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The Mystery of "The War Room" Clip
May 02, 2008 1:43 PM
Mickey Kantor -- Bill Clinton's Trade Representative, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and an informal adviser to her campaign -- once seemed to have some not-so-nice things to say about the Hoosiers his chosen candidate is working so hard to pursue.
As seen in The War Room, watching election returns come in, Kantor seems to say in hushed tones to James Carville, “Look at Indiana, wait, wait – look at Indiana. 42-40. It doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are s---. Excuse me."
You can watch it HERE; the moment comes about 4:45 into the clip.
I posted the above yesterday but had the post taken down amidst some debate over its authenticity. I'm traveling and the Clinton campaign said that the clip had been doctored.
(If I'm traveling and a credible person tells me something on the blog is wrong, I will -- very rarely -- take down the blog post until I'm in front of a computer and can verify it. In this instance, I had watched the clip and read contemporaneous accounts that Kantor was referring to Indianans, plus I had spoken to the Clinton campaign which never denied the authenticity of the clip. In retrospect, I shouldn't have taken it down, but I was running through an airport at the time.)
Kantor today denied to the Huffington Post that he had called Hoosiers "s---." "I was talking about the polling and not the people," Kantor said.
(He also denied the legitimacy of another clip, which certainly seems doctored, in which he uses a horrible racial slur. I'd seen that clip -- not sent to me by anyone affiliated with the Obama campaign, I hasten to add -- but I had not posted it.)
Ben Smith of Politico today talked to D.A. Pennebaker, director of "The War Room," agreed that the racial slur was not Kantor's, that someone had doctored the video in that other clip.
As for the "Those people are s---" line, Pennebaker told Smith that Kantor had said, "he says they must be s---ing in the White House."
Watch the clip, what do you think he said? When "The War Room" came out other folks interpreted Kantor to be impugning Indiana residents.
In The Washington Post's review of the film in 1993, critic Desson Howe referred to "a Mickey Kantor comment about the people of Indiana (when it looks as though Clinton's ahead in Dan Quayle's state)."
And a 1995 story in the Sydney Morning Herald said that "As for the good folk of Indiana, they are still recovering from the 1993 documentary War Room, which revealed the grim truth behind the Clinton election campaign. It showed Mr Kantor bursting in on election night to tell other campaign staffers that incredibly, Mr Clinton was doing well even in Republican Indiana. 'And those people are s---!' he declared breathlessly."
Were I not currently eating a chicken sandwich at Liberty East Restaurant in Charlotte, NC, while working on a World News piece about the economy and the candidates, I would go to Blockbuster, rent a copy of The War Room and settle this matter as much as possible.
As it is, all I can do is post this to explain why I took down the original blog entry, and re-post it with all the added context above. Not good enough, but the best I can do from Liberty East Restaurant.
- jpt
UPDATE: Let me make this clearer: I NEVER posted the doctored video with Kantor using the N-word.
UPDATE: Please see THIS POST for the official transcript that shows Kantor was not impugning Hoosiers.May 2, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (164)
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Here is some high road for you. Its called freedom of speech You can continue to delete my posts, but the truth will come out. It does your publication no favors to keep behaving like George Bush and subverting constitutional values. Sooner or later you folks will get the totalitarian state you keep trying to advance.
An advocate of free trade, Kantor, as Trade Representative, lead U.S. negotiations that created the World Trade Organization (WTO), such as the Uruguay Round, and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He also engaged in organizating the Miami Summit of the Americas and three meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, including the U.S.-hosted First Leaders' Meeting. With the European Commission of the newly formed European Union, he expanded the trans-Atlantic market.
Posted by: Henry | May 5, 2008 3:19:28 PM
Bob,
Most of us have more faith in Ed Schultz's progressive credentials than we do in Hillary's. Isn't she pretty good buds with old Jump Ship Joe Lieberman?
Posted by: Dave | May 3, 2008 6:51:43 AM
You guys hear the whole Rev. Wright thing was an edit job? That sounds plausible, wright?
Posted by: hank | May 3, 2008 1:14:22 AM
GO BIG EDDY!
Posted by: dave | May 3, 2008 1:04:13 AM
Thanks Bob T for your comments about Ed Schultz - I couldn't have said it better. I heard him today blasting his big mouth about this lie! He had some poor guy so upset, the guy was almost crying. Ed kept saying, well it doesn't look doctored to me!! Is he somehow an expert on editing these days? He's sure no expert on politics. He never does his homework on any topic - he has this huge ego and thinks he can say whatever he wants because its HIS show - well without listeners, he's nothing. He's a sportscaster AND a republican who found a niche in "progressive" radio because the right wing slots were filled! I have quit listening to him for the most part! He's no progressive. I hope this one comes back to bite him in the butt!
