Media Matters shows Blitzer trying to put words in Dean's mouth.

[madfloridian]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511030002

From the October 31 edition of CNN's The Situation Room:

DEAN: Karl Rove was exposed in the indictment as "Official A" who had in fact passed the name of the CIA agent on to columnists.

BLITZER: But Patrick Fitzgerald did not accuse him of committing any crime. And as far as leaking is concerned, he didn't accuse Scooter Libby or anyone else at the White House of committing a crime.

DEAN: Actually, in the indictment it talks about "Official A," who did in fact leak the information.

BLITZER: But he didn't say that was a crime.

DEAN: He didn't get indicted for it. But that's not what the president said. The president said anybody who leaks should be fired. I'd like to see the president keep his word.

BLITZER: I think what the president also said was anyone who committed a crime should be fired.

DEAN: That's what he said after it looked like Karl Rove leaked it, after Karl Rove lied to Scott McClellan."

Lots more at the link. The spinmasters have been busy. Glad to Dean sending around an email today showing how they have been spinning about Reid.

[napi21]

1. I watched it! Dean did very well in refuting Wolff's acusations!

And I received the email from Dean today. He's doing a great job in promptly showing the Pubs for what they're doing!

If you didn't get the email, here's what he said.




I wanted to pass along to you some of the reaction to my friend Harry Reid's bold move yesterday, when he forced the Senate into an extraordinary meeting about the manipulation of intelligence leading up to the Iraq war.

Today the Republican National Committee reacted with a hit piece on our Democratic Senate Leader. The attack document leads off bashing Reid for his action yesterday, claiming that the Washington Post called Reid's action a "cheap trick". But that's just not true --

The increasingly desperate Republicans picked the only two words they liked -- here's the full quote from the Post article that shows that the truth still doesn't matter:

It was a cheap trick -- and it worked brilliantly. Reporters dropped their stories about Alito and covered the melee in the Senate. CNN titled the episode "Congress in Crisis." MSNBC displayed a live shot of a mostly empty hallway outside the Senate chamber and a clock showing elapsed time since the Senate went into closed session.

Republicans knew they were licked. They agreed to set a schedule for the long-delayed intelligence committee investigation Democrats demanded. "Today, the American people had a victory," Reid declared.

Enough is enough, and Harry Reid knows it. We must demand accountability for manipulated intelligence on Iraq and the White House cover-up. I support his action completely, and so do more than 10,000 others who have written notes of thanks to him in less than 24 hours.

There's still time to make a special contribution and send a note of thanks to Harry Reid:

http://www.democrats.org/fightback

It is worth noting that a year ago today we lost an election. Tens of millions of us were disappointed because we put so much of ourselves into that cause. We donated money, we talked to friends, we knocked on doors. We invested ourselves in the political process.

That process did not end a year ago. It continues right now -- as we fight on the life and death issues that matter today, and as we build a permanent Democratic Party in all 50 states that will win elections in decades to come.

These are not one-time, short-term investments. We will only create lasting change if that sense of obligation and responsibility becomes a permanent part of our lives.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

We will not be silent.

I will personally deliver your note of thanks to Harry Reid, along with my own, because our elected leaders must know that when they show courage they speak for all of us.

Thank you.

Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

[tularetom]

2. Lots of "pundits" mouth the party line

But it is really annoying when Blitzer does it. His whiney voice I guess is what gets me plus he looks like such a geek. Especially when he's dealing with someone who's sure of his facts and his position like Dean.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Amazing since Blitzer himself said something

different the other day.
The parott-factor of scum like Wolf Blitzer is just amazing.