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wegro [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 10:53:31 AM  
It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-19 10:55:05 AM  
He was fired up and ready to go... and the media killed him for it.
 
tudorgurl [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-19 10:55:58 AM  
Dean would've been an awesome president.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-19 11:09:56 AM  

tudorgurl: Dean would've been an awesome president.


I'm not sure, but I would have loved to have given him a shot. Think he definitely earned that much.
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:17:59 AM  
Definitely no pussy grabbing.
 
Therion [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:20:26 AM  
That was a blatant political assassination that happened right before our eyes.
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:34:10 AM  

Therion: That was a blatant political assassination that happened right before our eyes.


What? Losing a primary?
 
MattytheMouse [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:35:47 AM  
That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.
 
DarnoKonrad
2022-01-19 11:35:55 AM  
Yes, but he went on to engineer the once in a lifetime super majorities that Obama wasted.
 
DarnoKonrad
2022-01-19 11:36:26 AM  
I kid.

/not really
 
Eightballjacket [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:36:30 AM  
The scream didn't end his campaign, it was more due to him being the supposed front runner for a time, then crapping the bed an finishing 3rd in Iowa.

A Dean advisor thought they fell short in Iowa because the had way too many volunteers running around in orange hats bugging the crap out of people.  They said they rang too many doorbells too many times and pissed off the voters.
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-19 11:36:36 AM  

wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.


The world changed a lot
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:36:49 AM  

wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.


Is everyone here just going to ignore that Dean lost?

I don't get the narrative behind this.  Hell, I'd never even HEARD of him in the 2004 Election, or I might have voted for him.

Don't revise history Farkers.
 
Don't Troll Me Bro!
2022-01-19 11:37:18 AM  
And to this day, if a Democrat had that awkward moment, the "liberal" media would spend weeks talking about YYARRGATE and questioning their mental fitness.
 
SirGunslinger
2022-01-19 11:37:41 AM  
Most brutal hatchet job since Uwe Boll's video game movies.
 
Gubbo [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-01-19 11:37:46 AM  

DarnoKonrad: Yes, but he went on to engineer the once in a lifetime super majorities that Obama wasted.


Well that's certainly a take.

Have a cookie
 
Erebus1954
2022-01-19 11:38:51 AM  

wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.


Some say thats only thing Trump hasn't lied about.
 
Metastatic Capricorn [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:38:58 AM  
The more than stupid thing here is that the mic was noise-cancelling. The press caught the scream in isolation but pretty much nobody in the crowd heard it.... it was just one loud voice in a crowd of loud voices.
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:39:05 AM  

MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.


Why do you make weird posts like this?
 
Rattlesnake Rattles Me
2022-01-19 11:39:14 AM  
The fundies and war junkies around the time pretty much kept any democrat from winning in 2004.
 
MattytheMouse [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:40:05 AM  

DarnoKonrad: Yes, but he went on to engineer the once in a lifetime super majorities that Obama wasted.


Yeah, and where did that get him?
DNC Speech: 'It's Howard Dean, Motherfucks!'
Youtube 8yIBhFHJtZs
 
austerity101 [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:40:08 AM  
I will never forgive the media for doing this to him and to us.
 
SirGunslinger
2022-01-19 11:40:37 AM  

whidbey: wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.

Is everyone here just going to ignore that Dean lost?

I don't get the narrative behind this.  Hell, I'd never even HEARD of him in the 2004 Election, or I might have voted for him.

Don't revise history Farkers.


I very much remember him and he was doing very well up to that point considering it was a pretty wide open field. Also, his 50 state strategy when he was running the DNC was exactly what we needed till they canned him for "M. T. Suit" Debbie Schultz.
 
MattytheMouse [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:41:04 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?


This is the weird post that you call out?
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:41:35 AM  

austerity101: I will never forgive the media for doing this to him and to us.


Whatever they "did" to him, Dean lost the bid for the nomination all his own.

I'm sorry reality bites.
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:42:30 AM  

MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?


You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.
 
sammyk [TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:42:57 AM  

wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.


I imagine every time Trump said something that would have been campaign-ending Howard Dean said "Are you farking kidding me!!?" in his head. Trump attacked a freaking gold star family and survived unscathed. Howard Dean was over-enthusiastic when things were going his way. Totes the same.
 
MattytheMouse [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:43:49 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.


Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.
 
wozzeck
2022-01-19 11:44:01 AM  
And Dean then went on to become the last effective DNC chair in memory.
 
SirGunslinger
2022-01-19 11:44:55 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.


I mean... I couldn't say it better myself.
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:46:10 AM  

MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.

Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.


I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)
 
Needlessly Complicated
2022-01-19 11:48:43 AM  
"Don't you think he doesn't look tired?"
 
thehobbes
2022-01-19 11:48:57 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?


You're just going to go on and tempt fate aren't you?
 
MattytheMouse [recently expired TotalFark]
2022-01-19 11:49:35 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.

Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.

I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)


N O B O D Y  S A I D  A N Y  S U C H  T H I N G  U N T I L  Y O U  C A M E  I N.
 
cocozilla
2022-01-19 11:49:41 AM  

Therion: That was a blatant political assassination that happened right before our eyes.


With overwhelming help from the mainstream media
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 11:50:01 AM  

MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.

Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.

I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)

N O B O D Y  S A I D  A N Y  S U C H  T H I N G  U N T I L  Y O U  C A M E  I N.


It's already where this thread was headed.  Mr. Spaceman.
 
Felgraf
2022-01-19 11:50:26 AM  

whidbey: I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)


... buddy the folks people are pissed at for screwing Dean over the scream aren't the DNC. you have, for some reason, immediately jumped to that conclusion, 'cause that's the weird thing that you do

a lot

but that's generally not who people are pissed at. 'Cause it wasn't the DNC who played the Dean Scream over and over and over on the news.

