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DAYAHEAD | The tale of the tape
Apparently even Joe Trippi can't control everything. Especially when there's a videotape.
Fallout from Iowa-gate has only begun this morning. But what's already clear is that the story of Howard Dean bashing the first-caucus state, reported last night on NBC News, couldn't come at a worse time for the Democratic front-runner, who had hoped this weekend's focus would be Al Gore's debut on the '04 retail campaign trail.
The tape, from a Canadian television broadcast, shows Dean saying four years ago that the Iowa caucuses are "dominated by special interests" and "don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people. They represent the extremes."
Oh, but wait, there's more. Unable to focus his criticism on just Iowans, Dean later cuddled up to George W. Bush. He said the president, whom he now describes as the "most radical right-wing president in my lifetime" is "in his soul, a moderate." Dean said many Democrats believed Bush would be a one-term president, and "that is going to be a mistake."