GL
Posted by: Gay Lynn | May 3, 2008 12:49:22 AM
Here we go again.
I heard Ed Schultz this morning on the radio and he made me sick for him to hack away at Hillary for three hours today and for the past 6 months.
I wonder if he is really a Democrat?
I along with many of the e-mailers here go along with them and say if you are a Democrat then for pet’s sake act like one.
We are falling into the enemy’s best weapon. "Fighting Among Ourselves"
I don’t care who wins, as long as it is Hillary or Obama.
And to you Ed Schultz I say just “SHUT UP”. You are becoming a big pain in the a-s. What kind of a man are you anyway?
If you are a Democrat act like one or go join the Republicans, and stop this phony acting. As a combat veteran, I have never in my life seen we as a Army of Democrats
give so much to the enemy.
Ed, if you have any education at all, then act like it, instead of some little kid running around with crap in your pants.
That's all for now.
It is our choice.
Posted by: Bob T. | May 2, 2008 11:09:42 PM
Well, Tapper, you've done it again.
Are you sure that was a chicken salad sandwich you were eating, and not egg salad?
You've got egg all over your face.
Jeez, I guess anybody can grow up to be a big time media Journalist.
No heavy lifting, no fact checking... just easy bucks, especially when McCain is the Republican nominee.
Posted by: fjschmi | May 2, 2008 10:39:52 PM
I'm still trying to figure out how this Obama's fault???? It is what it is; clinton's is known for lying and game playing. What's done in the dark will come to light. I will never vote for her...THE CLINTON'S ARE LIARS
Posted by: Vivian | May 2, 2008 8:05:24 PM
Keep pounding the Clintons, both of them.
They can take anything thrown at them! They are tough, intelligent, capable, confident, and the only Democrats capable of beating the Republican attack machines.
That is why Bill clinton is the only two term elected Democratic President since FDR. That is why after being impeached by a Republican congress, he still governed excellently and left office with a 65% approval rating from the American people.
It is also why Hillary Clinton is the only real choice for the Democratic Party to win with now. She, like Bill, has taken an undeserved beating for more than 16 years; never folded, never quit!
So, to one and all, I say go for it. Hammer away! you only reinforce them and we who support them. We are also inured to the attacks upon them.
Posted by: MC | May 2, 2008 7:58:32 PM
I learned a great deal by working on the Clinton/Gore Campaign in 1992, going door to door in New Hampshire and making phone calls. But my real education came in the years following 1992 when I observed how good people were thrown under a bus, continual moral lapses resulting in scandals were rationalized and in the end the Clinton's sold the Whitehouse to raise funds. The Clintons became very proficient at getting powerful people to part with their money--In fact Clinton is quoted in a Bill Moyer's PBS special where he is telling fat cats that their money buys influence certainly but not total control.
excerpted transcript:
BILL MOYERS: In 1996, a "For Sale" sign was hung on the White House.
Pres. BILL CLINTON: [to contributors] And I think it's okay if your investment gets you influence, but your investment shouldn't get you control.
Hearing this verbage alone is all you need to know. Since that time the LIES, DECEIT, VOTER FRAUD & MANIPULATION have grown increasingly similar to that of the Neocons, as their wealth derived largely from foreign sources hassky rocketed. So this begs the question, who owns the Clintons? Make no mistake, once you stop drinking the kool-aid it is rather easy to see that if ever there were "ELITISTS" in the Democratic Party, they are the Clintons. The politics of "TRIANGULATION" which they mastered is the art of appealing to and manipulating to the uninformed, the intellectually undernourished, the lower middle class and whatever ethnic minorities that they need as part of winning coalition while winking to the powerful that they have the little people under control. Hillary Clinton's Campaign has made aggressive, racist appeals to frighten those on the left side of the bell curve, the working class etc. This is at the heart of CLINTON FRAUD...they think all the little people are Dumb sh_ts that can be easily duped. The Clintons are financed heavily by foreign elements who paid for the Clinton Presidential Library, donated to the Clinton Global Initiative, pumped funds into Hillary''s Senate run and this presidential race where they are trying to buy the next Clinton Administration. The essential fraud of the Clintons is that they are the furthest thing from middle class warriors. The CLINTONS ARE WORKING CLASS PREDATORS. The people most easily fooled by their rhetoric are too consumed with their own economic survival to verify the accuracy of what they are told. BOTOX, BLUE CONTACT LENSES, BLONDE HAIR DYE are part of Hillary''s carefully crafted All American persona to manipulate voters into thinking that she is "one of you"---the last white lady standing running against the black man, with a crazy minister, not sure if he is a muslim etc. This is CLINTONISM. CLINTONISM MUST BE REPUDIATED.
