The primary season was not good for many people, particularly for the good people over at No Quarter who thought that they were covering themselves in glory and have yet to look in the mirror and realize that it was poo.
Exhibit A, for all time, would be the Michelle Obama "whitey tape" which, to this point, appears to be as non-existent and mythical as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Dick Cheney's soul, and the clitoris. As Dave Weigel writes:
On Monday I blogged about the rumors of a video that shows Michelle Obama making hateful comments about "whitey." I'm now convinced that Larry Johnson, the blogger who's done the most to make the rumors public, is spreading misinformation. At the least, he's been unable to stick to his story.
Johnson starts getting attention for this on May 26, recounting intel from "someone in touch with a senior Republican."
I know for a fact that Barack and Michelle Obama would like the tape of her blasting “whitey” during a rant at Jeremiah Wright’s church to never see the light of day.
On the night of May 31, Johnson fires up the speculation by promising an update by 9 a.m. on June 2. "Now I know why people who have seen the videotape say it is stunning." The blogs start churning, and reporters fish around. On June 1, Roger Stone appears on Fox News and says he's heard rumors about a Michelle Obama tape. Gleefully, a NoQuarter blogger completes the Mobius strip and claims Stone has given Johnson "new credence."
Now they admit that haven't actually seen the tape but, you know, their best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw the tape, so I guess it's pretty serious. If it exists.
This isn't to say that they don't diligently dot their i's and cross their t's and do extensive fact-checking and research at the No Quarter Proving Grounds & Lab Fort Made with Couch Cushions as seen in this video provided to us by this guy who totally swears he stole it out of the No Quarter Supersecret Video Vault. Enjoy:
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Dammit, I actually went over to NoQuarter and read the comments…
And here I thought this post would be a Beckham photo.
I tried to read one of Johnson’s posts, but the NQ site is so crappy, I gave up.
I wish the same were true of that YouTube clip. Now, as Woody Allen said, I have to walk like this for three days…
Lebowski! We cut off your Chonson!!
WTF Happened to Johnson? It wasn’t that long ago he was at TPMcafe, sorta normal blogger. He must of been bitten by something, that NQ site is insane. There is nothing Obama did or stood for the explains that site.
I wonder too. During Plame, he was really good, since he was in her “class” at the CIA. But when he decided to support Hillary over Barack, it’s like he hopped on the Crazy Train.
I’ve been saying it all day and I’ll say it now: If such a tape exists, I don’t care.
First of all, she’s not the candidate.
Second of all, considering what black people are told to put up with, “get over” or “forget about” every single day, I don’t feel the vapors from a couple of intemperate remarks about me (I’m white). I don’t know about Larry Johnson, but I’m tough enough to handle it.
Third of all, I’ve got a tape of John McCain saying it’d be OK to stay in Iraq for 100 years! I swear, it exists!
rickmassimo has a great point. Leaving aside all snark what, exactly, is the problem that any democrat or liberal is supposed to have with the tape if it did exist? What if we had a tape of michelle discussing Brown v. board of education in a *loud voice*? Does the sin of being angry about racism erase racism? If only it were that easy we could all get really noisy about stuff and fix it right away. I’ll start–”hey! there are homobigots out there trying to prevent gay people from getting married!” Now, magically, what? No more bigotry?
The point of Johnson’s hyping the tape was to take *white racist* votes away from Obama in the primary and, later, in the general. Were those people unaware that as a democrat and a black guy Obama might have progressive political policies to push? Probably not. so they weren’t going to vote for him anyway. Did they think that Hillary didn’t have a progressive agenda, including affirmative action, to push? If they did they would have been sorely disappointed to vote for her thinking she was going to be all republican.
the whole thing is not only a tempest in a teapot but a total waste of time. I can’t believe that any sentient democrat would have imagined this was a good idea. I wonder if he can come back from the precipice or whether he will end up voting for mccain out of spite.?
aimai
Hi aimai,
I think what it boils down to is that this “tempest” could have only worked in a primary campaign. The bar would be a lot higher in a GE campaign, because the candidates are more different. In a primary, all Johnson and his ilk had to do was convince enough people that “a lot of people out there” will believe it and they’d switch because it would “hurt our chances in the general.” Because Democrats, I hate to say it, run on fear. (Their own, that is, not other peoples’, like Republicans do.)
The apparent change in Larry Johnson is depressing. I have no faith on anything he’s ever said now - although, usually he could back up what he said. I keep peeking in other there, because facts make him and his posters lose their shit.
He actually got angry about being asked for proof. And people noticed - Drudge linked to the blog talking about his changing the story, and then denying he’d said what he’d said.
And the posters all seem to be insane. Obama and the DNC cheated, Hillary won, and she will ascend into heaven. They’re raving about something called “PUMA” . Party Unity My Ass.
