Mickey Kantor is a former aide to President Bill Clinton and currently is an informal adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton. He’s in trouble with the media and pretty mad about it. Read about it below and see the video that’s causing the uproar.
I had just gotten home from Wal-Mart where I was afraid of everyone who wasn’t like me when I read about Mickey Kantor insulting the good people of Indiana. It seems he called them ‘worthless white n***rs’ and ’sh**’. I was so upset I hurriedly sought to comfort myself and relieve my bitterness by clutching my Bible and the arsenal of guns I have in the back room.
Mickey Kantor was an aide to President Bill Clinton and now serves as sort of an informal adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton. Well, someone dug up a videotape of him in ‘The War Room’ planning strategy with George Snuffleupagus and James Carphead from way back in 1992. In the video, which is spreading over the internet like herpes on a college campus, Kantor is talking about the upcoming primary in Indiana. Coincidentally, WE are talking about an upcoming primary in Indiana! Can you believe the timing of that? Anyway, you can’t understand him, so someone very graciously went to the effort to put in subtitles to make sure that everybody knows what he’s saying.
In the video, Kantor is heard (actually read) to say, “Look at Indiana — wait, wait, look at Indiana. 42-40. It doesn’t matter if we win, those people are sh*t.” He also calls the very good people of Indiana, ‘worthless white n****rs’. WEeellLL, need I say THAT didn’t go over well. Actually, it went viral. Immediately.
Some Obama supporters put out the video and enhanced it with subtitles for us all. I guess that was payback for the insults Obama flung at the good people of Pennsylvania just before that primary. I know that doesn’t make sense, but you have to remember to get into their mindset. THEN, it might make an iota of sense.
Mickey Kantor is SO mad. He said he is going to DEMAND that the video be taken off YouTube and that he didn’t and never has nor ever would use THAT word (he was talking about the ‘N’ word). I did notice that he didn’t deny calling the people of Indiana ’sh*t’. I guess there are priorities here. He is so outraged. Its a ‘conspiracy’, a vast left wing conspiracy (this time). Its ‘libel’. Its character assassination. Its, its … got him in the news when he’s been long forgotten.
As I sit here hating everyone who isn’t like me, overwhelmed with bitterness and clutching my Bible and guns, I find myself wondering if there is a democrat anywhere who has any respect for the American people. You know, I mean the ones that don’t live in the places the Effete Elite live. If I didn’t know better, I’d think they just wanted to use us for votes and taxes.
As a friend of mine often says, ‘Its get’n ugly up in here, up in here.’
Mickey Kantor - Video
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Beth,
Just to be clear, are you implying that Republicans do care about everyday people? The last time I checked, the left didn’t have a monopoly of using people “below” them. I realize that GW speaks like he is a commoner, but he was born with a big fat silver spoon wedged in that truthiness mouth of his as well.
My point is that all politicians use people. That is a founding principle of democracy. That whole bit of “of the people, by the people, for the people” uses a very narrow definition of the word “people”.
What cracks me up is when a politician will use a story about their childhood to imply that they are a common man now because they were a common child then. Why do they pander to the common man? I like what John Stewart said about elitism. Paraphrasing: “I want my leader to be elite. I want him (or her) to speak 16 languages. I don’t want to have a beer with my leader. Since when was being elite a bad thing?”
I am digressing, but my original point is still that no politician thinks of him or herself as a common American. Therefore, I think they struggle to truly respect who common Americans really are. Hard to respect the struggles and sacrifices of someone who lives a life completely different than your own regardless of your political leanings.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
Note that this is the first day this week that Obama is not in the media crosshairs. It will be interesting to see if side stories like this are too little too late, or are going to end up saving his butt.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Well, as of 12:20 PST, the video is “no longer available” on YouTube. Looks like “they” got to work fast. Kantor just scored an own-goal for team hillary.
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
The clinton tent is, of course, saying “NUH-UH, NO WAY, NOPE.
Clinton Camp Rejects Video Purporting to Show Aide Bashing Indiana Voters
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/02/clinton-camp-rejects-video-purporting-to-show-aide-bashing-indiana-voters/