Booman Blows the Obama Disinformation Campaign
By Larry Johnson on June 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Hillary Clinton, Larry Johnson, Michelle Obama, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Whitey Tape
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Our thanks to Martin Longman over at Booman Tribune. He performed a public service last night by disseminating Barack Obama talking points even before I had published my update. Two key points–First, the Obama campaign is admitting the tape exists by ponying up a bogus explanation. Second, they don’t dispute that Michelle is sitting at the table with Louis Farrakhan.
So, here’s what Martin posted:
The Michelle Tape
by BooMan
Sun Jun 1st, 2008 at 11:57:57 PM EST
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.
This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That’s all I say. This is too painful to me.
Martin, buddy. It ain’t a smear when it is true. I have made it clear all along that I do not have the tape but have spoken with good friends who know folks who have seen the tape. Martin, I have never, ever claimed to have the tape or stated that I was going to post same. I also have made it clear that the folks surrounding McCain want to keep this quiet until after August. So get your facts right Booman.
But you, Martin, now claim you have a transcript. How do I know? Because you quoted the transcript in detail. Terrific. Bring it out. Let’s put this to bed once and for all. Let’s show the world that Farrakhan and Michelle were exchanging Kool-Aid recipes.
I also find it fascinating that Martin is part of the Obama blog force. Me, I’m not on the Hillary mailing list. Don’t need it. Capable of thinking for myself. Martin, you got played by your boys. Transcript indeed!
Martin Longman is a hack. I am not surprised, however, for he is an Obamabot for sale. He calls himself a progressive, but he is simply a paid pamphleteer for the highest bidder.
He is also out of touch.
But, he’s also so heartbroken and heart sick over this entire thing, now he won’t talk to Larry and Susan ever again
But, he’s also so heartbroken and heart sick over this entire thing, now he won’t talk to Larry and Susan ever again, poor guy
The Booman got the heave ho from my bookmarks a long time ago. Guy is not a serious person as to his blogging. Like Kos, Bowers, Marshall, Jane, Digby, Jeralyn and others he was one of the pioneers of Left Blogistan.
Sadly, he did not turn out to have the skillset needed to do what the very difficult job demands.
Funny how all the guys I mentioned just can not cut it whereas all the women in my list are tough, hard-fighting progressive none of which swallowed the Magic Man’s Poisonous Kool-Aid.
I can’t think of one good women blogger who has.
Funnny….huh?
LOL! Larry, you are the best. Thanks!
right on Larry you made them tip their hand, Bwaaahaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Yup - Larry gave them a gift…address it now and have no problem in October.
Hey, if Michelle didn’t say “whitey” then Obama should be eager to produce their copy of the Farrakhan event to prove it.
Obviously Obama Campaign responses today indicates that she DID appear with Farrakhan (hmmmm, maybe that’s not such a good thing in and of itself??)…so prove to us what she said and this whole thing will go away.
Way to go Larry. Running scared and crapping their pants. they know M. Obama is a hate filled racist.
I want to start my comment by saying i am a supporter of Hillary Clinton. I have been and I will remain one. Also i am African American. I feel strongly that Obama is not ready to be president and that Hillary is better prepared. I think all the evidence is there now to support the claim.. I also rail on all of the misinformation from the obama team. One thing bothers me here though. Can you guys accurately define what a racist is. Also as a black man, i can tell you from firsthand accounts that alot of things rev wright and others speak on are true. I also think its absurd to accuse a black person of being racist against a white person. I think history justifies any animosity couple that with current events. The problematic part is this is coming from several prominent democrats. The people who are suppose to be able to relate to this. Its is definitely different being black in this nation and i think its self serving to actually equate an african american’s reality in the country as racism. I didnt spell check this so dont attack grammar.. I am sure you get the meat of my argument. I dont think race needs to be the reason or the angle you attack Obama, he was never properly exposed for being more of the same. He has never been asked to present his resume documenting sweeping chances he has brought about. You cant get him to come up with creative ideas to solve problems he can just complain about them. Obama supporters I can honestly say that I have no idea how you could support Obama and diss Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton when they were the best thing to happen to America in the last 40 years. I will echo Hillary, can you tell me what was so horrible about the 90s? the peace or the prosperity, you guys should have nostalgia for the clinton years. You forget how the republican attack machine was relentless when it came to the Clintons. Amazing, i guess they will wear kid gloves with handling Obama. I just hate you guys have thrown out all rational logic with your Obama support and the rest of us will suffer from your misstake. It reminds me of the Nader crew in 2000, they insisted they knew what was best when the clear evidence was right before them and look with their bull headed idea cost us. This is too important to just turn over to an amateur.
Like I already said, I trust Larry, and if he is proven incorrect, I will donate $10 to dailykos, if you Obamatons will agree to donate $10 here if Larry is once again proven correct. I notice none of the Obamatons have taken me up on the offer. Obviously they know deep down that it is true!
