Official Transcript: Kantor Never Impugned Hoosiers

Just this morning, Kantor told the Huffington Post that he was referring to the pollsters, not the people of Indiana. Now the story has changed. He said “sh*tting,” and he was not referring to the pollsters, but to the incumbent administration. Why is the story changing if he has nothing to hide? And why are there contemporaneous news stories referring to a Kantor comment on the people of Indiana? And why are you reporting claims as though they were fact?

What does this have to do with the Obama camp???
Clinton supporters are always the first to point fingers
Is Obama name even written on this blog post???
wow
Clinton lost this nomination on her own… stop blaming Obama for everything that goes wrong within the Clinton camp

I hope DKOS and Huffinton gets sued for spreading this Bs.

The obvious fact emerging in stories like this one is that the Obama campaign and Obama supporters are getting desperate. The momentum has swung to Clinton, and taking the contest to the Democratic convention in August will spell doom for any Obama effort.
Even Republicans are starting to use Obama as a tool against Democrats seeking office in two states, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The Associated Press released a story today showcasing Barack Obama as an emerging political liability. It seems that Obama’s face now appears in television ads from Republicans using him as a negative for Democrats in two looming special elections for long-held Republican seats.
Republicans in both states clearly view Obama as a Democratic albatross. The Republican Party and one of its conservative allies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads portraying Obama as a liberal and tying Cazayoux (Louisiana) and Childers (Mississippi) to the Illinois senator.
When it comes to taxes Childers, Cazayoux and Barack Obama think alike — they both want to raise them says an ad by Freedom’s Watch, an outside group financed by wealthy Republican contributors.
The National Republican Congressional Committee, the branch of the national party that assists GOP candidates, has linked Childers and Cazayoux to Obama and Nancy Pelosi. In Louisiana, the party’s ad says Obama and Pelosi represent “a radical agenda, very different from Louisiana’s values.”
NRCC Chairman Tom Cole, a GOP congressman from Oklahoma, this week said Republicans would rather run with Obama at the top of the Democratic presidential ticket than Clinton.
Obama “is by any definition very liberal, to the left of Hillary Clinton, in a center-right country,” Cole said. “That is very, very helpful to us.”
Obama cannot get beyond the Jeremiah Wright debacle. Obama’s past performance and present positions will be more than adequate for Republicans to hand Democrats a landslide defeat.

The truth hurts…….

ABC News
A-Always
B-Be
for
C-Clinton

As a follow up to my reaction to this item today, it is of no surprise that the dem. candidates are going to Fox News for a ‘fair and balanced’ coverage. In a rush to create news and score points, MSM has resulted to tabloid journalism. Stuff like this is what you expect to see or read in the ‘Star’,'Enquirer and others.

…later on in the War Room clips on the internet, they zoom in on a piece of paper which clearly says “IN -2,” and everyone knows Clinton LOST Indiana in 1992, right?? Hence the trash-talking by Kantor.

gee you convinced me. the transcript?
Kantor ? arent they still involved in the clinton camp?
I heard the clip and it STILL sounds like S***
not s***ing
funny how the washington post is at odds with your version there Kantor said he said Sh**
the post also claims that this was NOT the first time this comment against “Indianans” came out about the film
I wish the MSM would get their stories of denials in sync

Well, Omentum,
You may have missed the stuttering and stammering.
You may have missed Obama running away from a debate with Hillary Clilnton.
You may have missed Obama’s desperate attempts to vindicate his “old uncle” Jeremiah Wright.
Indiana and North Carolina voters did not.
The Republican National Committee did not.
And, we did not.
Actually, you didn’t either.
August is coming.
Obama/Wright ’08

We are the change that we can believe in.

