Bull Dog Sez:  Oh, gee.  What a surprise.  FOX News says they are NOT in negotiations with API over the Michelle Obama tapes.

NC Sez:  No surprise here, Bulldog!

As doubts grow, African Press insists recordings to be released before Nov. 4
By Bob Unruh

Fox News flatly denies it is engaged in any negotiations with African Press International, the Norway-based website that claims to have embarrassing recordings of Michelle Obama and which has announced to the world that it is working with the popular cable news channel.

API has promised on its website that tapes of Michelle Obama’s alleged conversation with the agency will be released by the Nov. 4 election.

In a statement to WND after Fox’s denial, API said, “We cannot force any one to believe us. We have put the notice out there and we do not put out things we do not know to be true and if you need to know more talk to our attorney in the U.S.”

That attorney, Philip J. Berg, who is coincidentally pursuing a court challenge over Barack Obama’s

birthplace, has not responded to WND e-mails and telephone messages on the dispute.

A Fox official who requested anonymity said there simply were no negotiations with API over any tapes or any other issue.

API originally reported Michelle Obama contacted the agency to scold its reporters.

“African Press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view,” she supposedly said, according to API’s report. “It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a stepfather. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by his stepfather. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that my husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner.”

Michelle Obama’s “comments” allegedly referenced concerns expressed over her husband’s move from Hawaii to Indonesia as a child and his life with an Indonesian stepfather, including his attendance at a school where he was involved in Quranic studies.

API also reported that it asked Michelle Obama to comment on the detention of WND senior investigative reporter Jerome Corsi during his recent visit to Kenya, where he was investigating the presidential candidate’s links to controversial strongman Raila Odinga, now serving as prime minister.

“When API asked Mrs. Obama to comment on why Dr. Corsi was arrested by the Kenyan government and whether she thought Kenya’s prime minister, Mr. Raila Odinga, was involved in Dr. Corsi’s arrest, she got irritated and simply told API not to dig [into] that which will support evil people who are out to stop her husband from getting the presidency,” the publication reported.

After the Obama campaign denied the interview ever happened, API responded by stating it had recorded the conversation and would release the recording in a few days. Then it claimed it was having a lawyer review its position and that the tapes would be available after that review. Still later, API claimed it was working with Berg and negotiating with Fox over the release of the tapes, and that the tapes would be available soon. It’s latest claim is that the tapes will be released before the Nov. 4 presidential election

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After the initial API report, Tommy Vietor, an Obama campaign spokesman, told National Review’s Byron York the conversation didn’t happen.

“The answer is no, it’s not real, the report is made up. She did not speak to the organization,” Vietor said, according to York’s report on National Review Online’s blog “The Corner.”

However, Jeff Schreiber of America’s Right blog said he’s contacted Berg and was assured the tapes probably existed.

“I asked Philip Berg, via e-mail, whether or not he thought the API/Michelle Obama tapes were real and whether they would in fact be released within the next day or so as Chief Editor Korir maintains,” Schreiber wrote.

“His answer was simple… ‘Yes,’” Schreiber reported.

WND has repeatedly requested that API release the supposed audio recordings, without results.

As API continues to put the release date for its purported “Michelle Obama tapes” farther and farther out, doubts about the organization’s credibility and claims continue to grow. Among the opinions expressed by news forum page participants about API:

• “A wonderful lesson in Scamming 101.”
• “Just what is happening?”
• “Stop this now. Produce the tapes or shut up.”
• “Either play the tapes unedited or stop this hoax.”
• “I find this article hard to believe without audio recording to back it up.”
• “This story is a huge farce.”
• “The hoax continues.”

UPDATE IV:  As of Dec. 20th, I see API is still up to their con artist tricks.  They are right about one thing, and that is their duping of people has caused them to receive alot of hits on their blog.  All that means is that there are alot of people out there who don’t take Reality seriously!  Yes, it is true that Obama IS NOT a qualified candidate for POTUS. That’s the real story in all of this, the fake story is API claiming to have some mysterious tape of Michelle admitting to this fact.  Hey, we don’t need Michelle to admit that Obama is no Natural Born Citizen because Obama admits that in his books!  

UPDATE III:  Recently, API claimed that they “choose” Fox News to air the Michelle Obama tape.  When Fox didn’t air the tape API claims that Fox was in breach of contract.  Uh-huh!  I still have 25 million to give ya! As I suspected,  API still insists on duping their readers with the nonsense that they have a tape. Come on API readers,  give it up!  API has duped you in exchange for hits to their blog!  They don’t have a tape of Marxist MO saying what ever,  and they were never in negotiations, and API is not an NGO, and you’ve all been had!  Can we move onto more important things like winning this election for McCain?

UPDATE II: Isn’t that interesting??? Fox News denies negotiating over ‘Michelle Obama tapes’

As doubts grow, African Press insists recordings to be released before Nov. 4 Thanks Bulldog!