Posted by: Christopher London | May 2, 2008 7:35:31 PM
"The vote not casted for Obama doesn't mean your uneducated, racist, stupid, poor or any other de-humanizing label you want to make up and apply to someone." -Craig
I never said votes not casted for Obama all come from people who are "uneducated, racist, stupid, poor." I was talking about the polls in Pennsylvania how it was reported that more people who are uneducated vote for Hillary instead of Obama. Then I followed with how being uneducated is related to fears and how Hillary and McCain play on those fears. I never attacked those people as racist nor de-humanized them. You might want to read that again.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 7:25:06 PM
How about having professionals come in and examine the Tape? The FBI..someone they could all trust.
The feelings of the people on that Radio Talk Show...were so impassioned, so angry, and they were truth telling..I honestly think NONE Of them thought that tape had been touched. That it had NOT been tampered with..and after Hillary and all of her Mewing about Rev. Wright......explain Kantor's remarks. And James Carville was there too or so they said on the radio show today and they were getting calls hot and heavy.n Plenty of witnesses to come clean. Fess up. Disown him.
Do what Obama has had to do all week long.
Posted by: Teka | May 2, 2008 6:53:19 PM
Typical Axelrod tactics.
Is anyone really surprised?
Posted by: Jayhawk | May 2, 2008 6:49:31 PM
What about her dealings with Peter Paul? What about Bills involvement with the Iran Contra affair. Allowing drugs to be flown into Arkansas while he was Governor. Bosnia...goodness...I'm a combat Veteran...I will never forget being shot at nor would I lie about it. Go to the website for the Library of Congress and see for yourself how she has just been wasting time and money playing Senator. Only a small number of her bills and the bills that she co-sponsored were of substance. Compare that to Senator Obama. Of the 3 Senator Obama is the likely choice. If you want the New World Order to be in effect then vote for her. If you want more screwing then vote for McCain. If you want someone that will make a change and restore credability to this country then Vote For Obama.
Posted by: neno | May 2, 2008 6:43:57 PM
This is so much fun! Both of these candidates are useless! I don't know which one is going to be the slimiest! I am not crazy about McCain but I didn't think anyone could make him look good! Maybe Hillary and Obama can mud rassle for the nomination!
Posted by: Grady | May 2, 2008 6:43:26 PM
D.A. Pennebaker has said it was doctored. He is a very serious filmmaker and wouldn't make that up.
Posted by: Jay | May 2, 2008 6:37:45 PM
"Way to go Obamanations. Sinking lower and lower, against a fellow democrat." -rs
I don't think Hillary supporters are in a position to say that since she was the one who was running a negative campaign as well as trying to link Obama to muslims, Osama bin laden, and Saddam Hussein just to 'scare' voters.
Hillary was supposed to drop out, but shes still in there and is now killing the democratic party by running negative ads.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 6:22:18 PM
I don't have a dog in this race. (I hope they both lose) But what "People" is he talking about? The congressmen from Indiana, the democratic leaders in Indiana or all the people of Indiana?
Of the three, the latter choice is probably the least likely. I doubt he even knew very many people of the state other than the elected official in DC and possible the election officials and dem. leaders.
Posted by: Polly A | May 2, 2008 6:16:08 PM
Neocons go on the Rush Limbaugh show and pimp themselves out to Operation Chaos Republicans for Hillary votes. Bill Clinton will tell you so.
Posted by: Beth | May 2, 2008 6:15:12 PM
Statistically, Obama is set to win and Hillary will have to pull a miracle just to make it to the convention.
As for comments saying "most people who are uneducated tend to vote for Hillary" that was from Pennsylvania only? Or other states as well? I just want to know for a fact.
In sociology, generally people who are uneducated are more likely to have many fears. Because of this, it is easier to manipulate them. If I know what you're scared of then I can use that against you. When you are in a state of fear, all rational thought is gone. This is to say, people who are fearful are also irrational. Being irrational means you are incapable of reason.
The only way to overcome your fears is to learn about them. In other words educate yourself about what scares you. This is to say knowledge will overcome fear.
