Some Post here said new Haynes Johnson, Dan Balz book about Election '08

[KoKo]

said Bill Clinton did Racial Epithets against Obama and that's why Ted Kennedy decided to throw his support to Obama.

The poster who posted here seemed very emphatic and an "insider" to the release of this new book by Johnson and Balz.

YET...tonight on the "Ed Show" hosted by Lawrence O'Donnell substituting for "Big Ed" the two authors of the book said they had info from Dem Insiders that what got Kennedy upset was that the Clinton Campaign was going to "pull the race card in gentle way" and that Dem (SC) Jim Clyburn got upset with this "campaign strategy."

When Chris pressed over reports of Bill flairing up in a "phone conversation" that tipped the balance for Kennedy support ...BOTH...BOTH denied that there were ANY REPORTS of that Conversation...they don't know what was said" ...but they didn't say what the DU Poster said in Promo for their Book that Clinton said Racial Epithets against Obama and that Kennedy got reallly upset at their racism and supported Obama because of the Clinton's Rasism.

TO THE CONTRARY! Both Baltz and Johnson went out of their way to say that the Clintons were more upset that their "Campaign Strategy" would be seen as "Rasicist" and that that was what the Kennedy conversation was all about.

I wish we didn't have so many OP's...who read something and then GO WITH IT here on DU. But, I guess I could be guilty of that sometimes, too.

Anyway from the BOOK AUTHORS ....Hillary and Bill (to their knowledge) didn't call Obama a "Black Motha Fucker" or any other Epithet.. It was all about the Campaign Strategists for Hillary pushing her too far which Bill didn't like and Kennedy PUT A STOP TOO...just in case they got too agressive.

[DURHAM D]

1. So what you are saying is there is no there there.

Poor wittle book makers - no real story. Whaaaaah.