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Obama site confronts rumors

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Obama site confronts rumors

By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife.

The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama's candidacy this fall.

"No such tape exists," the campaign responds on the site, http://www.fightthesmears.com . "Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word."
 
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