This 1992 video of James Carville, George Stephanopolous, and Mickey Kantor, former Bill Clinton administration official and current adviser to Hillary Clinton, has been furiously circulating the blogosphere today. In it, Kantor, discussing election polls, 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 nigger?" So far, there's been no repudiation or denouncing from the Hillary Clinton camp, but Kantor told the Huffington Post that he was set up, that he never actually said what it sounds like he said, and that he has never uttered the n-word in his life. Elsewhere on the web, I've read that Kantor actually says "how would you like to be beat by a worthless white nigger," referring to the way the Bush camp viewed Bill Clinton. In which case he has, in fact, uttered the n-word in his life, even if he meant it in a different way. The whole thing sounds insane, and, frankly, unlikely, but as we've seen time and time again, Americans (in this case, Indianans Hoosiers) will believe it if they want to, whether it's true or not. Barack Obama knows this better than anyone.

UPDATE: The director of the War Room, the documentary from which the video was pulled, backs Kantor, saying that the first portion of the quote was taken out of context and the second portion was fabricated. The person who made the Youtube video from the War Room footage maintains that it was not a hoax and that all he did was increase the sound on the portion of the video in which Kantor delivers the alleged quote. In the original footage (fast forward to 4:40) you can't hear what Kantor is really saying.