Shuster tells Howard Dean the economy is better...Dean says not for 80% of us. Video [View All]

[madfloridian]

Howard Dean was on MSNBC earlier talking about the kick off of the voter registration through the South on the big bus.



What really amazed me though was David Shuster pumping the lie that the economy is so much better. Dean stood his ground and repeatedly made it clear that the economy was only better for a few. Shuster just kept on. Typical of our media now, just spread those talking points.

Kudos to Dean for standing his ground.

Video:

Dean and Shuster on MSNBC

There is a good diary at Daily Kos covering the interview.

Dean Rocks on MSNBC

Here is the transcribed portion by the diarist.

David began by showing a pic of the DNC's newly decked out voter registration bus and talking about the southern leg of the tour. He asked Dr. Dean about that awful beyond words billboard showing the burning twin towers with the caption, "Don't Vote for a Democrat."

SHUSTER: Is this some of what you're up against down south?

And the good Doctor is ready:

DEAN: This is what the people of the south are up against ... Bush & Cheney and McCain have scared the hell out of them ... about stuff like this and it hasn't served the people of the south or the rest of the country very well.

Our message is, "Let's worry about $4 gas .. Let's worry about the mortgage scandals ... Let's worry about Bush's & McCain's indifference to the victims of Katrina."

John McCain went and talked about education today. He voted against Head Start. This is a guy who'll say anything to get elected.
We've seen enough of that.

We don't need a third term of George Bush. We need real solutions to the economy. People in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia need that just as much as people from Pennsylvania and Michigan.
That's what I expect of the Republicans, those kind of billboards. We're here to bring people together and that's what we're going to do.

Here is more about the bus tour starting in Crawford, Texas tomorrow. Then on to the Netroots Nation in Austin for an afternoon rally and 7:30 kick off speech by Dean.

Dean taking voter registration bus across the South...starts Thursday at Crawford, TX

From Texas, the tour heads to New Orleans - a city that experienced the failings of Republican leadership in Washington firsthand - and then to Shreveport and Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Hattiesburg and Jackson, Mississippi. The second swing, July 25-26, will make stops in North Carolina and Georgia - two untraditional battleground states where voter registration efforts will help lead Barack Obama to victory in November. The tour will hit states in every part of the country, culminating in a swing through the Midwest on its way to the Democratic Convention in Denver.

More:

To everyone lucky enough to be in Austin this week for the convention, another event has been added to the calendar. DNC Chairman Howard Dean will begin a nationwide voter registration drive with a rally at Netroots Nation to be held Thursday at 12:00, directly across from the convention center.

This is the kickoff event for Register for Change, a cross country bus tour designed to "build on the overwhelming enthusiasm and voter turnout seen during the primaries" and is a part of "the 50-state strategy and Senator Obama's commitment to running a 50 state campaign."

Dean will also give the opening speech at Netroots Nation at 7:30 Thursday night.