WashPo: "Dean's Appearance Has Media in a Sweat"

[flpoljunkie]

Excellent!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902169.html

The press chorus then devolved into a cacophony of competing screams. (And Dean knows screams!) After several seconds, a booming voice cut through the noise. It belonged to Brian Wilson, a Fox News correspondent who was standing in the middle of the crowd. He asked Dean "if people are focused on the other things that you've said about hating Republicans, about Republicans being dishonest and then this latest comment about the Republican Party is full of white Christians. You say you hate Republicans -- does that mean you also'' hate white Christians?

Dean didn't respond and Reid talked about having a "positive agenda." Wilson was so insistent that at one point, Durbin asked, "Does he run the press conference?" After Reid took the one question of the morning that was not about Dean (it was about Iraq) there were a host of disjointed and semi-decipherable follow-ups (none of which was about Iraq).

Someone asked whether Dean would "change his ways," or if he planned to be "less confrontational in the future" or whether he "regrets" anything he has said. An aide to Reid announced that the photo op was over.

"We'll decide when we're ready," Wilson said. Later, Durbin would recount the scene with some exasperation. He chided the media for avoiding important issues in favor of trivial matters. "Please, for a minute, get to the substance," he said to a group of reporters. "You guys should be ashamed of yourselves."

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Dean appears to have made the Fox White House correspondent Brian Wilson flip out! Bravo to Dean, Reid, Durbin and Schumer! All four, giving the media whores what for--standing up and going toe to toe with the craven media whores.

[w13rd0]

1. A Fox "news" "correspondent"...

...was blatantly partisan and manipulative? Perish the thought! These people are so transparent.

[flpoljunkie]

3. The room was overflowing with "reporters." Over 60 tried to crowd in the

room!

"About 60 reporters and cameramen attempted to shove their way into an office equipped to handle about 20."

[Zenlitened]

2. This is a sign one is turning the tables on a bully:

The bully is starting to cry! :cry:

:rofl:

[Goldeneye]

4. Durbin...wow.

Always amazing. And that Fox guy...what an ass.

[tex-wyo-dem]

5. Good for the Dems!

The media is in full distort-and-distract mode; anything to take the attention away from the failed war and the failed admin in the WH.

The Dems need to call the media what they are, tabloid whores.

[David__77]

6. My dream response...

Dean: (to Brian Wilson) "No... I just hate biased, right-wing news organizations more interested in their political agenda than the truth."

[killbotfactory]

7. Attack of the wild-eyed fox news reporters

nothing can quench their thirst for.... BRAINS!

[Southsideirish]

8. Howard Dean has electrified politics as has no one else on the political

scene for decades and the lazy and cowardly MSM is sceerd sh*tless about him and how to cover him.
Go Howard, you "are our only hope."

[OzarkDem]

9. So reporters don't discuss "issues"

their only interest is Howard Dean, not the issues? Who cares about cost of gas, health care, education? Since when did the DC bureaus of our illustrious 4th estate become nothing more than paparazzi and tabloid journalists?

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Reid replied that there isn't anyone who hasn't "misspoken" and recited an on-message litany of "important issues" that Democrats are committed to addressing, including the escalating costs of gasoline, health care and college tuition. "We're here today to talk about the American people," he said. But practically everyone else in the room wanted to talk about Howard Dean.

[Generator]

10. Why does anybody still respect the press like Fox?

They ask the question's like "Dr. Dean, is it true you HATE all Christians and as ~some people say` are ruining the Democratic party?"

Why not answer:

Hey, Mr. Journalist is it true that Fox News is the propaganda wing of the Republican party..?

Or alternatively, why EVER answer a question from someone that is either absoulutely insane or pretending to be something they are not?

Do you allow someone wearing a cops's uniform to arrest you?

Do you answer the crazy man on the street when he yells at you that you are the devil?

Then why answer question from faux journalists?

We live in surreal times. Everybody -wink-wink-KNOWS that Fox news is pure propaganda. Why pretend?

I'm tired of pretending. Everything is a big lie.

Some day the dam must break.