"Dean Delivers Top 10 List on Letterman" (taped earlier today)

[Rowdyboy]

He's got a nice sense of humor. Maybe this will take a little of the edge off. I'll be watching...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=10&u=/ap/20040122/ap_on_el_pr/dean_top_10

"Top 10 Ways I, Howard Dean, can turn things around"

10. Switch to decaf

[VolcanoJen]

1. I thought he was doing a sit-down with Dave.

So his appearance is limited to the Top 10? Might be pretty funny, actually... but I thought his appearance was going to have a little more weight to it.

I think #7 is pretty funny, btw.

:D

I'll be watching!

[Rowdyboy]

4. Surely he'll have a sit-down interview....

[Guaranteed]

5. I think it's better this way...

He just needs to show that he's rolling with the punches...that's exactly what this does. AND, it'll give CNN, MSNBC, and FOX decent soundbytes. This should stop the trash talk.

[Guaranteed]

2. Freakin' PERFECT.

That's perfect. Perfect.

[slinkerwink]

3. I also hope he gets to talk to Letterman!

Sounds like he went to New York City yesterday on his day off.

[youngred]

12. he's a guest on the show

so I'm thinking yeah he does...and its for tonight so taped today. Its part of his campaigning

[Guaranteed]

20. I don't think he's a guest...on the CBS website it says

Matthew Broderick and a Mars expert. Think it's just the Top Ten...like I said, though, I think that's perfect.

[Rowdyboy]

6. I especially like #8, but don't get the thing about Ted Danson at all

[VOX]

23. Danson and his wife Mary Steenburgen are big Clark supporters...

At least that's how I read it...

:toast:

[Rowdyboy]

24. Okay...I had forgotten about that

Thanks for the reminder

[knight_of_the_star]

7. ROFLMAO!!!!!

That is just TOO funny!

[Polemonium]

8. Kick for number 4 - lol - nt

:7

[Terwilliger]

9. taking bets: how many think Dave will ask him to recreate his scream?

:hi:

[youngred]

10. an EXCELLENT move on his part

some self-depreciation, get people buzzing about him in a positive way, turn the negative publicity of monday into positive.

Good move Howard!

[Guaranteed]

14. Yup....

this changes everything.

I feel great. :toast:

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

11. I laughed out loud at number 10

"Switch to decaf" - perfect. The rest were hilarious, except for number one.

[jjmalonejr]

13. A sense of humor is Dean's best bet.

I'm not a supporter, but he needs to take the recent mockery in stride and have a good sense of humor about it.

It's really his best bet, and a better tack than the recent modulating of his enthusiasm.

[Benhurst]

29. I'm still undecided; but I like all our front-runners. I was turned

off by Dean's performance the other evening. But he is an intelligent, good man. Unfortunately, the medium often is the message. Medium cool, guys! Arthur Godfrey revolutionized radio 60 years ago when he realized while recuperating in a hospital bed that a radio announcer should talk to listeners as though he were a guest in their houses, not address them as though he were at a convention hall packed with thousands.

I felt the other evening, watching on tv, that Dean came across very poorly; but I can see how how his speech might have worked if one had been there. Unfortunately most of us weren't.

I think the Letterman Top Ten appearance is a step in the right direction.

We have to remember that radicals like Reagan and Dubya have managed to manipulate the medium to project themselves as rational, compassionate human beings -- which they were and are not. It would be tragic if our candidates, intelligent and representatives of all that is best in our now-threatened republic, allow themselves to be portrayed unfairly by not paying attention to the limitations of the medium.

Good luck to you, Dr. Dean!

And for all our sakes, may the best (Democratic) man win!

[windansea]

15. lamest top 10 list I ever saw

sounds like the campaign had approval rights

it could be much more funny

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

19. I feel with government funding, I could make it a lot more silly...

:eyes:

[windansea]

22. hyerk!!

:eyes:

[mandyky]

16. Dean supporters will get a kick out of 10

Dean doesn't drink coffee! LOL

[askew]

17. Thanks for posting this link.

I'll have to tune into Dave tonight. This list was funny. It should be even better being read by Dean. I really like his ability to make fun of himself. You need that in politics, because everyone makes mistakes.

[bearfartinthewoods]

18. has anyone thought about who was the last candidate to do this

err....the recently withdrawn gephart?

[JohnOneillsMemory]

21. Oh no! He is a real human being! Not a lizard in a suit! Yay! n/t

[killbotfactory]

25. Heheh

YEEEARRRGH for Dean!

[VOX]

26. This is great! But look at how AP skews their story to discredit Dean:

Classic bit of spin to make Democrats/liberals look bad:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=10&u=/ap/20040122/ap_on_el_pr/dean_top_10
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean turned to late-night comedy Thursday to poke fun at his arm-waving outburst in Iowa that has proven politically damaging. Dean taped an appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman" in which he presented the Top 10 list. The last Democrat to deliver the list was Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites) of Missouri on Jan. 12. After a poor showing in Iowa Monday, Gephardt abandoned his presidential bid.
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AP has written this to discredit Dean. His pep-rally speech has been morphed into an "arm-waving outburst," which AP declares has "proven politically damaging." (Has it? Isn't a little early to make that call? Does anybody really care about a pep-talk?)

Further, AP makes the leap to suggest that an appearance on Letterman is the last gasp of a losing Democratic candidate, since Gephardt tried it and then dropped out.

I don't ever want to hear the phrase "liberal media" again!

[HuckleB]

28. I don't see a problem with the article.

And I am a Dean supporter.

[HuckleB]

27. Looks like "The Scream" is bouncing back the other way.

Great move by the Dean campaign, especially in concert with the appearance on ABC PrimeTime tonight.

[Rowdyboy]

30. Kick

:kick: