A video circulating the Internet that purportedly shows a former aide to President Bill Clinton using an obscenity and a racial slur to describe Indiana voters is a “total fabrication,” the Hillary Clinton campaign said Friday.

The aide, Mickey Kantor, decried the video as a sham, as did the filmmaker whose 1992 documentary was doctored to create the new video. Kantor informally advises Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as do many former aides to Bill Clinton.

The video, which was initially posted on YouTube, showed what appeared to be a clip from the 1993 Clinton campaign documentary “The War Room” and included subtitles in a scene where Kantor was speaking with then-Clinton advisers James Carville and George Stephanopolous.

The subtitles showed him saying of Indiana voters, “Those people are s***” and asking, “how would you like to be a worthless white n*****?”

Kantor, in the film, was whispering, and the latter part of the quote was inaudible.

On Friday, the Clinton campaign rejected the video outright.

“There is a YouTube clip circulating the Internet of Mickey Kantor, a former Clinton advisor, allegedly saying derogatory things about residents of Indiana. This clip is a total fabrication,” Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said in a statement.

“The filmmaker confirmed that the video, which originates from the 1992 film ‘War Room,’ has been doctored.”

The Clinton camp circulated a Politico story quoting documentary director D.A. Pennebaker, who said the subtitles were way off.

“He does not say that. He does not say that,” Pennebaker told The Politico. He said the first expletive referred to the reaction from the Bush White House to Ross Perot’s strong polling numbers.

“He says they must be s****ing in the White House,” he told The Politico.

He said the second part was fabricated.

Kantor himself told The Huffington Post that the tape was a fraud.

“I’ve never used that word in my entire life, ever, under any circumstance, ever,” he said. “I have listened to [the video] and so have you. You can’t tell what it is I’m saying in that second sentence; you can’t decipher that.”

Click here to read the full transcript provided by the filmmaker.  

Click here to see the YouTube video on Politico without subtitles.

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