Yes. When I said the “the news also had the crowd noise filtered out to make it seem like Dean was shouting for no reason” I incorrectly attributed a cause to the filtering. Okay? The point is that it made for a goofy sounding clip to play over and over again as if it was somehow significant for anything but a superficial appraisal of the candidate.
No argument there.
Frankly, it would have made me more likely to vote for him.
What? Radio? Really?!?!??
My exposure to it was news people playing the scream and making fun of it and him.
Here is the thing. Dean was supposed to win. By the polls he was supposed to win that night. He did not. The media don’t like to admit that their polling is crap so they punished Dean for not winning.
Yes, radio, really. :rolleyes:
Radio? Isn’t that the thing what makes noise in the car?
Yup. And a lot of people spend time in their cars, so radio does still get a lot of listeners.
I would generally agree with you. I like politicians to show their true emotions. But I found it very difficult to believe that after the Iowa Caucuses, when John Kerry almost literally handed Dean his own ass on a platter, that the true Howard Dean’s reaction would be to come out on stage and act like he was just elected King of the World.
Again, I understand the spin or the need for motivating supporters after a defeat. Turning it into a victory speech, complete with primordial sounds tells me that he is NOT showing his true emotions.
I, too, never understood what the big deal was about “the scream.” What candidate hasn’t said or done something silly at some point during a long and exhausting campaign?
Actually, that was three years later: John Edwards extramarital affair - Wikipedia
I remember when I first discovered talk radio in college and listening to Sean Hannity’s program where he was mocking Howard Dean by replaying his yell with the “Tales from the Crypt” theme song. In politics, people will over analyze any little thing to make the other side look bad. And in the media, it seems, is just as bad as the tabloids, or immature highschoolers. There’s a clip of Shep Smith making fun of Romney saying he’s wearing “mom pants.”
At the time, I asked my dad (who is a conservative) what his thoughts were on Howard Dean. He didn’t know anything about his political positions but that Dean would make a lousy president based on the way he presents himself. “Yelling like some crazy person…”
I read here that CNN gave a lot of coverage to Howard Deans yell. I youtube’d it and CNN actually has a clip titled “2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean.” I wonder if the media didn’t play it up, if people on their own would have actually cared about it.