During the last few weeks of the election, Wingnutsylvannia (and the PUMA crazies) were obsessed with the rumor that a recording of Michele Obama existed, chock with profanities and racial epithets that put the fabled "Whitey" video tape to shame. Supposedly our soon-to-be-First Lady gave an interview to an obscure online "news service" in Africa called African News International during the campaign, and ranted about the mistreatment of her husband by Republicans and threatened bodily harm to the sources. She also admitted her husband was born in Kenya. For weeks, the supposed "news service" claimed to have the recording, claimed to have been offered millions for it by Fox News (as well a from the Obama campaign, to keep it hushed up), announced several "release dates" in a row (wihout a release), all the way up to election day. Wingnut bloggers even tried to organize a whip-around to raise money to pay for the tape and release it. Many tales of mysterious fires, secret meetings, and myriad skullduggeries abounded. Money may have even changed hands, but no recording has ever surfaced. And now...
Here's the scoop from Hard News Inc. (also covered on Boing-Boing):
Desperate Obama-Haters Give Money to Nigerian Scam
Nobody directly involved will admit it, but this is looking more and more like one of the more nasty, yet brilliant, scams of the last couple years. It may have been pulled off by the legendary Nigerian internet scammers, but it's beginning to look like it may have been the work of a vast leftwing conspiracy with a twisted sense of humor.
Mmmmmm... that is some DAMN fine schadenfruede pie!
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*snort*!
"So I'm sorry if I spoiled your plans, there, friend. But if it's any consolation to you, you have put a smile on my face." (Top Dollar, from 'The Crow')
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