Wallace rips Dean on DNC distortions
posted at 12:15 pm on May 4, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Howard Dean made his much-anticipated appearance on Fox, and found the environment much less friendly than did Barack Obama last week. Chris Wallace pressed the DNC chair hard on the latest ads from his organization, which even the nonpartisan group Fact Check insist are distortions of John McCain’s remarks on the economy and on Iraq:
Dean sputters and spins, but doesn’t make any headway against Wallace in this appearance. He flashes a piece of paper that supposedly contains what McCain really said, but Wallace calls his bluff and shows the whole clip. Wallace also scornfully ripostes Dean’s contention that it would take “six minutes”, when it only takes less than ten seconds to show how the DNC used creative editing to distort the remarks.
It’s a remarkably dishonest effort from a remarkably dishonest man. Pay attention to how Dean never actually answers Wallace’s accusations of distortion, changing the subject back to the DNC’s talking points each time. Dean never defends his ads directly, and for good reason; they’re indefensible. Dean found himself overmatched against Wallace. Next time, he should stay in the intellectual minor leagues at MS-NBC with Keith Olbermann.
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He makes you want to scream.
Travis1 on May 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Fixed it!
misterpeasea on May 4, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Jackass.
Way to go, Wallace.
Black Adam on May 4, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Remind me again how Howard “The Screamer” Dean got to be the DNC chair?
I could envision Dean being wayyyy overmatched on “Are you smarter than a fifth grader.”
gryphon202 on May 4, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Dean is the perfect example of a sniveling liberal. He’s also a liar and a coward.
Travis1 on May 4, 2008 at 5:38 PM
I didn’t want O’Reilly to rip into her. So, maybe Softball was the wrong choice of words. But I still think that the interview was a lifeline for Hillary. My real point wa Fox News and it’s relationship with Hillary as exhibited by the lifeline and the much tougher stance with Dean (again very much deserved.)
America1st on May 4, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Wallace: fair and balanced
Dean: unfair and unbalanced
yea-haw
Mojave Mark on May 4, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Howard Dean is a useful idiot.
oldleprechaun on May 4, 2008 at 6:10 PM
Just now watching Chris Wallace, I hear them saying bringing up Jeremiah Wright is race-baiting.
Race-baiting? And the moon is made of Swiss cheese.
Get real.
petefrt on May 4, 2008 at 6:23 PM
The DNC has been bought and paid for by Moveon(dot)org and George Soros.
Chakra Hammer on May 4, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Obama bought and paid for by moveon(dot)org and George Soros
Chakra Hammer on May 4, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Obama didn’t vote to condemn the moveon(dot)org ad against Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.”
Obama is a stooge for them.
Chakra Hammer on May 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM
What Dean is clearly saying is that it doesn’t matter that we are distorting what McCain said, we want all that money that is being spent in Iraq so we Democrats can buy more votes with it. Dean is a hardcore socialist, he doesn’t even try to hide it.
Maxx on May 4, 2008 at 6:31 PM
But he promises to bring in a new age, indeed a Golden Age of bipartisanship into America where we all come together and sing Kumbaya by the campfire of transcendent brotherhood and sisterhood.
The fact that he’s got almost no record of ever challenging the doctrinaire left on any issue (forget the tort reform nonsense or the earmarks vote; something that is substantive) is of no concern.
He promises to love us in the morning.
Boy, I’ve used that line before.
SteveMG on May 4, 2008 at 6:44 PM
I watched some of this earlier this morning. Dean is full of hate, anger, and the inability to hold a civil conversation.
I probably eats puppies just for the hell of it.
Black-hearted b***ard.
madmonkphotog on May 4, 2008 at 6:57 PM
It’s difficult to believe that Dean is a physician to begin with. He doesn’t seem to understand straightforward questions in his own native tongue. (He gets that doofus Tim Conway look.)
Well before Maureen Dowd used to distort what was said when quoting someone through ellipsis or partial quotations — just as the DNC ad does– Mad Magazine ran numerous humorous features with this same device. (How-weird Dean must have taken his cue from childhood reading.)
