Reply #100: Jim Hightower is NOT "behind" Dean. I replayed the CSPAN

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interview several times because I couldn't figure out where this was coming from. (I knew I hadn't heard Hightower say he supported *any* of the candidates.) He mentioned Kucinich and Sharpton, praising both for their ideas. He said Dean had really surprised people and had "run around the party structure," made a reference to the money Dean has raised. He mentioned Kerry, saying something to the effect that he was the traditional Democratic leader at present, now that Lieberman has kind of fallen by the wayside, and there was the implication that Dean was the leader at present among non-traditional Democrats (for want of a better term.)

He also said something about the party's chances with Dean OR KUCINICH.

Bottom line: Jim Hightower likes Dean's success in campaigning and he likes the ideas of Kucinich and Sharpton. But he didn't single anyone out as "the best" or his favorite.

Yours in support of truth in journalism and at DU,

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