Posted on 01/24/2005 4:04:59 AM PST by Puzzleman
As a Republican, I would like to endorse former Gov. Howard Dean as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
My endorsement has nothing to do with politics or the qualifications of Mr. Dean. Rather, it has to do with an out-of-control media that not only manipulated our electoral process, but, in fact, changed the makeup of the last presidential campaign.
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Interesting read...
Agreed, this was a good article.
It was so obvious at the time that the media, realizing Dean would be slaughtered in a general election, went from fawning over him to ridiculing him overnight. Normally someone like Dean would be a darling of the MSM, but when they began to see what the consequences would be, they started treating him like a Conservative.
Can't argue with this article.
The MSM knows best what's good for us/sarcasm..
It wasn't the scream that turned me off..I deplored his stances long before..but I am not a dem.
Ridicule is a very effective tool against a candidate. They use it ad nauseum against President Bush...For those who do not study closely who and what a candidate or official is , it works.
No wonder Kerry looked like a dead man walking.....he is!
It wasn't the media that destroyed Dean, but rather the Clinton's. The media was simply the willing tool. And, the author laments these stories being run. But they were out there all the time, just waiting to be told. But more importantly Bill and Hill believed that the nomination of Dean would do irreparable harm to the party so they put out a hit on him. Terry McAwful was instrumental in making this happen. If you remember, there was a damaging letter from Dean to Clinton that was released around this time.
Really, the author only gets half the story. The media carried out the Clintons'will. The is really about a cynical ex-president and his power crazed wife pulling the media's strings in the background to destroy a candidate.
Both of these January 2004 media boomlets had the Clinton's fingerprints all over them.
Curious that it's these same Clintons who are his principal antagonists in the fight for the DNC chair.
Maybe he's not so bad.
You're wrong.
It wasn't until he announced that his first act after winning the nomination would be to fire Terry McAuliffe that this all started. The media had no concerns about him losing.
They were moved to act by their heroes-the Clintons-and nothing else.
I thought Dean was a total nut with made-up positions determined by one thing...seal the nomination early. He was the front man for MoveOn.org....remember their bogus on-line nomination and Dean couldn't even get a majority in a set-up like that?
What irritated me was the GWB operatives on FR who were pulling for his nomination, for the easy victory in the election.
What a terrible idea. If he won, could the nation really have survived four years of Howard the Maniac? (even before the scream)
I frankly have more respect(slim to none ) for Dean than I do for a traitor to his country(Kerry)
In Dean's meteoritic fall, the Clintons are like the 'dog that didn't bark'.
There was also Dean's nastiness to that guy in Oelwein, I think it was, about a week before the Iowa caucuses...told the guy to shut up. That may have been the point where Dean's campaign started to tank...unless it was the moment when Al Gore endorsed him.
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