Hugh Hewitt: Criminal Enterprise (Interview with Howard Dean about Bin Laden & Saddam)

Daily Standard ^ | Dec. 2, 2003 | Hugh Hewitt

[FairOpinion]

I am putting this into FrontPage news, because most of the article is a direct quote from the Dean interview by Chris Matthews. I think people need to know how Dean would be perfectly happy to have the World Court supercede the US courts and he doesn't seem to have any real hard feelings against Bin Laden or Saddam either.

[NotchJohnson]

My question is why does Dean always have his sleeves rolled up?

[theDentist]

Has someone the actual transcripts? I mean, in this article I don't see a quote from Dean that he "wants Osama bin Laden to get 30 years to life." I mean, is that Hewitt's take on the interview, or did he speak those words?

[Numbers Guy]

Maybe Howard will talk to President Putin of "The Soviet Union" about that.

[Toespi]

I am convinced that Dean must be working undercover for the Republican party.

[Pukin Dog]

It was only a matter of time before Dean had a Dukakis moment.

Go Dean. We need a 50 state sweep.!

[Graymatter]

>>Republicans hope that Dean doesn't self-destruct before he gets the nomination...

Exactly! I have NO complaints about this goof, his press or the bias thereof. I've a mind to register as a Dem and vote for him in the primary. After 2000 I owe myself a fun election year, and Dr. Walter "Howie" McKakis is the best joker to provide that.

[Pukin Dog]

My question is why does Dean always have his sleeves rolled up?

Believe it or not, rolled up sleeves make you look taller and thinner.

[Solamente]

"My question is why does Dean always have his sleeves rolled up?"

Possibly to dispell doubt as to where he likes to boot; the legs, feet, or scrotum. Allegdedly, of course.

[Graymatter]

>>Maybe Howard will talk to President Putin of "The Soviet Union" about that.

Yes, where is the outrage? They say he mentioned the Soviet Union in the present tense, several times. Funny nobody is running with it. Remember Gerald Ford's Polish gaffe?

[FairOpinion]

Hewitt is quoting Dean, from the Matthews interview with the exact words Dean said.

HH is making the point that Dean "wants OBL to get 30 years to life", because HH is making the point later in the article, that Dean wants the world court to try OBL & Saddam, and they don't have the death penalty.

But I think HH should make an even more important point, which he doesn't, that Dean clearly sees nothing wrong with the "world justice system" superceding that of the US, effectively acknowledging that an end to the US sovereignity would be just fine for him.

[theDentist]

In other words, Dean didn't say it. That's no better than Jayson Blair writing quotes in the NYT. Whether HH was trying to make a valid point or not, he does us all a disservice when he puts words in the mouths of others.

[FairOpinion]

He didn't put words in Dean's mouth.

It was clear from the article.

You just jumped to conclusions too quickly.

[theDentist]

We'll disagree. Dean did not say the words "Thirty Years". That's a fact.

[FairOpinion]

HH did NOT say Dean said it.

"HOWARD DEAN wants Osama bin Laden to get 30 years to life."

This is a sentence, drawing a conclusion from what Dean DID say, which HH reproduced verbatim.

[BushisTheMan]

My question is why does Dean always have his sleeves rolled up?

LOL! I am always wondering this myself! Sort of Miami Vice meets Lover of Vice

[aShepard]

..."Yes, where is the outrage"....

Rush was almost orgasmic on this issue this afternoon!!

GO DEAN, let's nominate LIEberman, to be our Jewish President while we fight the Muslims!

[metalboy]

My question is why does Dean always have his sleeves rolled up?

That`s because he`s a man of action, a man of the working man, man! YEAH! He`s ready to git down and dirty! Yeah! What I love about these `rats is they do this stuff all the time as if people won`t notice. The other one is imitating JFK with the haircut, the bent back posture, and the thumb-forefinger gesture as if people are going to say "Wow, he is just like JFK..I better vote for him!" On the other hand, that`s probably what they think anyway if they`re `rat voters.

[metalboy]

"We choose to go to the moon!"

But Sen. Edwards, we`ve already been to the moon!"

"Well...uuuhh..Then we choose to go to the moon..uuuh.. again!