Dean: Fox News is GOP Propaganda Outlet

[OrlandoGator]

Did this little gem slip completely under the radar? This is the biggest showstopper he's said lately, yet everyone seems to still be focusing on the other blunt truths he's spoken in the last week.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/11879792.htm

I think this strategy is brilliant. Let the other side paint you as a shrill lunatic, who cares. Get the message out there and let your opponents draw attention to it.

I seriously think he's beating Rove at his own game. I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

[The Magistrate]

1. Gov. Dean, Sir, Is Indeed Doing Well

The time has come for counter-attack....

[FreedomAngel82]

12. I agree

I didn't see that one although it's so true. It's way past time to give them hell.

[JNelson6563]

68. Looks like someone is finally going to

"get those Bush bastards!" Heh.

Julie

[spanone]

2. I saw that one....nail, meet hammer head. Go Howard!!!!

[johnfunk]

40. As Bartcop would say, "Use the truth hammer!"

This is the version with Rove -- I'll have to find one with Roger Ailes...



THIS JUST IN! Ailes gets hammered!!

[BrklynLiberal]

48. ooooooooo Great image!!!

[Guaranteed]

56. Yup. Direct hit.

This thing is making me giddy. :)

I can't get over it. The TRUTH?? Where the hell did THAT come from?? :P

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Yes...the attacks on Dean are clearly indicative

that the thugs fear his strategy will work....two can play at their game...what is actually better about our game over theirs is that we actually tell the truth when we slime the thugs!

[NJCher]

14. Bingo

that the thugs fear his strategy will work....two can play at their game...

They are afraid. It's not easy to out-slime a repuke but if anyone can do it, HD can.


Cher

[99Pancakes]

19. Slime the Repoops!

Gottcha!!!!

[Justice]

4. That is fabulous, and I think you are on to something

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. It's definitely been noticed.

Here's the thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x131417

[Cassandra]

6. I'm loving it!

Let's face it; we know that being polite and deferential is not a winning strategy. If we lose, I'd rather go down fighting.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

7. Out...fucking...STANDING

Uses scumbag Dick's comments as a way to slam scumbag Fox.

[mandyky]

8. Now all the Dems that appear on Fox will strike again!

Mark my words!

I don't watch FOX but likely suspects would be Biden and Lieberman.

[chalky]

9. "The response drew applause from the room."

Hey, you idiot DINOs, take note:

Asked by a reporter Sunday to reply to Cheney's criticisms, Dean said: "My view is that Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party and that I don't comment on Fox News." The response drew applause from the room.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. The thing I don't get

is why all these dino's go the opposite that people are obviously going in? People agree with Dean and we've been seeing that in all the recent polls. So what the hell is their problem?

[BrotherBuzz]

50. Because DINO's are invertebrates

you know, spineless....

[Guaranteed]

55. I think it's something about a cranial-rectal inversion.

They don't see which way is up.

[BrotherBuzz]

58. Well, then there's that, too.

And there appears a lot of it going around these days...LOL

[rman]

71. because they are not Democrats;

they are, you know, "In Name Only".

They call themselves Dems but they act as Repubs. Knowing that, what they do makes perfect sense and they are very consistent in their behaviour.

[99Pancakes]

32. Now THAT is fabulous!

True! Go Howie!!!

[fricasseed_gourmet_rat]

10. HOWARD IS THE MAN!

He is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

[marmar]

11. Dean isn't going to be Outfauxed!

If anyone ought to be stopped at the border and detained, it's Rupert Murdoch.

[me b zola]

13. There is more!

"I think it's hypocritical for the Republicans to pretend to reach out to the African-American community unless they say they are going to reauthorize what gave the African-American community political power," Dean said in an interview. "I'd love to have the president say whether he's going to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act."

After barely registering a double-digit showing among black voters nationally in last fall's election, the Republican Party has intensified its efforts to recruit African-American supporters. Chairman Ken Mehlman is engineering the party's most aggressive outreach to black voters, frequently speaking in churches and to community groups in an effort to improve the party's performance among minority voters before the 2006 mid-term elections and the 2008 presidential race.

