Some "infamous" Dean statements

I got curious and I've done this before but not all of the ones attributed to Dean in the Washington Post article. Let's do the first one.....

Dean has said that he hates "Republicans and everything they stand for,"

There's no transcript for this speech that I can find, it stems from a New York Daily article that quotes Dean as saying:

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for, but I admire their discipline and their organization.

Next...."have never made an honest living in the lives,"

I downloaded the transcript for this speech, Dean said:

You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever, and get home and then have a -- still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well, Republicans, I guess, can do that, because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.

Tom DeLay "ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence"

Can't find the transcript to the whole statement he admits he did say:

I think Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail sentence down there courtesy of the Texas taxpayers.

He has been asked about this though....

MR. RUSSERT: "Serve his jail sentence"? He--what's he been convicted of?

DR. DEAN: He hasn't been convicted yet, but he is also, in addition to the things that I just mentioned, under investigation in Texas by a district attorney down there for violating the campaign finance laws of Texas by funneling corporate donations, which is illegal, into certain campaign activities. This gentleman is not an ethical person, and he ought not to be leading Congress, period. And it is endemic of what happens in Congress when one party controls everything.

Finally.....Republicans are "pretty much a white Christian party"

Again no transcript just this:

"The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people, We're more welcoming to different folks, because that's the type of people we are. But that's not enough. We do have to deliver on things: jobs and housing and business opportunities..... a pretty monolithic party. They all behave the same. They all look the same. It's pretty much a white Christian party. "

or....."The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people....a pretty monolithic party...It's pretty much a white Christian party"

Several of the sources have differing versions of these "quotes", I gave two of the versions I saw the most. Don't know about you but unless I see video, hear audio or read a real transcript I tend to wonder. Dean isn't the first to be a victim of the one sentence taken out of context, and he does create more controversy than most but all of us would be better served if the media would take the time to at least put things in context....yeah I know that would ruin alot of what is now "news".

So since I took CNN to task, have to do the same with the Washington Post...