Hillary and McCain both use scare tactics to manipulate people. Those who are educated are immune to it while those who are uneducated yield to it.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 6:03:55 PM
The original film is viewable online. The *original* film and the posted one are identical.
Identical.
Kantor, Hillary 08's campaign advisor (look on her page), called people in Indiana ****.
When he makes the second comment, watch how the others hide from the camera.
This is actually old news and was covered before. But, hey, if you are in Indiana now and Hillary's advisor called you ****, how would you vote?
Posted by: Avril Runyon | May 2, 2008 5:58:45 PM
I am glad that this came out. Hillary has been pandering to voters of Indiana, when she clearly doesn't have their best interests at heart. The Gas Tax Holiday is a harmful idea.
Posted by: Krissy | May 2, 2008 5:58:33 PM
I'm shocked, shocked that political operators are cynical and use bad language! But you have to wonder how this guy, knowing he was being filmed, could say something this crass.
This was obviously before privacy became nonexistent.
Posted by: AST | May 2, 2008 5:56:26 PM
If it was altered, why was this reported on in 1995?
And a 1995 story in the Sydney Morning Herald said that "As for the good folk of Indiana, they are still recovering from the 1993 documentary War Room, which revealed the grim truth behind the Clinton election campaign. It showed Mr Kantor bursting in on election night to tell other campaign staffers that incredibly, Mr Clinton was doing well even in Republican Indiana. 'And those people are ----!' he declared breathlessly."
Posted by: Hmmm | May 2, 2008 5:44:50 PM
"I knew it was and suddenly Wright is quiet. They wanted this to die down." -carolyn
If Obama and Wright were in on this together why would Wright speak at the NAACP? That speech would only hurt his campaign. Doesn't make any sense at all.
I find it strange how you can judge someone based on what you see on tv and never have to get to know that individual yourself.
When you say Obama knew Wright for 20 years and because one or two of Wright's sermon's seemed derogatory that automatically equates to 20 years of Obama listening and agreeing to anti-american and racist remarks.
I find it strange how you can speak on behalf of what Obama believes or disbelieves.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 5:44:26 PM
ABC NEWS
A-ALWAYS
B-BE
for
C-Clinton
....the truth must really hurt.
Posted by: r | May 2, 2008 5:43:00 PM
This is a comment from 15 years ago.
According to his own book what was Barack Obama doing in this timeframe?
Ask your self which is the bigger issue.
Posted by: Dan | May 2, 2008 5:33:07 PM
Clinton wasn't involved in any way. This guy was actng on his own. Clinton wasn't even there. This had nothing to do with the Clinton's and only the Obama supporters would try to make it into an issue to get the real creep Wright off the hook. Obama agrees with his nasty and bigotted pastor and considers him his mentor. Went to his church for 20 years and is bosom buddies with Wright. This denouncement that he made recently about Wright was a brainstorm between Obama and Wright to get the heat off of Obama. I knew it was and suddenly Wright is quiet. They wanted this to die down. It took several days for Obama to do it, but CNN suggested strongly that he denounce him. All the media said that way the Wright situation would go away. Now all the Obama supporters are grasping at straws to find anything on the Clinton's to keep them from winning. Wait until the nominee is Obama. Then everything about Obama and Ayers and all the other radical people that Obama is connected with comes out. That will guarantee McCain a win!!!
Posted by: carolyn | May 2, 2008 5:32:13 PM
Oregon here: Obama is going to win Oregon!
Posted by: ron | May 2, 2008 5:31:39 PM
When we think of the candidates for the Democratic Party, I found it a little amusing and disturbing at where some have positioned their Lane County headquarters. Here is how our local free weekly paper, Eugene Weekly, described their locations.
“It's not just candidates coming through town for a quick speech anymore; the presidential campaigns have come to Eugene and they're setting up shop. Just across from Kinko's on Willamette lies Barack Obama's new headquarters. And Springfield is the home for Hillary Clinton's newly opened local campaign office for Lane County, located across the street from Club 1444 (a "gentlemen's club"), a 60-day loan shop and a panaderia on Main Street.
I hope that it will get some to pause and to think of the two of these candidates on the more obscure issues. For myself I ask, “Why would a women that is running to be the 1st “women” POTUS have her county headquarters in such a location? Living in this area I know of much more suitable locations that would not stare at the belittling of women by being next to a strip club.”
