Dean's appearance has media in a sweat

[Carolab]

There's an unnecessary snarky parenthetical comment toward the bottom re: the "scream" (which I wrote to complain about), but anyway:

By Mark Leibovich
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 10, 2005; Page C01

It was a scalding day on Capitol Hill yesterday, and that includes tempers. Things got particularly hot during a photo op in the office of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) after the minority leader and his Senate deputies completed a 17-minute meeting with the hot-tongued Howard Dean.

About 60 reporters and cameramen attempted to shove their way into an office equipped to handle about 20. The resulting spectacle offered yet another distillation of why so many people believe that politicians and the media deserve each other.

The madness began at 10:30 a.m. when the media horde was invited to enter Reid's office. Photographers poured in first, equipment slamming into the sides of a narrow doorway and -- in one case -- the temple of a female staffer. Reporters were invited in next, but roughly 20 reporters were unable to crowd in and were left to shout objections through the bottleneck. "You can't start yet," one yelled from the back. "The reporters aren't in."

Dean said he rather liked the idea of starting without the reporters. He meant this as a joke, sort of.

Reid thanked everyone for coming. He sat under a white chandelier, between Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, and Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.). Reid emphasized that he and Dean meet every month.

In other words, the timing of the confab was not related to the string of controversial remarks Dean has uttered in recent weeks that many Republicans have been quick to condemn and many Democrats have been just as quick to disassociate themselves from. Among other things, Dean has said that he hates "Republicans and everything they stand for," that many of them "have never made an honest living in the lives," that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay "ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence" and -- most recently -- that Republicans are "pretty much a white Christian party." Reid invited questions from reporters.

"Have you had advice for Governor Dean about his most recent comments, sir?"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902169.html

[longship]

1. Recommended and kicked n/t

.

[Cha]

2. Thom Hartman NAILS

this!..

Published on Friday, June 10, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

"DEAN JUST TOLD THEM THE TRUTH AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS HELL!

by Thom Hartmann



This morning I called the Democratic National Committee to tell them that I support Howard Dean's modern-day version of Harry Truman's dictum that, "I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

Timid and fearful Democrats are trembling on national television as they beg Dr. Dean to stop pointing out the hypocricy and misinformation efforts of Republicans in office and Conservatives in the media.

"He doesn't speak for me," they say, apparently longing for the days when their spokesman was taking big checks from multinational corporations, signing corporate-friendly trade deals, and defending sex scandals.

The simple truth is that corporate interests have hijacked our nation, theocrats want to take us back to the days of the Salem Witch Trials (with gays playing the part of witches), and the "stars" in the corporate "mainstream" media have been so terrified by Bush administration threats of loss of access (which could then lead to the loss of their own 6- and 7-figure income jobs) that they perpetuate administration lies and tremble at the thought of actually asking a tough follow-up question when Bush prevaricates."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0610-28.htm

[stevedeshazer]

3. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1538210

[loro mi dicevano]

4. They SHOULD be ashamed of themselves (the press, that is).

Honestly now.

[libodem]

5. They've been playing the 'scream' like crazy

on the RW AM station I listen to. F-ing Clearchannel. Why do I listen?...because it makes me mad. It's good to be mad...real mad!

[susu369]

10. Dennis Miller used to play "the scream" over & over

Dennis who?

Talk about a last laugh....

[xchrom]

6. all the reporters can think of is -- ''shouldn't you grovel more?''

polls show that they want congress to get along.

euphamism for support corporate politics.

[slay]

7. As it should!

The media have betrayed us all as they continue to pump out and promote the Republican/corporate agenda. Grrr. :mad:

[PretzelWarrior]

8. Hi. My name is Brian, and I'm a PRICK!

oh my God...of course it's a f*cking GOP shill from the FoxNews borg that would hound them so ridiculously.

We'll see what Saturdays' headlines in major newspapers and TV/Radio after Sensenbrenner's meltdown and Dean/Ried press conference.

Probably mostly Michael Jackson. f*cking traitors, these media are (ode to Yoda)

[sendero]

9. It's time the rabid right learn..

... that they do not have an exclusive license to the use of fiery rhetoric.

At least ours will be more or less true, contrasting to the outright lies that they dish out routinely.

Go Dean, forget the losers who don't get it, and especially forget the whining hypocrits who can dish it out but cry like titty babies when it's directed at them.