The Dean Scream

[OffWithTheirHeads]

The Pukes are once again trying to demean Dean by playing "The Scream." I say we turn it around by making it a rallying cry, sort of like "Remember The Alamo", and take pride in the scream instead of letting the Riech Wing use it against us.

YEAAAAAHHHH!

[brainshrub]

1. I've been doing that for months! YEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

That's exactly the kind of attitude we're gonna need to take back this country from the NeoCons.

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Yep

It's a passion and exciting scream. Yippie! :D Why paint it as evil? It's not.

[Lugnut]

27. Me too

YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Mojambo]

2. I think the Democrats should use it in every way possible n/t

[JaneQPublic]

31. I believe Southerners have a name for it: "Rebel Yell" (n/t)

[bleever]

3. Yeeeaaaah! Count me in.

[LittleClarkie]

4. Like us with the cheeseheads

That was an insult to GB Packer fans, but the next thing you knew, there were a bunch of folk wearing the damn things.

[bunkerbuster1]

30. Even better example: Yankee Doodle Dandy.

Started out as a Brit diss, turned around and used to rally us to kick their butts.

more here:

http://nurseryrhymes.allinfoabout.com/yankee_doodle.html

Make sure you remind Freepers of this when they chortle about "the Scream."

[judy]

5. agreed!

I think we should be proud of "the scream" and all scream in unison!
This was such a dirty campaign...I always thought that the MSM wanted Kerry to run instead of Dean, and were very instrumental in the destruction of the Dean candidacy in the Primaries.

[JDPriestly]

6. We love the scream!

Rove's tricks are enough to make anybody scream. I'm a screamer myself. You scream, I scream, we all scream for Dean's scream.

(Sorry, just couldn't resist.)

[dave29]

7. My suggestion:

Dean: Rove and I have a lot in common. We're both cheerleaders for our teams. I may be more vocal than him, but maybe he can get some pointers from his boss from his cheerleading days at Andover.

just an idea.


YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHH AAANNDOVER!!!!!

[FreedomAngel82]

18. LOL

That's funny. Way to go on Dean using the cheerleading thing. LOL. It's not bad for a guy to be a cheerleader but with Bush it's funny cause they try SOOO hard to make him be a tough guy that's why it's so hilarious.

[merwin]

8. The Dean Scream is completely made up and fake.

It was due to a unidirectional microphone used by Dean that didn't record the sounds of the crowd. When you listen to a tape made by someone in the crowd, the scream is barely audible. In fact, he had the crowd so rallied that they were all screaming as loud (or louder) than he was.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. I know

That is why I think we turn it around on them and make it a good thing!

[seaglass]

38. Right, when I saw it live on TV it didn't really happen. For the

millionth time it wasn't the VOLUME it was the TONE.

[murielm99]

9. I am going to suggest that at our next Democratic Central

Committee meeting, we start the meeting with a Dean scream.

We all scream in unison at the beginning of each meeting.

We have a loud Dean scream when we start the business meeting part of our annual picnic.

Let's all be Dean screamers!

I will put it on the agenda.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

17. Cool!

Let's make this the rallying cry to take back our country and not let thr Nazi's use this to marganilize us.

[murielm99]

21. I was not kidding.

As soon as I posted, I e-mailed the secretary of our committee. I really want it on the agenda.

We already sent a letter to all the area newspapers endorsing Chairman Dean wholeheartedly.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. I think that'd be awesome

And at the DNC in 2008 after Dean orders us to business everybody there should do the scream. :D It's the battle call!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

24. You bet!

Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhh!

Don't let the Nazi's push us into the margins.

Use their propaganda against them!

[Pastiche423]

11. I scream, you scream

we all scream for the American Dream!

[lyonn]

12. How about they show what really happened

I think it was on Link TV that they showed the clip from someone in the audience that night with the sounds of the screaming crowd but couldn't hear Dean. You remember, there was the mic that only picked up Deans voice and not the crowds? There are no doubt several videos that night that could be used over and over.

[zulchzulu]

13. While the "Scream" was "meaningful" then, it is irrelevant to "now"

I propose that if the Repugs want to play Dean's scream, then they surely can play the MANY asshole shit dumbass comments that Bush has said on camera..after all, he's the President.

Are they too scared to do so? Are they pussies that can't show their "leader" making an ass out of the Presidency and America? We have the video. They have the video.

Whenever they talk about the Monkey King, surely they could play some of his many "comments" to make their point that he's doing a "great job".

Are they cowards? By all means, yes. They HAVE NO BALLS.

[Pachamama]

14. At first, I hated that scream - Now its our BATTLE CRY!!

EEEEEHHHHHHYAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! :bounce:

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[Not_Giving_Up]

15. I love the Dean Scream!

I think it shows just how motivated he is to get this country back from the repugs.

So what if the mic only picked him up, not the crowd? In my book, they spun it as lunacy, but they were scared to death. Dean got the people moving again, they had to do something to stop him.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. I think it's so funny

How so scared of Dean they are. LOL and they make it so obvious.