Ya know. I listened to again and it sounds like:
MICKEY KANTOR: Look at Indiana. Wait, wait. Look at Indiana. Forty-two, forty. It doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are s—-y. (oh, excuse me) In the White House . . . how would you like to be… Look at Texas, go down to Texas.
It must be nice to allow somebody to rework a conversation to try and provide context. Only Hillary gets to do that though.

t
the trouble obama has he has caused himself. through bad judgement.
he also showed this week that he is not the change above the fray candidate HE
keeps telling us he is.
He will do and say anything to get elected. knowing now how he is handling the rev. wright issue-it is hard to know if we can believe what he is saying.

Cheater, cheater just can’t beat her!
That can be traced. The culprit needs to be traced straight back to Obama.
This is the kind of stuff they’ve done this whole campaign.

Just in from the Clinton campaign. Another official transcript has been found to clear a misconception about Hillary’s comments:
“Screw [th]em [flourescents in] ,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”
[You see this was taken out of context regarding the electric company.]

“Official Transcript”? Who’s “official transcript” Why don’t you link to the video and let people decide for themselves. That transcript is bs – he said what he said, and he did say that those folks in Indiana are sh*t

“Official Transcript”? Who’s “official transcript” Why don’t you link to the video and let people decide for themselves. That transcript is bs – he said what he said, and he did say that those folks in Indiana are sh*t

google oregon change we can believe in
it is real good, and we can all thank bob banks for it.
it is clear who we should be voting to be president.
oregon, change we can believe in

When something like this happens, the first thing I always ask is “who benefits?”. That is, who stands to gain the most by causing confusion, sowing dissension, and generally causing further trouble. In this case more trouble for the Democrats.
The Obama camp might benefit from this a little, but since it throws more fuel on the fire of “race” in the campaign it seems unlikely.
And the Clinton camp might benefit a little from this as she could score sympathy from being falsely attacked. But that also seems unlikely since it such a big risk if discovered.
So then who are we left with. Who benefits the most? Well all the Hilary people are bashing the Obama people and claiming dirty politics. All the Obama people are bashing the Hilary people and lashing out.
Gee. Sounds to me like the culprits could be any person, or people, who might benefit from further chaos in the Democratic primary process. And it looks like they are getting it. I wonder who they could be?
Not saying it was a Party initiative, but lower level operatives of party outsiders of BOTH parties have pulled stuff like this before.

You see this is what happens when you pull from 1992. Can we please deal with the hear and now? You all act as if there isn’t enough going on right now. Gas prices, killings in Chicago ( which by the way I find interesting that its Obama’s home state and he has not addressed it once as if he can’t influence oh wait I guess it doesn’t help his campaign) polygamy, there is so much right now and you are spending your time in 1992. Come on people…let’s focus !!!

Why have the Clinton supporters been acting like babies and whining ever since this video came out? Grow up!!

I do not “fear” change. What I fear is an arrogant, inexperienced media crowned unknown who thinks he is better than anyone else becoming our President. That is what I fear. This unknown person can and will change America alright – but in what direction? What has he done for the State of Illinois that is so spectacular that he can repeat this for the Nation? Who is this guy and what can he do for us? All I can see is he can do NOTHING. He can’t even stand up to scrutiny in a debate and then he and his pastor make up a scenario where the pastor goes loopy and obama then has to disown him so obama can get more votes and the sympathy of the blue collar voters because they are bitter?
I want someone that I can trust that I know is there to keep this country safe and not give this country to the ANTI-AMERICAN people he associates with. This guy has become worth $200M since he started to run for president. What does this tell you? No, don’t you DARE blame the Clintons on this one – this is obama all by himself, but his followers keep making excuses for all his errors and blame them on Clinton. That alone tells me what his followers are like – they are like him and who in the hell is this guy? He can destroy America and the rest of us as well. He is an impostor. Look out people.

justsaying: Wow…already trying to come up with excuses as to why Hillary will lose NC! Eeeexxxxcceelleeentttt!!!!!

justsaying:
This is 2008. While not meaning to ever demean disenfranchisement of blacks in the south, this is not about that. This is 2008 and we are in the midst of important primaries. Supplying people with prefilled in ballots would not sit well with most people. Let the people vote for themselves. It is a personal constitutional right. guaranteed.

