Reaction to the video wasn't quite what conservative personalities like Tucker Carlson had hoped. (Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons)

The Atlanta Journal-Consitution reported conservative personalities Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson swarmed in on what they called "devastating" video that proved Obama to be an "anti-white racist." 

During their shows, they went so far as to hype up a simultaneous 9 p.m. release. But when the bell tolled, their bombshell fizzled.

From the AJC: 

"…this was not a bombshell, and it is devastating only in the sense that it exposes just how cynically and effectively the right-wing media manipulates its core audience, particularly on matters involving race. As U.S. Rep. Allen West of all people put it afterward, 'What’s the ‘So what’ of this video? I don’t think it’s going to really go anywhere.'"

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