It's easy to blame the mainstream media for his demise. But let's not forget, it's the Dem machinery that held him underwater until he quit kicking. They wanted him out of sight as much, if not more, than MSM. Cowards, all.

It angered me when so much attention was given to Dean's so called scream. It was clearly a an indication on how the mainstream news outlets manipulate and exploit public opinion and no longer strive to be objective. The problem is the many people who don't seem to mind being manipulated. I was glad to see someone enthused about politics. Dean also said that the thought of being president and being responsible for so many people was sobering. No other candidate showed such humility. What he said about Republicans was also true. I was glad somebody said it.

Howard Dean would make a better president
than ANY of the nominees offered up by
EITHER party so far.

But the forces united AGAINST electing
a straight-talking and
truly progressive president
with superb managerial skills
to bring his vision into being,
are powerful, widespread
and deadly-determined, indeed.

Propagandizing a yell is one way to
stop a progressive.

For the powers-that-be, it obviously
took more effort to remove JFK,
Martin Luther King,
Bobby Kennedy and maybe even
Paul Wellstone from the scene.

If they can do it with a scream, fine.

But we've seen what The Powers are capable of
when someone of magnitude
(or potential magnitude) truly
threatens the status-quo.

Dean's rise was nipped in the bud,
depriving America of an
excellent possible Chief Executive.

But, thank God,
at least he's still alive.

Okay, here we go again:

He was in a room filled with 3000 screaming people. He was using a microphone that shuts out background noise, just like the ones they use in broadcasts of football games. Other video was available that showed what Dean actually sounded like and he could not even be heard above the yelling throng. The mainstream media refused to even show that footage until they had brought Dean down. They had started going after him the minute he said he would break up the corporate media monoplies.

But here we are, after all these years of having a REAL maniac for a president, still believing and perpetuating their sophomoric bullshit.

I was absolutely disgusted with the media reporting of Howard Dean's expression of exuberance. When I first saw it on TV just after it happened I had not been listening to any of the commentary,all I saw was Dean and all I heard were his comments and his cheer. My first reaction was that,hey,here is a guy and an attitude that the Democrats need, one who is gung ho and enthusiastic. And believe me I'm usually a cynic about things like this and quick to put down anything I think is overdone or phony.That did'nt even cross my mind regarding Dean. I became more convinced than ever after what happened to Dean that there are many,many people out there who are nothing but mindless idiots and more than happy to feed on the propaganda that the media and politicians dish out. Otherwise there would have been a backlash and as we all know,there was'nt.Hopefully he will make a comeback in the future.

Yeah, the guy's voice cracks after non-stop campaiging, and for that, thanks to the Democratic party and MSM powers that were, we ended up with John Kerry.
The fact that Huffington Post would even put this garbage up says a lot about how far this site has fallen. Why not just have all the upper-end cable talking heads here to "moderate" our posts?
I caucused in Washington for Howard Dean in 2004 and would happily support him again today.

I have read alot about the Dean 'scream' but I had never seen it.
This wasn't a scream. It was nothing.
This is ridiculous.

Corporations used this incident to discredit a progressive. Will they be successful again?

I'll say it once, and I'll say it as many times as I feel like...the MSM's lambasting of Howard Dean over that scream, and ultimately treating him like he was some kind of lunatic, was a big part of the reason that the youth vote didn't turn out like many thought they would, and a very big reason why we had to sit through 4 more years of Dubya.

People under 40 had Dean stickers on their car. They were motivated, and excited...and then they watched their favorite be savaged in the media, as the media clamored to get on the John Kerry bandwagon. And when the election rolled around, a whole lot of folks were completely burned out. After a summer of listening to the media talk endlessly about Swift Boats and the sudden disappearance of John Edwards, a whole lot of that expected voting base lost that energy and motivation that made them look forward to casting their vote. They had to choose between two guys that weren't going to end the occupation, instead of one guy that wanted it, and one guy that was going to bring the troops home.

Kicking Howard Dean to the curb showed exactly how irresponsible and vindictive the MSM could be.

Running this is cr*p from H-post. Perpetuates the myth, like Gore & the internet.

Howard is doing a great job as the head of the DNC & may he run for President again someday (but I will take Obama for now! Go Obama! Woot! Good for you Iowa!)

This should be in a "how the media distorts the truth" headline. I'm sick of this spew being played again and again.

I still love Howard Dean.

I was a soundman early on for Dean..Not in Iowa, thank you very much, but California. The candidate did lose his mind for second there but:
I would, just for the sake of any doubters out there, like to explain how the scream got to be the icon that it is. In Dean's camp, it was very last minute as many campaigns can be and a lot of the campaign thrived on young volunteers, bless them.

