Reply #169: Jan 12 Obama camp issues "Race Memo" to press with 3 lies included to make case

[McCamy Taylor]

that the Clintons are racists and using race as part of a dirty tricks campaign. The memo was not supposed to be attributed to the Obama campaign (like "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)"), but once Huffington Post got it they published it and attributed it to the Obama camp.

Could that be what you heard about? It was well before the South Carolina primary.

The memo, which was obtained by the Huffington Post and has been made public elsewhere, is believed to have been given to an activist and contains mostly excerpts from different media reports. It lists the contact info and name of Obama's South Carolina press secretary, Amaya Smith, and is broken down into five incidents in which either Clinton, her husband Bill, or campaign surrogates made comments that could be interpreted as racially insensitive.

Note that the memo had been distributed elsewhere. How many journalists had already used it as a basis for the three lies that Media Matters kept trying to debunk? That Memo was a nasty piece of work, which is why I keep wondering if there is an RNC mole in the Obama camp doing dirty tricks just like CREEP did in 1972.