just as he is today and had the left been honest and gone after him way back and written him off as a crank then his little rumor operation wouldn’t even get traction.
NR
This is from SusanHu over at NQ:
You can’t make this shit up, people.
wasabi gasp
I beg to differ.
Dennis - SGMM
Just before nine, a convoy of big black Escalades full of big Black Panthers pulled up in front of Johnson’s house and they pointed big black machine guns at him. “Give us the tape, Whitey!” they shouted darkly. Johnson has a video of the incident which he will be releasing shortly.
Punchy
Cracker? Natch. Honky? Retro. White devil? Ice Cube. But not “whitey”. Not from an educated woman, who’s cognizant of her hub’s political aspirations. No chance she let this fly.
I will, however, entertain that a strong rumor campaign of such a statement could be effective. See: Boats, Swift.
smiley
After the Wright videos burst onto the scene, I remember reading something about the video archives at TUCC. Surely journalists and opposition researchers (from both parties) must have looked for more dirt. I’m too lazy to find out for myself but does anyone know if those videos are still available online? Does anyone know if the campaign has been asked about any other shocking videos that might come to light? Someone should ask them about this rumor, no?
The Other Steve
Nobody on the left took him to task for it?
Doesn’t it count if we just ignored him?
I know that I don’t have a lot of time on my hands to denounce all 2.9 billion people in this world I disagree with on a daily basis.
Napoleon
I say the tape is of Michelle doing her best Homey D. Clown impersonation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homey_D._Clown#H
Helena Montana
OK, I just went and looked at Johnson’s website for the first time. That is just pathetic. Sad, really, the way he ended up. He used to at least SEEM to make sense, way back when before he got involved with–whatever is driving him now.
4tehlulz
Racist. You ALWAYS have to point out the guns’ color…
The Other Steve
I heard a rumor about a snuff video done by the Oregon undertaker.
KXB
It’s interesting that the Chicago diocese was so quick to reprimand Pfleger for “words” but has been rather more muted in what some other priests “did” to children.
Conservatively Liberal
I look at it this way. If the tape exists, it exists. If not, then it doesn’t. Nothing I can do is going to change anything, so why worry about it? It’s like worrying that we are going to be hit with an earthquake here. It might happen, but there is nothing I can do about it.
So I figure, why even discuss it? It accomplishes absolutely nothing, and only helps to breathe life in to the meme surrounding it. Which is exactly what Larry “and his Magic” Johnson wants.
Don’t feed the concern trolls. Just for the record, not all concern trolls are the ‘bad’ kind. Some are just overanxious people who like to obsess about worrisome possibilities. But feeding this is still counterproductive, IMO.
Just a few peanuts from the gallery. ;)
Dulcie
LMAO – I’ve been saying this to myself ever since I heard about this stupid tape.
I prefer Mr. Charlie myself.
Rick Taylor
You do have a point. I didn’t buy the stuff about indictments, but I did give Larry Johnson more credit than he deserved when he talked about the Plame affair.
It’s been a hard couple months for this liberal. First I find at least some of the things right wingers said about the narcism of the Clintons actually was true, then I have to admit that, while I still respect and admire him, when he gets a bee in his bonnet, Paul Krugman is not necessarily the picture of rigorous objectivity, and now this.
But it’s alright. I had dinner with my more conservative friend and told him he’d been right about the Clintons all along, and he laughed and told me (again) I’d been right about Bush. And then we had a good time talking about the primaries and speculating whether Clinton would take the race to the convention. It was a warm fuzzy moment.
Rtard
The Other Steve Says:
I am not talking about taking to task for simple disagreement. And I am not saying that he warrants any consideration. I’m saying he floated all kinds of explosive claims and flogged them big time and he was linked and promoted the same and the claims were total Bullcrap.
Napoleon
“Homey don’t play that”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8P9nuXNNsk&feature=related
Rick Taylor
I agree entirely. I’ve probably already said too much.
Conservatively Liberal
Concern troll hits second gear, then third and finally fourth. Do they have a fifth gear? A sixth? Can the engine take it or is it going to throw a rod?
We wait in breathless anticipation…
smiley
cleek
don’t forget, there’s a timeline here. speking only for myself, before the Rove episode, i’d never even heard of him; i had no idea if he was trustworthy or not. but the Rove episode demonstrated how much of a hack he was and how anything he said needed to be treated with utmost caution.
his credibility was weakened by his own hackitude, not because of the subjects he chooses to write about.
