Mickey Kantor clip doctored

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Pennebaker: Clip Doctored

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 Indiana residents 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."

In an earlier version posted yesterday, the clip was circulating with a subtitle indicating -- Pennebaker says inaccurately -- that Kantor had insulted Hoosiers; the racial slur appears to have been added to the second version.

The audio in both versions isn't clearly audible; it's possible that the subtitles are incorrect, but that the audio hasn't been deliberately altered.

UPDATE: I spoke to the editor of the video who said that he enhanced, but didn't alter, the audio in the second portion of the video.

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Where's your evidence that the Obama campaign is responsible for this? Accusations, accusations. Never mind the facts. Never mind evidence. Just throw accusations at the other guy like there's no tomorrow hoping that some of them will stick. And then talk about dirty tricks. You're some pot.

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Where's your evidence that the Obama campaign is responsible for this? Accusations, accusations. Never mind the facts. Never mind evidence. Just throw accusations at the other guy like there's no tomorrow hoping that some of them will stick. And then talk about dirty tricks. You're some pot.

My evidence? Why, Troll of course! I trust you Obamniacs to be the new politics kinda guys..

Did you ever ask Troll if he was peddling partisan ####### on VJ? Noooo

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...t&p=1807465

New video this morning. Shows you what the Clinton's really think about Indiana!!

Kantor: "Look at Indiana - 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win; those people are s h i t. How would you like to be a worthless white ni***r?"

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He did say "those people are s h i t", in reference to Hoosiers

The white n----rs comment does appear to have been doctored. Unfortunate, really - "those people are s h i t" is bad enough.

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."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...mystery-of.html

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He did say "those people are s h i t", in reference to Hoosiers

The white n----rs comment does appear to have been doctored. Unfortunate, really - "those people are s h i t" is bad enough.

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."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...mystery-of.html

No Kantor was not referring to the Hoosiers he was referring to those in the WH

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.