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Obama Campaign Says Michelle Obama ‘Interview’ on ‘African Press’ Web Site Is 100% Bogus
October 15, 2008 11:42 AM
Some conservative blogs are all atwitter about a bizarre interview allegedly with Michelle Obama on a Web site called "African Press International."
“My husband was born in Hawaii and adopted by his stepfather -- does that make him unpatriotic," she supposedly said "on a direct telephone to API" the "interview" hypes. It goes on from there.
This morning my inbox is filled with the "WHY ARENT YOU COVERING THIS?" e-mails on the subject. The answer is: because it doesn't appear to be in any way real.
Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs says the interview is a complete and utter fabrication. "It's bogus, she didn't call, it's all a lie," he says.
And I have to say -- I find their pushback quite believable. The Obama campaign does not tend to directly engage fringe Web sites making wild charges, and if they were to do so, they certainly wouldn't have Michelle Obama make the call.
Maybe the folks at API were taken in by an imposter. Maybe they made it up, I don't know.
In these last three weeks, there is going to be a lot of dung thrown at the wall. Lots of charges and counter-charges and counter-counter-charges.
A word to the wise, my friends. I don't know if you know this, but not everything that appears on the Internet is true.
(Counting down now to the explosion of insane comments that will inevitably post below. Three...two...one...)
- jpt
UPDATE: Little Green Footballs takes issue with the first line of this blog, believing I was lumping ALL conservative blogs in with the use of my word "all" in "all atwitter." For the record, by no means did I mean to suggest every or even most conservative blogs had hopped on the story -- any more so than I would be implying that every liberal blog slimed Gov. Sarah Palin with some of the rumors I've criticized "liberal blogs" for spreading.
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So Jack,
Will you be reporting on the story once the API releases the recording? I doubt it. You'd actually have to admit you're wrong, and modern liberal journalists don't have that much character.
Counting down now to the next Tapper commentary full of one side of the complete story in...3..2..1..
Posted by: Mike | Oct 17, 2008 8:22:41 PM
That's some egotism by the folks at Little Green Footballs.
Posted by: Tim | Oct 17, 2008 6:58:03 PM
I think after 20 months of non stop campaigning we all know that Michelle Obama is not stupid. And if you've ever listened to her at all, the wording does not sound like her. Why would she do something like this at this point in the campaign when her husband is leading in all the polls. Get real people.
Posted by: linda | Oct 17, 2008 6:05:11 PM
Mr. Trapper,
You stated that "The Obama campaign does not tend to directly engage fringe Web sites making wild charges, and if they were to do so, they certainly wouldn't have Michelle Obama make the call". But why do you assume that Mrs. Obama would only make such a call if the Obama Campaign was behind it? Why did you fail to even consider the scenario that Mrs. Obama acted on her own to help her husband?
Also, the Obama Campaign has a vested interest in protecting Senator Obama's reputation, for obvious reasons. Is it then so hard to believe that they would deny this story?
Posted by: Dan | Oct 17, 2008 5:19:23 PM
So apparently only the garbage the mainstream media puts out is the truth and all of us main streeters are making insame comments here... Jake, you are so into that dung up to your eyebrows that you cannot see or hear that Obama is trying to take over this country with his Socialist/Communist ways - we have been warned and if he is elected there will be no turning back!
GOD help us!
Posted by: ChrisLee | Oct 17, 2008 4:26:55 PM
API will release the tape & finally put a stop to this madness. It's about time that Obama (or Soetoro or whatever his name is) & his Mrs. be revealed for who they truly are.
Frauds!
Posted by: Jake | Oct 17, 2008 4:26:20 PM
The Day after the elections, America is going to wake up to an Obama hangover, with no way to get rid of it.
The oval office will be soon be known as the the deceitful office!!!
America, wake up now!!!
Where there is smoke there is fire!!!
Posted by: Truth Be Said | Oct 17, 2008 4:24:29 PM
Whydhe won't let us gets a real prisdident in orfice. They jist tring to keep us down my home gurl michelle is just doing what she think is best for her husband and the cuntry it aint so bad this this cuntry will popoff if he aint electeted Go my man Obama & Ludicris 2!
Holla!
Posted by: Deejaun Washington | Oct 17, 2008 3:49:26 PM
If it is true that Obama will not release his birth certificate, then it is unbelievable to me. I have had to produce mine all my life, and here is a man who is asking us to put him in the Oval Office, and he won't. Come on now. The fact that the drive-by and mainstream media is not making this an issue shows which side they are on.
Posted by: David A. Farrell | Oct 17, 2008 3:08:01 PM
The simple matter is we know nothing about this man. Every record is sealed from Columbia and Harvard. No one believes the certificate photos (??) on an Annenberg run site, factcheck, upon which Bill Ayers sits. The simpliest thing would be to show the certificate, wouldn't it, instead of filing counter suits against Philip Berg, who is demanding for the American people and the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution that Obama prove his citizenship. But he just won't? Why not? I have had to prove my credentials when I applied for work, why shouldn't he?
