Posted on 05/05/2008 5:45:59 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Back in the day I was learning afresh of this wondrous new thing called blogging. As a callow-headed newbie, I took a shot at what users of Freerepublic.com refer to as a vanity post. My target was the execrable Howard Brush Dean III, MD and my post was entitled “It’s The Condescension, Stupid.”
This was written back in 2004. I felt concerned back then that Dr. Dean would be spending the next four years writing a prescription that would clobber America the way he and those of his repugnant ilk would like to see us clobbered. It was also right after the bilious and nauseating Al Gore endorsed Hatred-Powered Howard with one his patently condescending gaseous emissions.
It also pre-dated the timely and effective Diary of a Dean-o-Phobe, authored by the New Republic’s Jonathan Chait. This and National Review’s infamously funny magazine cover begging the Democrats to Please Nominate This Man, helped deflate his imperious smug cloud in time for the Iowa Caucuses. This led us to the best primal scream not to grace the cover of a modern art masterpiece.
Seeing Dean’s concession speech in Iowa brought to mind what Icarus may have looked like flapping his arms after the wax had melted and his feathers had fallen off. Rational human beings would learn from such a tragic brush with hubris. Howard Dean used it as leverage and settled in as Chairman of the DNC.
Having landed his job by offending everyone who didn’t agree with party line, Howard Dean saw no reason to seek professional help. He, like Keith Olbermann, has tapped into the power of pure, 200-proof, obnoxious crazy. He recently honored Fox News Sunday with his august presence. In the process of doing them this favor, he made the following comment.
DEAN: What I'd say is this: we stayed off Fox for a long time because your news department is, in fact, biased...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.
Just to demonstrate what a prince of a guy Howard really is, Dean added the following qualifier.
But, he added, “we shouldn’t punish the viewers of Fox by staying away.”
To many on the hard ideological left, this was a heroic gesture. Their humble man of the people was speaking the truth to power. But no appearance by Howard Dean would be complete without him seeing the world as the world truly is not.
Chris Wallace grew peeved with Howard Dean’s agitprop and dropped the hammer on him over a recent political ad that the DNC has run concerning John McCain’s views of how long American soldiers should remain in Iraq. Gateway Pundit captures the entire exchange. An excerpt follows below.
Chris Wallace: "Governor, why are you distorting what McCain actually said?"
DNC Chairman Howard Dean: "Well I'm not. I actually have what he actually said and if the Republican National Committee would like to pay for the whole six minutes I would be happy to do it. I've said publically that John McCain said that he wants to keep troops in Iraq for up to 100 years. He himself said that some of that could be occupation like South Korea or Germany….”
Chris Wallace: Governor, lets take a look at what John McCain actually said, it won't take six minutes.
John McCain: ...We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 50 years. That's fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.
Chris Wallace: Governor, you not only left out the part as you said where you left out the part on where he talked about Americans keeping the peace very much as we have for a half century in Japan and North Korea, you also took the part where he said that would be fine with me but then you clipped out the very next words he said which were, "As long Americans aren't being hurt or killed." The non-partisan group FactCheck.org said, "What the DNC ad conveys is the opposite of what McCain said."
Chris Wallace: ...I'm just saying when he (McCain) says that "that would be fine with me" and then you clip out the next words which are "as long as Americans aren't getting hurt" and an independent group says you've completely distorted what he said. You've got no problems with that?
DNC Chairman Howard Dean: Our problem is that John McCain is distorter.. er, distorting... what he said.
Wallace left the august People’s Chairman sounding like a petulant adolescent caught smoking in the boy’s room during class. The true reason the Democrats boycotted Fox News stems from their inability to handle direct and blunt questions such as the one posed above by Chris Wallace. These type of questions fly towards GOP candidates and office holders almost every day. They grit their teeth and answer the mail to the best of their ability.
Howard Dean offers no direct answer, because he has none. The man Senator Lieberman accused of “hiding in a spider hole of denial,” is not going to pop up and answer the incoming fire. He can’t handle that sort of question any more than he can handle the truth. The Howard lives in an imaginary world, where no one dares to disagree with his persistent delusions.
Thus I think Howard Dean should spend more time on Fox News. Brit Hume would enjoy keeping it Fair and Balanced with Governor Dean as his punching bag, oops, interview subject. More Americans need to reintroduce themselves to the man that shares an honorary title with Mao Zedong; Chairman Dean.
The Democrats are liars? Who would imagine that?
And is it possible that Rev Wrong and Howie are like 5th cousins?
Recessive genes of that profound a character can't be commonly expressed in the general population. I don't think your too far off base.
Wish Wallace had asked Dean about media bias on the other news channels. To let him rant on about Fox while appearing on it was just plain stupid..
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I saw that.
I wish Brit had gotten a turn with him.
Brit Hume would have Howard Dean dyspeptic.
The condescension in Obama's "bitter people who cling to guns and religion" comments to the San Francisco liberals or Hillary saying that "WE know what's good for you" are ample examples of what liberals really think.
Ha!
I had to look that up! Good one!
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