Dean said Republicans should not "pretend" to be genuinely interested in courting African-American voters until the party makes a clear statement on the act.

"The chairman of the Republican Party as you know has made a big deal about attracting African-American voters," Dean said to conference attendees. "And this is a litmus test. If you aren't going to support the extension of the Voting Rights Act, I don't know what right you have to go to a black church and show your face."

~more at link~ :)

Dr.Dean IS brilliant


:kick:

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Hell yeah!

We all know why they want to get rid of the voting rights act. And Discovery on their "Greatest American" special had George W. Fucking Bush on it! :mad:

[Bouncy Ball]

16. I! LOVE! DEAN!

GAWD I love that man. I KNEW I should always trust my internal radar on people. The first time I ever heard him speak was early 2003, on some little appearance on C-SPAN no one was probably watching and it literally stopped me in my tracks while walking through the living room. I stood there listening to him, forgetting to even sit down, yelling "YEAH!" the whole time. Then I thought "WHO THE HELL WAS THAT???"

My husband saw it too and looked at me saying "Who's Howard Dean?"

LOL!

[OrlandoGator]

20. My sister got me turned on to Dean around 2003, too.

She's a Ph.D candidate in Public Health and has been following his programs in Vermont for a while. She told me about him a couple of years ago and said that she hoped he'd run for President against Bush.

At the time, I was like, "Who the hell is Howard Dean?"

The Republicans are going to wish they never asked that question.

[graywarrior]

21. Same here. I saw him give a speech that was on the internet

just after 9/11. I knew then he was going to be a force to contend with. He so totally rocks.

[mandyky]

22. That appearance clinched it for me too

It was the DNC Winter Meeting and all the candidates spoke. Dean was the only one with "fire" though. The second time I heard it I was shocked because the first viewing reminded me of a fire and brimstone preacher. I think a big part of it was the way the crowd reacted in contrast to how MacAuliffe and others reacted. Not much has change. The roots and activists love him, the establishment Dems are clueless. LOL

[Bouncy Ball]

24. Yes!!!! That was it!!!

Wow, thanks, I was trying to remember what it was.

My husband and I were in the first group of "Texas Rangers" to fly to Iowa to canvass for Dean in September of 2003. Great days, great days. It was the very first political involvement we ever had beyond voting!

And Dean was my first political contribution--$50.

[mandyky]

35. I go over to CSpan and watch it occassionally

I am so glad Dean is back in the news. Someone needs to speak up and Dean will. Boxer, Waters, Byrd, Kennedy, and Conyers do. And Dean definitely takes it to em.

[jean]

39. I first heard him in 2003 on the radio, while on the way to grocery shop

I sat in the car, on a hot day, and listened until he finished.

It was mesmerizing to feel his charisma, the strength of his words and his love for people and this country coming through the radio.

[mandyky]

46. I think you posted here about that then

I enjoyed your story then and thanks for the reminder.

[AuntiBush]

18. He is! Dean is making Front Page News 'Round the Country

And it's not negative at all, at least what I've seen, rather it defines that we're "finally unified!"

We now have a "doctor" in the house!

[rodeodance]

27. recall bush was interviewed by Neil Cavata last week and now cheney

again with Hannity. both have showed up on Fox previously and cheney has been on Rush L. several times. Dean is right on!!

..."My view is that Fox News is a propaganda outlet of the Republican Party and that I don't comment on Fox News."......

[cestpaspossible]

23. HOW DARE HE SPEAK THE TRUTH?

doesn't he know that in Washington DC 'truth' is a synonym for 'gaffe'?


:spank:

[Bouncy Ball]

25. Maybe he should be tasered?

[Hubert Flottz]

70. Doctor Dean is giving the Pubbies a tase of their own medicine!

I'd like to know what the doctor thinks about the idiot fit, that congressman Jim Sensenbaby had during the "Patriot Act" hearing the other day. Not very Patriotic to try and disrupt and derail what little bit of democracy we have left in this country, since the GOP pushed the Patriot Act through the process of legislation without giving anyone a chance to even read the law that they were voting on!