Yep. I will bet you. Larry’s got nothing. I will up your stakes and bet you $1,000.
POdVet — I trust Larry too. Why is it a stretch that the whole bunch of them Obama, Michelle, Farahkan and Wright hate white people? Obama’s comments about his grandmother being a typical white person and his rant about Small Town white workers in Pa being bitter and clinging to their guns and churches.
so she was saying “whitey” all along?
Do you even read? Pay the fuck attention once in a while.
It was a confusingly written block of text, I’ll admit. I read it three times and from what I can surmise, some guy saw the tape and said she was saying “why’d he../whitey.”, but since we haven’t see the tape or video we can’t know.
I wrote this earlier this morning when I first read the blog you refer to. My position seemed appropriate at the time. I didn’t appreciate his blatant lies.
Well, hell I know nothing about the aforementioned dimwit. But is he making fun of the way that people speak? Do you know anyone who say
“why’d he?” Why’d he do dat? That sound like Princeton, to you?
As in I wus just in de kitchen and I was de listin to da rad-o and it com in on de news and I sad
“why’d he do dat?”
Did we just go zooming backwards in time to
“I don know nuthin bout birthin no babies?”
What race card is this? Is this the Joker?
The Bo and Mo show really needs to come to an end.
Booman tends to mischaracterize almost everything said by anyone who doesn’t adore Obama.
So Booman is part of a group of Obama bloggers that the Obama campaign disseminated the “Why’d he” story to while at the same time telling the MSM that no such panel and commentary from Michelle Obama ever took place? Has Booman admitted to getting the “Why’d he” information from the Obama campaign?
I don’t know this “Booman” but he really does sound like a fool. His post is actually quite amusing.
And good point, Larry, about who is on which campaign’s mailing list. The fact that you are independent makes you even more credible.
Okay, so is this the same BooB/troll who’s been following us around all day, yelling at us? If this is the same Martin, what an @ss! No wonder he seemed so angry, he got taken! LOL! That’s terrific!
Actually I thought you wrote previoulsy that the repubs were holding it till October not August…am I wrong?
Until after the August Democratic Convention. That’s my understanding.
LJ
sounds like the “transcript” was brought to us by the very same geniuses who dubbed in Stephanopoulus and Davis a while back. too, too clever! put those under-used ivy educations to work (”let’s see, what else sounds like whitey, “wide-y”, no too blue collar god forbid, “why thee”, no too shakespearean, wait “why’d” he - bingo”)
and yes, wouldn’t you (if a repub) hold back this tape until the stronger candidate was safely gone, and only the weaker one remained? after August?
oy vey
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We HAVE a winnah!!!
so no one wants the million dollars?
dammit
this needs to happen B4
unlessssssssss
(ok forget I said that)
At this point, your “understanding” of anything more complex than stirring shit with a stick is highly suspect.
Say, do the words “fuck” and “off” have any meaning to you?
Why don’t you put them together and go do that.
Thirdhand, of course. Top sourcing, Larry!
I thought that “transcript” was just a joke.
If not, it’s a very lame coverup attempt.
Problem:
“I do not have the tape but have spoken with good friends who know folks who have seen the tape.”
Hardly conclusive, and I’m on YOUR side.
where there is this much smoke there is fire.
ob said his wife is off limits last week pre-emptively, right after the story started to leak.
there are explanations of the tape and a purported transcript on ob’s site.
He also sent it to his mailing list to some blogs.
He denied such a meeting took place to the msm.
republicans showed it to high rollers and Larry’s sources confirm seeing the tape and said it is stunning.
Fox news is crowing about it and talk radio too.
The obama troll army keep trying desperately to discredit Larry by repeatedly saying he said he had the tape when everybody here that has read what Larry has said KNOWS he has never claimed anything like that anywhere at anytime.
They are attacking here today in enormous numbers and have been snooping around all week.
It is also right to give Larry the benefit of the doubt at a time like this, the man deserves it for his long strong honest investigations.
He is top notch. Don’t let the obamaidiots tell you otherwise.
One of the links in this thread from an above obamatroll takes you to a site with a virus - so be careful out there folks and only open links from people you know to sites you know.
They are mad as hornets but they can’t suppress the truth from coming out from attacking us personally.
They are thugs and liars and are gullible.
We are here laughing at your gullibility, not “running scared.”
Our candidate will win this week. Your candidate…not so much.
“Your” candidate cannot win until the convention. There’s this little thing called “voting.”
Good unity strategy.
Keep on with that, won’t you?
Yeah. That explains why you’re at this website, under a number of sockpuppet names, posting shit repetitively.
Because you aren’t scared, you disrupt a site that plainly doesn’t share your POV.
Bridges for sale, bridges for sale!
