Monday, January 05, 2004
NPR
Packing the boxes for my move over the holidays, I tuned into the NPR and caught the last throes of one of those balanced discussions, where one end of the spectrum was represented by EJ Dionne and the other by David "I'm writing as bad as I can" Brooks, whose capsule of Howard Dean went this way:
The sneer really came through in Brook's voice, too. Make no mistake, they hate Dean already. As the mighty winger meme factory starts to infect the mainstream ...
Of course, Dean's major accomplishment was universal health care for Vermonters—and as just and righteous an accomplishment as civil unions was, the appeal of universal health care is, well, universal...
So it's obvious why Brooks would distort Dean's record in this way; what isn't so obvious is how Dean can introduce himself to the voters without this distortion. Maybe he should just go on the radio and take call-ins....
A former governor of a small New England state whose greatest accomplishment was gay marriage.
The sneer really came through in Brook's voice, too. Make no mistake, they hate Dean already. As the mighty winger meme factory starts to infect the mainstream ...
Of course, Dean's major accomplishment was universal health care for Vermonters—and as just and righteous an accomplishment as civil unions was, the appeal of universal health care is, well, universal...
So it's obvious why Brooks would distort Dean's record in this way; what isn't so obvious is how Dean can introduce himself to the voters without this distortion. Maybe he should just go on the radio and take call-ins....