And talking about someone being "over the top", how could someone be anymore "over the top" than the Hon. Jem Sensenbully the brown shirted republicon? Rude Crude and Unattractive politicians like Jemmy should seek some mental health therapy of some serious type right away, before he bites somebody!

[Lexingtonian]

64. all this brouhaha

reminds me of this one beautiful bit in one of the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide books.

There is a maximum security detention facility on some planet with armed guards, razor wire, and moats full of alligators, and spaceships are directed away from the planet. The inmate is some fellow who got sworn in as witness in some court proceeding to 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.' When he got told to step down from the witness stand he continued Telling The Truth. Ordered to stop, he refused and got up before the court and started Telling The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth. The trial was stopped, the defendant acquitted, the courthouse cleared by police, and then special commandos with ear covers were sent in and captured the man. The government converted the courthouse to a prison. The inmate has resisted all entreaties to stop Telling The Truth since and there's nothing to be done but keep him locked up, away from society, in soundproofed room....

[DanCa]

26. Now he's preaching to the chior.

Can I get an amen!!!

[Triana]

28. Know what pisses them off?

Everything Dean says is TRUE. The closer to the truth, the more pissed off they get. Republicans are oh-SO offended by the TRUTH! Amazing. And VERY TELLING, in and of itself.

GO HOWARD DEAN!!

:woohoo:

[ailsagirl]

53. More than offended, they're scared to death of it.

A cross is to a vampire what the truth is to a rethug.

[OrlandoGator]

54. Truth is like Kryptonite to a Republican.

n/t

[Triana]

65. my sentiments exactly...

...they shriek like a vampire who's been doused with holy water when confronted with the truth. They can't deal with it.

[DeepModem Mom]

29. If people hear truth instead of propaganda, maybe some will recognize it -

keep talkin', Dr. Dean!!!

[AlCzervik]

30. OMG he's hilarious! I love Dean, he's giving it right back to him

What you see is what you get with Dean.

[Guaranteed]

52. Homer: "It's funny because it's true."

:)

[kentuck]

31. FOX NEWS reports that FOX NEWS is propaganda arm of GOP ?

I doubt it...but that would be cool to see. :)

[Avalux]

33. TRUTH!!! Isn't it refreshing?

Things are changing, they really are! :woohoo:

[tmorelli415]

Flash News: FOX denies bias against immoral Democrat faggot ass lovers

"We are not a propaganda shill for our wonderful and glorious president or the Republican party that our Lord and Savior has delivered unto us to slay the liberal faggot baby-killer dogs. Lies, all lies! We are not bias against repulsive Democrat party satanic America hating butt pirates and hippies. Satan's pawn should apologize to us."

Dr. Dean, please keep saying the stuff elected Democrats have been afraid to say for years - we've been waiting for a very long time to hear it - if they give you any trouble at headquarters remind them that the party has been returned to its owner and they need to come to *us* with complaints.

[99Pancakes]

37. Make the "news" anything you want!

[OrlandoGator]

34. Try to guess Fox's response tomorrow:

"We're Fair and Balanced...we have Alan Colmes!"

"How dare Dean besmirch Real American Hero Oliver North?"

[OrlandoGator]

47. I'll start a new thread.

n/t

[jzodda]

36. Problem is....

Most media won't touch that with a 10 foot pole. Call it "professional courtesy" I guess. It would be great if they actually started to report on the outrageous bios going on over there at FOX. I think Americans should know about it but sadly most do not seem to know.

I think its great that Dean is talking about what most of the "informed" classes already know but for the average uninformed American we need the other big media to start holding fox accountable.

[OrlandoGator]

38. Every action has a reaction...the pendulum seems to be swinging.

Politics works in cycles. This cycle seems to be thankfully coming to an end.

[radio4progressives]

41. I'm Enjoying this Too.. Dean is positively brilliant ...

He's shaking it up - no more status quo - no depressing malaise.

