There are probably many copies in circulation, though it's been pulled now by the church:
For about 30 minutes, Michelle Obama launched into a rant about the evils of America, and how America is to blame for the problems of Africa. Michelle personally blamed President Clinton for the deaths of millions of Africans and said America is responsible for the genocide of the Tutsis and other ethnic groups. She then launched into an attack on "whitey", and talked about solutions to black on black crime in the realm of diverting those actions onto white America. Her rant was fueled by the crowd: they reacted strongly to what she said, so she got more passionate and enraged, and that's when she completely loses it and says things that have made the mouths drop of everyone who's seen this.
The "tape" is a DVD that Trinity United sold on its website, and possibly offered free for download up until March 2008 when Trinity's site was scrubbed and the DVDs were no longer offered for sale.
This outburst happened just one month before the 2004 Democratic Convention, when Barack Obama delivered the keynote address.
UPDATED: It seems really easy for Chicago local media, especially, to determine whether or not this is the right tape of Michelle Obama. All they need to do is pull the tape from this 2004 Conference (particularly the panel Michelle was on), which should be readily available (since this was a very large multi-day event). All a journalist needs to do is watch this tape: if this is not the right one, they'd know immediately and this issue would be debunked. But, logically, this seems to be the most likely source of the tape people have been talking about at NoQuarterUSA.net
Wasn't it Fox News that obtained a bunch of DVDs from that church? And yes, the local Chicago media should have it reported someplace.
A search of the Chicago media turns up empty; I cannot find anything from the Chicago Tribune or the Sun-Times about this conference. I am referring to the meeting Michelle attended and spoke, not the one where Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton spoke and generated media buzz. However, there is this:
With "2004: A Year Of Critical Choices for Inclusion and Growth" as its theme, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund held its 33rd annual conference in Chicago.
The six-day conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers also marked the 20th anniversary of Rainbow/PUSH Founder and President the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1984 U.S. presidential campaign--the first serious bid by a Black American for the nation's highest office.
Rev. Jackson, noted that the theme of the conference reflects Rainbow/PUSH's ongoing mission to protect and expand civil rights in every aspect of American life--including access to quality health care, education, law and justice.
Of course neither Obama was a household name then. There might not be a recording from the Chicago media of it; after all, there were several events at the conference. Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton would get the lion's share of the ink and video.
HillBuzz has the copy-and-paste as well of the event.
Unless somebody comes forward with the DVD, or the Chicago media looks in their archives about the meeting, this may come up empty. Then again, maybe somebody out there has it and is holding onto it until they can sell it for a big amount of money.
Here is the picture that's been circulating all around the internet, taken from Jet magazine:
At nearly six feet tall, Michelle towers over almost everybody.
Update: What I would like to know is how HillBuzz knows what is on the purported video if nobody has come forward to say they have seen it? A possible answer is in this blog's comments.
Via Cannonfire, the National Review takes a somewhat cynical view of the purported video.
If somebody has it, show it. Then we will know for sure if it is for real or a hoax. Or the media needs to interview people who were there. Right now nobody is saying a word. The silence could tell the whole story.
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