UPDATE: API is reporting that Phil J. Berg is representing them in this tape issue, however,  nothing has been posted on Berg’s site regarding the representation.  I like Mr. Berg, and I believe if there is a representation between these two parties then Berg has heard the tape. He is a lawyer first,  and wouldn’t commit to it if he didn’t have the evidence. No lawyer in their right mind would make such a commitment.  The question is has he heard the tape?  If he does a posting on his site I will believe that he has heard the evidence.  Ooo, a mystery is going on!  If API provides the links of their NGO status to an official NGO site that will be another mystery solved in this case.  I think it behooves API to do so and as soon as possible.

There is a big broo-haha going on at the blog (notice the lovely handbags for sale) known as African Press International, an NGO, non-governmental organization through the Rainbow Foundation with a satellite branch in Norway.  More importantly and the reason for this little post is that API claims that they have an audio tape of Michelle Obama making this statement:

African press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view,’ and she went to state that, ‘it is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by His step father. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that My husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner; says Michelle Obama on telefon to API.

The broo-haha is over the tape itself,  and the mystery about this tape is causing division between the Nobama crowd which you can read here, here and here.  (I have obtained the mp3 10-19 recorded conversation of Ed Hale discussing with API the release of the tape to Hale. You decide. Also, I would be curious what you think of the accent of the man talking to Hale.)

API claims they want to give this taped phone conversation to the media,  but they’re hesitant because they don’t want to be sued. Sued for what? I ask.  If the tape is real show the world! There is something fishy in Norway, I’m tellin’ ya.  I think the tape is fake myself,  and I am no OBOT. I also think the API is fake as well!

African Press International claims, at the top of their page,  that their “Daily Online News Channel” was established September 30, 2006 by the Rainbow Foundation and that the chief Editor, KORIR is a member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors International.  Korir claims he is the editor of Rainbow News Bureau International, however there is no such bureau, another mystery.  For $60 bucks this blogger could become a member of the IRE as well.

By law, NGOs must register within the country they reside.  API claims it’s part of the Rainbow Foundation-register number 976593510.  However, a simple check of the NGOs registered in Norway do not list the Rainbow Foundation.  I have checked under each heading and they simply are not there.  Why the scam? What’s really going on here?

If API is truly an NGO then produce the links that go to an official listing of NGOs instead of sending people on a whirlwind circle from one wordpress blog to another and back again!

Perhaps API knows what bleeding hearts Americans really are, and all any thief has to do is create a sob story and Americans will open up their pocket books,  and out pours their money.  It’s always about the money,  doncha know?

As much of I want there to be tapes exposing Michelle Obama and her racist rants against anyone who questions the god, Obama, I do not believe for one second that there exists any tape! If there was a tape, API would have brought them out by now. Perhaps the reason API hasn’t released the tape is that they do want money,  but given to them in a stealth way. Perhaps, through their fake foundation?

Furthermore, why would Michelle Obama care about API and what’s being posted over there?  Because API claims to be from Kenya?  Who freakin’ cares? As if the mighty MO has time to go through the zillions of blogs to question what they are writing about!

There are so many email scammers out there now,  in fact, I have one in my junk folder as we speak:

“I’m princess (insert female African name here) from (insert African country here) and my father (insert male African name here) left me a zillion dollars when he was murdered by the opposition party.  I want to give you $25,000,000 if you send me a check with your routing number on it to  . . . ,” you get the drift.

Perhaps blogging has become more profitable in the world of online scammers!

Who is African Press International?

We don’t really know much except API started blogging ‘06. I found their very first blog entry quite interesting as I found this entry curious as well.  The writer is angry because the chairwoman of the Norwegian Marxist party,  oops, did I say Marxist, what’s the matter with me.  We have redefined that term and are now calling it Progress. Okay, so the writer is ticked off with the leader of the “Progress” party of Norway because she doesn’t want any more “immigrants” to enter her country.  I wonder what kind of immigrants this API writer is referring to? In usual “journalistic”  style the API writer doesn’t say except to describe them as African.  Why the mystery? What kind of immigrants is the writer talking about?

That brings up the other issue I find curious:  API claims to be journalists.  Journalists don’t write in cryptic terms,  and they also know how to release tapes to the public, especially tapes that could rock the world,  and overturn an election!  So much for their October surprise.  Here’s a journalistic tip for ya,  API:  Release the tape on YOUR blog,  and let the very powerful blog-o-sphere do the rest! Us bloggers don’t need to go to some lamestream media outlet to get the coverage we want!  Trust me on this one!

The bottom line is that the African Press International blog has more mystery than truth, I think,  and hopefully, Nobama bloggers involved with the broo-haha will all come together and decide that they have been duped by the API. Hey, if I’m wrong I’ll admit it. I doubt that I am, but if I am I will admit that API weren’t scammers and dividers of the Nobama camp,  and that API actually had an incriminating tape of Michelle Obama preaching her Marxist and racist diatribe!

I am not taking any side to the division of who said what to whom, and how because I don’t care. That’s between the parties to solve.  What I do care about is making sure that a full blown Marxist doesn’t get the Top Secrets to Classified information to this Country!! Having said that this is not the time for the Nobama camps to divide, but to stick together. At least until we keep the Marxist ideologue out of the most powerful seat in the world!