This is the clown who took a deferment during the VietNam War because of a bad back. Yet he healed himself enough to spend time on the ski slopes out West. Dean’s “pacificism” is rooted in general cowardice.
In the interview, he tries to deflect Wallace’s question with a walk back to his objection to the ousting of Saddam Hussein and then compounds his nonsense by declaring that our action was unilateral. I guess that he wasn’t aware of the Coalition that joined our effort.
Like the rest of the simple minds in the party he represents, Dean hasn’t the understanding that a stabilized Iraq is important for the ME and for our own national interest.
Where this bozo (and his fellow travelers) gets the idea that the federal government is in the job-creation or health-care business is beyond my comprehension. He must have access to a different Constitution than I do.
I think that Dean needs to pedal around that bike trail he was promoting; the oxygen generated from the activity might help his brain power.
onlineanalyst on May 4, 2008 at 7:29 PM
Look, I’m not anti-McCain and I support staying in Iraq but there’s nothing to this video clip.
First, it’s stupid to even compare the occupation of Iraq with South Korea or Japan
a) neither of those countries are Islamic or anti-Western
b) in Japan and S. Korea, the US didn’t play the role of preserving the peace by keeping internal, opposing factions from all-out war and even genocide
c) McCain’s statement that staying in Iraq is great ‘as long as our troops aren’t been hurt or killed’ is bizarre
It reminds me of Brent Scrowcroft, James Baker III, and Bush Sr. saying that by late 2003, people no longer approached with a frequent question: why didn’t the first gulf war end in the US occupying Baghdad? Their shared argument re the painful consequences that would follow the invasion of a hostile, Islamic nation have become self-evident. (All three men plus Powell, Schwarzkopf have been vindicated by history.)
Second, McCain has repeatedly said that we’re better off than we were 8 years ago. Unlike Obama’s preacher comments and other forms of guilt by association, this statement from McCain is a legitimate issue. I haven’t looked at the stats to know who’s right or wrong, but it’s the kind of issue that should be part of this election.
bayam on May 4, 2008 at 7:44 PM
federal government is in the job-creation or health-care business is beyond my comprehension. He must have access to a different Constitution than I do
Nor does the Constitution say the government should be in the prescription drug business or in the business of massive borrowing money to fund tax cuts so the “i want mine now” crowd can outlive their means- but Bush has done it anyway.
bayam on May 4, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Ah but which stooge? Maybe Mo? Of course if I call him Mo Obama that would bring up the issue of unintentionally affiliating him with Islam rather than with the kings of slapstick. Of course either way you look at it, a stooge is a stooge.
I salute you for your comment!
Mormon Doc on May 4, 2008 at 7:57 PM
srhoades on May 4, 2008 at 8:03 PM
It’s fair to hammer McCain for the statement. It was a dumb, arrogant statement to make. How was Maliki supposed to handle a comment like that? He should have just said we’ll be there as long as we need to be there and left it at that.
Spolitics on May 4, 2008 at 8:12 PM
Dean pwned by Wallace, and the facts.
D2Boston on May 4, 2008 at 9:06 PM
This man ran for President? This man actually received votes?
Dr. Dean is guilty of political malpractice. Just because we know that the Dems are not playing fair does not give them cart blanc to lie, distort and wreak havoc on Reality. Why should anyone believe a word that Dean says? He’s as bad as Beckel.
Doug on May 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM
He needs to find someone to tie his ties for him or get a clip-on. It looks like he got mad because he couldn’t get the lengths right and just settled for using twist-ties to hold it together.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!111!!!!1
mattshu on May 4, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Lasdt chance? What are you some kind of primadonna?
Ask yourself how much the Koran and those who adhere to it, that would be Muslims, has/have changed since Mark Twain’s time and you should be able to answer you own questions. Should be able to, not that you will be able to though as you are consumed by your more-pc-than-thou mentality.
MB4 on May 4, 2008 at 11:36 PM
For Dean to project when he tries to throw race baiting at Republicans and as the leader of the party that idolizes Sharpton, Rangel, Durban and Biden shows that without a doubt he’s the very definition of shuck n jive, he owns that card.
