Reporting on Howard Dean‘s appearance on the Tim Russert-hosted “Meet the Press” this weekend, New York Times reporter Katharine Q. Seelye slants her story as if her paycheck were signed by Rupert Murdoch, rather than by the bastion of the so-called liberal media:
Asked whether he would support a constitutional amendment to balance the budget, he said, “I go back and forth on that.” Asked whether a same-sex couple that was married in Canada could be considered legally married in the United States, he said, “I can’t answer that question because it’s a legal question.”
He’s not a lawyer, he’s a doctor. Is it a terrible thing to neglect to take a position on a complicated issue of interenational law if you are not qualified to answer it? Is it wrong to “go back and forth” on controversial issues like Dean admits he does, or is it better to believe in the gospel truth handed down by the radical wing of his party on every issue, like our current president?
And he didn’t know numbers!
Dr. Dean estimated that there were 135,000 American troops in Iraq and said there should be more. The actual number is 146,000.
How dare this man even think about running for president! His estimate of the troops in Iraq are off by 8%! (Of course, the current administration’s estimates of WMDs in Iraq are off by 100%, but… let’s not go there.) And he doesn’t have tip-of-the-tongue access to information which Ms. Seelye had to go to the Pentagon’s web site to confirm!
If this is the kind of crap we’re going to see in a newspaper which is purportedly on “our side” this early in the season, then this is going to be the most disgusting presidential race in history. I’m not sure I’ll vote for Dean — I go back and forth on the issue — but after that trashing and a similar trashing in that other pillar of the
