Howard Dean Fires Back At Fox News Statement During TYT Interview

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xntdgEdAl2U
Cenk Uygur: Joining us on The Young Turks, Governor Howard Dean. Only the real fighters get that kind of intro.

Howard Dean: There we go.

Uygur: Governor, always good to have you on.

Dean: Thanks for having me on.

Uygur: We appreciate it. Now, you've made a lot of headlines recently. You just called Fox News racist, which is awesome.

Dean: Well, I said what they did was racist.

Uygur: Yes. So tell us...

Dean: Some of them are racist, and some of them aren't.

Uygur: Right. So tell us why you think what they did in the Shirley Sherrod case is racist.

Dean: Because what they're doing is race-baiting. Basically, they, they have had a narrative going on for quite some time, I think the most famous kickoff was Glenn Beck saying that Barack Obama hated white people, what they're doing is appealing to people's basest instincts, racial hatred. Racial hatred is something that's, that's something, it's endemic in the country, but we've really gone way past it now. We've made huge progress, but there are still a fringe of people who are, who have great fears about race. And what they're doing is feeding those fears. They say things that aren't true, they put together stories as Fox did with the Shirley Sherrod thing that isn't true, they have done the same thing in this nonsense about the Black Panther Party and Obama coddling black people and all this crap. It's just not true, and it's racist. If you're appealing to people's racial fears, then you're a racist.

Uygur: Do you think that the whole theme that Beck, and then Limbaugh, which is, of course, who is not part of Fox News, but part of the conservative...

Dean: Yeah, and he is a racist, there's no question about that. I mean, when George Steinbrenner died, he said something like, well, his major contribution is to have made, created a lot, a whole lot of African American millionaires. It's just, you know, this kind of stuff is just awful.

Uygur: Do you think the theme that they're building that they keep going back to, that this is a redistribution of wealth, that that's what Obama wants to do, that it's payback for slavery or, or, you know, all the rest of it, et cetera, they talk about reparations, is the code words there, Obama's here to take white people's money and give it to black people?

Dean: Sure it is. I mean, that's what they do. And it's, no, it's stupid, it's bad for the country, it's what I call the Slobodan Milosevic approach to American politics. You divide people as much as possible. In the short term, it sometimes works to, you know, people do get elected on this stuff, but it always ends up destroying the country.

Uygur:...final question for you, Governor Dean. Fox News has responded to your charges, they've put out a statement. Michael Clemente, Senior VP of Fox News, says, "As we said this past week, some people such as the failed candidate Dean reflexively blame Fox for almost anything." How do you respond to that?

Dean: I just don't take Fox seriously. They're not a news outfit, they're a propaganda outfit. I go on Chris Wallace because I like him, and actually I think he is fair, he's tough, and of course he has to spout the party line once in a while, which he did yesterday. But I don't go on any of those other programs because it's not a serious outfit. And you know, so that's a propaganda statement. And it's interesting, I saw that earlier, and I thought to myself, that's really interesting, that's what you'd expect from a spokesman from a right-wing politician, and it's not a coincidence.

Uygur: By the way, here are some of the people you might run into if you went on more Fox News programs, the failed candidate Sarah Palin, the failed candidate Mike Huckabee, the failed candidate Rudy Giuliani, and I can go on and on all night long.

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[lapere]

Rachel Maddow has nailed Fox's purpose. Fox attempts to frighten white people for political gain and that is a fact! The same as the Nazi's.

[wntoply6]

those who argue fox is not partisan, that it is fair & balanced, in truth are about as ignorant as bubba's in the bible belt.

they go to their brand of god worship, raise their eyes to the air conditioning units, fans or overhead tv cameras to ask for forgiveness of their sins. then directly follow that by going home repeatedly, to have sex with their sons, daughters, mothers or other kin.

they could possibly have brains, but they choose ignorance cause their brand of religion demands it!

[secretbonus]

BJYAWHH!!

[boutchie06]

Liberals need to find a unified approach to counter "Right Wing Authoritarianism". Right-wing authoritarianism is measured by the RWA scale. Three main behavioral clusters are: authoritarian submission (Our country desperately needs a mighty leader), authoritarian aggression (who will do what has to be done to destroy), and conventionalism (the radical new ways and sinfulness that are ruining us). This is from wiki, but google RWA and there are articles describing RWA as a mental illness.

[That818Roger]

These stupid ass young turks are misleading there titles just to get views, stupid fucks

[butheadbros]

@lapere You are right about it all exept take out the nazi part ( The republican still have ther vote XD)

[TeaPartyPowerHour]

Dean is an idiot. The administration fired Sherrod and The NAACP denounced her before Fox even so much as mentioned it. Dean needs to get his facts straight.

Cenk either didn't know the truth or didn't care. Fox mentioned the Sherrod story

at 8:30 PM on the day she was fired. How in the hell was that Fox News's fault?

[BeingNobody1956]

@lapere u just figuring that out? look at the spike in gun sales in the state of Florida in the months leading up to the 2008 elections, fueled by th conservatives assertions that if elected Obama was going to confiscate all their pistolas. talk about using lies and propaganda to scare people in to doing your bidding

[danielwvu]

I see Glenn Beck teaming up with Alex Jones



[Seastorm21]

Howard Dean as Prez...Dennis Kucinich as VP...Alan Grayson as AG. Greatness at arms reach but we just don't deserve them...simple as that.

[steve66oh]

Pot, meet kettle... please tell me who said “Son, when I appoint a nigger to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nigger.”?

[cwongchung]

@TedVoron What dope are you on, and can I have some too??