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Thanks to
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frankwu for this. There's been a site set up to present immediate counters to the slime and smears thrown at Barack Obama by the McCain campaign and its proxies, the gutter-media hatemongers: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/.Here's a sample page (somewhat trimmed), this one concerning the Michelle Obama/"whitey" lie:
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The truth about Michelle
Lie:
On May 30th, Rush Limbaugh said he had heard a rumor that a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word “Whitey” from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ.
Truth:
No such tape exists. Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word.
Lie:
Blogger Larry Johnson wrote on May 31st that he would add “New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I’ll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours. Now I know why people who have seen the videotape say it is stunning. Barack’s headaches are only starting.”
Truth:
Johnson posted no such update.
Lie:
Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone said on Fox News on June 1st that “there's a buzz, which I believe now to be credible, that some indelible record exists” of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term “whitey.”
Truth:
Stone conceded on June 2nd that he hasn’t met anyone who has seen the tape and that it therefore may be a hoax.
Lie:
“The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women’s Event.”
Truth:
Michelle Obama was not on a panel, and the Rainbow Push Conference was at the Sheraton.
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Lots of fun reading for all!
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Yes, she was taken off air for a full several minutes. It boggles the mind that she can continue to be employed in any journalistic capacity whatsoever. If you were at a party and someone started coming out with the "terrorist fist jab" notion you'd assume they were either (a) nuts or (b) smashed. Yet Hill is being paid -- and paid healthily! -- to utter such tripe as if it were wise punditry.
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