Again to all the Obama supporters. You want Change? I got change in my pocket, how much you need?
President Hillary 08

Obama has been trying to promote a clean image, while his campaign and supporters are slinging mud as hard as they can.
Every time Obama gets into trouble Axelrod and company start calling someone in the Clinton camp racist, in a cynical attempt to agitate their base. They have no interest in giving African American voters hope. They want to stoke their hatred by accusing Hillary of racism. They send out bogus mailers, blatantly misstating Hillary’s position on health care. This fake video is a dirty trick that has their fingerprints all over it.

Ah, my pathetic race card desperation from the Obama camp. Sad, sad. But in their defense, you’d be desperate too if the American public responded as negatively to your mistakes as they have to Obama’s sudden, convenient reversal on Rev. Wright.
According to the new Rassmussen poll, 58% of Americans believe Obama denounced Wright for political convenience and not due to true outrage. And another 56% say Obama holds Wright’s views.
Can you say UNelectable?

Justsaying, this is my post to you:
“This is 2008. While not meaning to ever demean disenfranchisement of blacks in the south, this is not about that. This is 2008 and we are in the midst of important primaries. Supplying people with prefilled in ballots would not sit well with most people. Let the people vote for themselves. It is a personal constitutional right.”
So, now why are you calling me disgusting?? Why am I uneducated and blue collar?? Please enlighten me.

CNN Campbell Brown is going to have the doctored video on at 8PM. I am surprised. You sure will not see it on Olbermann.

This expose’ might be the best thing yet that will be in favor of Clinton. This will show what obama is really like and how he is absolutely a fake and lying to smear Clinton. When this all comes out, thanks to the obama puppets, this should make obama’s numbers come down by a few more points. Continue to put stuff like this out there puppets so that everyone will know how phony and what really dirty tricks obama will play to win the nomination so he can put his ANTI-AMERICAN pals into his cabinet.

The Clinton supporter will put every single thing they can on Obama, if Obama was as nasty as Hillary, he could have found many, many, factual things to come out against her. So you should think about what you are talking about before you make your assumptions.
He has demonstrated that he is a man of integrity. Now, people say he is trying to be better thatn the rest of the candidates, I wonder how you come to that conclusion. He is an honest person, many Americans can’t stand honesty can you, it is evident because when Bill Clinton cheated on his wife, it was acceptable, even though he looked into those camera pointed his finger and declared he did not have sex with that woman, then he lied under oath and was convicted of perjury, impeached and disbarred. None of that mattered to millions of Americans and now that we see someone doing their best to tell the American people the truth, he gets attacked for being honest. Personally, I will be happy when this *hit is over and we all can go back to being the racist, immoral society, terriost, fighting for oil as MCCain himself said today, and go on with our pitful lives.

I am a video director and I am here to tell abc news they are lyeing I studied the tape and its nothing compared to your transcript MICKEY KANTOR did say those slurs, the tape was slowed and broke down for study and voice recognition verified!! please stop lyeing to the american people!!

Looks to me like another Rathergate-style plant. Possibly from the Obama camp, but more likely from Hillary’s side, and even more likely from Rove, who thinks he knows how to beat Hillary, but hasn’t a clue how to be Obama — except by tricks such as this. Easily denied, easy to pin on Obama, and Hillary walks away clean.

Proud American – who cares! We’re still voting for Hillary here in Indiana!

People–come on!! Wake up! Clinton was actually DOWN 2 in Indiana–NOT winning at all. In fact, he lost the state to Bush in 1992. This is why Kantor is saying “We don’t need them, they’re sh*t.” So no matter what the official transcript says, I would guess that the filmmaker is “officially” covering Kantor’s behind.

jake,
you owe Kantor… AND Clinton an apology!
as for Obama, you owe him a “nuggie”!

