I was wondering when some enterprising reporters would do this.
As a kid I remember watching Governor Howard Dean as a panellist on the cheezy public television program "The Editors." I can't remember anything he said on that show (wasn't too memorable) but, I thought to myself, I'll bet he said some really damaging stuff.
Well, some crackerjack NBC folks have listened to the tapes of the show and found some doozies. Just some of the examples:
-- On the Iowa Caucuses set to start in just over a week: "If you look at the caucuses system, they are dominated by the special interests in both parties. [And] the special interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people. They represent the extremes. And then you get a president who is beholden to either one extreme or the other, and where the average person is in the middle.”
-- On his recent endorser, Al Gore: "He has a lot of attributes, but … there are some things that I am concerned about. One of them is being quick on your feet. He is not.”
-- On Yasser Arafat and Hamas in January 1998: Arafat “is going to leave the scene. ... When that happens, I think Hamas will probably take over. There will probably be good and bad out of that. The bad, of course, is that Hamas is a terrorist organization. However, if they have to run a quasi-state they may actually have to be more responsible and start negotiations. So who knows what will happen.”
-- On President George W. Bush. “George Bush, I believe, is in his soul a moderate.”
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 1:16 AM
