http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/24/acd.00.htmlSNIP..."DEAN: Anderson, it doesn't make any difference. You're not supposed to do ads paid for by outside parties if you are involved with the president's campaign. That, in fact, is what happened. Someone from the president's campaign was involved in an ad that the president was not paying for. That's against the law.
COOPER: But you're alleging, it seems -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- more than that, though. I mean, you seem to be alleging that these two groups are colluding, working in tandem.
DEAN: And the evidence is pretty clear.
If you have an employee or someone who is on your advisory council then colluding with another group to put out ads, which, incidentally, don't have one shred of truth to them, then I think you've got a serious problem. I think the president has a very serious problem, because I believe the president has violated the law.I understand I don't believe the president saw the ad ahead of time, but I believe that under the law, he is responsible for it.
COOPER: Your critics will say, look, there is as much evidence of collusion between President Bush and this group, as there is between John Kerry and some of these 527s that have been raising money for him. I mean, his former spokesman or one of his former advisers, Jim Jordan, former campaign manager, is now a spokesman for the Media Fund,
you're appearing at a Moveon event tonight. You work with the Kerry campaign.
Couldn't someone say there's collusion, that's evidence of collusion?
DEAN: There's nothing against the law in my appearing anywhere I want to. I'm an independent operator. I don't do ads for Senator Kerry....."
Then he grinned a littleSNIP..." Governor Dean saying basically the president has violated federal campaign election law. Any truth to that?
MARC RACICOT, CHAIRMAN, BUSH-CHENEY CAMPAIGN: Let me tell you, there is no coordination. And I've said this an infinite number of times, between this campaign and any 527 group, number one.
Number two, Howard's comments are reckless. He's accusing the president of the United States of a criminal offense. He has in the past, and others have as well with the Kerry campaign, accused the president of lying. And those are reckless. He's an unguided missile when he talks about these kinds of things with those kinds of suggestions. There's absolutely no coordination between this campaign and any of those 527 groups......."END SNIP
No, Mr. Racicot, Howard Dean is a "guided" missile. Nothing unguided about it.
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