First Hillary goes on O’Reilly and says as clear as day – “Rich people, God bless us;”
Then the Clinton loyalist Kantor is on video undisputably calling the people of Indiana “sh*t”;
Then the Clinton campaign has the gall to tell the entire nation that we didn’t hear it right – even though I’ve watched these clips fifty times and believe me, I heard them right.
Well, Senator Clinton, when I and every other Hoosier go vote on Tuesday, don’t expect us to stay focused on your gas tax gimmick and forget that we’re all “sh*t.”

[[Just this morning, Kantor told the Huffington Post that he was referring to the pollsters, not the people of Indiana. Now the story has changed. He said "sh*tting," and he was not referring to the pollsters, but to the incumbent administration. Why is the story changing if he has nothing to hide?]]
Good grief, this happened 15 years ago. How on earth is he supposed to remember every detail of what was an unbelievably exciting night?
Or can you just not stand to have it not be true?

He said “sh*tting,” and he was not referring to the pollsters, but to the incumbent administration. Why is the story changing if he has nothing to hide?]]
What’s IMPORTANT Julie, is that he was NOT referring to the people in Indiana!

Upon watching more of the clip cited below, when Kantor is saying it’s 42-40 in Indiana (4:43), Clinton seems to actually be the one with 40 (i.e., the one losing)–hence the statement that Indiana people are “sh*t.”
Please see the zoom-in on the paper at 5:39 in this very same video:
(find this by searching for War Room 9 on You Tube)
In bright red marker it clearly says “IN -2,” whereas on the rest of the list, if Clinton is ahead, it says, for example, “KY +2.” Please check this out yourselves–it’s right in the video.

oscar meyer:
you’re full of spam.
Barack Obama:
you’re full of Beans!
Michelle Obama”" you got an earmark
from BO’s Pork!
Jeremiah Wright: BO benefitted from
headlines donated to your false fight; HIS Perk!
Spam, Beans, Pork, Unwarranted Perk…
Yup, that pretty much describes B O!

umm….Clinton losing Indiana *period* was the point. Apparently Kantor didn’t like that or the people who voted that way too much.

Truth hurts, indeed…

AxelRove is up to his dirty tricks again. That was obviously put out by the Mr. Hope campaign. He’s going to lose his neighboring state, Indiana. They were trying to stop the bleeding. It failed MISERABLY. Their dirty tricks may have worked after NH and during SC, but people are onto them now. Right before every Primary something nasty comes out attacking Hillary’s campaign. Hmmmm….who on EARTH is doing that? We’re not stupid, Mr. Hope. We know what you’re doing and the voters now see right through you and your fake “positive” campaign.

The obomaniacs are out in full force tonight… “borrowing” the names of Clinton followers and slipping unwanted words into their posts.
This, of course is understandable; these people would LIKE to slip their limited knowledge into your brains,
and make sure that a “C” magically becomes an “O” when you take your ballot into the voting room.
But no one has the right to steal your name…. or your vote! And B O is all to willing to abide by the disenfranchising of the vote to T W O
statesful of Americans!
The Constitution is more powerful than the DNC!
Thata’s just ONE of the reasons I’m going to be voting for Hillary!

There is a link on Andrew Sullivan’s Website to a 1993 review of the “War Room” in the Washingon Post. The reviewer mentions that Kantor makes a comment about the people of Indiana.

Andrew Sullivan didn’t write the review, Desson Howe did, back in 1993.

