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Tucker Carlson won't say if he paid for Obama video

Tucker Carlson — the Daily Caller editor in chief who this week posted an extended video of President Barack Obama’s 2007 speech at Hampton University — won't say whether he paid to obtain the footage.

"Let's talk about it over lunch," Carlson told POLITICO when asked if he or the Caller had done so.

Asked for a yes or no answer, he wrote back, "I’m hurt."

The New York Times's Jeremy Peters and Jim Rutenberg state that the “video had apparently been circulating in conservative circles at least a week” and that it was suggested the film’s source shopped it around for money. One source told the Times that someone calling himself Sore Throwt — a riff on the Watergate scandal’s Deep Throat — had contacted them via email about the video. The source said Sore Throwt asked for money in exchange for the tape.

The Times reporters noted that “Carlson would not say whether he paid for the tape.”