Why Democrats hate Fox News
Howard Dean is the latest Democrat to venture into the Fox News studio at 400 North Capitol Street. And straight off, Chris Wallace pins up for the dishonest commercial the DNC is running claiming McCain wants to fight the war in Iraq for 100 years;
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Howard begins his answer insinuating that the Republican Party funds Fox News (Transcript from Gateway Pundit);
Chris Wallace: “Governor, why are you distorting what McCain actually said?”
DNC Chairman Howard Dean: “Well I’m not. I actually have what he actually said and if the Republican National Committee would like to pay for the whole six minutes I would be happy to do it.
Yuh, nice try, Howard. As Wallace mentions, independent organization, FactChecker.org did their own research (h/t Fausta’s Blog) ;
That of course is a serious distortion of what McCain actually said to a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire back on Jan. 3. His actual words are posted in a video on YouTube. Far from advocating “endless war,” he said the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq would be “fine with me” provided that they’re not being killed or wounded. Here’s the full quote:
McCain, Jan. 3: Make it a hundred. … We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as American, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed. It’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintained a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day.
It should be noted that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, despite their frequent talk of withdrawing from Iraq, have said repeatedly that they would maintain at least some troops in a combat role in Iraq for some time, possibly their entire term of office.
Then we’ve got Marty Parish, the fellow that asked John McCain about an embarrassing unsourced quote, who claimed he was a Baptist minister on John Gibson’s radio show (from Johnny Dollar’s Place)
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Well, the Gateway Pundit has the dirt on Marty Parish – seems he’s really not a Baptist minister. He’s just a HuffPo hack…he’s probably a pretend hack, too. The First Baptist Church of West Memphis, Arkansas had to put a message on the header of their website;
Response to the John McCain Town Hall Meeting involving “Baptist minister Marty Parrish.” Marty Parrish is an inactive member of our church. He is not a minister of this church or any other church.
That’s just the first week of Democrats meet Fox News. Apparently, Democrats thought they had taught Fox a lesson by boycotting them last year. I guess it didn’t work out the way Democrats had hoped.
