On that same “Meet the Press” appearance, it looks like Howard Dean told more lies directly following a speech in which he used the phrase “tell the truth” seven times — fourteen if you include the phrases “telling the truth,” “truth been told” and “told the truth.”

During the appearance, Dean had this to say in response to Ken Mehlman’s request that Dean condemn Democratic Party attacks on Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele:

RUSSERT: Picking up on what Ken Mehlman said about Michael Steele, the African-American Republican candidate in Maryland, being called an Uncle Tom, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee seeking his credit report. Should you not…
DEAN: I don’t like that stuff, and I — now, look, the Republicans have a long history of saying that those things happened. And they may or may not have. So if that happened, it’s not right. But I didn’t hear Ken condemning the chairman of the Maryland party when he called me an anti-Semite. So let’s try to up — speaking of moral values, let’s have a better tone in our political campaigns. Because the truth is, the other thing that Time Kaine’s race showed is that the person with the better tone and the more positive agenda won, and I like to see voters exercising their rights in that way.

The chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, John Kane, is insisting that he never called Dean an anti-semite and is demanding that Dean apologize:

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