Clinton denounces 'doctored' video that insults Hoosiers

[sabra]

Source: The Indianapolis Star

A video of a long-time friend to Sen. Hillary Clinton using racial slurs to describe Indiana residents spread through the Internet like wildfire today, triggering a firestorm of questions before the video was exposed as a hoax.

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The video, uploaded to the popular video-sharing site YouTube and spread via blogs and e-mail, showed former Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor describing Hoosiers using a racial epithet.

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In an interview with the Journal & Courier, Clinton said she couldn't imagine who was behind the video.

"It's just something that is clearly unfortunate that people would go to all the time and trouble to make something up like that," Clinton told the J&C. "And I assume nobody would believe such a thing, because it's totally wrong. And the director of it confirmed that it was doctored. Maybe the press should be trying to figure out why he did what he did."

Kevin Griffis, communications director with Obama's campaign in Indiana, said that campaign had nothing to do with the video.


Read more: http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080502/ELECTION01/80502042

[bluestateguy]

1. This brings back memories of the Killian memos

Likely some stupid kid living in his parents basement with too much time on his hands did this.

[leftofcool]

2. If Kantor sues we will know who did it

I hope he does because I think the Obama campaign was behind this.

[Mz Pip]

5. I hope he sues too

because I don't think the Obama campaign is behind it.

[Barrymores Ghost]

6. Try Hillary...trying to create an anti-issue because she's getting her ass handed to her.

Yeah, right. Obama's going to get into video-fixing when he's kicking Hillary's ass...you bet.

Maybe you should check out how Hill's campaign darkened Obama's face and squished it, just to make him look a little more negroid and a little more sinister in one of your candidate's ads.

[KSinTX]

8. Well, if Kantor sues and wins, Obama campaign can sue you and win

This is a public forum and you have done exactly what the author of the tape did. Good job!

[MADem]

18. I want to know who pulled this stunt, too. It was pretty dispicable. NT

[heliarc]

23. Why would someone running for president...

and honestly wanting the office doctor a video whose original is available to millions of people at their local video store. What a ridiculous assumption to say that Obama as a presidential hopeful would do this. Preposterous.

[rateyes]

3. The audio wasn't doctored. That much is clear to anyone

who has watched the DVD.

[rocktivity]

7. The audio was enhanced so you can hear the words better

Just as the George Bush "potty stop" note was darkened so you could see the words better.



:headbang:
rocknation

[Ronnie]

14. Anderson Cooper just said it was doctored.

I think it's over except for the lawsuits.

[MADem]

19. Yes, it WAS doctored. The movie is ON Youtube. The original audio,

which was in section nine of the YT segments, was totally different from the bullshit audio in the "taken down" doctored version.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Did she denounce the War Room film, too? Where Mickey called the people of Indiana "shit"?

[AlGore-08.com]

11. Another Hoosier chiming in: according to the two filmmakers, Kantor said no such thing

And no, I'm not a Clinton supporter. I'm not an Obama supporter either. I support the nominee, whoever that ends up being.

Here's some coverage of this flap - - sorry to break the rules about the number of paragraphs we can post...

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/official-transc.html

Official Transcript: Kantor Never Impugned Hoosiers

May 02, 2008 6:18 PM

Forgoing for a moment the dirty trick of the doctored clip from “The War Room,” which falsely had Mickey Kantor using a racial slur, the filmmaker behind the documentary has posted the clip on his Web site to clarify that other point of confusion -- what Kantor was referring to when he cursed. (An apparent source of confusion since the movie came out and some newspaper writers thought he was cursing Indianans. See previous post for that.)

Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D A Pennebaker write: "We would like to respond to some erroneous statements made today about our film, THE WAR ROOM. These statements alleged certain remarks to Mickey Kantor that simply are not true. The transcript of the scene in question confirms this."

The official transcript:

GEORGE AND CARVILLE: Indiana, we're ahead.

JACQUELINE: Indiana!

GEORGE: Kentucky.

CARVILLE: Kentucky is five. Michigan is eleven, New York's done.

GEORGE: Holy s---, we're pulling away in Ohio.

CARVILLE: Oklahoma we're up.

GEORGE: Tied in Texas.

CARVILLE: Tied in Texas. It looks good. Now let's just say that. I like the text here.

GEORGE: Can you beep Wendy please? Looks pretty good. Looks pretty good.

MICKEY KANTOR: Look at Indiana. Wait, wait. Look at Indiana. Forty-two, forty. It doesn't matter if we win. Those people are s----ing (oh, excuse me) in the White House. How would you like to be... Look at Texas, go down to Texas.

CARVILLE: Even.

MICKEY: Yeah. Thirty-nine, thirty-nine.

CARVILLE: Perot's kind of holding, isn't he?

GEORGE: He held.

MICKEY: Yeah, he held. His numbers held. I'm sort of surprised, frankly.

***

So Kantor was NOT insulting Hoosiers, he was experiencing a moment of schadenfreude about the Bush (Sr.) White House.

[TwilightGardener]

12. Nope, that's not what I heard or saw. They're trying desperately to spin the context now.

[AlGore-08.com]

16. When I listed to my own copy of the War Room (which I have owned for a number of years)

I heard what was on the official transcript. Kantor said that they were "sh*tting" themselves in the White House, not that Hoosiers were "sh*t". There's nothing remotely like the word "n*gger" uttered in that scene on the DVD I own.

F.Y.I. It's fairly easy to remove and/or dub the audio track of a video file - - you can do an okay job with your average Mac and the software that comes standard - - and then uploading an edited file to You Tube. Millions of people do every day - - only they are honest about the editing and call them "Mash-Ups" or "Fan Videos" or "Stephen Colbert's Green Screen Challenge Entry" or some similar, helpful label.
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[lumpy]

25. Thanks for posting. I hope the person(s) responsible for

this are found out. I sincerely doubt it could be anyone directly connected with the Obama or Clinton campaign anyway.

[YDogg]

9. I'm a Hoosier, and I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

[caligirl]

10. Hmm, the lady responsible for the Obama photo was a Clinton staffer ask her.

that video was a setup Bait. Someone in the Clinton side went looking to smear the opponents supporters.

[KaptBunnyPants]

21. I'm glad Obama didn't take the bait.

It would have been fun to watch the news make her squirm for a bit, but I would never want to see Obama resort to spreading such fluff. We can leave that to the Republicans and Hillary.

[bigbrother05]

13. Friday news Dump

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Why can I not get the picture out of my head

of Rove bugging his own office?

[humbled_opinion]

17. Politics is such a nasty Sport. n/t

[Triana]

20. Great. When will she denounce her nationwide illegal robo-calling? n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

22. Bingo! The goal was to squelch discussion of illegal robo-calling

And Pastor Wright was getting old.

Mission Accomplished

[elocs]

24. Please, Clinton supporters, don't be disingenuous.

I am pretty sure if this had been something bad about Obama that was unsubstantiated many of you would have run with it too. It's human nature, it's the reason why spam works and the other internet b.s. that gets forwarded all over. We've reached the point where supporters of both candidates are more than willing to think the worst of the person they do not back. It's too bad that it's come to that because it is getting to the point where I am almost ashamed to admit I am a Democrat.

I have to admit, this is my first post about this subject and I have not seen the video and I don't need to see it. When I first read about it, something did not seem right about it--the same way I feel when I get the latest internet urban myth or chain letter forwarded to me. Those who fell for it and then ran with it, spreading it all over, should justifiably feel ashamed (I hope you are capable of feeling ashamed).