I am a 40ish mixed ethnical background, blonde hair blue eyes woman, guess who has my vote! I might add that I am under the poverty level as I have had to get an education after being downsized 4 times in the last 13 years. 1st one in my family to get a higher education and we go back several generations on this soil. Obama 08
Posted by: Oregon here | May 2, 2008 5:29:47 PM
Can you Hillary supporters this madness and stupid spin? PLEASE!! May gosh, this is so stupid - everything. Do you really think she's so great - look at the s$##$ campaign she's run and try for once to hold your candidate accountable for something.
Obama was down 20+ in ALL NATIONAL POLLS SIX MONTHS AGO, AGAINST THE CLINTON MACHINE!! SHE LOST THIS, IT'S OVER, MOVE ON. shut-up all ready.
Posted by: Shawn | May 2, 2008 5:26:31 PM
Clinton can spin all she wants, but it's VERY clear that Kantor said
of us Indiana folks "Those people are ****!" Then realized he was being filmed and blurts out "excuse me."
Clintons patronize the "little" states
when it suits them. At least Obama treats ALL states, big or small, with
equal respect and importance. Do we really want to bring that old-school
political cabal back into the White House? It is time for a change, from
Bush AND the Clintons. I've had enough. -Susan in Gary
Posted by: susan | May 2, 2008 5:13:31 PM
Rather than this non-story one might note that Hamas is rooting for Obama.
"On Sunday, Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." Why? "He has a vision to change America."
Farrakhan, Hamas lining up for Obama...
kind of makes you wonder what kind of changes Obama has in mind?
Posted by: hopesprings52 | May 2, 2008 5:13:07 PM
Clinton wasn't involved in any way. This guy was actng on his own. Clinton wasn't even there. This had nothing to do with the Clinton's and only the Obama supporters would try to make it into an issue to get the real creep Wright off the hook. Obama agrees with his nasty and bigotted pastor and considers him his mentor. Went to his church for 20 years and is bosom buddies with Wright. This denouncement that he made recently about Wright was a brainstorm between Obama and Wright to get the heat off of Obama. I knew it was and suddenly Wright is quiet. They wanted this to die down. It took several days for Obama to do it, but CNN suggested strongly that he denounce him. All the media said that way the Wright situation would go away. Now all the Obama supporters are grasping at straws to find anything on the Clinton's to keep them from winning. Wait until the nominee is Obama. Then everything about Obama and Ayers and all the other radical people that Obama is connected with comes out. That will guarantee McCain a win!!!
Posted by: carolyn | May 2, 2008 5:12:40 PM
I heard that Obama hired some of the people who worked on the Clinton campaign back in 1992.
I think someone oughta check into whether or not this man (Kanter) is working for him, some place in a corner maybe.
As far as the video is concerned, in today's day and age of the computer. It is possible it was doctored.
Posted by: whyputaname | May 2, 2008 5:10:09 PM
When will Hillary promise to socialize the Oil companies and give us free gas? Is she with us or against us?
Posted by: Progressive Democrat | May 2, 2008 5:08:59 PM
I own the movie, I just compared the clips. It appears later in the film, something like Ch. 26 or so in the DVD in case anyone wants to rent it or owns it.
1) The "doctored" clip is identical from the point where Mickey walks in and high fives George on.
2) He says "It doesn't matter if we win" . . . "those people are ********" . . . "excuse me" . . . After that, it's pretty indiscernible.
Pretty ambiguous but that's what keeps the blogosphere going, eh?
Posted by: A | May 2, 2008 5:08:21 PM
Google about Obama lies.
Posted by: blue Irish | May 2, 2008 5:06:58 PM
It seems clear to me that Kantor was talking about Hoosiers, and also pretty clear that George Stephanopolous was mortified because the camera was rolling-- see how he shields his blushing face from the camera and shakes his head as if to disavow the remark.
Posted by: King Alexander | May 2, 2008 5:03:08 PM
Naughty! Naughty! Naughty! He should have his mouth washed out with soap!
Posted by: politicalpollcat | May 2, 2008 5:01:40 PM
I'm an Obama supporter and now that I review the video more and more it does sound like he's saying "These people are ********... excuse me... in the White House"."
Regardless if this video is taken for good or bad against Kantor, it still doesn't change my views on Clinton. I don't think she has the qualities in a leader. Sure she has fighting spirit; but, so do those who fight for and against justice. I don't approve the fact that she happens to be a practicing christian and at the same time uses slander against her opponents.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 5:00:47 PM
Naughty! Naughty! Naughty! HE should have his mouth washed out with soap!
Posted by: policicalpollcat | May 2, 2008 4:59:29 PM
Talking about the gas prices is confusing.
To me for sure I will not trust the candidate which got lots contribution from the oil company.
There must be a purpose behind that big contributions.
