The People Have Turned the Ship Around

[PassingFair]

I have been sick to my stomach ever since GR posted the idiomstudio clip of Dean's apre Iowa speech. Now I am feeling MUCH better.
Here is the story, from Good Morning America!

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_2004vote_012904dean.html

Diane Sawyer has apologized for not presenting a fair portrayal. Now, please contact ABC and the other networks, including FOX and demand that they also show the tape and apologize.

[brainshrub]

1. I agree

Tomorrow evening I'm dedicating my website to pro-Dean stuff.

www.brainshrub.com

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. me too

excpet for the Dean stuff. :)

[PassingFair]

4. Did you see the Sawyer Mea Culpa

on ABC? Does anyone know if it's been played on prime time?

[napi21]

3. Yea right, when is this going National?

Thanks for the link/ I read it, and it's real nice that they said they screwed up, but when is this going to be a National Public Announcement? Talk about damage being done! Shame on the media!!!!!!!!!

The only positive thing I can find in this whole thing is that Howard Dean is going to be the guest for the whole hour on Meet the Press on Sunday Morning. I hope this "appology" will be part of that!!

[PassingFair]

5. He's coming to my town...

Just a mile away from my house on Sunday night!
CRACK THE BAT!!!

[brainshrub]

6. What city?

[PassingFair]

7. Beautiful Roseville Michigan

Guess I'll be busy tomorrow. He was going to show up at a house party, but now they've got him in a hall down the street.

[PassingFair]

8. Damn, damn, damn

Should have entitled this thread "Media admits Dean Scream Speech was a Hoax"

KICK!

[Blitz]

9. A hoax???

It didn't happen?

[PassingFair]

10. Look at the Diane Sawyer story above...

What the country has been shown is Dean speaking with the near-deafening noise of his supporters banging cans and stomping their feet totally filtered out!

If I were a lunch mother trying to round up all the loud, unruly kids in my children's school lunchroom, I'd be yelling and waving my arms around. If some bozo were to film me doing that and erase all the backgroud noise and not show the kids, I'd look like some kind of apoplectic idiot. This is what was done to Dr. Dean. Shameful. At least Diane Sawyer had the courage to run this piece. I think they shoud play it 700 times, just to be "fair and balanced"

[lurk_no_more]

14. That's right!

don't know who that man was up there screeming, but it wasn't dean.


And then there were none!
” JAFO”

[Polemonium]

16. Watch the tape with out the crowd noise dubbed out

Then you realize his voice cracked as he was trying to be louder than his screaming supporters. http://www.idiomstudio.com/

[PassingFair]

19. Love you, man

keep that url in motion!

[Anwen]

11. Does anybody have a list...

of people we can contact about this? A list of networks and email addresses to whom we can write and ask to play the REAL clip? This situation still burns me up inside

Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews finally admitted that the footage was overplayed and unfair. However, I feel it's too little too late. Why didn't any of these people realize the context of his speech before? Grrrrrrrrr :mad:

[PassingFair]

12. I have sent it to ABC and the Dean for America People

I think all of us should send it to Hardball and make sure Rob Reiner gets a copy...

[Anwen]

13. We should ALL do this,

you are right. The more letters they get, the more likely they will listen to their viewers.

[krkaufman]

15. Did you notice Ailes' response?

Fox News: "It got overplayed a bit, and the public clearly thought that, too, and kept him alive for another round."
-- Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO - Fox News

What an ass.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. I thought his response and the ABC guys responses

were both out of line and rather dismissive.

[PassingFair]

18. Write to Diane Sawyer

and thank her for her belated confession. It took some guts!

[Zomby Woof]

20. it's a non-issue

Since the tape came AFTER he was drubbed in Iowa, it had next to no effect on his fortunes. That 18% 3rd place finish is what did the damage.

The tape and all the surrounding hype is much ado about nothing. Dean's loss in Iowa was the cause of the real damage, not some overblown WWE outtake.

[PassingFair]

21. Bull Pucky

It was the phony tape. I saw it, I cringed too, and I LOVE the guy. When I saw the actual footage, I was angrier than I've ever been in my life. Total duplicity.
The next day, no one mentioned 3rd place, it was all about the ACTUALLY inaudible "scream".

[stickdog]

24. Yes. NH always does whatever Iowa does!

Ain't that the truth?

[ibegurpard]

25. Hey ZW...Is the media's ignoring of the Kucinich campaign

a "non-issue?"

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

22. Apologizing isn't enough.

We know there is a crisis in the manner information is delivered in this country.

They should all be forced to play the retraction 700 times.

[PassingFair]

23. Thank you, unshockable one

It shows a great sense of fairness on your part to come to the defense of Dr. Dean. I am impressed!

[ibegurpard]

26. Definitely kickable

:kick:

[PassingFair]

27. Drop

:kick: