Michelle Obama

This is very disturbing from Newsweek:

The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Again McCain and Palin did nothing to quell the calls of hate from their supporters. As matter of fact they seemed to relish in it and even encourage it. I'm glad we won't be seeing those hate-fests anymore, but I do fear the damage they may have done to the future of our nation.

The New York Post had to print a correction from an article where they claimed Michelle Obama was "dining on Lobster and caviar" in her room at the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria. Pretty bad when she wasn't even staying there. Just another example of what happens when your a hate filled rag piece staffed by incompetence.

The wingnuts have been in an uproar over a "news article" posted by some group called African Press International, in which Michelle Obama allegedly calls the organization and goes on a rampage. Some of the more notable journalists on the right have reported this is entirely false, yet the wingnut hysteria continues. Here's what they are saying at the loony bin known as Newsbusters:

Double WOW! As I stated, African Press International has been in existence for over two years and has filed over a thousand stories. So will the MSM investigate this? Meanwhile this story is gaining enormous steam in the Blogosphere.

UPDATE: Because of the high level of interest in this story, API has just posted a phone number where they can be contacted for verification. Calls must be made between Oct. 16 and 18. Here is the number posted on their site: 004793299739. To call from the USA, the number is: 011-4793299739.

Thousands of news stories? Really? Well I decide to check them out in Google news search and all I found was four mentions of this big organizations. All today, nothing reported by them, just people reporting on this scam.

Next - what kind of news organizations say you can call them to verify a story, but then offers an oddball time window? I decided to look into that phone number and punched it into this site, which does international phone number look ups. That number goes to Norway. Just to get extra proof, I decided to call it on my Skype. Some guy with an accent answered with a simple "hello". I asked for African Press International and got hungup on. Also my Skype showed that call was going to Norway.

Perhaps Newsbusters should look at serious news organizations as ones not using a free blogging service to host their site. They even link their author to africanpress.com. Guess what? That name isn't even registered (though I bet someone grabs it today). How idiotic are this wingnuts? I mean I am just a lonely little blogger sitting in the bottom part of the big blogosphere and I have my own site and domain. As matter of fact they could stay on the free wordpress.com site and have their own domain point to their blog. Wordpress offers that service for free and .com domains can be had for under $10 a year. Big organization indeed.

(more at HuffPo)

UPDATE:

Amanda Carpenter at the right wing Town Hall posts:

Update: I'm just got confirmation this API report is completely UNTRUE. It's been popping up on lots of sites and Michelle Obama's "quotes" about white racism are made up and FALSE. An official from Barack Obama's campaign told Fox News reporters Michelle Obama never made the call and never said those things.

Even before her update she was skeptical to say the least:

Do you think this is legit? Why would someone make this up? The site doesn't seem very professional and appears to be only created in 2006. The author of this story doesn't post his real name and doesn't provide contact information. Looks suspicious to me.

Still blogs on the right are holding their breath expecting this to be some real story.

So a commenter on Michelle Malkin's blog decides to make what appears to be so some sort of "funny" (far from it). "Blackie Onassis"? Remember - this is Malkin's blog, a blog where you must be a registered user to comment, and registration is pretty much by invite only. That means that Malkin has invited this crap into her house.

I guess that's all the right has to rebut Michelle's awesome speech with is a bunch of racist garbage. We probably shouldn't pick on them though. They are supporting John McCain and he was a POW.

UPDATE:

Continuing on the crazy path over at Malkin's, let's look at another comment posted regarding the police stopping that apparent threat of assassination against Obama:

Yup - now they are trying to pin this plan on Clinton. Is this the garbage Malkin endorses? Yes it is. This is the stuff she believes. After all, the owners of all progressive blogs believe every comment they post. Just ask her!

The right (and some on the left) have been going on for months about Michelle Obama making all these statements about "whitey". Well now we have video proof of her racist rampage:

McCain misses a joke from a questioner and instead may have opened himself up for some questions about being proud of America. Ouch. Michelle Obama never said it was tough to be proud of America, or that she was never proud of America. She just said for the first time she was "really, really" proud of America. Will the media drag McCain over the coals like they did Michelle for this statement?

After hundreds of horrible comments by Bill O'Reilly, we finally get Jesse Jackson calling him out on them. The "lynching" comment about Michelle Obama appears to be the final straw.

The Klan never needed a reason to lynch a black person. O'Reilly at least wants some kind of "evidence":

O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feel

I know O'Reilly isn't talking about a literal lynching, but this comment was in extremely poor taste. Of course that is par for O'Reilly and FOX news. Bob Cesca has also touched a nerve with FOX pointing this out, and he has even started a petition.