Then you know who I will support.
Posted by: blue Irish | May 2, 2008 4:57:14 PM
JJ, what are you nuts who said anything about race. If one can say the Clinton or whoever have money and live the high life is not the Obama's also doing the same.
Is Rev Wright not doing the same? Why only talk about one side, when Obama ensured he go that house to live in, he sure danced through some hoops to make that happen and am positive he did not just want to live there because he liked the place, he wanted to be associated with those that lived that kind of lifestyle.
SO don't knock it when your own candidate seems to be moving in that same direction.
Posted by: SJ | May 2, 2008 4:56:07 PM
Manufactured scandals (sinclair), nothing but slander w/malice,
and guilt by association (ayers, wright) all come from the right wing and hillary clintons campaign.
This is the kind of stuff you throw at a candidate when they are beating the crap out of you.
But the clintons will have to come one better than this....c'mon, I know hillary supporters have more manufactured scandals to push....you guys are slippin'.
Posted by: LA in Indiana | May 2, 2008 4:54:44 PM
"In this instance, I had watched
the clip and read contemporaneous accounts that Kantor was referring
to Indianans, plus I had spoken to
the Clinton campaign which never
denied the authenticity of the clip.
"(Linked clip)
(He also denied the legitimacy of another clip, which certainly seems doctored, in which he uses a
horrible racial slur. I'd seen that
clip -- not sent to me by anyone affiliated with the Obama campaign, I hasten to add -- but I had not
posted it.)" (Second clip)
2 different clips, ya'll; One
apparently credible, another
apparently doctored. Didn't listen to
clips; Don't care; Enough trivia.
Obama 08
Posted by: Laura | May 2, 2008 4:53:35 PM
I see many missed the fact that this movie was reviewed in 1993 and the same question was brought up. Yeah, Obama controls everything, including history.
Posted by: JJ | May 2, 2008 4:52:47 PM
Pretty obvious he's not saying about the people of indiana.. more media bs.. the media's bs is controlling this election.. people can't think for themselves.. lol obama is a joke.. he hasn't addressed a single freakin' issue.. hillary is the same ol' same ol' vote manico 2012 .. vote for a normal citizen..
Posted by: Mike | May 2, 2008 4:52:09 PM
Google: "The Secret Diary of Hillary Clinton"
and see if you have problems sleeping tonight. She has 45 entries, from January, 07 through April, 07.
Make sure you read them all!! You will not believe it! It is unbelievable! Now THIS is the real Hillary.
Posted by: Missy | May 2, 2008 4:52:07 PM
Only kool-aid drinkers would turn
"they must be ******** in the White House" into a racist video.
He was talking about Perot being in the 1992 race and being even close 40/42 in the results against Bush.
1992 - When Obama was sitting in Trinity listening to attacks in whites and anti-American Wright sermons
Obama camp endorsed by Black Panthers! They have their own web page on Obama's site!!!
Posted by: Again | May 2, 2008 4:50:35 PM
so, you Obama supporters want to play a doctored video to damage a political opponent. Very impressive "NEW" politics!
Posted by: Andy | May 2, 2008 4:50:22 PM
I'm not a Hillary supporter (far from it), but regardless of its authenticity, this "news" is obviously being dished out now in order to see if perhaps a few Indiana voters can be dissuaded from voting for her on the basis of some long-ago inconseqential remark made by an aide to her husband.
Posted by: Swiss | May 2, 2008 4:49:53 PM
I have a friend who is over in Iraq right now. I will never vote for a candidate for just one issue. and if it ends up being McCain v. Obama (which it seems like it will), I could never vote for a candidate that has never offered a shred of an idea to back his "new hope" for the nation. Obama wants to take 15 billion from the oil companies... so what's his plan for that? I've never heard that. I've heard at least a plan come out of Clinton and Mccain. I'm an idea person, not a wish person.
Posted by: Kendall | May 2, 2008 4:49:32 PM
Only in this country can a guy who is a US senator and viable Presidential candidate be called a sleeper agent for muslim extremism and then have it said that the press is soft on him and a woman who has regularly lied, obfuscated and parsed be said to have been picked on by the press.
Posted by: Louis | May 2, 2008 4:45:50 PM
Patrick what do you call that 1.6 mill house that Obama is living in a shack?? Better yet how about Rev Wright's new house with the 10mil line of credit?
Sure seems to me they all are living high off the hog.
Posted by: SJ | May 2, 2008 4:45:45 PM
gevill writes,It is quite possible that Kantor is saying "These people are ********... excuse me... in the White House"."
