Posted on 07/29/2006 10:56:24 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On two occasions, here and here, this column has taken Good Morning America's Kate Snow to task. Fairness thus behooves us to recognize that Kate gave Howard Dean a fair-'n-balanced going over on this morning's show.
Snow got things off to a frosty start: "We mentioned the president's approval rating. It's about 38% in our last poll. Not so good. In another recent poll, the Democrats' positive [rating was] just 32%. To be blunt, are you blowing an opportunity here? Are you not capitalizing on the president's weakness?"
Later, Snow dumped on Dean's freezing-cold relationship with Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman who heads up the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and with whom Dean has a notoriously testy relationship.
"You mention being unified. Emanuel - the Democratic congressman in charge of trying to win back the House for the Democrats - we are hearing from our sources that you haven't spoken to him in months. How can you take control of Congress if you can't play together nicely in the sand box?"
Dean's response was a classic non-denial denial: "That stuff is mostly press gossip. We work very well with the DCCC. . . I do think that's most inside the beltway gossip."
Don't you love it? If it's gossip, there are two people perfectly positioned to confirm or deny it, Howard, and you're one of them. So how about it - have you spoken with him or not? To her credit Snow wouldn't let Dean skate:
"So you have spoken to him?"
"What really matters is, can we really change. We work the the DNC, the DCCC every single day."
Howard, the answer is 'yes' or 'no.'
In any case, I can hear our NB readers now: "Sure Snow was tough on Dean. She wants the Dems to win and is worried he might, just as she suggested, be 'blowing it.'" Could be, but whatever her ulterior motives, Howard surely didn't enjoy the 'Snow' balls Kate tossed his way this morning.
GMA/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
""So you have spoken to him?"
"What really matters is, can we really change. We work the the DNC, the DCCC every single day."
Hah Hah!
Dontcha just love it?
well, geez, this lady doesn't sound like she's TOO much on the liberal side, does she?
Yep.
It sounds to me like a frustrated Snow was flogging Dean and telling him to, "get going, get us Democrats back in power. We all need to work together."
Dean's an idiot, and Vermonters were idiots to elect him.
"T'aint enough!"
Listen Huck, you're smart enough to know that a lot of idiots out there vote for crap, just look at Mass.
It should also be kept in mind that the former bag-boy for the Chicago mob Emanuel works for the Clintons. If Dean is not on the same page as Emanuel, then he's not on the same page as Bill and Hill. The Clintons are products of the DLC, but they are smart enough to keep their distance from an organization that is a pariah to the dangerously goofy (but substantial) "net-root" base of the Democrat party.
The Democrat party is like the circus clown spinning plates on hands, feet, and nose, and there's no way the party can get all those plates back safely in hand and take a bow without one or more crashing to the floor and shattering.
This will be a fun campaign season (and let's hope the GOP doesn't fall into the same trap).
Dems Vow a 'U-Turn' for America
Democrats plan to use a “u-turn” theme in their final push to wrest power from the Republicans in the November elections. “It’s perfect,” said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. “Polls show a majority of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. Our ‘u-turn’ message can be anything the voter wants it to be. It’s every direction other than the one we’re going now.”
Reid’s counterpart in the House, Nancy Pelosi of California, said Democrats offer change. “Americans know the country is going in the wrong direction,” she said. “Our promise of unspecified ‘change’ can’t be topped by anything the Republicans have to offer.”
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean crowed over his party’s ingenious ploy. “The Republican appeal is limited to hard-working people willing to bear the burden of supporting themselves and fighting the war on terror,” said Dean. “Our message is one of relief from these oppressive responsibilities. Whatever the voters think is bad about their lives, our ‘u-turn’ slogan says a vote for Democrats will fix it.”
In related news, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the Mexican race for president to conservative rival Felipe Calderon, has proclaimed himself emperor of the world. “It is the will of the people of Earth that I become their emperor,” Lopez Obrador told Univision’s “Here and Now” television show.
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Those that keep saying there isn't enough dialog between the Bush administration and terrorists around the world can't even dialog with each other.
Long may he lead the re-election efforts of the Democratic Party.
Yeah, but I'm from NJ, so it's to knock someone else for a change. And yes, Massachusetts may be the worst of all. Can you believe the revolution was born there?
John,
so Dems want a U-Turn?
Bush can give a Thatcher Response to that.
"You Turn if you want to, this lady's not for turning." - PM Maggie Thatcher
LOL! The Democrat Crime Syndicate is a dead-end on a dirt road.
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