Reply #25: Partial transcript for our departing friends...link

[madfloridian]

Video clip as well.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200601260003

It started when she asked him about the plantation statement by Hillary.

DEAN: "That was something Newt Gingrich also said in 1994, and it was also, or on CNN a year before; but the truth is, the president and the Republicans are abusing their power in Congress. Just the other day, they stuck something in that gave HMOs $22 billion of taxpayers' money. They stuck it in the middle of the night. Nobody knew anything about it, and it passed because nobody knew it was there. That is not the way to run Congress. We ought to have a real democracy in Congress where both sides get listened to, and that's not the way it is right now. The other thing is the corruption scandals in Congress; Tom DeLay; all these folks involved in getting money -- all of whom are Republicans -- from Jack Abramoff. We need to -- an overhaul of Congress in the worst way.

COURIC: Hey, wait a second. Democrats took money -- Democrats took money from Jack Abramoff, too, Mr. Dean.

(she called him Mr. Dean, and said the money was from Abramoff..see below)

DEAN: That is absolutely false. That did not happen. Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff went to any Repub -- Democrat at any time.

COURIC: According -- let me just tell you. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Abramoff and his associates gave $3 million to Republican and one -- Republicans -- and $1.5 million to Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid . So, this --

DEAN: Katie, not one -- not one dime. Not one dime of Jack Abramoff money ever went to any Democrat. We can show you the FEC reports, we'd be very happy to do it. There is a lot of stuff in the press that the Republican National Committee has been spinning that this is a bipartisan scandal. It is a Republican-financed scandal. Not one dime of money from Jack Abramoff ever went to any Democrat. Not one dime.

COURIC: Well, we will obviously have to look into that and clarify that for our viewers at a -- at a later date."

(I notice the RNC has a memo out now using the words "Abramoff-affiliated money"...and calling Dean a liar so to speak.)

(If you catch them lying, they just change the terminology and lie another way.)