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(LOL) Considering you spend so much time pontificating endlessly about absolutely nothing one would think you would at least READ before posting. You must have missed this part, "Kantor today denied to the Huffington Post that he had called Hoosiers "s---." "I was talking about the polling and not the people," Kantor said."
So the answer to your question is NO. NO it isn't possible he was talking about individuals in the White House. Try again......
Posted by: Dems | May 2, 2008 4:45:21 PM
Okay so a Clintonite is condescending and cutting down the typical real American in the heartland?
And this is a surprise to who?
Gee, one elitist condescending candidate to the other elitist condescending candidate, back and forth.
Both Hillary Rodham and Obama are cut from the same cloth. One has more experience since her idolizing Saul Alinsky days, and has destroyed numerous people in a single minded path to achieve socialist power, the other merely a tool of the Chicago machine since his Saul Alinsky days.
Both are not qualified to run for anything near as important as the Presidency. It's hilarious to see supporters of each liberal/leftist elitist condemn the other.
Vote for your genitalia! No, vote for your guilty white conscience!
Hopeless. It's like the morons from the Balkans have taken over this country. Well they have taken over a major party.
And that's too damn sad for this country.
Posted by: romanesq | May 2, 2008 4:45:04 PM
Do you know This story?
"Hillary's shenanigans when she was working for the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment mess.
Hillary Rodham gets a spot on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee upon the recommendation of a lawyer pal of Ted Kennedy.
The man who hires Hillary is Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat.
The House Judiciary Committee is investigating Richard Nixon with an eye on impeachment.
A question arises as to whether or not Nixon is legally entitled to counsel during the investigation. If so, his council would be allowed to cross examine witnesses appearing before the panel.
The concern about having counsel for Nixon cross examine witnesses centered on E. Howard Hunt. Democrats on the committee feared that Nixon's counsel would elicit information from Hunt that would be very damaging to the Kennedys.
Zeifman tells Hillary that Nixon is entitled to counsel. He cites documents in the committee's public file referencing the fact that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas had representation four years earlier while he was being investigated.
Hillary removes the documents from the committees public file and places them under lock and key in her office where they are not available for media or public scrutiny.
Hillary then prepares a brief for filing with a federal judge which falsely states that there is no precedent for an official being investigated by the committee to have legal representation during that investigation.
Nixon resigns before Hillary has a chance to submit the brief in which she makes knowingly false claims.
Zeifman then fires Hillary. Hillary asks for a letter of recommendation. Zeifman says no. This was only the third time in Zeifman's 17 years with the committee that he had refused a letter of recommendation.
Zeifman told Dan Calabrese that if Hillary had actually submitted the brief she most likely would have been disbarred.
So .. all you Hillary fans out there. Here we have your hero once again hiding documents that could be damaging to her cause (Rose Law Firm billing records, Vince Foster's files) and then committing an unethical act in preparing a brief on a point of law she knew to be false. And you want this lady to be our president? "
My thought is: if she would stoop that low to hurt a sitting President, how low would she go on other issues?
Posted by: Barbara | May 2, 2008 4:45:02 PM
The gas supply is relatively steady each month. So after the hot summer season, the demands will be dramatically reduced and the ratio of demand/supply will be no change, so it won't cause any supply issue...
Also, the consumer gas demanding for driving is just a small portion of oil supply and it won't affect the overall supply or pricing too much...
Posted by: True Truth | May 2, 2008 4:44:51 PM
Tony...
As far as the gas tax relief...I figured that based on the amount of gas I use in a week if they take out the $.18 cent fed gas tax I would have an extra $3.87 in my pocket every week...WOO HOO!!....enough to almost buy a gallon of milk.
Typical political smoke and mirrors.
Posted by: Paul | May 2, 2008 4:44:15 PM
True Truth...this gas releif will amount to $9.00 a month...YEZZZ, plus the tax money support repairing and rebuilding highways. This means construction workers will be out of a job for the sunmmer....great idea Hillary and John...more unemployment.
Posted by: catcall | May 2, 2008 4:41:42 PM
Clinton = Tired and Old
McCan't = Tired as HECK and REALLY OLD
Obama = OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!
I'm sure ready for a new, more promising direction...anyone else?
Posted by: Justhewayitiz | May 2, 2008 4:38:38 PM
Why whisper a statement if you don't want someone to hear what you are saying? Simple as that my friends...
Posted by: JJ | May 2, 2008 4:38:21 PM
kendall...I guess you don't have any kids that are 18-25...this war will go on forever...McCain LOVES war..
