By now you've probably gotten up to speed on the basics of the dispute about Mickey Kantor's remarks, taken from the 1992 documentary film The War Room about Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign.

There are two questions about what he said.

The first question is whether or not he was slurring the people of Indiana by saying they were "shit."

The second question is whether used an epithet to describe them.

On the first question, it seems the evidence is far more conclusive than the second.

Kantor can clearly be heard saying "Look at Indiana -- wait, wait, look at Indiana. 42-40. It doesn't matter if we win, those people are shit." The filmmaker says Kantor was talking about the Bush Administration, but Jake Tapper says that at the time, people interpreted Kantor's remark as an affront to Indiana.

The fact that the second question in part depends on the resolution of the first illustrates the difficulty of accurately ascertaining exactly what Kantor said. Earlier today, it seemed 100% clear to me that Kantor said "How would you like to be a worthless white n**er." However, the Huffington Post has offered an alternative reading of Kantor's words that also seems plausible: "How would you like to be in the White House right now?"

Until audio analysts determine what was actually said, you'll just have to make up your own mind. At this point, my personal inclination is to give Kantor the benefit of the doubt on the second question, but not on the first.

Here is a copy of the video that was posted earlier today, but now without subtitles: