Shouting Grounds

I came across this video that has made it to the top of the digg page that claims in 1992 Mickey Kantor, a political aide to the Clinton campaign and now an aide to the Hilary Clinton Presidential campaign, said derogatory and racially hateful comments about residents of Indiana.

Of course some asshole puts this video on youtube, disables comments, and everyone takes the bait. No one in the digg comments even suggests that the video is erroneous and doctored. The text subtitles that are displayed show an entirely different message than most likely was said. The subtitles are as follows:

“It doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er”

If you listen closely to the tape and pay attention to Mikey’s mouth at the end of the video you’ll see that he doesn’t say anything of the sort. What he actually said (if you pay attention) was:

“It doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are shitting. How would you like to be unintelligible“

What happens is, they change the subtitles to read like he’s calling Hoosiers “shit” and since the last part of the “How would you like to be” sentence is whispered, the fellow creating the video added in his own lines (spoken from the heart, i’m sure) over the original audio to make it seem like this guy said it.

Don’t you find it odd that this video emerges just before the Indiana primary. Also, if this was anywhere near accurate, you don’t think that someone would have shit a brick in the last 10+ years since the documentary was released? Underhanded bullshit

Here is the video for your review, in all it’s bullshit glory….

Update

Here is the captured video since they took the real one off of youtube. I’m sure it’ll be back, under a different account without comments enabled, trying to spread bullshit throughout the net

Update 2

Audio Analysis – Clinton War Clip

After locating a similar clip of the video and comparing it to the version that was pulled from youtube, it doesn’t seem to have been doctored at all. The pulled clip was a bit noisier but that could be a product of the video capture. I’ve sampled both clips and assuming the second “original” clip is legit they seem to be the same recording.

I took the audio output of the pulled clip and put this on the left channel and then took the other “original” clip and pasted it on the right channel. What you are hearing is two clips side-by-side. If there were any differences or signs of doctoring then you would hear the clips either go out of sync or you would hear temporary panning as the two clips differed.

As of this moment I don’t know what the last comment was. I still believe that he didn’t say the people of Indiana were “shit”. He definitely said “they are shitting”, which I would believe to be a reference to the white house since Clinton was ahead in Indiana, a normally red state. The last statement seems to be a combination of his words and James Carville’s muttering, since he was reading information from a document right next to the camera. I really don’t know. What do you guys think?

 

 Mickey Kantor - Shitting Comment [00:00:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (490)
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