JW hypothethically, if this tape does exist what would you think of it?
These Obamabots will do and say anything in order to win an election.
in order to attempt to steal an election?
Hang in there Larry. You will be vindicated. I believe you when you say you have “SPOKEN” to people that have either seen or heard about this tape. What I am witnessing now is the Lemmings jumping to their Master’s call. They KNOW that something is amiss, they just can’t think for themselves. Damn Zombies!
Or…Or…
Larry has jumped into bed with Roger Stone who was peddling this story on Geraldo yesterday.
Roger Stone, you know, the guy with the anti-Hillary organization called Citizens United Not Timid that is known by it’s acronym.
Just sayin’.
Marty is one lousy writer.
nice link there Hillthewinner you damn Obamaton troll. Don’t you realize yet intelligent people are 4 hillary and dont drink the KoolAid, we are also intelligent enough to use firefox so your site failed to open 480 windows. So sorry, you can go back to HuffPo and swear about Hillary in brail now
Protip: At least one of the posters above was not, it appears, “intelligent enough to use firefox.”
love firefox! love their themes too!
Is not this Booman guy a part of the Philadelphia male bloggers mafia? They are all in the tank for Obama. Someone should investigate the money funneled to his blog and to Open Left and Atrios.
Regardless of the words she said, the Obama camp acknowledged that Farrakhan and Michelle Obama were IN FACT together on a panel in Trinity Church.
Try to spin or erase THAT.
Michelle Obama and Farrakhan presided over a discussion together in the God Damn America Church in inner city Chicago? That Michelle Obama does not belong in the White House. Black separatists have no place in our Party, and they certainly do not belong in the White House.
When did the Obama camp acknowledge that?
Does the Booman transcript correspond roughly with what Larry’s sources told him? Has this been discussed?
It sounds like it might. Then again Martin wrote things like written like, said like, and Larry wants you to hear and he wrote specific sentences so perhaps that is what Larry is talking about. I can’t tell for sure.
BooMan is so full of shit. I stopped visiting his site months ago b/c it was so obvious he had sold his soul to the highest bidder. Anything he says isn’t even worth a grain of salt.
booman started off at daily kos. figures!
Reading some of his recent stuff right now. He’s a lot more full of shit these days than I had suspected.
I have set up a popcorn concession stand in the blog corner. I have plenty of popcorn and butter to spare as we watch the trolls go totally bonkers now.
Way to go Larry you are an American hero!
I wonder if the Obama trolls get overtime as they have been working hard today. I see them everywhere I go of course I always do, but there are a lot more out today.
No, they work in shifts. Call centers in both hemispheres allow 24/7 coverage. The sun never sets on the Obamadroid empire.
Full fledged troll invasion today! Never seen this many trolls here.
It’s the final putsch before South Dakota and Montana. They are terrified that anything but huge Obama wins in these two Western state primaries will completely discredit all those Western state caucuses.
Aren’t you the same idiot that wrote “Your poop is our fertilizer.” in a previous thread?
Do you even realize how hilariously stupid you are?
Consider yourself fertilized for the evening, jerky. Hope it tastes good with that popcorn.
American zero
This is hysterical!
This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That’s all I say. This is too painful to me.
What the hell is he talking about? I’m sorry, Larry, but you were friends with this guy?
Is FOREBEARING even a word?
It seems to me that an Ivy League educated person should be able to speak in a way that differentiates between the words “Why did he” and “Whitey”. By the way BooMan, I only went to Community College, but I’m pretty sure it is spelled “Whitey” dipshit. Sweet Jesus, oh, I’m sorry, if I want to take the Lord’s name in vain, then I should do it right I reckon. “Sweet Barack” is more appropriate I guess.
Oh oh, Obambi is starting to speak, someone grab BooHoo a fainting couch and a new pair of pretty pink panties that he can soak and then throw them at his Tin God.
Fuck this Party, at least on the Presidential level, my downticket is going all Dem though, we’ll need a majority to spar with our next President, John McCain. McCain’s not getting my vote, but I will NEVER vote for Barack Obama, I don’t give a fuck what tools like Ava-trocious and Kos say. Fuck them with a white-hot stalagmite right up their urethra in the Hell of their own making.
Thanks for all your work Larry!
Jackson
Great job Larry. Hillary knows you have her back, and she is in this to the convention. So fight on. This is going downhill fast for the Unity Pony.
mccain was complimenting hillary today. me thinks he is hunting voters decamping from the dem party.
I guess this is how Barky intends to “UNITE” us. That was a nice try with the Virus you piece of cowardly shit!
Do we really wan’ sumun en da whi howse dhat cain’t speak englesh?
Either it is whitey or a Princeton degree isn’t worth the paper its printed on. The explanation is more lame than the comments.
I am confused about the given reason for the comments when we haven’t heard the comments yet?
