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Nov 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 am

Today’s the Day

This would be an opportune moment for Larry Johnson to release the “whitey” tape.

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tom c Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 am
November is not the best time for an October surprise, Mr Johnson.
jimBOB Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
Yeah? Well, they’ll just release it AFTER the election! That’ll show ‘em! They’re still trying to figure out how to get it encoded for YouTube, yeah, that’s the ticket.
LarryM Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:45 am
Actually, to get just a little paranoid, if a tape does indeed exists, and assuming that it’s fake (a real tape, had it existed, would have been released days or weeks ago), today is indeed the perfect day for it to be released, in the hope that there won’t be enough time for it to be debunked.
Jay Andrew Allen Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Word has it that Johnson was on the cusp of releasing it when it was stolen by Sasquatch, who fed it to the Loch Ness Monster.

Ah well. Maybe in 2012.
Evinfuilt Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
He’s saving it for the impeachment hearings that begin in January.
kaybeel Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
You guys loved and trusted Larry during the Plame thing. He was a source for both bloggers and the press. Heh heh heh.
Barry Freed Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Word has it that Johnson was on the cusp of releasing it when it was stolen by Sasquatch, who fed it to the Loch Ness Monster

Well then the RNC can just buy it back for tree-fitty.
Barry Freed Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am
Word has it that Johnson was on the cusp of releasing it when it was stolen by Sasquatch, who fed it to the Loch Ness Monster.

In that case the RNC can buy it back for tree-fitty.
PureGuesswork Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
He’ll have it for you as soon as Moe or Curly delivers it.
Peter K. Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
He’s saving it for the impeachment hearings that begin in January.

Bitter? If Clinton didn’t hump the help, there wouldn’t have been impeachment hearings. Some Democrats are suffering from Stockholm syndrome, get over it. Hillary tried to play this song. The vast Right Wing Conspiracy? It was pretty lame this election. Failin Palin and Joe the bitter plumber were just good for some laughs.
karl Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
The democratic primary had several people includung Lary Johnson who lived up to their right wing caricutures.

The primary did expose some people who maybe thought they were a little more important than they really were as little more than whining wannabes.
ajay Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
No, dammit, don’t give that monster no tree-fitty!
cleek Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
You guys loved and trusted Larry during the Plame thing. He was a source for both bloggers and the press.

and the righties loved and trusted him a few weeks ago when he was pushing the idea that Obama was a member/supporter of the “Democratic Socialists”. Heh heh heh.
stefan Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm
So is Johnson a nut or not? Was he always a nut or did he just get driven over the edge by something? I do know that crazy people do manage to hold down jobs, so I’d not be stunned if Johnson had always been a bit crazy, but it would be nice to know.

Or he’s just in over his head.
karl Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Johnson a nut?
He was a CIA agent who probably used disinformatio as a tool and thought it might work for him in this case. Or maybe he got worked by someone who was feeding him bad info.

One way or another he looked like a fool
charles Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hey, that’s not fair! He never said he *had* the tape, just that he had “friends” who were sure such a tape existed, or at least something similar, or if not exactly similar then probably good enough to satisfy Matt Drudge.

In fact, I totally might have to change my vote knowing that the normally erudite Michelle Obama had used such a comically outdated epithet as ‘whitey’ to describe ‘the Man’.
mad6798j Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
“He was a CIA agent who probably used disinformatio as a tool and thought it might work for him in this case.”

Read “Legacy of Ashes.” The CIA doensn’t have a record of competency.
Zorro for the Common Good Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 pm
On Sept. 11 this year, NBC rebroadcast the “Today” show from 9/11/01, and as the Towers were burning, one of the experts they brought on to talk about it was none other than Ol’ Whitey Tape. So I guess he really was respected at the time.

He never said he *had* the tape, just that he had “friends” who were sure such a tape existed, or at least something similar, or if not exactly similar then probably good enough to satisfy Matt Drudge.

Actually, he said he knew people who had spoken to others who had heard the tape. So you know it was air-tight.
Richard Steven Hack Says:
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Johnson’s been right about a lot of things, especially matters concerning the Iraq war and Valerie Plame. I don’t know what set him off about Obama, but clearly he wasn’t using the same logic he used to display over at TPM.

He was also upset when I made a big deal over Hillary Clinton’s “body servant”, Huma Abedin. I’d say that probably puts him in the category of a “Clinton operative”.

Interestingly, I haven’t heard anything from him anywhere lately. I think he blew his credibility with the Obama stuff.
attriti0n Says:
November 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
You guys loved and trusted Larry during the Plame thing. He was a source for both bloggers and the press.

Yes they did. But then again, the Plame thing was pretty much an exercise in self-deception by left-wing bloggers.

5 years on, have we yet found one who has at least acknowledged that her cover was leaked in a conversation about how Wilson was talking to so many reporters about it ?

Or that Wilson had absolutely no interest in exposing fake WMD intel until months after the invasion and no WMD were found, which until that point he was predicting existed ?

Seriously, if there’s ever been someone less deserving of the “whistleblower” tag, they’d need to write a book about the My Lai massacre today.
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