WaPo: Contested Video Spreads Like Wildfire Online

[maddezmom]

Contested Video Spreads Like Wildfire Online
Updated 1:40 p.m.
By Jonathan Weisman
A provocative video clip alleging to show a longtime friend of Hillary Clinton using a racial slur to describe the citizens of Indiana was sent to political reporters this morning by an independent public relations consultant who favors Barack Obama. Both the filmmaker and the subject of the film excerpt are calling the clip a fraud.

Eric Schmeltzer, a political and communications consultant based in N.Y., says he came across the YouTube video this morning on Digg.com, a popular content-aggregating site. The clip was posted to YouTube today by someone using the moniker "Indy007q" -- clear references to both the upcoming Indiana primary on Tuesday and fictional British secret agent James Bond.

The 37-second clip was purportedly taken from "The War Room," the 1993 documentary about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, and displayed white subtitles over fuzzy sound. In the clip, Mickey Kantor -- a long-time friend of the Clintons, former U.S. Trade Representative, Commerce Secretary and Hillary Clinton adviser -- is shown speaking in the most disparaging terms of Indiana voters. At one point the video clip, he uses the N-word to describe white Indiana voters.

Boom. Within hours, the video had gone viral, gracing the front page of the Drudge Report and topping Daily Kos's "Recommend Diaries," among other websites.

more:http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/02/dirty_tricks_gone_viral.html

[leftofcool]

1. Sue them all..........HuffPo, Kos, YouTube!

[NJmaverick]

2. Yet the "they are shit" comment has been proven accurate

I am amazed at how a few sleazy clinton lawyers, and some half truths, have killed the truth dead in it's tracks

[Kokonoe]

8. Your not hearing the undoctored speech

He clearly is talking about the White House shitting over the election results.
Theres nothing more to it.

[maddezmom]

10. here's a transcript for what it's worth

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

[TwilightGardener]

3. The key quote from this article--

the one that proves that even in 1993, people thought Kantor was calling the people of IN shitty:

...(Kantor may deny he was speaking of the people of Indiana, but others in the past have heard otherwise. A November 1993 article on the movie by Washington Post film critic Desson Howe made note of its realism, saying, "Whether Carville and company are play-acting somewhat for the cameras becomes less important as the film progresses. One can only keep up an act for so long -- especially in the throes of a campaign. Carville's tearful farewell speech to his staff as they close up just before the election, Stephanopoulos's frank talk with a potential blackmailer and a Mickey Kantor comment about the people of Indiana (when it looks as though Clinton's ahead in Dan Quayle's state) attest to this.")

[cbayer]

4. It's sad, really.

I am concerned when supposed Democrats behave in the way we have seen people behave today.

Is this the new wing of the party? Some of the supporters seem to share absolutely nothing in common with their candidate.

Reminds me of Bush supporters who never asked questions and only listened to things that reinforced their own beliefs.

[TwilightGardener]

5. How about a Wright thread?

[Pirate Smile]

6. Shhh.

[cbayer]

7. I've never posted a Wright thread

and have repeatedly expressed my dismay at the whole episode.

What was alarming about this incident was how quickly and massively people piled on it without knowing the story. What was alarming was how easily people swallowed a pill before asking themselves if it might be poison.

[suston96]

9. Yawnnnnn! This is getting boring. It's a fake. The director of the movie says so.....

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith /

Pennebaker: Clip Doctoered

I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of "The War Room," who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip.

In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is -- according to subtitles -- seen referring to Indianans with an expletive and to his colleague George Stephanopolous with a racial slur.

"He does not say that. He does not say that," said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip.

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 shi**ing in the White House."

The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie.

Pennebaker appeared surprised and amused by the video.

"A thousand people saw that film in theaters and didn't think" the second expletive had been used, he said. "It's very clearly understandable. It's not like it was in Bulgarian."

The sound you hear is the toilet flushing a wet dream away......LMAO!