The discussion on Meet the Press was not that bad.
In particular, Gwen Ifill surprised me by noting that the criticism of Dean is coming from Washington Democrats who strongly opposed his election as Party chair and not from Democrats outside of Washington (even in the South). When Russert showed Harold Ford's comments about Dean's comments not playing in Tennessee, Ifill pointed out that Ford is one of those Washington Democrats she was talking about.
John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal noted Dean's relative success in fundraising; under McAuliffe, Republicans outraised Democrats 3:1 in 2003 while only 2:1 in 2005 under Dean.
Broder, who always reflects the consensus of the Washington cocktail party establishment, was most condemnatory of Dean, but he seemed to temper his criticism in light of the comments by Ifill and Harwood.
On the other hand, the panel discussion on the Chris Matthews was just awful as you would expect from a panel consisting of Joe Klein, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Sullivan and some woman from Vogue Magazine, who joined in the bashing. Not one positive opinion was heard. Mitchell said Biden was the voice Democrats should be listening to.