Hillary Finally Has Her "Dean Scream" Moment! Or Maybe Not

[chrisrobbins]

January 24, 2008
Greg Sargeant-Talking Points Memo

Hillary finally had her Dean Scream moment!

Or maybe she didn't.


I just can't tell. I wish Patrick Healy of The New York Times would be straight with me on this question.


Healy has turned in this dispatch about a Hillary campaign appearance yesterday:

It wasn’t quite the Howard Dean Scream of 2004, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has never sounded like this before.

At the end of a rally here in northern New Jersey on Wednesday night, Mrs. Clinton implored a nursing home banquet room packed with people to come out and support her in this state’s Feb. 5 primary.


“Will you help me?” Mrs. Clinton yelled to cheers. And then, in an increasingly frenzied tone, she bellowed:


“Will you help me?” … “Will you help me?”


Six times in all.


She didn’t cap it off with a shrieking “Yeeeee-ahhhhh!” the way Mr. Dean memorably did after naming state after state that he hoped to win after his defeat in the Iowa caucuses.

Hmmm. This "wasn't" the Dean Scream, and Hillary "didn't" let out "a shrieking `Yeeee-ahhhhh!'" But we're going to mention the Scream anyway -- not once, but twice -- so that readers will be persuaded that this moment just might be similar to it! This is pretty silly stuff -- just more of the same old empty-calorie snark.

One is tempted to conclude that what's really at play here is a desire to see another Dean Scream moment. This possibility is very difficult to fathom. Was the last one really all that exciting?


Don't answer that.

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[bluestateguy]

1. The "Dean Scream" was nonsensical MSM tripe

The Georgetown Cocktail Party crowd and the Lords of the MSM in their Manhattan penthouses decided that Dean "offended" them, and they savaged him for weeks. Never mind the issues.

[Prophet 451]

3. I never saw the big deal with Dean's "scream" either

OK, it would have been out of place here (Britain where politics is usually obsessed with dignity and decorum) but American politics isn't like that. He got carried away in the heat of the moment, so what?

[flordehinojos]

2. the meanstream media has decided to beat up on hillary full force.

she, as she has said before, is used to taking incoming fire.

so, it is a test of wills ... we will see who stands in the end.

i vote hillary will survive, and in the words of maya angelous,

"You may write me down in history

"With your bitter, twisted lies,

"You may tread me in the very dirt

"But still, like dust, I'll rise.

...

Rise, Hillary.

Rise.