Posted by: catcall | May 2, 2008 4:36:34 PM
It is quite possible that Kantor is saying "These people are ********... excuse me... in the White House".
THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HE IS SAYING. HE BREAKS TO APOLOGIZE FOR SWEARING ON CAMERA. (Unlike Wright who utters profanities in church). Anyone with common sense can see and hear what is going on. The original tape was altered so the sound was barely audible and subtitles put on saying "They are ----"(no ing on the end)
Posted by: gevill | May 2, 2008 4:33:46 PM
This is really a new low in the media, and quite frankly libelous. If you had listened to the clip, he clearly says, "those people [i.e., in the white house] are ********." If there is any doubt, the context clears it up. They are excited because they are up in the polls in Indiana. It doesn't make sense that they would insult them.
By the way, while you're at it, why don't you also blog about Larry Sinclair? ... or, do the rules of ethics, common decency and slander only apply to covering the Obama campaign?
Posted by: MED | May 2, 2008 4:33:26 PM
I despise John McCain as a candidate, but I will vote for him over Barack Obama anyday. Obama is not ready. He's a flashy speech giver with George W. Bush's preparedness. No thanks, I would rather not put that in the White House.
Posted by: kendall | May 2, 2008 4:32:35 PM
When is this game of "let's be stupid" going to stop? Digging up an old, and questionable "quote", when the quote itself can be taken in a number of different ways, is totally nuts. We are quickly becoming a third-rate nation, full of morons who will post, and believe, just about anything. Use your brains, for a change. Even if the quote is accurate, so what?
Posted by: chuckl | May 2, 2008 4:31:51 PM
The man clearly said **** people. The last part of the video doesn't even matter. Remember how people was so offended by the word "bitter". Hoosiers should be uproared about this. Obama was trying to make a point for the people he was referring to, this Kantor guy is clearly insulting them. Anybody that doesn't see that on the Clintonite side, must be a liar and manipulater as well as their leader...remember "guilt by association"...
Posted by: Mitch | May 2, 2008 4:31:14 PM
"While politicians are dabating the long term solution, can we consumers get some temporary relief???" - True Truth
If we have x amount of fuel supply left and we lower the price for 3 months more people will fill up tanks because it's cheaper. After 3 months go by we have less amount of fuel. By supply and demand the price of gas will increase. Why? Because we only have an x amount of fuel supply and it keeps declining while the supply stays the same. In order to slow down the declining rate of gas, oil companies must increase price. This does not solve our problem both long term and short term.
Yes you do save about $30 for the entire 3 months, but that is not a significant amount of relief. Especially, if the price of gas just increases after the tax holiday. This plan is will do more harm than good.
Posted by: blogr214 | May 2, 2008 4:30:53 PM
I'm surprised abc even posted anything remotely negative about the Clintons. But then again, if the Clintons say it's a fake and abc takes it down.... seems very on par for abc.
Mainstream media will never show this tot he extent of the Wrights fiasco. Reason being, the intent is to obliterate Obama during the primarys then attack the Clintons with all of their so far unmentioned skeletons during the general thus leaving another McBush/McSame for 4 more years to vulturize America.
You measly back and forth posters haven't caught on yet. Just what they want. And just what they expect.
Posted by: Oh Please | May 2, 2008 4:30:44 PM
SJ,
Thanks a lot. I missed about that issue.
He always makes any promise to get voters.
Posted by: blue Irish | May 2, 2008 4:26:21 PM
If you think Paul v. Clinton is something, you should read Hillary's Online Blog.
It'll leave you gasping for air!
Posted by: Missy | May 2, 2008 4:24:47 PM
Well whoever wants to keep plugging this doctored video they can but when law suits start to fly for slander by Kantor I hope everyone that is hooking on to this have a real good excuse of valid facts.
Posted by: SJ | May 2, 2008 4:24:05 PM
Christians for Obama........go NC and IN. We need NO MORE of the Clinton slurs and deceit. And we are tired of the lies. Bye bye, Hil.
Posted by: CraigB | May 2, 2008 4:22:53 PM
Bill Clinton is not CHARGED with anything. You guys are clearly in high school because you know absolutely nothing about basic civics. If this were a criminal case, the name would be State of California v Clinton. This is a private lawsuit. Calling it "fraud" does not make it true. This moron Paul is a convicted felon; he was convicted of fraud himself TWICE. And you believe him? Get real.
"In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on Friday, April 25, 2008 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in a sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until AFTER the November election!."
Here is the kicker - the judge is a Bill Clinton appointee!"