ERIC:
“People who don’t want Obama to win fear change”…. like having the Oval Office over run with the likes of Raila Odinga, (whose tagline also is “Your Agent of Change”), Auchi, Reverand Meeks, Rashid Khalidi, Farrakhan, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn,some of his Hamas contacts… and eventually, of course, Pastor Wright!
“They are accustomed to having things remain the same “….. like having people in ALL states participate in the election of their party’s nominee.
But they also look forward to health care which covers EVERYONE, along with viable solutions to improve both our economic problems and our global problems.
Thata’s why we need a STRONG, BRILLIANT nominee to get us through these next difficult years….. and we are lucky to have one.
Her name is Hillary, and I approve of this message!

Sorry guys, the video don’t lie. Why was Kantor lowering his voice if what he said was Okay?

Omentum:
Obama to the Wright House
Clinton to the White House

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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?

Tom,
I could use about $109 million.

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…

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

To Dave:
Do you represent the typical Obama supporter?? You still insist it is true when everyone under the sun, including people who have run the video through forensic accoustics, have confirmed that the second clip was doctored.
WOW you are way out there in orbit.

I want to thank Bush for my tax rebate check. I am endorsing it over to Obama immediately. That will be the surest and most effective way to improve the economy, Iraq, and health care.

I have a hard time believing that it’s Hillary supporters and not the usual Freepers that are spamming every mention of this story with allegations that the Obama campaign was somehow involved. It’s been a tough fight but we’re all Dems and the Dems I know aren’t like that. This is a NON-story and a distraction. What we’ve learned is that people are easily tricked by video. I saw it Friday morning and thought “I can’t believe he said that”. I can even admit the darker parts of my soul hoped that Hillary would be harmed because I’m just so eager to get the attention on neocon John. But this stuff is just the kind of guilt by association garbage that’s preventing us from facing our nation’s real challenges. Within a few hours, anyway, it was exposed as doctored video. The only thing I’m left wondering about is the ellipsis in the transcript, but this is not an important issue and it barely deserves mentioning.

Obama has played the race card from day one.

This is not the Obama camp playing the race card. This is the Republicans trying to break the Democratic party apart. Helloooo?
Democrats Unite!
Obama 08

Kantor didn’t slur Indiana. It’s CARVILLE that thinks Democratic voters are stupid… Carville alone is enough to keep me from supporting Hillary.

@Kirk. That’s the same interpretation. He was talking about the pollsters. Bush had pollsters. Each campaign has pollsters. The Clintons had Greenberg, and the Bushes? This Black guy. That’s the guy they say must be “sh–ing.”
I won’t speculate where it came from. I hope not indirectly from Obama’s camp. Maybe Drudge? Politico? Could it be Republicans, trying to spread ill will among Democrats? Who knows? I wish our media wouldn’t fall for any story that doesn’t explain the context. They fell for the phony “Dean scream” story four years ago, remember? A week after they play patty-cake with the story, somebody — maybe it was Nightline, back when it had a conscience — showed us how it was a microphone that eliminated all the screams of the audience and made Dean’s screams sound crazy.
Maybe we should go back to the old regime: networks can’t make money out of news, but if they don’t put on enough high-quality news, they lose their licenses?

Libby,
I know you represent the typical racist Clinton supporter. Clinton has been fueling the flames of hate with her appeals to “blue collar” dems. We all know that she and Bill really mean bigoted, ignorant, economically challenged white dems.
I hope you enjoy your “white pride” candidate after the supers put their stamp on it.
We’ll all continue to suffer when McCain steps into the White House.

Who would have thought that in this day and age with all that has passed and with hope for change on the horizon that we will all be back to politics as usual as soon as the supers put their stamp on this thing? Another Reconstruction failed. Sad…just plain sad.

Reading these comments I’ve learned that Obama supporters are BITTER and cling to their “hope” to unify the country and change the whole wide world by being remarkably snarky and somewhat delusional.I find it almost IMPOSSIBLE to believe that if the “enhanced” dialouge had actually appeared in the War Room that the vast right wing conspiracy Clinton haters wouldn’t have picked it up and broadcast it from the rooftops a DECADE ago.Call me incredulous.It’s the audacity of get over yourselves