HillBuzz offers some new information on what is supposedly contained on a DVD from Trinity United Church of Christ that could undo the Obama campaign:
What’s on the Michelle Obama Rant Tape?Since no tape has actually been screened in the media or on the internet yet, we still don't know if this is true or just a political fairy tale. The information at HillBuzz and No Quarter certainly contains a lot of details, and people like Bob Beckel (Dem strategist) and John Fund (Wall Street Journal) have reported hearing about it from multiple sources they trust.
Here’s what’s known so far:
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.
Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks.
Bill Clinton spoke during the Conference, as did Bill Cosby and other speakers, but not at the panel Michelle attended.
Michelle Obama spoke at the Women’s Event, but referenced Bill Clinton in her rant — his presence at the conference was the impetus for her raving, it seems.
For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on “whitey”, and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that’s when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who’s seen this.
The “tape” is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity’s site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
This outburst happened just one month before the 2004 Democratic Convention, when Barack Obama delivered the keynote address.
As I wrote yesterday, who would benefit from the release of such a tape at this time? Only Hillary Clinton, since she might be the one to whom the superdelegates would turn if the damage to the Obama campaign was fatal and they felt they had to switch candidates. There's no benefit to Republicans to release a tape like this now (if they are possess such a recording). It would be much more effective to allow the rumors to continue to richochet around the blogosphere all summer and then drop the tape right after the Democrat Convention. For Obama, there's no benefit in this at all. This is not the type of bad news where he could benefit from dumping it out there now and hoping it would go away.
Unfounded rumors usually die pretty quickly, but this story seems to have legs. Based on the traffic I've had here the last couple of days, there's plenty of interest in the tape out there among web surfers.
UPDATE: A Townhall blogger thinks she knows who has the tape:
The word is that one of the Republican candidates no longer in the race (Rudy) acquired the tape. Republicans will most likely hold the tape until the fall. Because if Hillary had it, she'd let it out now to get rid of Obama.
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