Posted on 05/02/2008 5:29:52 PM PDT by Kleebo151
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.
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So Kantor was NOT insulting Hoosiers, he was experiencing a moment of schadenfreude about the Bush (Sr.) White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
I think it was one of markos “Screw Them” kool
aid kids that doctored the video.
Balony. Kantor cleary says “these people are sh**t.” Regarding the rest it is hard for me to tell but if he didn’t say anything offensive why did he have to whisper it?
In any case, all three of those idiots are extremely arrogant. Watching the vid I wanted to grab stephanopoulos by the right hand, Carville by the left hand, and smack both of them into Kantor. What effing arrogant punks....
This is going to go very badly for Obama. His holier than thou attitude is going to take a serious hit.
Here's the thing; there is another whisper that is picked up by the microphone or dubbed in from the movie production. It could be Stephanopolous whispering. He has his hand up next to his face so you can't see his mouth. It's not Carville because he happens to have his hand covering his mouth at the time.
There’s another bit in that film where Carville wants to nail the Bush Campaign for using materials made in another country (essentially at the expense of American jobs).
Even when he’s informed that it was an unaffiliated button maker, he still seemed like he wanted to run with the smear.
He said, "Those people are sh**t...." Yes, you are correct.
I also read Kantor's lips while he faced the camera uttering those words.
At this rate, the first black president will be a Republican.
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