VIII: “Our Souls Are Broken” - Michelle Obama, Postmodern Fascist Ideologue 307Whitie cut folks off Medicaid?
Whitie let New Orleans drown?
Whitie do nothing about Jena?
Whitie put us in Iraq for no reason?^163
As Johnson noted, this amounted to a confirmation of some of the internal features of the tape in
question. On June 3, Bob Beckel, a Democratic Party political hack who had worked for Zbigniew
Brzezinski in the Carter National Security Council before going on to help lead Walter Mondale’s
catastrophic election campaign in 1984, commented on the Fox and Friends morning program that
he was very worried indeed about the existence of a Michelle Obama tape and about the possible
political consequences if this were revealed to the public. This incident attracted wide attention and
became known as “The Beckel Bombshell” on the Internet.^164
OBAMA FAILS TO DENY EXISTENCE OF TAPE, ATTACKS QUESTIONER
On June 5, a woman reporter for the McClatchy News Service, which still tries to be a news
organization, finally asked Obama whether this tape existed or not. The Perfect Master went into
evasive maneuvers, and failed to deny that the tape exists. Instead, he pontificated about the
pervasive presence of “dirt and lies,” and then attempted to chastise the reporter for being one of the
very few who was trying to do her job. One report described the incident thus:
Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned
on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for
white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor, which has not a shred of
evidence to support it. “We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-
mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me
about it,” Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign
plane. “That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or
anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it.”
Asked whether he knew it not to be true, Obama said he had answered the question.
“Frankly, my hope is people don’t play this game,” Obama said. “It is a destructive aspect of
our politics. Simply because something appears in an e-mail, that should lend it no more
credence than if you heard it on the corner. Presumably the job of the press is to not to go
around and spread scurrilous rumors like this until there is actually anything, an iota, of
substance or evidence that would substantiate it.”
So was it even acceptable to ask the question? Before Obama could answer, communications
director Robert Gibbs interjected: “You just did.”
“That is my point,” Obama said. “I just think people have to think about it before they ask.”
(“Obama denies a rumor and questions the question,” Politico, June 5, 2008)^165
This is once again a typical Obama style to which we have become accustomed: when nailed for
some outrageous action, the candidate immediately attempts to turn the tables and to transform
himself from accused into accuser. He begins pontificating about some general moral or social evil
which he can connect to the issue in question, and begins counterattacking those who are trying to
hold him accountable. This technique of attacking the questioner is of course a favorite ploy of
George W. Bush, the current tenant of the White House, as Dr. Justin Frank has pointed out in his
study, Bush on the Couch. Since Frank concludes that Bush is a megalomaniac, and since the
present study points to megalomania as one of the salient aspects of Obama’s personality, we may