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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