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By: One Fine Jay » I make funny bets

One Fine Jay » I make funny bets — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:39:39 +0000

[...] African Press blog claims is on audio tape. I don’t believe there is such an audio tape. So I bet instead on the “Whitey video” surfacing some time before the [...]

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:49:26 +0000

Other Ezra // Oct 15, 2008 at 10:58 pm

“Fifty clams, no thanks. Now, if you put all the Obama conspiracies in a pool and offered some kind of default swap derivative, then we’re talking real money.”

That’s an idea – they only real value they have is as a chaff cloud, to delude people who think that they’re being clever by saying ‘where there’s smoke, there’s fire’ [or really, who hate Obama anyway].

By: Other Ezra

Other Ezra — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:58:52 +0000

Fifty clams, no thanks. Now, if you put all the Obama conspiracies in a pool and offered some kind of default swap derivative, then we’re talking real money.

By: Mugenbao

Mugenbao — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:02:36 +0000

There is no “Whitey tape”, there is no “API tape”, I’d have to be a complete sucker to take that bet

I’ve followed many (most?) of the Obama conspiracy stories for the last year, and I’ve just seen to many flimsy and failed attempts to get these stories taken seriously to even *consider* taking that bet.

Not even at 50-to-1 odds.

By: Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:52:24 +0000

OK, sure. If between now and the election, we see a tape substantially like what was described, and adjudged credible by the same criteria as above, I owe you a drink.

By: Jay C.

Jay C. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:42:56 +0000

Can I bet you and Megan McArdle a drink at the next DC blogger drinkup that I can attend? But not for the “Michelle Obama has gone nuts” audio tape, but rather the video tape of her and Farrakhan freaking out about Whitey, as rumoured by No Quarter.

The API one is just too preposterous to bet fifty bucks on, sorry.