And he learned a valuable lesson from his experience last year and putting it to excellent advantage this year. He learned just how sleazy certain operatives are and how they'll stoop at nothing to get the media whores to turn their focus on Dean.

Operatives who are still trying to oust him as party chair - Dean knows this - and he also knows why we campaigned hard for him to be the chair in the first place. We want this party shaken up to the core - no more party hacks, no more professional elections losers, and Dean knows this too.

And so the media did Dean's bidding, unwittingly perhaps, by getting out a few very important messages to communities vital to the Democratic Party -it's core base.

They did it fast and they did it for free!

It also helped considerably with the war chest to boot.

The "Republicans are mostly White Christians" was as brilliant a strategy, as it is the sterling truth.

I'm beginning to appreciate Dean's intelligence, and deep committment to getting the job done, more than I ever have before.

And now we have today's remarks by Cheney, to boot.

Thanks Dicky boy, just keep those quips comming.

I can't wait until your ass is fried for HIGH CRIMES and TREASON. I'm against the death penalty, so I'll be content to see you working the chain gang for your remaining years.

Maybe we'll even let you serve your time at G'tmo.

Your favorite Gulag.

[Independent_Liberal]

42. He's kicking ass and I'm loving every minute of it!

Keep going Howard! You're doing great!

[bunny planet]

43. Thom Hartman said on his show last week that Dean is the only Dem

candidate in the primaries that the Republicans feared enough to invest $1,000,000.00 dollars in attack ads and attempts to discredit him. They were afraid of him for a reason.

Go Howard go.

[OrlandoGator]

44. Rove's "Dean's the one we want" reverse-psych worked like a charm.

"Electability" is bullshit. Vote for the candidate who represents you.

[BrklynLiberal]

45. Truth to Power! Truth to Power!

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[Clarkie1]

49. Thank you Dr. Dean!

Just the medicine the Democratic Party needs! Straightforward, direct, and the truth!

:-)

[Guaranteed]

51. That article sure did make me smile. nt

[Neshanic]

57. As Daffy Duck would say...."I LOOOVE that man!".

Keep em' coming Mr. Dean.

[NEDem]

59. Go Howard GO!!

I love this guy!

[BrightKnight]

60. Did Faux News report his comment? -n/t

Somebody might blow a head gasket.

[OrlandoGator]

61. Talking about that here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3844737

[dissent1977]

62. Most people don't recognize the brilliance of Dean's moves

When Dean goes on the attack he may be attacked back and he knows this. As people attack him he may lose some points on his approval rating, but he is not running for office. At the same time as this is happening there are a few people sitting around saying, you know he has a point. There really are a lot of Republicans that have never worked an honest day in their lives, just as there are a lot of Democrats who have never worked an honest day in their lives. The difference however is that the right wing constantly moans about how liberals have to "get a job", they portray us all as living off welfare, yet at the same time they are not practicing what they preach.

Then he says that the Republican Party is pretty much a white Christian party, a fact that can be proven with a simple glance at the demographics of the party. Yet Republicans are screaming about it, as if suddenly they are offended at being called a Christian. The Republicans have just fallen into Dean's trap and they haven't realized it yet. By bringing attention to Dean's comments they are going to get people to think about those comments and realize that they are the truth.

And of course these latest comments on Fox News are great, and I hope and pray that the Republicans attack him on it. Pretty much everyone who has watched FOX knows where they stand, and any attempt by the Republican politicians to try and convince people that Fox is really fair and balanced will fail miserably, but people will be talking about the right wing tilt of the news more than ever.

[Hello_Kitty]

67. 'Zactly!

He's putting them on the defensive. They either have to PROVE what he's saying isn't true or they can go into whiney-mode.

[rndmprsn]

69. exactly....

you WIN by going on the offense and forcing the other guy to defend.

[Roy]

63. A guy one would like to have a beer with???

n/t

[Bouncy Ball]

72. Hell yeah.

[tavalon]

66. I think of that one

as an, ummmmm duh, statement.