Buzz clip of the day: Controversy erupts over what Clinton adviser Mickey Kantor said about Indiana

UPDATED: See below.

There’s a real-time YouTube dustup happening today that involves the Clinton campaign and the upcoming Indiana primary. This morning, a user identified only as Indy007q posted a video excerpt from the 1993 campaign documentary The War Room in which Hillary Clinton adviser Mickey Kantor, who chaired Bill’s ’92 campaign, can be heard to say of the results from Indiana, “Those people are shit.”

It’s the talk of the DC press gang this morning, privately at least, but as Jonathan Weisman of the WashPost’s The Trail blog notes, the controversy doesn’t end there. The video you see below is missing a set of subtitles that were originally posted with the clip this morning. That version is now listed as private at YouTube, but the description is still available, and it quotes Kantor as follows:

“Look at Indiana…it doesn’t matter if we win. Those people are shit. How would you like to be a worthless white ni**er?”

The subtitles were removed after complaints. I certainly don’t hear the racial epithet.

Update: Jonathan Weisman now has more on the Kantor clip: Kantor concedes making the “those people are shit” statement that can be heard, but vehemently denies using racist language, and is threatening whoever posted the clip with a libel lawsuit. Both Kantor and War Room director D.A. Pennebaker say they believe the clip has been manipulated.

War Room excerpt: Mickey Kantor on the residents of Indiana (:34)