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Article back on 10/13/2008: "Will Media Investigate Obama Affair
Rumors?" Answer: Nope

By John Stephenson (Bio | Archive)

Mon, 10/13/2008 - 02:39 ET

"Remember how the media had to play catch-up with the National
Enquirer and blogs after rumors that begged for investigation were
ignored? *Many enjoyed that. *Will the media repeat the same mistake
again now that strong rumors are surfacing of an Obama affair?

The rumors are swirling, but I never heard them. The first I heard of
them was in this preemptive defense calling them smears. Larry Johnson
is talking this up, but he isn’t the most reliable source…however when
Jammie Wearing Fool has info and predicts this will be a scoop I
listen.

From Sharon Churcher’s preemptive defense piece:

The woman was purportedly sidelined from her duties after Senator
Obama’s wife, Michelle, became convinced that he had developed a
personal friendship with her.
The allegations were initially circulated in August, just two weeks
before the convention at which Obama finally beat his opponent for the
Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton.

The woman, now 33, vigorously denies the vicious and unsubstantiated
gossip.

And some Washington insiders suggested that she was the victim of an
11th-hour attempt to smear Obama by die-hard Hillary supporters.

But now the rumours have resurfaced, suggesting that they may be
coming from elements in the Republican Party.

Ace of Spades:

Having now spoken to someone tracking the story, I can say:

1) It’s not just a silly little rumor.

2) It will break in some form shortly. The question is how prestigious
an outlet breaks it. (PS, at best, it won’t be that prestigious, at
least at first, but there’s a lot here so when someone finally
touches, there is a good chance of an Edwards-like “Oh yeah, we were
working on that too” pile-on.) Fire is being held as those who know
the story try to get someone of import to break it; if they pass, it
will be flooded out through secondary channels.

3) The story has a Fred Baron. Not The Fred Baron. But actually– an
even better Fred Baron. The woman is “working” in the Caribbean
drawing a salary from…. uhhh… let’s say from someone who is a big,
shiny part of the dirty Chicago political machine. And it makes no
sense that she’s doing her supposed “job,” for which she seems
unqualified anyway, in the Caribbean, of all places. It’s unclear how
she could possibly do this job at all, never mind from the Caribbean.