"Media Mum on Dean's 'KKK' Fund Raiser"

From this:

There's little doubt that if Howard Dean were a Republican, he'd be announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race this week, as details from a recent Dean rally - so ripe with racism it would make a Ku Klux Klansman blush - have begun seeping into print.

Janeane Garofalo: I could turn her around

Since Dean is a Democrat, however, at least one prominent media columnist is saying it's no big deal that the entertainment for the ex-Vermont governor's Dec. 8 event included "N"-word jokes, imitations of Condoleezza Rice in an Amos 'n Andy accent and references to the president of the United States as a "piece of living, breathing s--t..."

Deborah Orin of the NY Post broke the story here:

YOU won't be seeing any video of Howard Dean's x-rated, epithet-ridden New York fund-raiser because Team Dean made sure to bar the TV cameras. Which suggests they expected trouble... So there were no TV cameras last Monday night when pro-Dean comics took the stage on West 18th St. in Chelsea at a $250-a-head Dean fund-raiser (reduced from $500) and competed to see how often they could use the F-word in the same sentence...

Janeane Garofalo ridiculed the Medicare prescription-drug bill that Bush had just signed as the "you can go f--- yourself, Grandma" bill.

Politics · Wed, 12/17/2003 - 10:31 · · Importance: 1