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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (502104)	12/2/2003 11:18:34 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769667

ROFL!!!!!! MATTHEWS: Well, would you break up GE? (APPLAUSE) DEAN: I can`t -- you... MATTHEWS: GE just buys Universal. Would you do something there about that? Would you stop that from happening? DEAN: You can`t say -- you can`t ask me right now and get an answer, would I break up X corp... MATTHEWS: We`ve got to do it now, because now is the only chance we can ask you, because, once you are in, we have got to live with you. (LAUGHTER) DEAN: No. MATTHEWS: So, if you are going to do it, you have got to tell us now. (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: Are you going to break up the giant media enterprises in this country? DEAN: Yes, we`re going to break up giant media enterprises. That doesn`t mean we`re going to break up all of GE. Matthews continued: "Would you break up Fox?" (LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: I`m serious. DEAN: I`m keeping a... MATTHEWS: Would you break it up? Rupert Murdoch has "The Weekly Standard." It has got a lot of other interests. It has got "The New York Post." Would you break it up? DEAN: On ideological grounds, absolutely yes, but... (LAUGHTER) MATTHEWS: No, seriously. As a public policy, would you bring industrial policy to bear and break up these conglomerations of power? DEAN: I don`t want to answer whether I would break up Fox or not, because, obviously MATTHEWS: So what are you going to do about it? You`re going to be president of the United States, what are you going to do? IT IS OBVIOUS THAT HE WAS ONLY SPOUTING RAGE AND HAD NOT A CLUE WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO...