Mullah Dobson Responds to Dean

In yesterday's edition, the Christian Science Monitor published a very short story--just 5 or 6 paragraphs--about a meeting the paper hosted with Howard featuring excerpts of his remarks, including this:

On religion and politics:
"The religious community has to decide whether they want to be tax exempt or involved in politics."

Newshounds, the folks who watch Fox so the rest of us don't have to, report that Focus on the Family founder and former president James Dobson was given 6 minutes to rebut Howard on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" yesterday afternoon.

In typical Fox fashion, the segment was titled "Did Howard Dean Threaten the Entire Religious Community?" (Honestly, I really need to take some Tums when posting entries like this.)

Spinning like a whirling dervish, Dobson used his free air time to distort what Howard said and made sure to mention that he doesn't get involved in politics.

What, never? No, never!

What, never? Hardly ever.

Newshounds:

For visual effects, Fox went to a split screen and aired video and muted audio of the 2004 "Dean scream" and tossed in a graphic during Cavuto's introduction that read: "Unholy Threat?"

Now if I could only find my videotape with the Democrats' "Justice Sunday" program on it.