The media built Dean up and now...

[isbister]

it seems they're hell bent on tearing him down.

If Dean, or any other candidate does something wrong, the media has every right but, no matter who you support in this Dem race... wouldn't you like to see these folks go after bush and the gang with the same zeal?

Dean's Trooper

Jan. 14 — In his presidential campaign, and as governor of Vermont before that, Howard Dean has taken a tough, zero-tolerance stand on domestic violence, accusing the Bush administration of not being committed to the issue. Yet Dean said he had no idea that one of the men closest to him was repeatedly abusing his wife.

Dennis Madore, the state trooper who headed Dean's security detail for nine years, was "a classic abuser," according to Jerry Diamond, a Dean supporter and former Vermont attorney general who was the lawyer for Madore's wife, Donna, when she filed for divorce in 1997.

"There were years of abuse in which she had been struck, had been pushed, shoved in front of the children, both physical and emotional abuse in front of the children," said Diamond. He said the abuse occurred both before and while Madore worked for Dean. Madore later admitted five separate instances of abuse.

Court records show that Madore's lawyer, Phil White, also a close friend of Dean, was first made aware of the abuse allegations on March 7, 1997.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/dean_domestic_abuse_040114-1.html

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. This is not the article title

but it makes Dean look bad.

[EllieDem]

7. I think I'm starting to realize why Dean

wants his records sealed. This stuff just keeps trickling out. Who is behind this?? My bet is on Gephardt & his people.

[Demobrat]

2. Man, they're really getting desperate now.

Dean actually knew a wife beater once? Off with his head!

[LuminousX]

3. I'm confused

Am I, or you, or everyone supposed to know if everyone we work with or socialize with is an abuser? I've gotten good at identifying signs of someone who is abused, but not an abuser.

Is this an implication that Dean doesn't care about domestic abuse?

I know the source isnt' Right Wing, but I would love to have your opinion on this. Do you feel this is a valid story or is it pure shinola, in your opinion?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

4. This is the sort of thing that makes me sick..

When people complain about the "liberal media"... I'm getting to the point where I can't stand to watch CNN anymore.

[movonne]

5. I feel when the media starts tearing him down they are afraid of him

[Moderator]

6. Please edit the subject line to be the title of the article linked.

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[Puglover]

10. and this coupled with The Boldest Plan for Outer Space

in years.....I want to puke. God I hate the mainstream media!

[EllieDem]

11. The media just gets bored and likes to

fire things up. A boring primary race is their worst nightmare. Remember how boring primaries of 1996 were?

[KissMyAsscroft]

8. He knew a wife beater?

Bush not only knew but had family members who were drug dealers, vehicular homicide, drug abusers, gambling addicts, etc.

This kind of pointless garbage will backfire.

[Don Claybrook]

9. What a slanted piece

You're supposed to use the actual article title in LBN, by the way.

This looks like desperation to me. There's not really a story here, but maybe they can get John Fund to write one anyway (I beat women...got any?).

[Moderator]

12. Locking

Headline violation

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