Geekesque tried to neutralize this by claiming that the footage she linked proved that Obama did not play Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and instead the music was something else. It was a nice try, but according to Taylor Marsh, there were two parties - one public and one private party. The alleged incident took place at the latter.
Now, there is faux outrage because the New York Post (a Murdoch publication) was the first to run the story. (Meanwhile, there is never this much outrage when the paper publishes anti-Hillary trash.) The paper obviously prides itself in sensationalism, which is why I didn't take the charge seriously at first, but then this:
If the story is false, no doubt the Obama camp will ask for a retraction. As of this moment they have not. So after waiting three hours for something to happen I posted on it. I do not just throw up anything, contrary to the hits being thrown at me. Waiting three hours, with it now being three hours after that, I have to ask: If it's untrue why hasn't the Obama campaign asked for a retraction? It's a simple request, which would have to be honored if Page Six got it wrong.
Why hasn't the Obama campaign denied the charge? We're in a time when a story can take a life of it's own, so the Obama campaign should probably move swiftly before people start making up their own minds about what happened - especially since this story is not out of the realm of possibilities:
"I gotta admit - lately I've been listening to a lot of Jay-Z," he recently told BET. "This new American Gangster album is [good]. Kanye, I like. I enjoy some of the newer stuff. Honestly, I love the art of Hip-Hop. I don't always love the message of Hip-Hop."
Was the song a reference to Iowa's 99 counties?
UPDATE: I keep reading the comments and people seemed pretty pissed. Oh well. As much as I, a gay guy, would like to believe that this story isn't true, it's hard to, especially after Obama campaigned with that homophobe, Donnie McClurkin. I wish the Obama would just deny the rumor.