Paula in all her snideness interviewed him just before Bush spoke. I was very impressed that he got his points across so clearly and quickly, and she sounded so purely awful.
Here are his points:
Three main points Dean said Bush’s speech must contain:
- FEMA must again become an independent agency as it was under Bill Clinton.
- Don’t pass an extension of the estate tax. Use that money (750 billion?) to rebuild the gulf coast.
- Either postpone the bankruptcy bill for a whole year for everyone or exempt the people in the coastal areas hit by Katrina from the bill. He said they would be in debt for the rest of their lives.
That woman actually had the nerve to say that those people were also poor when Clinton was president.
I’ve got a transcript of the segment here, embellished somewhat with snarky commentary. I had no idea what a shill Paula Zahn was before today. But that’s only because I never watch her.
she was a big issue on the Dean blog during his campaign.
Remember the interview with Trippi – when she kept wnting him to verify a truncated quote and he kept saying – “Read the whole quote Paula” and she finally just cut away?
Your comments were all that kept me from seriously damaging the laptop by throwing it across the room. She thinks the most important thing Americans want to know is what kind of bounce Bush will get in the polls???? Mind-bogglingly stupid, yes.
And hats off to Howard for the finesse.
Not to mention her repeated announcements of how many minutes were left until the speech – in adition to the damned clock in the lower right corner counting down the time. WTF was the point of all of that?
Sometimes I wish they’d run a countdown clock letting us know how much longer we have to suffer before he finishes his speechifying…