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Obama Campaign Says Michelle Obama ‘Interview’ on ‘African Press’ Website is 100% Bogus
The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a website called "African Press International." “My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his step father, does that make him unpatriotic," she supposedly...
Gateway Pundit Must Resign
sadlyno.com — I wonder what the rest of our far-flung right-wing correspondents have been… ABOVE: A prodigious font of Der Report: API Will Release Michelle Obama “White Racists” Tape The API is not backing down. Dear God, we must ... (more) Gateway Pundit Must Resign
That Michelle Obama Report
corner.nationalreview.com — I'm sure a lot of you have seen references this morning to statements allegedly made by Michelle Obama in an interview with an organization called African Press International. I just asked the Obama campaign whether Michelle Obama did in fact speak ... (more) That Michelle Obama Report
Important Update: US Law firm enters into agreement to represent API in The Michelle Obama tapes ...
africanpress.wordpress.com — The touchy interview tapes of Michelle Obama, the wife of the US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama is soon ready for release in the US and will be aired unedited. The release has taken long due to the fact that API wanted to clear all legal hurdles ... (more) Important Update: US Law firm enters into agreement to ...
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Michelle Obama Blasts African News for Supporting the "Racists" That Oppose Barack Obama, Calls Opposition Evil People (Obam Camp Calls Claims a Complete Fabrication)
Confederate Yankee — ... says Michelle Obama on telefon[sic] to API." This is a shocking rant, even for someone as extreme as Michelle Obama. She honestly believes that the African Press should offier "unwavering support to her husband" simply because he has African roots? Those that criticize her husband, or are concerned about his background are all "racists"? And it gets worse. Michelle Obama's caricature in the New Yorker as a black nationalist suddenly isn't so funny. The Obam Camp is pushing back hard .

They Will Believe Anything
Oliver Willis — ... with made up quotes from Michelle Obama - plainly fabricated to even the casual observer - and look at how the con media has swarmed around it. ...

ABC: Michelle Obama Africa 'Interview' Is Bogus
JammieWearingFool — ... of what she termed, API’s help to spread rumours created by American bloggers and other racist media outlets in their efforts to damage a black man’s name, saying she hopes African Media was mature enough to be in the front to give unwavering support to her husband, a man Africans should identify themselves with. Not sure how she would have found a number to call them with since they don't provide a contact number anywhere. Well, the Obama camp has responded quickly to say it's completely bogus and for once I believe them. The conservative blogs are all atwitter about a ...

Obama camp: The Michelle Obama/API interview is bogus
Hot Air » Top Picks — Obama camp: The Michelle Obama/API interview is bogus posted at 12:40 pm on October 15, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The e-mails about it are flowing in, but Team Barry tells ABC and Byron York that it’s made up. If The One’s wife was going to get exercised enough about media coverage to start dialing people up herself, would it really be coverage from a web outlet no one’s heard of? Some of her “quotes” sound odd to my ear, too: My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the ...

Have The REALLY ROUGH Games Now Begun?
The Moderate Voice — Have the real dirty tricks begun? Read THIS. No matter. Even with the denial, it’ll become a raging subect on some Web sites that will dismiss the denial, and on talk radio which will present it as fact. Which would be exactly the intent. Then there’s common sense: Why would the Democrats give the GOP such a gift? It seems…this…

Shorter Entire Right-Wing Blogosphere
Balloon Juice — ... Sorry, folks, the “whitey” rant is all a hoax. However, I bet if you check with some more reputable sources, you can find the real truth about Obama’s gay affair with Larry Sinclair. Plus, I once heard a rumor Obama was a space alien. And before anyone gets too worked up, Johnny Cash didn’t actually kill a man in Reno just to watch him die. ...

Shocking Development!
Comments from Left Field — ... is. KM: Well, I think I have enough, can I call you for a follow up in a week or so just in case. CM: Sure thing! So, some pretty extraordinary information here.  John McCain hates black people, is degrading to his wife, and sacrifices babies.  I think that pretty much wraps up this election, don’t you? And, in case you haven’t figured it out now, I’m just taking the piss out of some bloggers who think that if they just make shit up and pass it off as real news, everyone will buy it.

Jake Tapper's Casual Smear of the Day
Little Green Footballs — ... Jake Tapper at ABC News says “conservative blogs were all atwitter” about that silly rumor that Michelle Obama called an African media organization and ranted about racism. ...

The Soggy Biscuit, 2008 - Voting
The Poor Man Institute — ... The Jingosphere, “10-year-old Obama seduced child molesters!!“ The Washington Press Corps, 2008 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner The Jingosphere, “Obama’s birth certificate is a fake!“ The Jingosphere, African Press International’s big scoop View Poll ...

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