Reply #29: The teflon was on NPR Weekend ATC when they....

[AP]

...played Dean's stump speech where he was actually talking about race in a reasonable manner, and made a comment about confederate flags, and then pretended that was the comment the Democrats were so upset about, and then played comments from reasonable people saying the comment was reasonable, and then played a long segment from lunatic Zell Miller criticizing Dean, which totally left the impression that the only criticisms of Deans reasonable actions were insane rantings, like Zell Millers.

NPR never bothered to present the truth, which was that Democrats were criticizing Dean's comment in an Iowa newspaper in response to a question about the NRA in which he, unreasonably, said he wanted to be the candidate "for" confederare flag waivers.

THAT'S how the media protected him from damage on this issue -- by totally lying about the story and presenting it a way that made it seem unreasonable to criticize him.

Listen to the lie yourself: it's in the first minute.

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