Howard Dean on Faux News Sunday with Chris Wallace

[jefferson_dem]

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[tishaLA]

1. Good for Chariman Dean

it's a shame though that this clip doesn't have his closing comments with Chris Wallace, so I am going to post them and you can check out the clip on the Huffington Post:

WALLACE: The left wing of your party is in a snit over all these Democrats appearing on Fox. In fact, the head of MoveOn.org had this to say about Democrats on Fox. "It legitimizes a right wing network that is going to use that credibility to smear them in the general election." He and the head of the Daily Kos are using words about you guys showing up here as weak, idiotic, stupid. How do you respond to the left wing?

DEAN: What I'd say is this: we stayed off Fox for a long time because your news department is, in fact, biased. But, Chris, you haven't been. You've always been tough, but I always thought fair and I still think that's true. And we need to communicate with people who are going to vote in the Democratic Party. Hundreds of thousands of Republicans have turned their back on their own party to vote in the Democratic primaries in the last six months. We owe it to our -- to all the American people to reach out to those folks. This is not about Fox News. That's not why I'm here today. I'm out because I want to talk to your viewers directly about why this election is important and what we can offer the American people.

WALLACE: Let me ask you, and obviously it's always about the millions of people who watch these shows. Looking back, do you think it was a mistake for the Democratic Party to boycott Fox debates and all the other programs during the last year and thereby boycott getting your message out to the millions of people who watch?

DEAN: No, I think it was the right thing to do, because there are some things in the news department that have really been shockingly biased and I think that's wrong and I just say so right up front. It is important also for us -- we shouldn't punish the viewers of Fox by staying away. Now those viewers have had an opportunity to look at the debates on other channels, now they're going to have an opportunity viewing on this channel and I think that's fair.

[AlinPA]

2. Chris Wallace is slime. I disagree with Dean that Wallace is fair.

[DirtyDawg]

3. Why? Why? Why?...

...do our guys keep bothering to show up on faux. I know they say that there's some Democrats that watch the damn thing - Reagan or otherwise - but I don't believe it. Anybody that bothers to even pause on their channel are clueless. There's no way these people will ever be convinced that the twerps on faux are anything but completely biased...hell, Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch wouldn't pay 'em if they weren't - ok, they keep a mindless, token, somewhat liberal few around that they can point to whenever you mention it, but they are basically there for one reason and we know what it is.

Remember, viewers of fauxnews will never change their minds - even if they don't like what bush has done (what their problem is that he didn't succeed without being criticized) they'll vote repug no matter what.

[XemaSab]

4. Democratic presidential nominee?

It's right there at 4:37.

Ironic that Wallace is hammering him on fact checking...

[bermudat]

5. Any democrat who gets their news from faux news is not a democrat

That goes for so-called independents. Any independent who consistantly views faux spews is really a repugnantcan. Other than Chairman Dean, who as DNC head gets paid to fight with the fox fiends, I think less of any democrat who goes on fox.

[Muttocracy]

6. Hasn't McCain continued to say 100 years since that thing in NH?

I swear I've seen videos of him saying it again. If so, I wish Dean had said, that's not the only time he's said it.