The Michelle Obama tapes: the final chapter?

Well, hello there! If it isn't my buddy "Chief Editor Korir" at African Press International, the Norway-based African news agency that has been exciting Obama conspiracybloggers for weeks now by promising to release an incriminating set of tapes in which Michelle Obama yells at a reporter, accuses all her husband's critics of being racists, and offers good seats at Obama's inauguration in return for much-coveted favourable coverage from API. Over the last few days, the agency's unprepossessing free Wordpress.com website has been posting details of complex legal negotiations, purportedly between it and Fox News, involving a "Canadian lawyer" and representatives of Fox shuttling between Oslo, New York and London. Yesterday, it claimed Fox had ignored an ultimatum to broadcast the tapes. The agency now says it will "announce the final move Monday morning", though I think we can be fairly confident that this won't involve anything so straightforward as just publishing the tapes on its own website. A shame -- and yet I have to say that, all along, as I rode the rollercoaster of this most eyebrow-raising of election tales, I had a tiny suspicion that this was how it would end.