Jake Tapper, who posted the transcript, calls the video that doctored the word "n****r" into what Kantor was saying "the definition of a dirty trick" and would like to know who's responsible.

No, that's not Clinton talking. But she was standing there, and as far as I've been able to tell has said nothing to distance herself from that, and hasn't been asked anything about it. Nor is this the first time she's been introduced to a crowd in terms like those.

Let's say the majority here have their way and Clinton is the nominee. I frequently see commenters here say they'll withhold a GE vote for Obama until he makes it clear he wants and values their vote, or something to that effect. Okay, tu quoque. A Clinton surrogate is effectively describing people like me as un-American. Is that supposed to make me feel welcome if she's the nominee? That she wants or values my vote?

Now, unlike what I hope is a minority of TL commenters, I wouldn't think of doing anything but vote for the Democratic nominee even if she's willing to try to boost her primary result by courting a sentiment that regards people like me as not really American, some sort of dangerous subversive outside element that has "damaged the lifestyle" of real Americans. But that is self-evidently poisonous.

I remind the TL community, contrary to popular belief around here, the much-derided McGovern coalition has been more loyal to the Democrats than any other group since the demise of the Johnson administration, and has been the core of the Democratic presidential vote for going on forty years now. If Hillary Clinton is the nominee, she will lose if the targets of Mr. Gipson's slander don't vote for her.

He has not grown better with time. I do not understand or sympathise with his madness. I keep watching episode after episode, waiting for the screenwriters to finally have the gumption to have his bad karma debt paid. But. No. Such. Luck.

They'll probably vote him in President again, now he's a religious icon and the reborn Son of the One True God.

Now it's somehow become a state that Clinton has to win.

She said they were both doing exactly what they had to do go counteract public perceptions and reinforce their personal stories.

Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its approach to the culture wars.

The statement, called "An Evangelical Manifesto," condemns Christians on the right and left for "using faith" to express political views without regard to the truth of the Bible, according to a draft of the document obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

"That way faith loses its independence, Christians become `useful idiots' for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology," according to the draft.
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Tapper says all evidence of the doctored YouTube clip has been removed, so no finger prints remain.

Someone must have copied it!

Anyone here?