May 11, 2008
May 5, 2008
Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours
Posted by polamex at 08:47 PM in holy shit , software . | Permalink | 0 Comments
Here's a time-lapse of the security footage. Ugh.
May 2, 2008
Hillary Clinton advisor video controversy
Posted by ryan at 11:15 AM in politics . | Permalink | 0 Comments
Earlier today I posted what appeared to be a video of Hillary Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor using a racial slur to describe the people of Indiana from 1992. The video has been spreading throughout the blogosphere this morning with subtitles and a semi audible clip of Kantor making the remark, "How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?" when speaking of Indiana voters.
The Huffington Post caught up with Kantor and also the director of "the War Room", a 1993 film in which the clip was lifted.
A former aide to President Bill Clinton, and current informal adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, expressed outrage and shock on Friday after a videotape from 1992 surfaced allegedly showing him describing Indianans as "white n---rs."
Mickey Kantor, who served as campaign chairman during Clinton's 1992 run for the White House and says he has offered help and advice to Sen. Clinton, insisted that the tape was a fraud and that he was exploring legal steps against the individual who posted it online.
"I've never used that word in my entire life, ever, under any circumstance, ever," an angry Kantor told The Huffington Post, citing his and his parent's work fighting for civil rights. "I have listened to [the video] and so have you. You can't tell what it is I'm saying in that second sentence, you can't decipher that."
Indeed, a review of the original copy of the 1993 film The War Room, from which the excerpt was taken (around the 4:40 mark) is virtually inaudible. The sound suggests, if anything, that instead of saying "How would you like to be a worthless white n****r?" Kantor says, "How would you like to be in the White House right now?"
The director of the film, moreover, says that Kantor never uttered those words. "He does not say that. He does not say that," D.A. Pennebaker told Ben Smith.