Clinton Adviser Claims Indiana Slur Video Is Conspiracy

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Mickey Kantor Says He Didn't Use N-Word [Conspiracy]
Published 5/2/2008 by Ken Layne at Wonkette
... — it's from The War Room, which is a funny documentary about the '92 campaign — does NOT feature Clinton bigwig Mickey Canton calling the nice people of Indiana "white niggers," Kantor tells the Huffington Post. Kantor says he would never use that word, the N-bomb, and that this is a "conspiracy" and "libel" and he is going to make YouTube stop this right away. Kantor does not dispute the other part, where he says, "Look at Indiana — wait, wait, look at Indiana. 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win, those people are shit." [ ...

Did Hillary Clinton adviser Mickey Cantor ... [Clips]
Published 5/2/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
[image] Did Hillary Clinton adviser Mickey Cantor slur the average Indiana voter as a "worthless white nigger" while cameras were rolling? He says he did not. The director of the movie this new viral video is clipped from says he did not. This seems like a hoax perpetuated by the type of people who run Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I'll embed the video after the jump so you can decide for yourselves. Bonus discussion question: has it become acceptable to use the word "wigger"? I keep hearing it and feeling deeply conflicted, which is weird for me. [ ...

White Blacks (UPDATED: Director of 'War Room' Calls BS)
Published 5/2/2008 by baldilocks at baldilocks
... (start at 4:40) he says "how would you like to be :::mumble, mumble:::"--IOW I can’t decipher what Kantor says to Stephanopulous after that. Kantor says that he wasn’t even talking about Indiana and, from the evidence, I’m inclined to believe him. Kantor, on Friday, insisted that the latter part of his statement never took place and that it made no sense for him to use such language. "Indiana was not even on our radar screen," he said, "And I was talking about the polling and not the people... If you look at The War Room, this is not the way Carville or George interpreted ...

Indianans: Are They S**t or Just S**tting?
Published 5/2/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... 's prez run. But Pennebaker says the clip is all wrong. Kantor says the folks in the white house "must be shitting," according to the filmmaker. The racial slur, on a video which has been made private on YouTube, just never happened and must be new audio dubbed in, he adds. "A thousand people saw that film in theaters and didn't think" the second expletive had been used, Pennebaker tells Politico. The clip's editor says he didn't add a thing but did enhance the audio. HuffPo's Sam Stein says the allegation is that Kantor says "How would you like to be a worthless white ...

Isn't It Time for DA Pennebaker to Finally Come Clean?
Published 5/3/2008 by AJ Schnack at All these wonderful things
... to Huffington Post from jumping on this shocking non-controversy and posting the clip from THE WAR ROOM with many bloggers insisting that they were attempting to get an audio expert aboard to more closely examine what Kantor said (nevermind that you could have asked a halfway decent lip-reader and realized that he never says the word "nigger", which - take a look in the mirror - requires a pretty specific mouth movement). Begged ...