[Not_Giving_Up]

26. Exactly

They know that the people are behind him....bad news for them.

[Guaranteed]

22. Yeah, it's played out. Don't worry about it.

Just laugh.

[proudbluestater]

23. I saw him on tv one day, and somebody asked whether he was

embarassed by the whole episode, and he said, in so many words, "HELL, NO!" That made me like him SOOOO much! If they had kept it in the context it was presented in and left IN all the background cheering, it would have come across much differently.

Maybe it all worked out for the best. I was not a Dean supporter originally, and supported Kerry in the primaries, but today DEAN is the man for me. Strength of convictions, unwavering in his opinions, willing to put up a FIGHT!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

25. Yeeeeeeeeeahhh!

You have the power!!!!!!!

God, It's enough to make me register Dem again!

[NAO]

28. If * can make his stupidity funny, and a good thing (he frequently does)

then we can certainly make The Dean Scream (TM) a good thing.

Maybe Dean should start out by trademarking it, and then charging the media a usage fee every time they play it!

Seriously, dumb-ass always makes fun of his stupidity, his speech impediment, his senility, and his lack of basic knowledge of the issues. His speech writers craft self-effacing jokes that are doubly effective: they entertain his disciples and endear him to them; and worse they annoy and enrage us because they are an arrogant nose thumbing at anyone who is not stupid.

The Dean Scream could serve that purpose for us (rallying cry for progressives, and disoreinting rage and contempt generator for the kool-aid drinkers). More importantly, it is a CONCRETE DEMONSTRATION of how the major media manipulates public perception.

It was used by the media to derail Dean and to marginalize and ridicule him. Their endless repletion of the audio byte went far beyond mere reporting of information and was blatantly a coordinated negative PR career smear campaign. It serves to remind Americans how the media manipulates public perception by selective reporting and by repetition and timing of the news.

[Eloriel]

40. Excellent point, NAO

More importantly, it is a CONCRETE DEMONSTRATION of how the major media manipulates public perception.

[John_H]

29. Our spokespoeple and surrogates need to do the turnaround

They need to put up the video that accurately records the scream all over the web---maybe even on the DNC website with some humerous, republican bashing text, something about the all things rethugs do to make working americans in every state scream or something like that.

Then the line for the whores is this: "The republicans are rehashing the same doctored video they used last year. Anyone can see the real video at www.therealdean.com. People ought to be asking why do george bush supporters always have to resort to lies and distortions to personally attack their opponents? Can't their policies stand onm their own.?"

When Judies of the world bring it up the surrogate should say:"Why would you continue to report on a doctored video? Have you seen the real iowa video Judy? If you did, I bet you'd be asking your next republican guest why they always use false information and doctored video, and lies to personally attack their opponents. Is it because their policies can't be supported on their own?

Here's a free one, DNC kidz, and you don't even have to pay me whatever you're paying the consultants telling you to practive your judo chess.

[canoegirl]

32. scream therapy

My husband and I call it "Dr. Dean's Scream Therapy". It's good for you!

[liberalpress]

33. My $.02 on the scream...

I think the good doctor got some bad advice. Had I been advising the campaign, I'd have told Dean to "own" the scream. Make it part of every campaign speech. Get the audience to repeat it. When interviewers ask about use word tracks like: "You want to know why I'm screaming? I'm screaming because I'm excited about they way we're taking this country back" or "Rising deficits, rising body counts in Iraq, rising unemployment.. why aren't YOU screaming. If you're not screaming, you don't understand the situation."

If Howard had "owned" the scream, he'd have been as popular as a rock star... and he'd be President today.

[janx]

34. Who is doing this?

?

[JoMama49]

35. Rove is so scared of Dean, and he believes that he single-handedly

brought him down by painting the Dean scream as "crazy" that he's invented another Dean scream. Rove knows the Repubs got a lot of mileage out of spinning Dean as a whack job, that he's trying to do it again. Wow, Rove must be shaking in his cowboy boots over the power Dean could wield with Dems!

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/afbd3dae-7bd2-11d9-9af4-00000e2511c8.html

[janx]

41. Yeah, I read that one.

But Dean didn't scream in the speech in CA in 2003--the audience was screaming, but I don't remember that Dean did. ?

[LinuxInsurgent]

36. I'm in...

EAAAARRRRAGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

[KittyWampus]

37. Hey! Democrats Scream For Truth, Liberty, Justice, Apple Pie, The

American Way... and ICE CREAM!

At least HE doesn't need a fucking wire to participate in a debate or a patsy in the audience to ask him asskiss questions.

[fishwax]

39. I'll scream for Dean

I've been using it since shortly after it happened. The story was totally bogus, and I'm not going to let them make us ashamed for our enthusiasm. A friend of mine (very liberal) had the Dean Scream as his IM notification. I thought that was great. :)

[southpaw]

42. That's the spirit...

Glad to see Dean becoming a force within the party!

[CTyankee]

43. Plenty of people will be screaming

after the repugs get through with them!