Hey, I’m not much of a Democrat and they can tick me off Royally. But I’m I’m not stupid enough to think pouting about anything would be helping anyone but McCain and Bush’s friends. If you’re concerned about the war or women’s issues, and you’d think Hill people would fall in that category, how in the shit do you justify trashing Democrats and voting for McSame?
I swear..they sound like Freepers or Little Giant Football kind of crazy over there. Even Michelle Malkin said the story was stupid. (!)
And if Johnson can’t have the sense to apologize, as this late date, he should be mocked.
And and BTW, to add to the embarrassment of Johnson changing details in the story, very much sounding like he’d seen the tape when he hadn’t, and then ranting about people who questioned him as Obama robots..many of posters took up the asinine view that they already “knew” Michelle Obama hated white people, so why were we giving Johnson crap about his lack of proof.
It’s a Bush bonehead kind of stupidity there. I’ve had my disagreements with her but Hillary Clinton deserves better than that crap in her followers.
This tape must have come from the same people that had the picture of Kitty Dukakis burning an American flag back in ‘84.
Thanks for continuing to ridicule these fucks, Tbogg.
IMO, Larry “Agent Flowbee” Johnson and his fellow asswipes at NoQuarter DO NOT get to come back to polite society after this bullshit.
And, that includes paul lukasiak (a frequent commenter at FDL and other sites) who has been posting in the “Michelle wants to KILL WHITEY” threads.
Here’s 2 comments from another regular over there:
Comment by Blow Job Queen Michelle Hussein Obama | 2008-06-05 02:32:31
Ghetto queen
Look that up at the Urban Dictionary
Comment by Blow Job Queen Michelle Hussein Obama | 2008-06-05 01:37:05
Y’all owe me da Prezidency. My man may have cheated and lied, and that bitch Hillary may have won the vote, but we play by different roolz. Now shut up and line up behind me. This is about me, not you.
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This crap is from a site that supposedly represents pissed-off women who feel Hillary was the victim of rampant sexism. Fuck ‘em all.
people — and Tbogg, kthnxbai for that video — the johnsons have their peckers caught in the door of racism. And I include SusanUnPc and Taylor Marsh in that.
You might be right because their lack of reasoning is unexplainable. Larry was in the CIA. I personally was blaming it on bad drugs.
To me thats the enigma of this anger from the Clintonistas.
The most important part of the concession is a rebuke of any crossover to McSame, denounce Lieberman and McSame for using her name to woo disaffected followers, and any continued resistance to the party line. She has to slap these hotheads down.
Still, and all Larry should not be covered in a condom and slammed in a car door. Shoved up a Republican’s ass and covered with two wetsuits? Maybe.
TBogg - your story was okay except the reference to a clitoris being non-existent. Sexist!
Anyway - here is Michelle Obama’s ‘actual’ rant.
Speech as written on paper.
Why did Clinton go into country x?
Why did Clinton do this?
Why did Clinton do that?
Why did Clinton do something else?
Speech as practiced in front of mirror:
Why did he go into country x?
Why did he do this?
Why did he do that?
Why did he do something else?
Speech at seminar by nervous presenter:
Why’de go into country x?
Why’de do this?
Why’de do that?
Why’de do something else?
Of course then you move from Why’de to Whitey and you have a ‘totally racist rant’.
Kind of like the “Did you have lunch?”
Didjoo have lunch?
D’Joo have lunch?
Why are you calling me a Jew?
Idiots all.
The No Quarter crew now sounds exactly like LGF, Red State, etc in their logic (yeah, I know), grammar, and use of such decidedly undemocratic-party terms like “democrat party”, “ghetto *****”, etc. I call the whole site as a long running rethug ratfuck that got out of control and peaked too soon. These people were never going to vote Democratic; all the Hill-love was a schtick, nothing more.
Yes, ceabaird, Taylor Marsh and her site’s commenters strike me as equally vicious, rabid and quite insane as the commenters described on No Quarter.
I’m trying to take solace in the notion that there really aren’t a great number of people so obsessive in their self-pity, and semi-crazy, that they wind up deeply invested in the spittle-spewing anger we’re seeing out of those Hillaryistas.
I suspect most Clinton supporters are just damn, damn disappointed, but they’ll move on, just out of self-preservation for their own mental health.
But, wow, what a show in the meantime! Especially out of fairly prominent personalities like Taylor Marsh…
Ironically that Ferris Bueller quote is part of an interplay with Ben Stein, another cat who has gone seriously off his rocker.
Thaaaaaaaaank you, Simmmmmmmmmone.
Seriously - Larry must be off his meds:
Wow. Just wow.
There was supposed to be a link there:
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/about/
Um, what does this Larry Sinclair dope have to do with the equally dopey Larry Johnson?
‘Whitey’? Really? The right wing knows so few actual black people that they think blacks, especially Harvard educated blacks actually, truly use terms like ‘whitey’? I have never, ever heard any black under the age of 75 use this term. I mean, that’s a giveaway right there that it’s all made up. Come on folks…at least go listen to a real, live black person speak before making up quotes about them.