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.