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"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."
Link: http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2008/6/1/235757/2325
That's the reason no network would run with it. And that's the reason even Geraldo Rivera was hinting that he didn't believe it existed. Johnson tried to scramble the audio to make it sound like something it wasn't.
Seems like the networks either figured it out or knew right away, hence never even bothered. My guess is we never hear about this today because they all knew it was fake from the beginning.
Please note it's well past 9 a.m. and still nothing. Johnson knows he's been found out and now has nothing to do. There goes the last, desparate trick to try and sabotage Barack from the Clintons. Have a nice day. Doubt if you'll ever even remotely hear of it on any real website, cable news station or publication. Kind of like Larry Sinclar. Discredited before it even really started.
