Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
I was traveling all day yesterday, so I’m just now catching up with the Sunday news shows--and man, I missed some good stuff.
On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Wallace covers the Shirley Sherrod story by interviewing Howard Dean and Newt Gingrich. There's an amusing exchange between Dean and Wallace in the clip below. In a nutshell, Dean's blood pressure gets the better of him--again--and Wallace takes him to the woodshed for it. Check it out.
Below is the transcript.
WALLACE: Let me bring in Governor Dean, because the fact is...
GOV. HOWARD DEAN, FORMER DNC CHAIRMAN: Yeah, Chris, let's just...
WALLACE: Go ahead, sir.
DEAN: Let's just be blunt about this. I don't think Newt Gingrich is a racist, and you're certainly not a racist, but I think Fox News did something that was absolutely racist.
They took a -- they had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip. They had -- they had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this business and Sotomayor and all this other stuff. You -- I think you've got to be very -- I think the -- look the Tea Party called out their racist fringe, and I think the Republican Party's got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that.
You put that on.
WALLACE: Wait, wait, wait, wait --
DEAN: Yes, I think the Obama people...
And here comes the coup de grace:
WALLACE: Governor? Governor? I know facts are inconvenient...
DEAN: Yes. Yep.
WALLACE: I know facts are inconvenient things, but let's try to deal with the facts. The fact is that the Obama administration fired or forced Shirley Sherrod to quit before her name had ever been mentioned on Fox News Channel. Did you know that, sir?
DEAN: I did -- what I do know is that video came out...
WALLACE: Did you -- did you know that, that her name -- did you know that her -- that she was fired before her name was ever mentioned on the Fox News Channel?
DEAN: What about the video? Where did that play? What about the incomplete video from a...
WALLACE: The video had never played...
DEAN: ... from a right-wing...
WALLACE: The video had never played on the Fox News Channel before the White House fired her. It was on Andrew Breitbart, biggovernment.com. We're not responsible for them. I agree with you it was out of context.
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Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
Fox News is racist! Yeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
Jun '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
What I'd say if I could be as funny and clever as Gutfeld:
The Power of False Accusations, by Greg Gutfeld
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,597662,00.html
Jun '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
What is the expression? I think it goes like this: "A lie travels half way around the world before the truth even puts its pants on."
May '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
Actually, I think it's "Howard Dean can screech a lie halfway around the world but might forget to put his pants on."
How that guy is considered overwhelmingly intelligent by the same people who denigrate Gingrich, I'll never know...
Jul '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
You know, at any time during that exchange -- say, the third or fourth time he was confronted with the facts -- Dean could have said, "I'm sorry, I didn't realize that. I was mistaken." He then could have gone to make basically the same point he wanted to make anyway, without looking quite such a foaming, gibbering idiot. He would still have been wrong, of course, but he would at least have appeared reasonable. I say this confident in the fact that he will never learn such a simple principle.
Honestly, I would trade all the conservatives, all the liberals, all the moderate pragmatists in the world for just one politician willing to say "I was wrong. I'm sorry."
May '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
"They took.........had an obligation..... pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap .........and Sotomayor and all this other stuff. I think the......look the Tea Party .......racist fringe, .....the Republican Party's got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that."
He managed to get a half dozen liberal talking points in one breathe. Impressive. Crazy, but impressive.
May '10
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
While I'm glad Dean was called on one lie, the other one is what truly mystifies me: what is this idiotic 'context' narrative everyone is enabling? 'Out of context' her anecdote is awful. 'In context' it's still awful ("I knowingly did something racist but now I feel a little bad about it!"). Sherrod, the audience, and the NAACP come off worse in the full clip.
And more importantly, her response to this incident was so openly racist that it seems to vindicate the impression given by the 'out of context' clip.
Shirley Sherrod is no hero, nor is she a victim.
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
AtheistConservative--you are so right. Check out the Sherrod clip on the Anderson Cooper show. While the story she told at the NAACP conference is one of overcoming racism toward a white person, she still clearly harbors a lot of race-related anger.
Here's Sherrod on Breitbart:
Re: Howard Dean Gets Spanked on Fox News Sunday
It is amazing how he was sputtering one half-phrase after another on national television. This man is one of the leaders of the democratic party! You'd think he'd have at least been prepped by some expensive PR-firm to keep his cool, and stay on his talking points in a measured way!