Larry Johnson is turning into the gift that keeps on giving.

After commenting on his articles regarding the Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape accusations this morning my traffic pretty much tripled, and based on the search terms that tells me he has a lot of readers who were desperately seeking any sort of proof that what he is claiming is true. Unfortunately that evidence doesn't seem to be out there right now. However in response to Mr. Johnson's posts I have seen a supposed transcript of Mrs. Obama's remarks, which still contain the word Whitey used in a racially pejorative way (pretty good word for a dumbass huh? All that Law and Order watching pays off sometimes) but it isn't as offensive as what Johnson had laid out:

From what I understand, it is a tape of Michelle Obama criticizing the Bush administration.

How you’d write it:

Why did Bush cut folks off medicaid?
Why did Bush let New Orleans drown?
Why did Bush do nothing about Jena?
Why did Bush put us in Iraq for no reason?

How you’d say it:

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?

How Larry Johnson wants you to hear it:

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

Johnson's response - The transcript is part of an Obama disinformation campaign:

But at the same time the Obama campaign has disseminated either a doctored or concocted transcript of the supposedly nonexistent videotape. Major Obama donors went to the campaign demanding explanations after the posting of my story on No Quarter about the contents of the videotape confirmed to me by several reliable sources, all Republicans with access to knowledge but who do not know each other.

So the campaign created a would-be transcript of the video it says doesn’t exist. In the Obama campaign produced transcript Michelle says “why’d he” instead of “whitey.” Very clever. Then the campaign sent this transcript to key Obamaton bloggers to circulate. And the campaign sent it to the donors to prevent them from having a nervous breakdown.

Of course this theory doesn't address what happens when the tape finally emerges and doesn't match the transcript. If anything it is likely to backfire on the Obama campaign and cause major problems, if in fact the video exists as Johnson contends.

Seems a hell of a risk for very little gain, especially since almost no one is covering this in the real news. But hey watching them spin up elaborate conspiracy theories is fun.

You know come to think of it - I wonder if that fire at Universal Studios that destroyed the film vault might have had anything to do with this. The timing does seem suspicious.