Transcript of Wolf Blitzer's spinning at Howard Dean (4/4/04)

[underpants]

I got Howard Dean's comment about not believing what W&Co. have to say here yesterday.

Wolf was spinning so hard he really didn't need to have W's campaign manager Racicot on after Dean. Some excerpts (about 4 pages of transcripts on the link below). Pretty incredible even for Wolf.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/04/le.00.html

HOWARD DEAN (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I'd like some explanation, and I'd like some explanation from Secretary Powell about how he managed to present to the world the case to go into Iraq and now is admitting it wasn't true. You know, Colin Powell is one of the few people left in the Bush administration with credibility in foreign affairs. And for him to say that, I thought was shocking.

BLITZER: Let me interrupt you on that point. What he suggested was that his testimony, his statement before the U.N. Security Council on the specific issue of mobile labs, he says that was apparently now based on faulty intelligence. But he didn't say everything else was not untrue, just the specific reference to mobile labs.

DEAN: I know, Wolf. But when you put it all together…..

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BLITZER: I don't think it's fair to say that the president paid no attention to al Qaeda. Richard Clarke said that this was an important issue for the president, but not a critical issue or an urgent matter, as it was, he said, for the former president, Bill Clinton.

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DEAN: I think it's funny for the Bush administration to talk about people being on both sides of the issue….

So I find it laughable for George Bush to be accusing John Kerry, for example, of raising taxes. The largest tax increase in the history of America on the middle class was under George W. Bush, who has cut money for college, cut money for health care, cut money for cops on the beat, cut money for local schools.

You know, I find it amusing, this claim that Kerry voted for a 50-cent gas tax, which, of course, is completely untrue. This is an administration that got us into Iraq and is responsible for the deaths of 600 American soldiers by not telling the truth.
Why in the world would you believe one of their ads?

[NewJeffCT]

1. wow, that is awful

Did the transcipt show a gurgling sound from Wolf slurping off Rove's member?

Good job by Dean, though, and we need to hear more of him. (And, I was never a Dean supporter)

[underpants]

2. Dean would have none of Wolf's crap

I really liked what he said about voting for Nader was the same as voting for Bush and that he has asked his supporters (Greens many of them) not to vote for Nader.

[cybildisobedience]

3. just read the transcript

And those you quoted are just the tip of the iceburg.
Blitzer is appalling.

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[underpants]

5. I didn't want to have too many snips on the first post

I just picked a few. Yes you are right is appalling and that is just the text-the way he interrupted and made sure the WH li(n)e was included made it worse than the transcript makes it appear.

[madfloridian]

6. Wolf says only one lie, Dean jumps in and exposes many.

I was stunned at Blitzer's pandering. Awful.

SNIP..."BLITZER: Let me interrupt you on that point. What he suggested was that his testimony, his statement before the U.N. Security Council on the specific issue of mobile labs, he says that was apparently now based on faulty intelligence. But he didn't say everything else was not untrue, just the specific reference to mobile labs.

DEAN: I know, Wolf. But when you put it all together, now we find out that the mobile labs allegations weren't true. It wasn't true they were buying uranium from Niger. It wasn't true that they were about to get nuclear weapons. There were no weapons of mass destruction. This administration has simply not told us the truth. And I can't understand why this isn't being investigated. This is Bushgate, which is far more serious than Watergate in many ways because 600 people are dead -- Americans are dead, in addition to countless Iraqis and over 2,000 Americans wounded, many of them permanently maimed.

What is going on in this country when this kind of stuff gets buried on page 6A, as it was in our local paper here this morning?...."END SNIP

It wasn't even in our paper at all.

[K-W]

7. I like Howard Dean an aweful lot,

now that he isnt scaring me in the primaries. I think he is putting himself in the best possible place for the party.

[madfloridian]

8. Oh, yeah, he was one really fearful, terrifying guy....

with all that truth he told.