whopper of the week goes to Arianna Huffington

re: prop 187 http://slate.msn.com/id/2087313/

Timothy Noah has written up Dean's social security gaffe as the "Whopper of the Week." Unfortunately for Noah, he got scooped by Nedra Pickler of the AP. Governor Dean already admitted he misspoke (Noah does not include this admission in his story).

Looking back through the "Whopper of the Week" archives, we here at DeanDefense.org are left wondering when Rice, Rumsfeld, Flesicher, O'Reilly, Rove, or Frist start acknowledging similar misstatements.

Wouldn't that be nice?
http://deandefense.org/archives/000639.html

Bush saying he was not AWOL and saying he flew the plane for the May photo-op are whoppers.

On the Dean quote he does not say he wants to raise the retirement age to 70, but the 1995 raising the retirement age Packwood statement was - and I think still is - the only solution - and Dean endorsed having a solution. In the late 90's Clinton started to push an alternative - removing the wage cap - and Dean immediately and ever since has been aboard that solution.

In 1995 "I am very pleased to hear Bob Packwood because I absolutely agree we need to reduce the—I mean, to increase the retirement age. There will be cuts and losses of some benefits, but I believe that Sen. Packwood is on exactly the right track."

Hard to see a whopper - unless you are Mathews or Tim Russert and paid to lie about Dems.

As to Arianna, she said she voted against Prop 187 - and there is no proof otherwise. She also described why folks were voting for 187 - and she did so without calling the folks for 187 racists.

Slate and MSNBC really do belong in the same business family.