So the MTP transcript is already
up
And Judy Woodruff manages to inadvertently make a point we'd all agree with. Of course she only makes it when you juxtapose her comments, but perhaps someone can print this out and staple it to her forehead for next time...
So first her thought on Democrats' view of the press:
MS. JUDY WOODRUFF: [...] But this is what Democrats, this is what Republicans do, when you're out of power, you complain about the other guys. You complain that the press is not fair, that they're not covering the bad things that the other guys are doing.
Now her views on "red meat" for a party's base:
MS. WOODRUFF: Well, and the other point is that the Republicans, I think, learned some time ago that if you've got real incendiary red meat, you throw it and you use it below the radar screen. They're very good at sending this kind of really tough talk out in direct mail. Local media--they've learned how to do that very, very effectively. Howard Dean is still above the radar screen. When he uses some of these--makes some of these inflammatory comments, it gets picked up everywhere. Everybody reacts.
MR. BRODER: And it's a diversion.
MS. WOODRUFF: He's got to tailor what he's saying.
So here she's saying that she knows that Republicans do the same thing as Howard Dean but the press doesn't cover it. What you don't get from her first quote is the dismissive tone. She may as well said, "they all whine that we don't cover the other guy". Yet here she admits that they don't cover the other guy.
She knows they're not covering the whole story, she knows they are being unfair to Democrats, but she just does not care.