Posted by: cynibun | Oct 17, 2008 1:14:04 PM
Media member,
We knew everything on the internet wasn't true...
We saw Hollywood on the internet.
We saw the mainstream media on the internet.
We saw evolution on the internet.
We saw many lies on the internet.
When the mainstream media ignores multiple candidates for the President of the United states, they can't be believed about much of anything.
Let every man be a liar, but let God be true!
However, when simple questions are not answered simply, the questions will multiply.
Find the answers. Or go away!
Posted by: Paul | Oct 17, 2008 1:04:02 PM
I can tell you what will happen. One of these WILL happen.
1. API will chicken out and not release the tape.
2. They will end up releasing the tape but not ALL of the tape.
3. The Hussain camp will listen to the quality of the audio and see if it is scratchy enough to say it isn't her. If the audio isn't really clear, it couldn't be verified that it was her and they would have plausible deniability.
Rest assured there will not be a damning tape of great clarity that will contain a conversation that will unequivocally sink the Hussain camp. Sad but true.
Posted by: TimInCA | Oct 17, 2008 12:17:03 PM
People so desperate to believe negativity about Barack Obama that they can't see this is obviously not true. LOL Michelle Obama is an attorney and a professional woman. Her husband is running for the POTUS. Do you really think she would be worried about what some podunk internet site is saying, enough to do a phone interview with them? LOL right. Of course the information is false....but it is incredulous to even entertain the thought that she would have made the call to API.. ROTFL!
Posted by: Lorrie | Oct 17, 2008 11:58:28 AM
To: glpage | Oct 17, 2008 8:35:32 AM / who cited and quoted something called... "The Constitution"...
... what's "The Constitution?"
Never heard of such a thing... at least not recently. And... neither has anyone else who's been educated in the past 20 years... and... they certainly haven't read it and understand it... its significance, nor actual meaning.
Nor... do they understand economics... hell most can't even spell the word... because that's not been part of their education either.
No... most, like Jake, have received an education in "the liberal arts"... which means... they have no education... and understand almost nothing that occurs in our World... and are so uniformed and naive... they actually believe anyone... who makes a bold, declarative statements in mellifluous tones... about "hope and change"... no matter how devoid of factual substance, or how contradictory and conflicting with reality and the documented "facts on the record" (which they never bother to review and understand)... or how contradictory and conflicting with "that one's" prior positions and declarative statements in mellifluous tones... nor how contradictory and conflicting with documented, factual truth... nor how contradictory and conflicting with the text and meaning of that thing called "The Constitution."
Such poorly educated and informed persons... of such obviously limited intellect... are always the target of those that would seek to deceive via form over substance.
As an infamous "community organizer" once said:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, (uneducated, uninformed) people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Posted by: RCA, Dallas | Oct 17, 2008 11:54:21 AM
"Reparations can't begin to recompense our people for the disease, poverty and shame that have been forced upon us as America's second class citizens."
Considering that my ancestors came from other lands and also Native American (Russian and Tuscarora Indian Tribe), I think they qualified as second class citizens also.
And you still didnt answer my question of what is owed to me for my ancestors that opposed slavery, never owned slaves, and died to defeat the evil of slavery.
Posted by: faamecanic | Oct 17, 2008 11:25:32 AM
Those people that are shouting those things at a McCain rally are Obama supports trying to stir things up. But the media reports on that.
Posted by: Campbell | Oct 17, 2008 11:13:49 AM
Well, it's all Obama's fault for refusing to release his birth certificate. This issue is doing damage to Obama, so if he still won't release his birth certificate it's obvious that there's a problem that Obama doesn't want anyone to know about.
Posted by: EyeDoc | Oct 17, 2008 10:40:40 AM
If anything good will come out of an Obama’s presidency it will be this. America will learn the Socialist Lesson first hand. Europe tried Socialism and has been trying to cast off that "tar baby" every since. (No racism intended, inasmuch as most of Europe is white!)
Yes, when your free speech as well as your wallet is owned by the new Socialist States of America, then at the very least, reporters and Joe the Plumber alike will opine for the good old days. “Better to be poor and free than live like a Socialist King in a dungeon”!
Posted by: Kerry in Texas | Oct 17, 2008 9:36:38 AM
Truth or Not! We will be to see. Is it real freedom when only 2 canadates for President are given coverage and allowed to debate? Is that Freedom? Here is a fact in life. Everone will pass away into the next life. God will judge us even if you don't believe it. How will we be judged? According to His laws written in the Bible. Even if we don't believe it. We won't escape. Abortion is Murder that is what Bible says. Vote for abortion parties and you are an accessory to murder. Even if you don't believe it. If the Bible is wrong then we have nothing to worry about! If the Bible is right - we better be ready. Truth will win in the end.
Posted by: Motoman | Oct 17, 2008 9:34:09 AM
and the fact that The One has refused to signoff to allow Hawaii to reveal his birth certificate - that fact doesn't make anyone at ABC or your Jake, curious as to why???
Posted by: TheOriginalRalph | Oct 17, 2008 9:30:40 AM
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