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(cross-posted at Reclusive Leftist)
The Obama camp is in meltdown. They’re looking at a loss in Indiana and a squeaker in North Carolina; the national polls are killing them; the media is suddenly treating Hillary like a contender; and worst of all, the DNC mouthpieces are making unaccustomed noises about how this is still an open contest.
They need something nuclear to turn the tables before Tuesday. In the past 48 hours they’ve made three attempts to gin up a Clinton scandal — all three heavily peddled and all three completely bogus.
First there was the Women’s Voices Women’s Votes business. Then there was the Color of Change petition. And now we have the Mickey Kantor doctored video.
The Kantor “scandal” consists of this: in a documentary from 1993 called the War Room, the camera shows Kantor, James Carville, and George Stephanopoulos reading the returns on election night 1992, which of course were very good for Clinton and very, very bad for Bush. When Kantor gets to Indiana he says, “Those people are shitting…How’d you like to be in the White House right now?”
Incredibly — and it is incredible to me — somebody in the Obama camp has dug up this 15-year-old documentary and argued that what Kantor is really saying is, “Those people are shit…How’d you like to be a worthless white n—-r?” — supposedly referring to the good people in Indiana.
No, of course it doesn’t make sense. It’s a desperate move by desperate people. What they’re gambling on is that a single idea will sink into the public mind: “somebody on the Clinton campaign said the people in Indiana are white n—–s.” Never mind that nobody said any such thing; never mind that it’s not even the current Clinton campaign. The dirty tricksters behind this know that most people don’t read and won’t bother to track down the YouTube clip.
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that this stunt is so crude it could backfire. Maybe the meme that will reach escape velocity won’t be the lie about Mickey Kantor, but the truth about Obama supporters circulating a doctored video to smear Clinton.
Over at the Mighty Corrente Building, vastleft is suggesting we embrace the zeitgeist by making up our own Clinton scandals. It occurs to me that what we really need is an automated Clinton Scandal Generator, something like a cross between Blogwarbot and the Daily Mail headline thing. Any code cowboys out there?
Was the Obama’s Truth Squad set up to do these kind of bogus attacks?