ABC's Jake Tapper reports that when the movie "The War Room" came out, many people at the time heard the clip in question to be Kantor dissing Indiana voters by saying "those people are shit" (though there's no mention of the second comment that some heard as a far worse slur, while Kantor and the director of the film deny it).
It's all a mess, though I must say when "The War Room" came out other folks interpreted Kantor to be impugning Indiana residents.More on this brouhaha here.
In The Washington Post's review of the film in 1993, critic Desson Howe referred to "a Mickey Kantor comment about the people of Indiana (when it looks as though Clinton's ahead in Dan Quayle's state)."
And a 1995 story in the Sydney Morning Herald said that "As for the good folk of Indiana, they are still recovering from the 1993 documentary War Room, which revealed the grim truth behind the Clinton election campaign. It showed Mr Kantor bursting in on election night to tell other campaign staffers that incredibly, Mr Clinton was doing well even in Republican Indiana. 'And those people are s---!' he declared breathlessly."
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