Conservatively Liberal
Oh, but open ridicule, politely done, is always appropriate IMO. ;)
Conservatively Liberal
Wow! They pulled it back into third gear and are throttling back a bit.
Pure genius!
Grand Moff Texan
This is it?
THIS IS IT?!?!?
Johnson’s been pimping this tape for WEEKS, and this is all there is?
If this is the kind of work Johnson did for the CIA, then perhaps 9/11 was a forgone conclusion.
.
jake
Bwahahaha!
The too lazy to find out myself is a particularly brilliant touch. Someone is chanelling Jonah Goldberg methinks
Incertus
The latest from SusanNoIQ is priceless:
Of course. Why should anyone actually want to see the tape when we have Larry Johnson’s third-hand description of what’s on it?
Rick Taylor
Actually, he did a good job. He got this blog and a number of others to repeat the story and speculate on it. His blog was down this morning; perhaps that’s because he was so successful, it couldn’t handle the resulting traffic from so many people wanting to find out about the tape. Not bad when you’ve got exactly zip to work with.
Blue Raven
And wouldn’t ofay be more likely, too? I like that one, speaking as one. No real clue where it came from, two syllables, and it’s been used in black literature for decades.
wasabi gasp
Hillary is whipping up a batch of cupcakes as we speak.
Conservatively Liberal
Yup. I have seen that very line posted quite often and asking the very same thing, but only at the rabid Hillary sites like Hillaryis44. I have not seen it pop up here until now, but that caught my eye right away. Pushing the throttle a bit more than the engine can take.
What’s that knocking noise I hear? ;)
Dennis - SGMM
Pig latin for “foe.” Had some friends in the LA Brown Berets back in the day.
Rtard
Of course. Why should anyone actually want to see the tape when we have Larry Johnson’s third-hand description of what’s on it?
Exactly. Susan says Larry’s rumor “is the story.”
I fully expect a conventional reporter who used LJ as a source or was sent on wild goose chases by him in the past will open up on him soon. Or at least they should.
smiley
My, I sure am the whipping boy here today. I didn’t intend to suggest that someone else do something I didn’t want to do. I was wondering whether anyone had any prior knowledge about the archives at TUCC. Sorry for asking.
wasabi gasp
Its ‘cuz you’re rearranging the furniture to make a place for the dog to shit.
Dennis - SGMM
Racist.
jake
You wish. Unfortunately all of our whips and riding crops are in the shop after this weekends Why’d He Flog Me? marathon.
Look, you had a good run, you even got Tim to defend you. Time to retire this handle and get a new one.
cleek
it’s probably down because so many people are trying to post comments there mocking him for being such a hacktackular douchenozzle.
happily, i think i got banned over there earlier today :)
Conservatively Liberal
CONCERN TROLL BLOWS ROD & SPUTTERS TO A HALT!
Story at 11.
Conservatively Liberal
Congrabulations! I just might have to do the same thing…lol!
Hart Williams
It is nearly a new kind of fallacy: not ‘guilt by association’ but ‘guilt by FREE association.’
Or, perhaps, Rorschach Blot Guilty: Rorschach blots are black. That one looks like a black man raping a butterfly. Barack Obama is a black man. Therefore, Barack Obama rapes butterflys.
QED (Quite Eerily Dumb)
jake
Brain-bleaching to expunge mental images at 11:01.
Yurrgh.
Brachiator
Actually, a videotape of Michelle Obama walking down a Chicago street with Farrakhan 500 yards away walking in the opposite direction would be a problem for those who are eager to put the Angry Radical Muslim Negro label on Obama.
This nonsense has already shifted from allegations of Michelle Obama making “racially charged statements” to allegations of Michelle Obama appearing on the same stage as Farrakhan, all on the basis of speculation and the flimsiest kind of third-hand evidence more associated with people who claim that they were abducted by space aliens.
There is not really a “meaningful question” here, only fear mongering.
Anne
I seriously cannot believe what a fantasy of racial anger this is. “Whitey?” Michelle Obama is an angry black lady! TUC is a black power church! Louis Farrkhan! All together, bashing WHITEY!
Did they revive Malcolm X and all sing the Garrett Jones whitey song too? I bet they did. In fact, I heard there was a tape.
Anne
AND Jena was December of 2006. Does anyone really think Michelle would appear onstage with Farrakhan in 2007?
Krista
I’m sure we could borrow some from somebody.
Paging Dreggas…
bago
True.
The Other Steve
I don’t understand your point. I don’t recall myself here, or even John Cole linking and promoting his stuff.
So what exactly are you accusing us of?
