According to several conservative pundits, among them Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe:
The question is: Did Dean actually say this? There don’t appear to be any original news sources, so I’m wondering if anyone here knows where this came from or if there is a way to get a copy of the text of Dean’s actual speech. I believe the date of the speech is Jan 30, 2005.
A quick Googling shows nothing outside of editorial pages, and mainly of the expected type. Bloomberg’s Andrew Ferguson offers some more detail, perhaps spurious:
If it wasn’t taped, you’ll never have the actual text, of course - but then how did all these bloviators get it?
I havn’t seen the text of the speech on line, but, in addition to seeing the quote referenced on a bazillion blogs (not all of them right-leaning… it’s on the Daily Kos), a Google search turned up references to the quote on, among other sites, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Franciscan Chronicle, the Philladelpia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, U.S. News & World report, etc.
A whole bunch of Democrats are out scraping the HATE IS NOT A FAMILY VALUE stickers off of their bumpers…
All on editorial pages, however, many of them copies of the same syndicated columnists.
None of which answers the OP’s question. Especially if it’s being quoted only in editorial pages.
But I suspect all those papers/web sites are publishing the same articles by Jocoby, Will, etc. It will be interesting to see if the left-leaning blogs or editorialists will debunk this. Seems awfully inflamitory to just leave it hanging out there unrefuted.
If they dont’ debunk it within a week or so, then I’d take that as powerful circumstantial evidence that Dean really did say that, or something similar.
That is factually incorrect. The Daily News and the Washington Post (see second page of the article) independently (i.e., separate writers) reported the remark on their respective news pages on the day following the remarks.
Is this a bad thing to say? Wouldn’t a Democrat be expected to oppose the Republicans and what they stand for?
I think some Republicans are just miffed at Dean for speaking the truth. 
George Stephanopoulis quoted him as saying it (or more precisely acknowledged and expanded when George Will quoted him as saying it) on last Sunday’s This Week show. Mr. Stephanopolous is certainly left of center.
And of course it’s a bad thing to say. Although far from unexpected from Mr. Dean.
I thought that this had been debunked long ago. What he REALLY said was “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for: YEEHAW!” Hope this helps!
Something WRONG with hating Republicans and everything they stand for? The bigotry, the racism, the hatred of the poor, the warmongering, the stupidity, the wilfull harm to the environment … hell, it’s hard NOT to hate them.
He would, though there are perhaps limits on how such opposition should be expressed. From Jacoby’s editorial:
This thread is for discussing whether Governor Dean said what he is claimed to have said, not whether he was right to say it. This is not the forum or the thread for your litany of complaints about any political party. If you value your posting privileges, you will not do that again.
bibliophage
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What, that he is a hate-filled little twerp? :dubious:
Yes 
Alrighty, then, I will not do that again.
Since the OP has been possibly answered as factually as it can be,
AND
since the two sides of the aisle can’t seem to remember which forum they’re in,
this one is closed.
If anyone has a further FACTUAL link/cite, and thinks it will help answer the OP, email me.
samclem GQ moderator