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They way they cut it off saying only: "there is a war going on in the Middle East, and members of Hamas are soldiers in that war."
That by itself denotes support for what hamas is doing, and that is something Dean is just not saying.
It leaves the distinct impression that Howard Dean would grant Hamas fighters the status of legitimate soldiers.
Here in reality, Dean was clearly expressing the opposite of support for Hamas - in fact he endorsed, or at least declined to oppose, the Israeli policy of assassinating Hamas leaders. He called Hamas leaders "soldiers" in the sense of "combatants", and hence subject to being killed, as opposed to being merely political leaders. Yet Carl Cameron played it as if Dean, although he thankfully "did condemn terrorism", was practically endorsing Hamas. It's slick.
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