Howard Dean Slams Fox News & Much More

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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.

RJ Eskow: But isn't there an element of it, of this, Governor Dean, that has to do with the fact that people are resentful, that they feel screwed, and they don't know why but they know that times are tough, and isn't it, you know, Milosevic is an interesting comparison, but don't you think there's also a connection to Father Coughlin, and...

Dean: Sure.

Eskow: And the 30s, and I want to tie it at some point to your piece today in the Huffington Post that nobody seems to be fighting for regular people, they're afraid and this is a way of giving a name to their fear, that it's minorities taking what you deserve away from you?

Dean: Right, but this is not anything different than George Wallace did when he was running for President. Nobody would pretend that George Wallace wasn't a racist when he was doing that, or Lester Maddox. I mean, this is, this is just base politics, which is really terrible for the country. You know, look, I can put up with Fox being conservative about economics and all that stuff, you know, we can have our differences of opinion. This is just fundamentally bad for the country. It's a group of people who've put their own needs in front of the needs of the country.

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[horuseyes]

@Cutlerylover7 stop hating and go back to your cave please. Go play "whos more racist" with your racists republicans.

[eviloprah]

I now have fully renewed my respect for Howard Dean.

[MrMadmardin]

So what? This weak left wing libtard doesn't even matter. He isn't even a blip on the map.

[adminwrh]

@nutblast23 Talk of Palin for president is talk-show fodder, but the republican party won't nominate her. Her selection by the McCain camp was a desperate publicity stunt, but Democrats seem to get more mileage out of hollow camera candy.

[adminwrh]

Jesus, i hate having a black president for the single reason that everyone that disagrees with him is lumped in with this huge pathological racism problem that white people seem to have (note the sarcasm). We'd all be misogynists if Hillary would've won the nomination and election. I'm campaigning for Howard if he runs again as I can deem him fuller of shit than a Christmas goose without fear of being called phobic.

[futurestoryteller]

@followthemoney100 TROLL

[hellotommy]

All of this right HERE, remember this --------IS LIBERAL BIAS--------------- only you gullible saps that believe this is real news and not driven by an agenda are falling for this propaganda. In politics, there’s always an ideological spin. Journalists are worse than used car salesmen. They take advantage of the truth they’re suppose to bring us because want their version of reality to be everyone’s. The media is not really about the truth. The media is about the shape of the truth.

[gaara508]

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[twistedpress]

@DakkonDS GONNA WALK UP TO THE DOOOR AND BE LIKE....BBEEEYYYAAAAAAHHHH.

[DakkonDS]

I LOVE LESBIANS! BYAHHHHHHHHH!

[followthemoney100]

The World As Seen Through Cenk's Progressive Mussie Reality Filter. A product of his family environment as we all are.

[nutblast23]

@OhNoYouCant You can think what you want but the reality is that the democrats and republicans are playing "good cop, bad cop" with the American people. If you believe that Sarah "Momma Grizzly" Palin is going to be able to legislate, you're more delusional than most of the republicans in your party!! Good luck with that farce!!