KELO TV interviews Daschle tonight

KELO TV tonight broadcast the first television interview of Senator Daschle since his defeat: "Daschle: One on One." 

Daschle said, "I think it was the best of times and the worst of times. They abhorred all the negative campaigning especially against Linda but we could also do something we enjoy and all be together."

Here we go again.  Daschle relishes playing up his victim status, though, as one commentator indicated, he knows how to throw an elbow.  The Daschle campaign began the debate over lobbying by falsely implying that John Thune had lobbied for pharmaceutical companies.  The Thune camp responded by noting that "only one candidate has personally profited from big drug companies. That candidate is Tom Daschle.”  (Linda Daschle, purportedly an aviation expert, had been hired in 1999 by Schering-Plough to seek a patent extension on the drug Claritin.*)

And, of course, only Senator Daschle ran television ads explicitly questioning John Thune's character.   

You can view the three-minute story leading off the broadcast by clicking HERE.

* "Tom Daschle's Hillary Problem," Washington Monthly, January/February 2002.