Clinton Aide Mickey Kantor's Fake Slander is Really Slanderous
Earlier today, we posted a clip from D.A. Pennebaker's The War Room -- which has been subsequently pulled from YouTube -- that supposedly showed Clinton aide Mickey Kantor using the phrase "white n****r" to describe the good people of Indiana.
Anyway, and not surprisingly, it looks like the whole made-up scandal is a made-up scandal...
"I've never used that word in my entire life, ever, under any circumstance, ever," an angry Kantor told The Huffington Post, citing his and his parent's work fighting for civil rights. "I have listened to [the video] and so have you. You can't tell what it is I'm saying in that second sentence, you can't decipher that."
Indeed, a review of the original copy of the 1993 film The War Room, from which the excerpt was taken (around the 4:40 mark) is virtually inaudible. The sound suggests, if anything, that instead of saying "How would you like to be a worthless white n****r?" Kantor says, "How would you like to be in the White House right now?"
And the original filmmaker himself weighed in...
He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the fact that Ross Perot's polling numbers were holding strong.
"What he says is he's surprised Perot's numbers are holding," said Pennebaker in a brief phone interview. "He says they must be shitting in the White House."
The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie.
I listened to the audio from the original film really hard, with my headphones pressed against my ears, and I couldn't make out anything that even remotely sounded like the supposed expletive. Instead, it sounded more like he was saying, "I like to eat the concrete meatball."
And if he was saying that, that's fucked up!
The full clip with original audio is after the jump. Skip to the 4:40 mark to hear the unhearable.
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Clinton has been beaten - but she now wants MI votes to count - sounds fair, but it's NOT - Obama following the agreement of the DNC
did not have his name on the ballot - sounds to me like sour grapes.
The Democrats are in a fix - turn to the Chairman - Huh who me.
As an Indiana Republican - instead of using a vote for McCain - vote
for Obama.
I am much more interested in the real issue with the Clintons- whay are we not hearing more about what the Peter Paul case is all about. This link seems pretty credible to me- and if it is many laws have been broken.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019
There was some weird link to gold or something I was referring to (which is now gone) although the flag pin/pant suit post gave me a good chuckle this A.M.
Best post I've ever read down below.
And another thing - isn't it time for us to move beyond this kind of stuff and get back to focusing on the important issues in this election? Namely, Hillary's pantsuits and Obama's lapel jewelry. Sartorial politics are the cornerstone of American democracy.
It's "those people are shitty" and "how would you like to be in the White House right now." If you go on to watch the rest of the clip, the *only* state on the list with a negative number (i.e., the only place where Clinton is polling behind) is Indiana. Kantor is insulting the voters of IN, or more accurately "blowing them off" to maintain what can still accurately be called a Clinton "landslide." But he doesn't use a racial slur to do it - the second part isn't about IN, just the first part.
And either way, this is yet another "guilt by association." Kantor said something mean about IN during Bill Clinton's run. He should probably come clean about it - especially given that the comment was pretty understandable in the heat of the moment. (And I'm not "excusing" the sentiment, just saying that we're all given to bashing our opponents or those who don't agree with us in moments of peak stress). But I don't think this necessarily means that HRC thinks Indiana voters are "shitty" people on the whole. That would be ridiculous.
And for the record, I'm an Obama supporter. That might mean that I'm more willing to cut Clinton some slack on the Stupid Associate Statement front right now. (I'm still mad at Mike Easley for not taking responsibility for his "pansy" statement, but that has NOTHING to do with Clinton and everything to do with my having voted for Easley and having seen him screw over the LGBT wing of the NC Dem coalition too many times).
He still has a potty mouth.
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I can clearly hear "shitting" before he says "excuse me".
But I think more importantly is the context. He is not saying that the people of Indiana don't matter. He is saying it doesn't matter if they win Indiana or not, they have won the Presidency either way.
Here's my take on it. I've listened both clips (the one from the whole movie and the short one that made the news) with good headphones and the sound amplified.
It is quite possible that Kantor is saying "These people are sh***ing... excuse me... in the White House". That's not perfectly clear to me. He could also be saying something else.
However, and of this I am sure, he does NOT go on to say: "How would you like to be a worthless white n****er". What he says is partly indecipherable but the part that was mistaken for "white n****er" is clearly "swipe Texas". Basically the whole sentence looks like this: "How would you like to be [?on the] ...... [?and] swipe Texas?"
Moreover the audio was not doctored, it is the same in both versions.