Whiteygate.

Obama channels Gary Hart by insisting wife Michelle never used the word "whitey," and that she has never spoken from the pulpit at Trinity Church.

A response to the response is here.

Fight the Smears, a site with the picture of an American eagle with the Obama logo on its stomach, tries to counter "Whiteygate."

I suppose an eagle picture is better than Obama's head being superimposed on Jesus' body.

Whiteygate.

Whiteygate is allegedly the reason the Obama campaign has decided to aggressively go after people who dare post the truth, er, smears about the presumptuous Democratic nominee.

As Larry Johnson notes in his blog, pay close attention to WHEN the rumor got started:

When the Obama campaign got wind of the rumor in April, Michelle's close friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett asked Michelle if there could be anything to it; the candidate's wife dismissed it out of hand. But by mid-May, it was picking up steam on the Internet, and Michelle's advisers decided it was time to have a serious talk with her about it. On a campaign swing through Oregon, Michelle's chief of staff Melissa Winter grilled her on the particulars of the various versions. Had she ever spoken at Trinity Church? Could she ever recall having uttering that racial epithet? No, no, Michelle answered again and again. Additionally, she said, "whitey" is simply not a word that African Americans of her generation tend to use — or that she herself would ever say. Michelle was shocked and frustrated when her aides approached her the second time about the alleged incident.

As Johnson points out, it wasn't until MAY that he even knew and wrote about the tape. In other words, the Obama campaign knew about the "rumor" before everybody else did.

And that raises even more questions as to whether Whiteygate really is a "rumor."