Larry, I’ve said it before, but can’t say it enough: You Are Our Hero!
Thank you!
Where’s your proof that the Obama camp acknowledged any of this?
There is none. This is all a big farce with an all-too-willing audience ready to believe anything.
“This election has ruined a lot of friendships. I have tried hard not to let it ruin mine. But smears of this type are unforgivable. I have been forebearing. Perhaps, in retrospect, I have been too forebearing. That’s all I say. This is too painful to me.”
Narcissistic much? Oh right. It’s all about him. Him and his magnificent… forebearing. I’m verklempt here.
What is it with these in-the-bag Obama bloggers that makes them so self-important and bloviating, shivering in delight from their own audacious purple prose? It never ceases to amuse. Go, my children! Run! Fly! Make Teh Awesomely Awesome history! Run!
Ivy league education
Booman narcissistically clings to his too and bitterly refuses to relinquish his self delusion that he is brilliant and we the masses are idiots. He blogs daily and lives without wealth attempting to nourish our pathetic thought processes with the gift of HIM.
LMAO @ verklempt
the blog is so colorful tonight
Checkmate in three moves. Not bad.
Larry, you’re fantastic. Every superdelegate should definitely switch to Hillary ASAP, since they can be assured of this coming August/October surprise by the GOP. Why would the GOP lie about this? Most Republicans have come to prefer Hillary over McCain. It’s just terrific to know they’re doing everything they can to get her elected! Kudos for everything you do, Larry. (I tried your “donate” button but couldn’t get it to work.)
Sit tight. Tomorrow it will all happen. All the SDs will rush to Hillary’s side thanks to the rumor of this tape.
Obama is toast!
Hey Mr.Longman,
You’re already jumping to conclusion; you must have seen the tape since you’re already distorting the truth and trying hard to spin for more lies. I want to see Obama throwing Michele under the bus.
I guess Mr. Long-man is frightened of the prospect of a woman President. Castration anxiety, anyone?
It makes no sense that people are denying a tape or criticizing the discussion of the existence of a tape. People are just sitting back waiting to see if a tape exists, what might be on it and what the impact might be. So what? Why get your panties in a twist?
Booman embarrassed himself. He gets the blog confused with the visitors. Why doesn’t he just sit back and wait.
too forebearing? painful? Is it just me or are Obama supporters overdramatic.
People are just curious. Get over it.
In the examples posted I have a question for MR. Booman. IF he is providing those examples then “why’d he” use “Why did Bush” in the original examples and then “Why’d he”? Because those examples are not equal. Because if I would write it I would put “Why did Bush…” I the grammar tense changes for the examples. I don’t buy the examples that are posted. Larry you sure you quoted your pal correctly? The premise of how it could have easily be mixed up doesn’t make sense to me.
Its correct I saw it last night right about the time I got an email claiming it said something else. What boo posted and what I was sent are similar but not exact. Judge for yourself and for the trolls please read my disclaimer.
http://www.mytowntalks.com/politics/michelle-obama-whitey-transcript.php
Who sent you the email, if I may inquire?
That is because you are a moron.
This excuse sort of sounds like the joke
“the food in this restaurant is just terrible…hideous…putrid.”
“yeah. And the portions are so small.”
Following the Obama game just makes me head hurt.
Mental twister for the audaciously stupid.
Hee. And the portions are so small!
Since when is passing around third-hand rumor considered “breaking” news? Before Larry accuses others of being on someone’s payroll, he should really figure out who is pulling his strings? Of course, be three degrees removed, he had no clue.
However, he will delete this message because he can’t handle criticism.
and you can’t handle the truth. drip drip drip drip drip drip drip
They cant handle the truth, they can’t even deal with Odinga’s mass murder…
Let’s see, Michelle arranges several times for Barack to appear on a panel with Bill Ayers, a friend and associate for 20 years+ promoting failed school reforms and sharing other like ideas!
So question becomes, did Barack arrange for Michelle to sit on panels with Fararakhan?
What is so really funny is Axelrod’s astroturfing is astrofucking himself, the old hack is losing it big time!
So Old Boo Boo is “grateful and indebted” to Larry and Susan because “they have both done a lot for me.”
Yet he finds it perfectly acceptable to lie and misrepresent what Larry has said all along about the tape. And Boo Boo started off his little whine-fest with this:
Nice way for Boo Boo to smear his “friend” and disparage his service to this country.
With friends like him . . .
ONE MORE TIME FOR THE CHEAP SEATS!!!
WHERE IS YOUR PROOF THAT THE OBAMA CAMP ACKNOWLEDGED ANY OF THIS?
You’re just showing your elitist and unpatriotic. Don’t try to shove your grad school mentality down our throats! Get a freakin’ job!!! Fight on Hillary!
yelling will get you a big stfu!