That saucy Dennis Miller still plays the recording on his program on CNBC, but now Howard Dean, the sore loserman of 2004, claims the scream that finished his campaign "never happened."
Trying to explain away his crazy, red-faced rant after his loss in Iowa, Dean recently told a crowd of broadcasters in Washington that he was merely trying to make himself heard over his loudmouth supporters, Broadcasting & Cable magazine reports.
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He claimed that none of the (pro-Democrat) reporters on hand who heard the speech noted anything unusual and that it "was only the next day, when their editors saw it, with the noise-canceling mike making Dean stand out, that it became a story," the mag says.
In his wonderfully Democratesque refusal to take responsibility for himself, the Park Avenue Vermonter, naturally, tried to blame the Dems' favorite bogeyman: Rupert Murdoch.
Attacking what he called the "Murdochization" of cable (i.e., the growing popularity of Fox News Channel), Dean said, "Not because Murdoch is a right winger, which he is, but because Roger Ailes is so incredibly good at what he does that the other stations are starting to copy what Fox does."
Maybe Howard missed it, but we thought we noticed both CNN and MSNBC playing -- and replaying -- and replaying the Dean rant.
Of course, we do not Howard believes for a moment his media troubles began with Fox News.
We hear Howard's mother has told Manhattan friends that the Dean family blames the Clintons for Howard's political misfortunes. "They did everything they could do to stop him," a family friend quotes Mrs. Dean as telling her.
Oh. So Al Gore's supporters are "right wingers." What does that make John Kerry's supporters?
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