It must be the most derivative argument ever. Larry Johnson makes up…flat out makes up…an incident where Michelle Obama appeared with Louis Farrakhan and said something nasty about white people. In his telling, there’s no clarity about what she is alleged to have said or in what context she might have said it. All he knows is that she used the word ‘whitey’ and that when we all get to see the video tape we’ll be shocked for sure.
This desperate and pathetic last ditch attempt to hold the superdelegates in line succeeds in going viral just before the last two primaries. It’s clearly just the kind of ratfucking job Larry was trained to carry out by the Central Intelligence Agency. Only Larry’s supposed to stick to doing it in foreign countries against Soviet-leaning parties, and then only upon receiving specific orders.
This decision, on Larry’s part, is the last straw as far as I am concerned, and I know the tape doesn’t exist and that Larry can’t produce it. So, I copy someone else’s snarky comment and write it up as if it is a transcript. Instead of the tape having Michelle Obama saying ‘Whitey’ it has her saying ‘Why’d he?’
You see, it provided an explanation that rendered a non-existent tape harmless, and Larry couldn’t refute it because he made it up and he doesn’t have a transcript. This leads to quite a bit of embarrassment and pressure on Larry to prove he wasn’t just peddling racist bullshit. But Larry’s caught on the flypaper. He’s already said he hasn’t seen the transcript, so he can’t say with any assurance that I’m not telling the truth. He can’t admit he made it up and that he knows I haven’t seen the transcript, so he attempts to contact me by email, by calling my ex-wife, etc., to see if he can get me on the record as not having seen the non-existent transcript.
Meanwhile, my server dies under all the pressure from incoming hits and I can’t respond online. It works for me because all I want is to undermine Larry’s fantasy until the polls close in Montana and the superdelegates throw their support to Obama. It’s called ratfucking the ratfucker, and it broke my heart to have to do it.
But it is weeks later now and I’m still getting tons of incoming hits from morons that think there is a tape out there of Michelle Obama calling people ‘Whitey’. There’s not. And there never was. It was a dirty trick. It was desperation.
But the story is still so vibrant that the Chicago Tribune is discussing whether ‘whitey’ is a racist or merely prejudiced term. And idiots at Protein Wisdom are deconstructing the Chicago Tribune’s ‘piece of Foucaultean dross’. It’s too much to take. Shut the hell up about the non-existent only-in-Larry Johnson’s-bag-of-dirty-tricks-fantasy ‘Whitey’ tape. Jackasses.