(Now, people got pissed at the DNC *later* for abandoning Dean's 50 state strategy, but that's, like. A deacde down the line from the dean scream)
 
BeesNuts
2022-01-19 11:50:36 AM  

NewportBarGuy: He was fired up and ready to go... and the media killed him for it.


More pointedly, the *crowd* was fired up and ready to go... and the media *manipulated the audio to make him seem unhinged... and everyone from David Letterman to David Chappelle was more than happy to pile on.

*They specifically chose to air the footage with the audio from his unidirectional mic, which didn't pick up the crowd noise.  Regular monitor audio was available.  It's *plausible* that it wasn't deliberate, just extremely unlikely.
 
SirGunslinger
2022-01-19 11:50:48 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.

Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.

I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)


The Media did screw him in 2004 and Kerry was the DNC "favorite" so they didn't exactly help either and then the DNC screwed him in 2009 by booting him as DNC chairman after a historic victory.

That was back when I had a newspaper subscription
 
Felgraf
2022-01-19 11:51:31 AM  

whidbey: It's already where this thread was headed.  Mr. Spaceman.


No it's really not because folks were, and are, pissed at the media for making a big deal over his shout of excitement

Say what's your opinion on CNN again, Mr. Russian hunter?
 
Generation_D
2022-01-19 11:53:11 AM  
As long as the Electoral College significantly favors land over people, the playing field will remain tilted, and guys like Dean will already start the race behind, while guys like Trump will have an open path to the general election.

We favor rural white rich landowners' votes so much more than urban wage earners, even though the urban wage earners at this point make up about 75% of the numerical electorate.

Dean Scream or no, the fact Trump won a race and Hillary and Dean and a long list of qualified Dems could not just emphasizes the point. We're a nation locked down by our Electoral College, doing exactly what it was designed to do, promote rural landowners at the expense of urban residents.
 
realmolo
2022-01-19 11:53:19 AM  
In political campaigns, you can be a prick, but you can't be a dork.
 
cocozilla
2022-01-19 11:54:42 AM  

SirGunslinger: whidbey: wegro: It's amazing that awkwardly yelling in to a microphone will keep you from getting elected but being caught on a hot mike bragging about committing sexual assault will not.

Is everyone here just going to ignore that Dean lost?

I don't get the narrative behind this.  Hell, I'd never even HEARD of him in the 2004 Election, or I might have voted for him.

Don't revise history Farkers.

I very much remember him and he was doing very well up to that point considering it was a pretty wide open field. Also, his 50 state strategy when he was running the DNC was exactly what we needed till they canned him for "M. T. Suit" Debbie Schultz.


Debbie Wasserman schultz. The perfect Clinton loyalist. She raised a fortune from Wall Street and simultaneously hemorrhaged offices across the country and across the board. So naturally they kept her on. The fact that she did try and put her thumb on the scales to favor clinton, lied about it, resigned and then within a few hours Clinton promoted her to honorary chairperson in the middle of the goddamn convention are all perfect encapsulations of how the Democrats managed to screw up.
 
GoldSpider
2022-01-19 11:55:49 AM  

Felgraf: No it's really not because folks were, and are, pissed at the media for making a big deal over his shout of excitement


If it weren't for the media, I wouldn't found the scream weird.

sure_jan.gif
 
cocozilla
2022-01-19 11:56:22 AM  

whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: whidbey: MattytheMouse: That scream was up there with Jeb Bush's "please clap," and Hillary's "Pokémon Go to the polls," as the all time best totally innocuous things that completely ruined a political career.

Why do you make weird posts like this?

This is the weird post that you call out?

You really think Clinton's career ended over that?  Is this supposed to be a joke?  And you're also making Dean out to be some kind of milque-toast loser like Bush.

No, I don't get it.

Yes, it is supposed to be a joke. It's hyperbole. We're in a thread making fun of Howard Dean screaming. Relax.

I'll relax when Farkers stop trying to change history.   This is clearly another attempt to make it look like the Democrats somehow screwed Dean, as it's fashionable to bash them now. :)


I think I finally figured you out.

Your Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

That would explain the automatic hyper defensiveness about the failings of the DNC.
 
Felgraf
2022-01-19 11:57:15 AM  

GoldSpider: Felgraf: No it's really not because folks were, and are, pissed at the media for making a big deal over his shout of excitement

If it weren't for the media, I wouldn't found the scream weird.

sure_jan.gif


Well, A) Not what I said (though I didn't find it weird myself) and

B) Are you attempting to argue the media has no influence on how people perceive things? Because that would be very silly indeed.
 
ranchguy
2022-01-19 11:58:49 AM  
so instead we got lurch vs bush 2
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2022-01-19 12:00:11 PM  
I knew he had no chance of winning as soon as I heard it.

/same with Dukakis and his stupid tank photo op
//Democrats are crap at campaigning
 
whidbey
2022-01-19 12:00:14 PM  

ranchguy: so instead we got lurch vs bush 2


Actually, Kerry would have made for a sane Presidency.

You're welcome.
 
GoldSpider
2022-01-19 12:00:47 PM  

Felgraf: GoldSpider: Felgraf: No it's really not because folks were, and are, pissed at the media for making a big deal over his shout of excitement

If it weren't for the media, I wouldn't found the scream weird.

sure_jan.gif

Well, A) Not what I said (though I didn't find it weird myself) and

B) Are you attempting to argue the media has no influence on how people perceive things? Because that would be very silly indeed.


I think you overestimate the impact of media coverage of one weird but inconsequential incident.  He didn't lose the primary because of the scream or the media coverage of it.
 
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