Having read quite a few conservative blogs, I know abslolutely that the above statement is true.

Gandelman, stop calling yourself “independent” if you don't admit that the one blog which was circulating these rumors the most often and most effectively was “No Quarter,” Larry Johnson's pro-Hillary blog which was anything but. “conservative republican.”

I guess you are guilty of the very same hyperventilating nonsense that the silly purveyors of an “anti-smear” website are putting forward—-that any charge against Obama is automatically a smear, even if there may be evidence that it occurred. I remember seeing in the comments to the Johnson website that the “whitey” comment did not take place in the Wright racist-hate den that Obama “worshipped” at every Sunday, but in a local public TV forum in the late '90s. So in effect, the “anti-smear site” is issuing a non-denial denial when it says “Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word.”

And BTW, I listen to Rush Limbaugh occasionally and have never heard him talk about the Michelle “whitey” allegations, so until Nedra or you come up with the tape of Rush, I'm not going to believe her allegations & your passing them on unchallenged—just as I'm not going to believe in the tape itself until I see and hear it for myself.

At the end of the day, conservative blogs may have mentioned that the tape was being bruited about, but the main thrust came from pro-Hillary bloggers.

So why don't you occasionally pretend to be independent and moderate instead of uncritically quoting an AP partisan like Pickler & thereby appearing to be another Obama sock-puppet?

“Sen. Obama should get used to the many questions about his background given how little is known about him,” said Stone. I assume really meant to say, “We'll be back with another smear soon.”