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White Blacks (UPDATED: Director of 'War Room' Calls BS)
Published 5/2/2008 by baldilocks at baldilocks
... to being called a “white n****r”: A worthless white n****r? Hey mister…that’s worthless white African American, and don’t you forget it. Hah! Exactly. * I’m spelling out the word only in this instance. Reason it’s not usually done here: search engines. UPDATE: (Via Ed again) Bravo Sierra says War Room director D.A. Pennebaker . "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 ...

Isn't It Time for DA Pennebaker to Finally Come Clean?
Published 5/3/2008 by AJ Schnack at All these wonderful things
... that Politico linked to this morning. I captured the audio in digital audio editing software, amplified it, then ran noise reduction to lower the background hiss. That's all I did. No adding or enhancing sounds, just working to make the existing sound louder and clearer."Meanwhile, the aforementioned Ben Smith at Politico, who did as much or more than anyone in pushing the Kantor kerfuffle by dedicating a breathtaking four separate posts (complete with updates - here , here , here and here ), got the scoop from the great man himself :"I just ...