Howard Dean…. Still Crazy
May 19, 2010
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Posted by Michael S. Langston
Ah… Howard Dean once again proves that his sporadic brilliance and clarity on certain subjects will always be over shadowed by blind party loyalty. Via Politico (here):
Howard Dean on Wednesday took the New York Times to task for running a “hatchet job” story on Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal misstating his service in Vietnam without acknowledging that the information came from a GOP campaign…
What do we know? Mr. Blumenthal has deliberately stated publicly about those times when he served “in Vietnam” on a number of occasions. We know it’s untrue, because he’s backed off and changed served in to served “during Vietnam”:
Blumenthal apologized for misstating his service “on occasion” during a press conference Tuesday.
But for Mr. Dean:
“Let’s be fair about this. This is a New York Times gotcha story planted by the opposition,” said Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. “It was planned by the opposition. The New York Times did not acknowledge that in their front page article.”
Dean urged Connecticut voters to “listen to Blumenthal’s side” of the story before judging his candidacy.
Yep – kill the messenger, then use guilt by association, but ignore the simple truth that a man in a job which has a core component of deliberate communications deliberately misled people to believe he was something he wasn’t.
It’s sad really Mr. Blumenthal doesn’t think enough about his life – sad to think of his family having to deal with this humiliation as well. Sad Mr. Dean still doesn’t get it.
Categories: Critical Thinking, Politics
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Tags: Critical Thinking, Howard Dean, NY Times, Politico, Politics, Richard Blumenthal
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