While Democrats waited for the former presidential candidate, the state GOP held a Dean scream contest in anticipation of Dean’s arrival. A week ago, the party sent out a flier inviting people to a “No-show send Howard home rally” and garnered $22,000 in contributions, said Scott Malyerck, the state GOP executive director.
“We hope Howard Dean comes back every month,” Malyerck said.
The state GOP’s scream-off was intended to poke fun at Dean, whose attempt at a troop-rallying “yeah” after the 2004 Iowa caucus became the most laughed about moment of the campaign. Dean lost the next 16 contests, including a next-to-last showing in South Carolina a couple of weeks later.
The scream-off drew a handful of high school and college Republicans who were judged on “lack of poise in appearance” and “extent of angry, insane ranting.”
Contestants had to repeat Dean’s cry that his campaign was “going to South Carolina and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico. 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 – yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Richard Hahn, a Dreher High School student, won the contest – embellishing Dean’s itinerary by adding Canada and Puerto Rico as campaign trail stops.
Hehe. That’s as funny as Operation Yellow Elephant. This is pretty damn amusing, too.
metalgrid
Thanks, got a good chuckle out of that one. Seems politics are only good for a laugh these days.
p.lukasiak
Hehe. That’s as funny as Operation Yellow Elephant.
no its not. Its just funny in a sophomoric way. There’s an actual point to OYE, but what was the point of this crap, other than to make fun of someone?
Grow up, John.
John Cole
Blow me, Lukasiak. You don’t get to dictate what I think is funny. And no matter how many times you try to justify it to yourself, OYE, while funny, is not a valid point or argument. It is just an attempt to shut people up.
And, a contest making fun of the Dean Scream is funny. Period. You earnest progressives, for whom everything is an opportunity to feel insulted, can just kiss my ass. You are as tedious as the Dobson crowd.
metalgrid
but what was the point of this crap, other than to make fun of someone?
Raising money for republicans?
You guys take yourselves way too seriously.
Jon H
“OYE, while funny, is not a valid point or argument. It is just an attempt to shut people up.”
Or maybe just think for a change.
Kimmitt
You think they’ll have a contest for getting kids health insurance at some point?
Randolph Fritz
“Don’t care what they say about me, long as they spell my name right.”
Barry
“Blow me, Lukasiak. You don’t get to dictate what I think is funny. And no matter how many times you try to justify it to yourself, OYE, while funny, is not a valid point or argument. It is just an attempt to shut people up.”
“And, a contest making fun of the Dean Scream is funny. Period. You earnest progressives, for whom everything is an opportunity to feel insulted, can just kiss my ass. You are as tedious as the Dobson crowd.”
Posted by John Cole
Will the real John Cole take notice?
ppgaz
Call me a grumpy crank, but I don’t see what’s so f–king funny here.
The infamous original Dean “scream” was a rebel yell in a room full of screaming people … none of whom heard the scream at all. The noise was deafening. Only Dean’s microphone, and the audio track it was hooked to, heard the scream. In context, it never actually happened, but a fluke of electronic media made it appear that the man was flipped out. Let me be blunt: The entire “scream” thing was a lie, and a deliberate lie, by MSM and Dean haters, most of whom, then, were Dems who wanted him out of their hair. One network … I forget which one … came back after the fact and played the two tapes, one of the sound in the room, which was just a roar, and the other from Dean’s mike, and said, you know, the famous scream never really happened. It was just a fun, pumped up moment in a room full of screaming people getting psyched up for political wars. The entire “issue” was ginned up as a media thing.
What is so funny about that? A really inconsequential thing, blown up by people who make a living blowing things up, to damage somebody politically.
You know, if the blogosphere doesn’t exist to bring some sort of reality check to the shitstorm of nonsense out there, what the hell does it exist for? Just another outlet for the shitstorm, the noisemakers?
If the non-scream thing had happened to a Republican, you can bet your sweet ass that they’d be all over it and crying foul at every opportunity.
Christie S.
And little kids like fart jokes. OYE, Scream contests and fart jokes are situational humor. Some people find them funny, others don’t.
Who cares? If it’s funny to you, laugh. If it isn’t, then ignore it.
::sigh::
Shawn
I’m with ppgaz. When the scream was distorted and replayed over and over, I, and lots of other people, thought Dean had come unhinged. Then after seeing the actual footage, I was angry. The media is playing us for fools.
p.lukasiak
What is so funny about that? A really inconsequential thing, blown up by people who make a living blowing things up, to damage somebody politically.
Conservatives find that extremely funny…. especially since stuff that should be getting coverage (like the DSM) that should damage conservatives politically is shrugged off by the corporate media.
ppgaz
Exactly, Shawn, playing us for fools. And they — and the blogosphere — are still at it.
jdm
> Exactly, Shawn, playing us for fools. And they
> [the media] — and the blogosphere — are still
> at it.
Those bastards. Don’t they know realize how seriously you guys take yourselves?
JoshA
Ok, that last one was pretty funny.
JJC
Yeah, it’s funny til a Democrat is in office. Then all the formerly oh-so-smug Republicans will be whining and snivelling about the “liberal media.” Yuk it up while you can. You’ll get your turn to whine.
Fair’s fair. When it’s your turn to whine I’ll be LMAO at you.
ppgaz
There’s nothing funnier than the yuck, yuck, is there? I mean, it’s right up there with Mark Twain.
I take politics and government seriously. I have no problem sharing space with those who don’t, because they’re fools and I’ll eventually be ahead of them.
I never take myself seriously. There’s no point in it. Nor do I take seriously those who don’t know how to make the distinction between taking things seriously, and taking one’s self seriously.
Seriously.
Compuglobalhypermeganet
Dont you guys remember when the Democrats passed their “No Fake Outrage Left Behind” platform plank? It was after Florida 2000, IIRC — it was instituted along with the “No Sense Of Humor” protocols.
Dean’s scream was funny because he’s a little, funny ball of maniacal hate. If Joe Lieberman had done the scream, it wouldn’t have been funny. But Dean was a nutball before Iowa, he was a nutball during the scream speech, and he’s a nutball now, as if I have cite recent examples to demonstrate that.
ppgaz
Oh, well, you’ve cited examples. That pretty much settles it then. I withdraw. Please consider this a suicide note.
Goodby, cruel world.
Sojourner
But he sure was right about the Iraq war. Imagine that.
Kimmitt
Dean’s scream was funny because he’s a little, funny ball of maniacal hate.
A Dr. Dynasaur full of hate. Hatred that oozes health care.