Here’s one Jed — frequent Kos poster, Obama supporter — with a humorous example of Unity in action:

[JEDREPORT] I do hope people don’t stereotype him just because he’s old and senile. Maybe he shouldn’t run because the last thing the elderly in this country need is the triggering of ugly stereotypes about their bowel habits. They already suffer from enough incontinence.

Ha ha! Teh funny!

Hey, come on. Where’s your sense of humor?

Hey, are these the people I trust not to privatize Social Security, or what?

Anybody know anything else about Jed? Because he seems like a guy with many different interests. [OK, OK, this has just been a teaser….]  Read more 

WKJM burbles happily:

If you missed the two-night Hillary-O’Reilly lovefest extravaganza (as I did, deliberately), we’ve got an easier-to-digest six-minute highlight reel just for you…

Yeah, with a lead-in like that, I’m sure I can totally trust the highlights to represent the event accurately. No doubt about it. None.

Seriously, you’d think Obama supporters like “Marshall” would have learned something from about the perils of doctoring “editing” videos from their recent experiences, but n-o-o-o-o!

Which reminds me:

ABC called the doctored video of “War Room” that smeared the Clintons a “the definition of a dirty trick”; in other words, Ratfucking. And not only do we know that an Obama supporter created it, the Obama campaign has issued a classic “non-denial denial.” Sounds to me like there just might be a story here!

So, I thought I’d see if the tribunes of the people in the blogosphere had done to advance the story, and —- I know this will surprise you — *** crickets *** Not one single solitary link on the whole front page. Zip. Zilch. Nada. (Although I did find the burbling noted above.)

So, is it only TPM’s 2008 campaign coverage that’s completely corrupt? Or everything?

And how do I tell?

If I had reportorial resources, like WKJM does, there’s are the questions I’d ask:  Read more 

Our story thus far:

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An as yet unnamed Obama supporter [JedReport?] doctors a “War Room” clip to insult IN voters before the IN primary, featuring Clinton supporters Carville and Kantor, and it gets propagated (somehow) onto the A list, who never (I have to assume) checked the YouTube’s provenance or got a transcript, and who should have known better.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint, the thing goes viral before it gets debunked. What I’d like to know is who blogwhored the YouTube to the A list, but we’ll never know that. No doubt Hillary will lose a few votes because of this. Well done, Obama supporters! Ain’t this new kind of politics grand?

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Well, now we have a transcript, and would you believe it, there’s nothing to the story at all*. Jake Tapper—who took his post down when problems began to surface—actually does some reporting:

Official Transcript: Kantor Never Impugned Hoosiers

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.

Tilmmakers 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:

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.

So Kantor was NOT insulting Hoosiers, he was experiencing a moment of schadenfreude about the Bush (Sr.) White House.

And now Jake asks a very interesting question:  Read more 

The man shows how it’s done. Surprise, the Kantor film clip video smearing the Hillary campaign was doctored. Nevertheless…  Read more