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Michelle?s Mouth: News Or Rumor?

I concluded my last post by noting that, given Obama?s proclivity for throwing overboard family members and long-time, close associates who become liabilities to his campaign, ?if I were Michelle, I?d watch my mouth from now on.?

Apparently a lot of other people have been watching it as well, and there?s now a loud buzz around the blogosphere that news of Michelle making Wright-like remarks (railing against ?Whitey,? etc.) is about to surface. Geraldo Rivera says ?i will give you a hundred bucks if it is true. i don?t believe it is true.?

Right now we?re in limbo between rumor and news, but stay tuned....

UPDATE[11:40AM]

Still no hard news, much less an actual tape, but several credible blogs have pointed to this defense on the Booman Trubune, a lefty blog, of what Michelle might have said, if she said anything, as noted by Jim Geraghty on NRO?s campaign spot:

Apparently, if the tape ever comes to light, her words will sound something like:

Whitey cut folks off Medicaid?
Whitey let New Orleans drown?
Whitey do nothing about Jena?
Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason?

...when the intended message is,

Why'd he cut folks off Medicaid?
Why'd he let New Orleans drown?
Why'd he do nothing about Jena?
Why'd he put us in Iraq for no reason?
Or so we will be told

If this turns out to be simply a matter of enunciation, perhaps Rev. Wright will condemn the blog buzz as simply another racist attack on ebonics.

Full post as published by Discriminations on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).