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I wrote a diary about a conversation I had with my father-in-law on Saturday. He was actually looking for a reason to like Obama (despite his often-Republican leanings) and wanted me to explain the "tape" that he had heard about at bingo.

I still think there's a possibility that some tape from a completely different source has been altered as a party joke. Of course, it can never surface since the doctoring would be easily identified (even with a public domain program like Audacity.)

But Johnson has given up every bit of his credibility with thinking people. How can he push "Publish" on his keyboard any more.

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Mon Jun 16th, 2008 at 09:42:13 PM EST
I think there was a tape of Michelle speaking (somewhere in the South around February -- or perhaps it was a swing to LA around the time of the MS primary) and the reason Johnson won't produce it is because it would end all doubt. BooMan nailed it, and it was the often heard (for us Midwesterners) contraction of 'why did he?' The problem is that you can't reconcile the grammatic construction of asking 'why'd he?' in series of rhetorical questions regarding Bush's behavior with Johnson's imaginary desired epithet.

I thought I saw this on the news, but maybe I'm just confabulating things. The created transcript rang a bell, however.

I don't doubt that there may have been some doctoring to enhance the effect. This is what 'they' did with her "very proud comment. The "very" was clumsily removed (this was part of the North Carolina group's commercial). Removing the superlative adjective was necessary to reach the desired meaning, i.e., 'not proud' (instead of) 'extremely proud' (her actual meaning). Creating a meaningful lexical construction is the problem. It also doesn't help that "whitey" is more a line from a Blaxploitation flick. Only in someone's imagination can this epithet exist -- and that's why Johnson hopes to weave a trail of debate concerning its usage. It's apocryphal, like many stories, but it gains life in the argument over its existence.

Another example of an apocryphal story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image

Another apocryphal story was the one of -- ostensibly -- Nixon being rated even in his debate with Kennedy when the listener heard the debate on the radio, whereas he lost -- again, ostensibly -- when viewed on TV. It has  a truthy feel, since Nixon was rumored to shave twice a day and reportedly eschewed makeup for the debate, all  of which made him look relatively haggard next to the virile Kennedy.

ad bellum purificandum - Kenneth Burke

by colinski on Mon Jun 16th, 2008 at 11:11:43 PM EST
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I made it up, colinski.  That's what I'm telling you.

There is no tape.  

There never was any tape.

But how do you refute a nasty rumor about something non-existent?  You say it does exist but it's completely innocent.  It's the only way I could have defused it.  

All the nervous superdelegates were able to breath a sigh of relief and reassure themselves that their endorsement wouldn't be met the next day by some tape of Michelle Obama appearing with Farrakhan and spewing racist crap.  

I just wanted to shoot a big hole in Larry's operation that would undermine his whole effort to keep the superdelegates paralyzed on election night.  

Once they committed the nomination was won.  Larry knew it and I knew it.  He played the race card so I went after him.

There's no tape.

by BooMan on Mon Jun 16th, 2008 at 11:39:37 PM EST
[ Parent ]
And let me add, it was BRILLIANT, and so clever, and damn, you're so my hero for that. It doesn't get any better than beating them at their own game, does it?

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes
by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:08:17 AM EST
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I understand that. Are you sure you're not psychic, cause there was a speech where she did say something like that?

I freely admitted in the previous post that it could be a confabulation on my part (perhaps the sniper fire a Tuzla traumatized me), but we Midwesterners do use "whitey" as a contraction for "why did he?" FULL DISCLOSURE: I was born somewhat well north of Chicago -- in wis-SCON-sin, the "eat cheese or die" state.

ad bellum purificandum - Kenneth Burke

by colinski on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:15:08 AM EST
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I'm not psychic.  I just knew that the only way to defuse the virus was to explain it away.  
by BooMan on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:24:14 AM EST
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What puzzles me:

This was completely obvious to me from the construction of your original story. The way I read it, you weren't saying "this is the way it is", you were saying "wouldn't it be a gas if this was Larry Johnson's big hit piece?" I was totally confused a few weeks later when I ran across comments of people who thought you had an actual transcript. I'm not sure how anyone went from a post that was (to me) clearly wild speculation to solid fact.

I suppose this is why it was truly was a masterful piece of social engineering. A demand to release the tapes would have fed his hit job, as he'd have been able to use it as "the enemy has something to fear!" But he couldn't refute your speculation without providing the one thing he didn't have (due to the tapes being fictitious): more concrete information.

Hats off, man. I hope you're this effective against the 101st Fighting Keyboarders in the months to come.

Kill because somebody was killed. Get killed because he killed. Do you think peace will ever come like that?

by Egarwaen on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 01:03:48 AM EST
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well, you understand what I did and why.  But I purposively left the impression that there was a tape and a transcript without actually lying and saying that there was one.  It's a balancing act and I had to be willing to shed some credibility.  I felt I'd earned enough to be able to spend a little.
by BooMan on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 01:23:00 AM EST
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yeah, to catch a wolf you goto be a wolf. Larry Johnson wonder how much Hillary paid $ for that post.
by americanforliberty on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 10:58:28 AM EST
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He probably got a big IOU...

I'm finally getting married...
by Oscar In Louisville on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 05:14:53 PM EST
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I doubt Hillary paid or promised Johnson anything. Larry Johnson has been spreading false rumors about Obama on his blog his own reasons.

Leslie
by Muons on Wed Jun 18th, 2008 at 02:12:08 PM EST
[ Parent ]
by magster on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 01:04:58 AM EST
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Yeah - I'm disappointed in the comprehension. You made it clear you were making it up - and STILL people refuse to read and would rather believe instead. THAT is scary!!!

It's like those people who believe, ALL facts to the contrary, that Obama is a muslim.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:03:12 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Good, dueling apocryphal stories.

I always found the Thomas Theorem profound.

"If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" - Thomas theorem


ad bellum purificandum - Kenneth Burke
by colinski on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:24:09 AM EST
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Except my apocryphal story has definitely outlived its usefulness.
by BooMan on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 12:26:50 AM EST
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it's always best to stay as close to the logical as possible ;)

The fact is, if someone hasn't doctored a tape yet, they will soon...especially since your "explanation" went viral. But of course, would have happened anyway. We've already seen the "very" cut off of "proud of our country."

If MSM had any cajones, they'd be tracking this stuff and comparing the befores and afters. It would probably make Abrams' show interesting.

Michaela

by michaelmt (MrMichael_t@yahoo.com) on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 08:00:09 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Booman,
Sorry for your loss of friendship over this and how upsetting it's been for you.

Johnson and Susan's rationale escapes me. Because, by hurting Obama's chances, they're only working to help elect another Bushie. And I can't believe how NQ has devolved. It's really sad. I don't get it.

Leslie

by Muons on Wed Jun 18th, 2008 at 02:25:17 PM EST
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There is no tape Colinsky. You may have heard Roger Stone on Fox News alluding to a tape, which he hadn't seen or heard, but there is no tape. If there were a tape it would've been produced by now.

Of course, that hasn't stopped Larry Johnson from touting this for weeks. So where is this elusive tape no one has actually seen or heard, which no one has a transcript for, but Johnson, Stone, and others swear up and down exists? Where is it?

Leslie

by Muons on Wed Jun 18th, 2008 at 02:02:54 PM EST
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