The Whitey Tape Incident was a political dirty trick by Larry C. Johnson

Larry C. Johnson

Larry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State...

 which attempted to use a lie to discredit the candidacy of United States

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 Democratic Party

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 candidate Barack Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 in the 2008 elections.

In 2008 Johnson, a Hillary Clinton supporter, wrote a report on his blog that Republican Party

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 operatives had a tape of Michelle Obama

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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is the wife of the 44th and incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady of the United States...

 using the word "whitey" repeatedly in a hostile and racially charged way. The existence of the tape was quickly rejected by Barack Obama's Fight the Smears website.. Though it was repeated by anti-Obama operatives on numerous occasions, no evidence ever emerged to support the "whitey tape" claim.