Whomever did sound only mixed a single mic; Dean's, without having an extra mic to catch the room sound. Many mics are very directional and dynamic that is, they are designed purposefully to exclude outside sounds because of feedback. The mistake made was not setting up another room mic and bussing that to network feed. That would have give a more accurate audio impression of the reality in that room which was very raucus. Everyone was screaming.

Not only did the MSM successfully sabotage Dean's run but we democrats did not fight back to protect him. There was no question that what was portrayed to the public was not what happened in that room. The point, however, is that the public bought it because there was no one fighting back to correct the misinformation. Fully expect it to happen again and again UNLESS we stand up and fight like hell to call the repugs and MSM on their dishonesty and BS.

SO WE AGREE THE MEDIA DELIBERATELY GANGED UP ON HIM AND DERAILED HIS CAMPAIGN.

SO NOW THE MEDIA IS IGNORING EDWARDS, DODD, BIDEN, ETC.

WTF...HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO STAND FOR THIS ELECTION FIXING???

People who were there say it is all a lot of hype. He didn't "scream". I wish you would not keep the myth or perhaps more appropriately phrased LIE going. I stopped reading the Des Moines Register because they would not be accurate about this.

Imagine that! Screaming at a pep rally.

For this, Dean was put on continuous loop and discredited in the minds of the rulers of this country -- the Proudly Ignorant.

Howard Dean would have made one hellvua great President. Today, we'd not only be safer; we'd still be America and still have our Constitution intact.

That's it? Believe it or not, I never really saw the "scream" (don't watch tv). I thought it was much worse than this.

Sensationalism has definitely taken over the system. Does anyone know if FDR screamed like that? These guys can't even roll their eyes in fear that the picture will show up on drudge. Sick state of affairs.

Having so little independent media allows stuff like the "Deam scream" to happen.

The bad press Dean received, and which was arguably a big nail in his political coffin, is the direct result of our mainstream biased media. The fact is the "scream" was Dean leading a rally. When an unaltered video is played, Dean's behavior is seen as not unusual but what one would expect in that environment. Diane Sawyer was the only main stream media person I saw who actually showed both the altered and unaltered version. All others continued to erroneously portray Dean as a raving nutcase which is what it looked like when the background noise was silenced. My neighbor was actually at the rally and was very disturbed how Dean was maligned. Yet no one has accepted responsibility for mannipulation by our so called objective media. Scary, isn't it?

I think I remember something about him not playing ball with the press corps...

The real person to ask about Mr. Dean's "implosion" is DemoScumbag Terry McAuliffe. Why McAuliffe let Dean twist in the wind rather than come to his aid (as CNN re-ran the clip hundreds of times, far fewer than Fox) has more to do with Dean's potential to short circuit McAuliffe's old boy fundraising network and McAuliffe's cynical dedication to the Clintons.

"The sabotage of the nascent Gore 2004 campaign was just a run-up for demolition job McAuliffe directed against the unauthorized campaign of Vermont governor Howard Dean. The Dean threat had almost nothing to do with any perceived ideological heresy from the Vermonter. After all Dean was a run-of-the-mill neoliberal who pretty much aped the centrist economic policies of Clinton. The real threat posed by Dean came from his determination to raise millions in campaign contributions outside of the precincts of the DNC. McAuliffe's control over the party stems from his role as the prime dispenser of campaign cash, the elixir necessary to keep political recipients loyal to the party leadership and its policies. Dean showed another way was possible and he had to be put down."

_from Jefferey St. Clair's "The Political Business of Terry McAuliffe"

Thank T.A for Dubya.

THE inovator in campaigning, seeking AND GETTING public support through the Internet, an area of the public the rest of the politicians had chosen to ignore, Dean changed politics forever. We the people, through our websites, can now DIRECTLY give our opinions to our politicians. Another great stroke of good fortune for us is that he was nominated for the chair of the Democratic National Committee where he orchestrated a democratic victory in 2006. Had he won in 2004, the democratic sweep in 2006 might not have happened. Go Dean!!

The corporate controlled media made a big issue of Dean's enthusiasm, yet have supported the disaster in Iraq and have been virtually mute regarding all the Bush scandals and abuses of power. This is also the kind of "democracy" being built in Iraq.

The MSM, essentially, muted all the microphones except the one in Dean's hand. This was discussed at length on Air America. Dean was the only threat Bush faced. Kerry spent too much time on Kerry instead of reminding voters what a failure the Republicans were and that having an angry little crap throwing monkey for a president is not a good thing.

Well, I liked Dean a lot more as an outsider looking in than an insider carrying water for the beltway pimps.