Speakup on May 4, 2008 at 11:38 PM
On the matter of “better educated”, again, read Robert Spencer’s book, “Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t“. Start with that one and then if somehow that doesn’t enlighten you sufficiently, read his other books. There is something very wrong with Islam and something very wrong with those who follow it. Islam is not some variation of Christianity or Judaism and it’s adherents are not some variation of Christians or Jews. Educate yourself, PC-guy.
MB4 on May 4, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Oh, please. Dean is misrepresenting what McCain said, and that is newsworthy. You are arguing against what McCain said, which is fair, but that is not what Dean is doing. Dean is defending the misrepresentation. How you arrive at the conclusion that misrepresenting a man’s argument is okay because there flaws in that man’s real argument if it weren’t misrepresented is beyond me. It simply doesn’t follow.
shazbat on May 5, 2008 at 12:04 AM
Dean can’t use the argument that the average income has gone down. Of course it has, since January, there have been approximately 16 million (WAG) new retirees. Most retirees have an income that is less (1/4 to 1/2 less) than their employment income. On top of that, SS benefits are about to become extinct.
If a Democrat gains the presidency, I predict that the average income will fall even more due to the government dole increasing. More people will be able to quit their minimum wage jobs and afford more living on HUD, WIC, and food stamps. (Unless Conservatives gain a majority in the legislative branch - and that is doubtful.)
Hammie on May 5, 2008 at 1:06 AM
Japan wasn’t anti-western after the war?
Looks like bayam is engaging in the left’s favorite past time. Re-writting history.
MarkTheGreat on May 5, 2008 at 6:57 AM
$1.10 in 2001? I don’t know where he lives.
LtE126 on May 5, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Howard Dean = POS
Griz on May 5, 2008 at 8:08 AM
Dean said the GOP was race-baiting and sustaining itself through hate. Funny, I thought that’s what Clintons and Obama surrogates had been doing.
Little children are known for projecting their own feelings and motives onto others, and for repeating fabrications over and over again in hopes of making them believed. Maybe it explains Dean’s rant.
If you want to know what Dean’s thinking and planning, just listen to what he’s charging his opponents with doing.
Dean may be bright enough to understand that the best defense is a strong offense, but apparently not bright enough to pull it off.
petefrt on May 5, 2008 at 8:53 AM
Apparently you are history-challenged!!!
a) Japan was most definitely anti-Western: you must have missed the lesson on Pearl Harbor!
b) “keeping internal, opposing factions from all-out war” very precisely describes the Korean conflict.
Furthermore, Japan is a prime example of nation-building.
Get some perspective: history didn’t start when you were born, and it didn’t end or make a judgment on Iraq just because the loony left Democrats say so.
The true reason that the Left hates Iraq is that it graphically demonstrates how short-sighted and incompetent they were and continue to be on national security. If the immature loony left faction of the Democrat party gets control of our nation, we will only respond to danger the month after we are wiped out by an enemy: and then only with meaningless and ineffective words.
landlines on May 5, 2008 at 10:46 AM
A little levity, but I suspect this is the sort of stuff we can now expect from the DNC
I hope someone does something similar but using the cast of Barry’s friends to talk about how much they love America.
moxie_neanderthal on May 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM
Amen
gstrickler on May 5, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I remember paying $0.88, but just for about one day. This was 2001, right before 9/11, in the southern end of Northern Virginia, Prince William County.
mile66 on May 5, 2008 at 1:58 PM
I took the family on a trip to CA in 2000. I paid $1.75+ for fuel at that time.
Dean is nothing but a liar.
PappaMac on May 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Sorry! I couldn’t hear you over my own screams!
Damn, what a moron!
stacman on May 5, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Stuttering, stammering, and going only to DNC talking points. That was a sad showing. We need to get him out more often.
jukin on May 5, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Who cares. McCain is a democrat anyway.
mariloubaker on May 5, 2008 at 10:00 PM
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