I did not catch the Dean yell on TV the other night, but I did listen to a brief audio clip. Sounded a bit pissed-off and frustrated sans context, but as I understand it, he was actually smiling through a lot of it. Some have likened it to a football coach trying to rally a losing team at halftime. This next quote was taken from a Dean blog. The quote was included in a comment on a post at Daily Kos titled "Please Stop with the Howard Dean Arrrrgh Stuff":
I'm back home now from Iowa and I just wanted to toss this out there for those of you who weren't there (and for the members of the media who were not actually there as well):What you may have seen or heard on TV/radio was edited in such a way that it sounded like Howard was a raving lunatic.
But that's only half of the story.
What the media and pundits failed to capture, almost to a one, was the crowd.
I was THERE, folks.
I was standing 20 feet from the stage.
[snip]
The crowd was so unbelievably loud I could barely hear myself think, let alone hear what Howard was saying.
Trust me -- it was DEAFENING.
The media filtered OUT the crowd -- probably done with the intention of capturing what Howard said clearly! -- but that also meant that inadvertently most of what one hears is Howard and NOT who and what Howard was responding TO.
The way that this event has been spun reminds me of the Wellstone funeral that was portrayed in the media as a political rally. Not true. (For the whole story on that fiasco, I advise going to Al Franken's Lying Liars book. He was actually there.)
And as for me? Not sure what to do about the good doctor. I'm getting a lot of hits on the blog for "Howard Dean crazy" and "Howard Dean nuts". Are you people all taking your cues from Hannity, Limbaugh and Drudge?
Can't you just picture the Rove attack ads featuring the Yell all summer long? Not to mention the ceaselss bleating the right-wing media whores. I'm starting to lean Kerry. We shall see. Dean on Letterman tonight.
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