Ignoring someone because we thought his claims were hyperbolic? Oh dear, this must surely be a felony.
jake
Uh-huh. See last week’s wingnut Waterloo:
Obama’s uncle did not liberate Auschwitz, he liberated Buchenwald! And it was his great-uncle not his uncle! And, and Buchenwald was just a labor camp, not a death camp. And we don’t think his uncle was really there. Well some WWII vets in his division say he was there but they’re just a bunch of poopy heads! And, anyways I’m tired of talking about this, what’s Rachel Ray wearing?
Work into a lather, douse, repeat.
joeyess
That second vid made me laugh out loud. Thanks John. I read about this last night and waited in prostrate anticipation for Larry’s “explosive” revelation today.
Went to his site and what do ya know?
Nuthin’. Absolutely nuthin’.
Larry is actually relying on Republican Oppo for his little pogrom.
What. A. Douche.
Rick Taylor
From the Daily Kos, Clinton says she won more states than Obama:
Of course if you challenge her, she can say she was saying she won more states, “since Feb 20”. This reminds me of how so many people wound up thinking Saddam had something to do with 9/11, though an administration never actually quite said that.
Rick Taylor
Sorry, I forgot the link.
cleek
Clinton up 60/34 in SD ?
joeyess
Rtard, how’s McCain’s scaly ass taste?
I hope you’re getting paid well for putting your lips on his booty, son.
Tsulagi
No shit.
Wasn’t Republican defcon ingenue Matt Sanchez, star of such family values films like Tijuana Toilet Tramps, named “Rod Major” or something like that in the movies? Bet he’s blown a few rods too in his day, but I doubt he sputtered or halted.
Groove
we’re gonna hit them in head with a bat! classic murphy.
The Other Steve
ARG polls are usually wrong.
They had her winning Iowa and losing New Hampshire to Obama.
cleek
right. but by 30 points ?
according to 538, this is the only poll done in the past two months.
nightjar
Same here. This is about the dumbest topic of a campaign replete with world class dumb topics. Fuck it. I need a break from blogging anyways.
The Moar You Know
CONCERN TROLL STROKES OUT, CODE BLUE, SOMEBODY ASK THE FAMILY IF HE’S A DONOR
dreggas
*opens up the tool chest that is his toy bag.* Have at it folks.
dreggas
Oh another thing to remember folks. Ol’ LG was banned from the GOS of all places for promoting shit like this and for being a blatant bigot/racist.
cleek
he’s a regular over on TPM, too. though it’s hard to believe it’s the same person. he totally snapped.
Dork
Uh….well, there’s about 4 black people in SD. Most SDians think Obama is either an alien or some guy who wears WAY too much blackface. And nobody votes for either.
Seriously.
cleek
Seriously?
ND : 61/37, Obama
ID : 79/17, Obama
WY : 61/38, Obama
CO : 67/32. Obama
it’s like ARG flipped the results
John Cole
Who is LG?
Birdzilla
BARACK OBAMA IS HE THE ANTICHRIST? HE SOUNDS PRETY EVIL RIGHT NOW TO ME
nightjar
Yes he is BIRDZILLA and his campaign is kaput, toast and yesterday’s Parrot droppings.
4tehlulz
IF HE IS THE ANTICHRIST THEN IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU DO HE IS GOING TO DESTROY US AL1L1L1L101001
ALSO THE REAL BIRZILLA WOULD NOT USE CRUISE CONTROL — he would HIGHLIGHT only SOME WORDS that were OF QUESTIONABLE IMPORTANCE.
Tasty Taste
Do I look like the kind of guy who could kill a WHOLE BUNCH of white people?
I mean… given a reason, but not on a humbug.
PeterJ
Birdbrain uttered:
According to Hagee, antichrist will be part jew. And since Obama is a muslim, he can’t be antichrist.
YellowJournalism
Personally, I’d love to see a clip of Barack Obama hosting his own children’s television show:
Anya
I read somewhere that someone has a video of Larry Johnson molesting a young boy in Thailand. I hear the Thai authority is looking vigorously for this tape – they might even involve Interpol. There, I made up another rumour. This is fun!
Michael Gass
I’ll be the first to say that when Larry Johnson was doing pure analysis articles on Iraq, Al-Qaeda, etc, he was pretty much spot on.
Then… it happened…
He got into POLITICS.
The objective analysis, based on fact, went out the window and in went the passionate, subjective, opinion.
Yes, LJ has jumped the shark on his political opinions.
Cain
I hear there’s a tape of me and a super model making out. I’m looking for it, because it would be a fantasy come true.
cain