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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.

Check it out HERE.

Now back to that other question -- who did the fake clip with Kantor saying the N word?!

It's the definition of a dirty trick -- and from what I can tell all the YouTube links have disappeared. Fingerprints gone.

- jpt

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Julie writes, "Good grief, this happened 15 years ago. How on earth is he supposed to remember every detail of what was an unbelievably exciting night?"

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Because most intelligent people tend to remember the details on UNBELIEVABLY exciting nights. The average Republican might find this challenging but an individual like Kantor? Please..spare us the silliness.

Posted by: Dems | May 3, 2008 9:26:37 AM

I have no question in my mind that I heard “those people are sh**”

Posted by: Lisa | May 3, 2008 8:28:27 AM

media control

Posted by: Lisa | May 3, 2008 8:20:37 AM

karen for clinton,
be sure not to forget kalem el-hady the bho fundraiser, on his official web site, who was the head of an islamic charity, kindhearts, in chicago that was closed by the feds in 2006 for funneling money to hamas and el-qada, among others...

Posted by: pp | May 3, 2008 8:00:42 AM

"Official Transcript" Huh? The film was made by a Clinton supporters. Oh, I get it. You mean "Official" wink, wink.

Posted by: Dave | May 3, 2008 6:38:45 AM

Tom,

I could use about $109 million.

Posted by: hank | May 3, 2008 6:25:00 AM

hoosiersue,
you are right, who is this guy?? what i can remember is he has muslim parents; a cousin who is part of a tribe in kenya that has killed scores of people in tribal conflicts; he is still a citizen of kenya; he grew up with his white family yet chose to focus on his black lineage, and a father who left him; embraced his blackness in his books, denouncing whiteness; has ties to reznik; ties to two terrorists that introduced him to his wife, held his senate announcement party and sat on numerous boards , ayers and dorhn; has kalem el-hady as a fundraiser on his official website who was the head of an islamic charity, kindheart, that was closed down in 2006 by the feds because they funneled money to hamas and al-quada to name a few; is known to have specific ties to hamas and the palestinians; attends his african/black centered church; has a wife who does not approve of her country; etc., etc...

who is this man???very poor job of vetting. if someone had considered him for vp, the vetting process would have ruled him out!!!

Posted by: pp | May 3, 2008 5:18:45 AM

So the "new kind of politics" is just an update of the old down and dirty Chicago politics that Obama cut his teeth on. It doesn't stop there...

Obama has been out-and-out lying on Clinton's position on the gas tax holiday. Saying she doesn't pay for it (which he knows she does with a windfall profits tax on the oil companies). Then chides it as the "same old Washington politics" that isn't a real solution, but is rather political pandering. Then promotes his own plan of a windfall profits tax and pursuing alternative fuels. Problem is Clinton has been saying that for weeks as part of her oil plan (plus more).

Obama is a lying low-down loser - and I hope Indiana and North Carolina have sense enough to send him packing back to Rev. Wright (who can then throw him under the bus as the black community cheers to see this traitor go).

For those interested, Sunday night on "Hannity's America" on Fox, you can learn about Trinity Church's Black Liberation Theology. I thought I knew all about it, but there's one thing I didn't know. It's based on Marxist principles, and guess who's mother was a Marxist? Ding, ding, ding! That's Right! Barack Obama.

Who the h*ll is this guy? And do we really want to take a chance on planting him in the White House?

Posted by: HoosierSue | May 3, 2008 4:55:33 AM

"pledged" IS a word.

Posted by: Chuck | May 3, 2008 4:07:08 AM

Fabricated dirt sticks to the opponent rather than the intended victim.

People will justifiably think that Obama supporters concocted this disgusting, race-baiting story.

"Just like last time."

Posted by: EV | May 3, 2008 3:35:14 AM

obamabots posted all over the net saying this was true. it was so obviously not true. now there's evidence it's not true. will the obamabots change their tune? will the obamabots apologize? will the obamabots correct the record?

all questions rhetorical, of course. we know that the obamabots knew it was a lie all along and posted it everywhere anyway. and they won't stop. the pattern is clear and obvious to all.

funny thing is, the more they post this kind of nonsense, the less credibility they have. i was reading an indiana article with comments and they posted this over and over and over and over. naturally, people just ignored them. that's what happens to misbehaving children.

Posted by: so saddened | May 3, 2008 1:51:30 AM

Eric......

It was Drudge who started the video.

As the sheep they are, DailyKos and Huffington Post ran with the video urging each other on to post the video and link to it everywhere so the MSM picks up on the story.

Sad, but true.

Kos and HuffnPuff got bought by Drudge Report. Arianna is now able to speak clearly and intelligently without that annoying accent she cannot seem to throw. Kos, still bitter he took the worm.

Posted by: Tammy | May 3, 2008 1:34:52 AM

Chaz

As a brilliant Obamabot you should know there is no such word as:

"interprete"

At least, it is now clear you are not the genius behind the Obama campaign altering videos and bringing race baiting back into the primary.

Posted by: Jamie | May 3, 2008 1:32:02 AM

We DO know that it was Obama supporters and that the Obama camp was silently pushing this video. Nice way to change politics guys...

Posted by: Eric | May 3, 2008 1:17:27 AM

This is not the clip I heard about Indiana people are S===t. Is Way much different.
Why you are hidden the truth?

Posted by: bos123 | May 3, 2008 1:12:07 AM

thats a generous transcript, i dont here"s----ing (oh, excuse me) in the White House"

This is karma, he cut himself of so now we can interprete it any way we want

Posted by: chaz | May 3, 2008 1:02:53 AM

Hmmm, primary must be coming up 'cause there goes the race-baiting again. Shame of those who ran the story without fact checking (Keith O. I'm talking to you). Whatever happened to integrity and ethics? New Politics? Doesn't sound like it to me. I'll take my chances with McCain.

Posted by: ttbv | May 3, 2008 1:00:58 AM

i know some of you are new to politics but there were 3 candidates in that presidential election. the reason kantor was so shocked is because the numbers shouldn't even have been that close.

Posted by: jesse | May 3, 2008 12:54:15 AM

Hoodwink Bamboozle Okey Doke Obama the divider. I will never vote for the fraud racist never proud to be an American wife of his NEVER vote for her be first lady. HE is a racist fraud and so is she.

Posted by: ricksramblings | May 3, 2008 12:49:35 AM

Omentum:

Obama to the Wright House

Clinton to the White House

Posted by: Jayhawk | May 3, 2008 12:38:52 AM

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