Tim Russert reads Kerry backed letter to the editor on MTP.

[joshcryer]

t one point, Tim Russert said that while he was in Iowa two weeks ago he read the following letter to the editor published in the Des Moines Register:

Now I know how Howard Dean gets his exercise while he's on the campaign trail. He drops to his knees to beg "Washington insiders" to endorse him, and then he jumps up to insult them. I'm guessing he does about 20 repetitions of that a day.

Jim Bootz
Chaska, Minn.

It's interesting that Tim Russert remembered this short letter from two weeks ago, one of 53 letters to the editor published that day, and decided to read it on national television.

Also interesting: a quick Googling reveals that the writer (whose name was in much smaller print than the letter when put on the screen) is the Minnesota State Director for John Kerry who canvassed Iowa for Kerry as far back as October, even spending some time with the Senator himself.

more: http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003488.html

[xultar]

1. This thing is just about to get uglier and more out of hand n/t

[joshcryer]

2. Heh, you can say that again.

Man oh man.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

3. Just one more bit of evidence that GE will benefit from a Kerry Prez

Is it any wonder that MTP / GE would side with Kerry, who has received MOST of his lobby money from the telecommunications industry.

AMERICA - bought and paid for by Skull-n-Bones. Enjoy the fixed election, folks.

JB

[Raya]

4. Title Libels Russert. He says nothing about " Kerry Backed"

[dsc]

6. That is the whole point

When that letter was read Russert should have told us that the writer of the letter was a Kerry state chair. An honest journalist would have done that.

[ShaneGR]

5. I think you're missing the point, IT'S TRUE!

He does get his exercise begging Washington insiders to endorse him... and then jumping up to insult them.

How can you argue with that!

[DrFunkenstein]

7. I Agree With The Sentiment

I never understood how Dean could shine the flashlight on Washington cockroaches, then turn it into a spotlight for the cockroaches he worked hard for endorsements from.

Nice cockroaches?

[ShaneGR]

9. The day Dean paraded out poor Al Gore

I knew his campaign was fishy. The very Democrats Dean spent a YEAR bashing, he coveted their endorsements and used them as campaign props. Then when the vote didn't go his way, he went back to calling them Republicans.

[adadem]

10. It's the definition of

hypocrite. That's one of the things about him that makes me dislike him.

[agingdem]

12. The way I see it...

Dean is a Democrat but he doesn't represent the "Democratic wing of the Democratic Party" and he most assuredly doesn't represent me. His venom towards his fellow Dems is Republican quality. The very Democrats he disparaged (Gore et al) are the very ones he embraced. Dean bought his own hype...big mistake. We're all angry but anger alone doesn't get Bush out of the White House.

[NashVegas]

8. BWA-HA-Ha!

Too funny.

Thanks for clarifying that.

[Ninga]

11. Dean is a doctor who

realized his campaingn needed healing and went for the second opinion. All of you can characterize it anyway you want.

[Old and In the Way]

13. So how is this Kerry's fault?

Do we really beieve that Russert, a charter member of the Bill Clinton Penis Gallery, is suddenly a Kerry fan?

Or is he doing his part again in dividing the Damocrats with this kind of reporting?

[stopbush]

14. It isn't Kerry's fault, it's Russert's.

I'm a political junkie and I didn't know the writer was associated with the Kerry campaign. How many here did? How about the general populace? Russert not revealing that the quote came from an operative of one of Dean's political opponents reeks to high heaven. When I saw that letter posted this AM on MTP, I naturally assumed it was from some denizen of Iowa, not from a campaign operative. And Russert said the letter "stood out" to him from many he had seen, which I assumed meant that TR was sort of shocked that Joe Six-Pack in Iowa held such sentiments.

It would've stunk if TR had pulled such a dishonest stunt on anyone else as well. He probably hoped that Dean didn't know the letter was from a Kerry operative and wouldn't call him on it - and he was right. Could you imagine if Dean had said, "You just read a letter from a person placed very high in John Kerry's campaign organization. I expect that type of spin from my opponent's spokesmen. What's your point?"

Russert is pure slime, 24/7.