Howard Dean on Fox...Wallace exposes DNC deception

Transcript via Gateway Pundit:

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. But, the fact of the matter is that first that anyone who thinks that we can keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years without them being victimized by roadside bombs, suicide bombers and militias I think is wrong and needs to look carefully at their judgement. Secondly, Americans don't want their troops in Iraq for 100 years no matter what they're doing over there. We can't afford that we need the money over here."

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.

Ed Morrissey:

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.

Barack Obama, putting the lie to his "change" rhetoric , was not above distorting McCain's words either:

...back in February, Obama said: “We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another hundred years.”

And, on a separate occasion: “(McCain) says that he is willing to send our troops into another hundred years of war in Iraq.”

Obama, who has reached the "boiling point" over legitimate questions about his character and judgment, has no problem misleading voters about McCain, notwithstanding Michelle Obama's claim that, unlike the Clintons:

"We were taught that you don't rip your opponents to pieces, you don't leave them on the roadside."

I guess lying about them is OK though. 

Comments

[linda]

I wish someone would play his famous yelp just for the hell of it everyday! I started not to watch the show because he was on it but decided I would, and it didn't take me long to want to smack him! About the first thing he said was how Fox was so biased! He's so full of chicken poop! He was too busy cutting McCain down to answer questions and just repested himself basicallly!

[Julie]

Well, he is good for a few laughs, if nothing else. He will be forever known for his yelp! What a legacy. And the Dems decide to put him in charge of the DNC. So far I don't think that's working out so well. :)

[Don]

There's nothing wrong with Howard Dean. As far as I can tell he sounds very much like many Democrats so don't break the mold. Their mouths are their own worst enemies.

[Julie]

Yeah, he's the perfect Chairman.

He's sure got a mess on his hands. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.