If I'm wrong about this, I'll (unhappily) eat my words. But I don't think I'm wrong. I think the "Michelle Obama whitey tape" story is a smear spread by people who want Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic nomination, and are trying to keep superdelegates on the fence by exploiting fears of "more shoes to drop." The Wright and Pfleger tapes have stoked that fear, so the smearsters have got a little credibility when they work the phones and spread the stories.
So: Larry Johnson's 9 a.m. update convinces me that the story is a smear. At worst, there might be a video along the lines of what Booman suggests, a video of Michelle Obama sounding like she's attacking "whitey" when she's actually saying "why'd he." But Johnson claims:
It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright’s Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks.
This is odd.
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