From The Archives ... (The Dean Scream)

Republican National Committee ^ | July 27, 2004

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THE SCREAM
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HOWARD DEAN ON THE IOWA CAUCUS RESULTS: "I'm sure there are some disappointed people here. You know what? You know something? You know something? If you had told us one year ago that we were going to come in third in Iowa, we would have given anything for that. And you know something? You know something? Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. To take back the White House. Yeeeeeaaaaaaaah!"  (Howard Dean, Remarks To Supporters In Iowa, http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/elec04.prez.dean.tran/, 1/20/04)

 

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[I still care]

Is this the right one? I hear him reciting the names of states, but the "scream" is missing.

My son never saw the clip (unbelievable!) and was asking me to find it for him.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

From MTV's story (click for links to the mixes; the links embedded in the HTML below won't work):

Remixers Make Howard Dean's Scream Funky And Danceable
02.02.2004 6:31 PM EST

After his disappointing finish in the Iowa caucuses on Monday (see "John Kerry Scores Solid Victory In Iowa Caucuses"), a red-faced Dean made an impassioned entreaty to his supporters in Des Moines that left him hoarse and sounded reminiscent of wrestler Randy "Macho Man" Savage's patented "Oooooh yeah!" The gruff, fist-pumping appeal made its way onto the Internet, where inventive and aspiring remixers have added their own sardonic twists to the fiery speech.

One of the first remixes to surface, Jonathan Strong's "Dean Goes Nuts Remix" hosted by Right-Magazine.com, featured Dean's shrieking yowl set to Aphex Twin's frenetic electronic "Wax the Nip" from 1995's I Care Because You Do. The track has since been taken down due to bandwidth issues. With many pundits speculating that Dean's campaign has gone off the rails, it's no surprise that a remix with Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" has also made its way onto the Web. Other remixes include Dean paired with Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" and Lil Jon's "Throw It Up."

	Dean goes wild
	"Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train (Dean's Aboard)" mix
	"Welcome to Dean's Jungle" mix
	"Dean Goes Nuts" mix
	"Yeagh" mix

"Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico," Dean enthused in his speech to supporters. "We're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! Yeeeeeeah!"

That "Yeeeeeeah!" figures prominently in many of the remixes, mostly created by resourceful college students and blog enthusiasts, such as the high-energy house version ("US Tour (Chris Flyer Remix)"), the funky horn mix, (Jonathan Barlow's "Howarddean") and the Ministry-like alarm call version (James Lileks' "Yeaahg"). Metal band Viral Solstice even made their own hardcore punk tweak, "Hardcoredean."

Other approaches were less sonically ambitious but proved just as satirically effective. On Wednesday, shock jock Howard Stern played a recording of Dean's speech set to crowd noise from a professional wrestling match. Later he played it with the theme from "Rocky" underneath, but the most popular versions heard on Stern's syndicated radio show have yet to spread online: Dean's shouting played overtop a Nazi rally and AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)."

The overzealous gaffe also has become fodder for the late-night comedy circuit. "The Daily Show" turned the speech into a spoof of ads for monster-truck competitions, and "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" had the host throwing jabs at the man once considered the Democratic front-runner: "I'm not an expert in politics, but I think it's a bad sign when your speech ends with your aides shooting you with a tranquilizer gun."

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—Rodrigo Perez

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Dean Scream

[Barney1995]

Yes, I couldn't believe that he went through his litany of states again, since it had gotten him in real trouble before, but he did. He did not scream, this time, which did him credit, but I would have thought he would have done anything possible not to have reminded anyone of his "scream" speech, which may have cost him the Democratic nomination, but he just resurrected it.