for correcting the record.

Although I do wonder how much longer it will take him to realize that it's not like the old days, you can't just click on blogs and presume they are telling you the truth.

hardest working man in lefty blogosphere. bless you sir

you can’t just click on blogs and presume they are telling you the truth.

I'm thinking of this as the Aravosis Effect; it's kind of the blogospheric equivalent of the Doppler Effect. It describes the ever-increasing velocity at which wishful innuendo spreads from blog to blog until it drowns out skepticism and crowds out empirical reality.

Those "creative class" types sure have it hard!

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

that the stimulus is BS.

Now, I agree that it is bad economic policy, but hey I'm eagerly awaiting my money so I can get a new dryer, some repair work done on my car, and maybe save some for a rainy day.

So it's painful to hear someone like Avrosis, say the struggles that I am having shouldn't be addressed, even if it is only short term(same thing with Obama & the gas tax).

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

... the general idea in the "creative class" [cough] is that you should take one for the team.

Same deal with universal health care, now that I think about it.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Seems to be "How much are you willing to give up, so we can have what we want" from the Boiz.

They want us to give up bullet points, UHC, women's rights, real race debates, and the critique on the bad mix of religion and politics, just so Obama can get elected.

Is it any wonder he is losing?

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

That's nice but I'm still waiting for Atrios to admit he was suckered on on the WVWV in NC thing. And it is looking like I'm going to have a long wait.

credit for doing the Kantor YouTube video.

Now, the post is "updated," but without the content that I recall reading earlier. Interesting.

Appears to definitely be an Obamabot spot.

Anyone know anything about this site? http://www.jedreport.com/2008/05/hillary-clinton.html

was investigated and the details determined?

Thanx to whoever knocked it down. However, at the link above they still believe it.

...the Obama people will quickly pivot to saying that the hackishness of the Kantor clip proves that it was a _Clinton_ ratfuck designed to make Obama look bad, along the lines of Karl Rove bugging his own candidate's office. (I haven't been reading around the Lek* today, so this may well have already happened.)

* Start spreadin' the meme...

Nope.

But from my own digging.

Guy on jedreport dot com

"Jed" himself:

i can 100% vouch for the fact that nothing was dubbed in from the dvd. it is exactly what was on the dvd. there was a little bit of audio quality filtering, but that doesn't change what was said, just narrows the dynamic range and gets rid of background noise.

The various videos on youtube, are from very very recent accounts. Created basically to post this video.(created less that 12 hours from the current time)

"Jed's" own youtube channel is chock full of CDS. Created in March 2007. 187 videos!

What "Jed" says about himself

I haven't worked in politics since 2004, when I was a senior staffer on the Hill.

Also:

I'm also seeking representation for a recently completed political thriller set in Las Vegas and DC. You can reach me at JedReport at Gmail -- especially if you know any literary agents interested in a good read! -- Jed

"Jed" has two other privately registered domains:

Obamaiswinning.com and johnmcbush2008.com

Registered in Jan and Feb of this year.

"Jed" is quite viral.

has a profile on just about every site you can imagine.

at least one person on my.barakobama.com likes "Jed's" steez

So who is "Jed"?

Willy, this is great stuff, but I'm not sure it makes Jed the editor, only an early propagator. Nevertheless... It's interesting. You saw the non-denial denial over at Politico? They're saying nothing to do with the Obama campaign, but there aren't many degrees of separation from being a Hill staffer to being a campaign operative.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Tom Daschle lost his reelection bid in 2004 - His COS went to work for Obama, but a freshman Senator gets fewer staff than the Senate Majority or Minority leaders

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No wonder they like to pretend they’re the high-information creative class.

It’s better than being an emotionally-arrested under-educated Cheeto-stained dweeb.
- Reclusive Leftist

Wow now our private conversations are logged and video'd and dissected, even the ones we have with our own families....what does that remind me of.....

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

the whole campaign was filmed for the film "The War Room" which is about the 1992 Clinton campaign. It is a pretty good film.

but to claim he can vouch for it's authenticity?

there is a clip from his own youtube channel taken again from the War Room with his own jedreport.com watermark right on the video from just two days ago.

I personally don't recall ever hearing about this documentary...so the obession with it now as the source of the recent CDS raises a red flag to me.

Somebody thought they found a treasure trove of damaging footage. A lot of it appears to be some attempt to discredit Stephanopoulos.

Thanks for the info, I mean does anyone else but us know that this is 16 years old, and is Bill Clinton's staff?

How illiterate is the media now? Do they have journalism degrees or is that not a requirement anymore?
"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

first paragraph, not that that there was a quite likely doctored video making the internet rounds which shows a Clinton adviser in a bad light. No, much better to put the slanderous "quote" in the part most likely to be read. Sheesh.

By Alex Koppelman
Friday, May 2, 2008 13:48 EDT
What did Mickey Kantor really say?
A former aide to Bill Clinton is the center of controversy today after a video emerged on YouTube in which he allegedly says, "Look at Indiana -- 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win; those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni***r?"

The former aide in question is Mickey Kantor, who was the chairman of Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign; he's now an informal advisor to Hillary Clinton. The clip is taken from legendary director D.A. Pennebaker's documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign, "The War Room."

But as quickly as the video surfaced and the controversy began, it seems now to have abated, as those who jumped on the story early are now largely walking it back and both Kantor and Pennebaker have contended that the clip in which Kantor's shown saying that is doctored. The video that kick-started all this has been pulled from YouTube; a longer clip from the movie that includes the disputed moment is below. (The section in question begins at about 4:38 in.)

Click for rest of Salon article by Koppelman. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/02/kantor/index.html

fairly widely distributed in theaters. Here's Janet Maslin's brief review from the NYTimes: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/122628/The-War-Room/overview

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/...

Quote two reviews from the early 90's where reviewers say something about Kantor saying, they think, something about Indiana. Toward the bottom.

Probably not in Nebraska.

Our local theater overlords (monopoly, outside of the universities and colleges) protect us from such things as 'Award Winning Documentaries'.

The university theater tries...

to see any films out of the ordinary.

Even this close to a huge metro area, Netflix is my friend (and the library).

here is what the audio is being quoted as saying...

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

HOLY CELESTE FREMON!

Here we have another case of creative editing...except in this case, we have the actual context...her is what is actually said...

Look at Indiana -- 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win; those people are shitting...oh excuse me..[garbled] in the White House. How would you like to be [inaudible]"

By leaving out the "in the White House" whoever came up with this scam deliberatly and knowingly misrepresented what was on the tape.

The words

They are talking about the polls, Cantor points to the paper, he could have said "those people are shitty" referring to just about anything, I doubt seriously it is about Indiana esp as they are ahead in Indiana and would be looked at favorably, the other thing is that they are on camera, and they are aware of it. My interpretation from being in business where you are talking about something and point to a paper with someone's name on it who you don't rely on for info and say, oh yeah well these people are totally shitty.
There is not enough info to make an interpretation of this. But my experience with educated whites is that the n word is not in our vocabulary period.

I think it is as likely to be an anti-semantic themos that we can look forward to unfolding with the Obama camp.
"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

Quote two reviews from the early 90’s where reviewers say something about Kantor saying, they think, something about Indiana.

If Mickey Kantor had said the people of Indiana were sh!t, right in the middle of a famous documentary, shouldn't there have been a hue and cry from Hoosiers right about the time the movie came out in the first place? Tapper has those quotes (thx jawbone), but they don't seem to point to any actually offended Indiana denizens. You'd think an Indiana newspaper would have said something in real time.

Look at Indiana — 42-40. It doesn’t matter if we win; those people are shitting…oh excuse me..[garbled] in the White House. How would you like to be [inaudible]”

I'm surprised it doesn't say "How would you like to be a noble, selfless candidate of hope and change, like that fine community organizer Barack Obama, about whose good works I've heard so much and whose reputation we'll have to be sure to destroy with plausibly deniable racist tactics. All things in time. Mwahahahahah!"

feigning ignorance and stirring the pot at the same time.

It's now a multifaceted scandal now.

1.) Did Kantor use the slur?

2.) Did Kantor call Hoosiers shitty.

3.) Did Kantor insult Hoosiers by calling them Indianians?

Tapper is skillfully playing the 'even other people way back then questioned what he said...so I GUESS there is SOME chance it MIGHT be what Kantor was implying'

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. (typical of his work as well)

Then top it off with

Were I not currently eating a chicken sandwich at Liberty East Restaurant in Charlotte, NC, while working on a World News piece about the economy and the candidates

The mind boggles.

I'm currently too busy to actually verify my theories, but I have time to write this post filled with just enough caveats to cover my ass just in case this blows up in my face

And the title The Mystery of "The War Room" Clip.

Clinton aide killed Hoosiers in the Library with the Wrench!! 15 Years Ago!!

There is not enough info to make an interpretation of this. But my experience with educated whites is that the n word is not in our vocabulary period.

I wouldn't go that far. But I seriously doubt that after apologizing to the cameraman for using the word "shitting", that Kantor would have used the word "n****r" immediately afterwards.

had used the "n" word, you can bet the Clinton Administration would've been beaten silly with it in the 1990s by the press and everyone else (including the right-wing hacks helping fan this bullshit story).

means that Kantor feels the Bush campaign(who was in the White House) must be shitting their pants! because Clinton is so close in a reliably Red State.

I'm quite positive that Cantor was feeling quite fine about the Hoosiers!

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

An clip that everyone knows is "doctored," with an "editor" who refuses to come forward. It's all right out in the open, isn't it?

Congratulations to the Obama campaign. Thank you, A listers. Well done, all.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

jed's dead, baby (starts harley and drives off)

So apparently is the missing media critique.

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POLITICS, n.
A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

.... was a shot in the dark, but it might also be a lucky hit.

Great comment, willyj. More like this, please. More data. More dots to connect.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

I just posted this on another thread -- but this guy fits the bill for what we know about Jed. http://www.correntewire.com/thanks_for_covering_the_news_josh#comment-85053