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Dean Scream
Aired January 29, 2004 - 11:54 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Calm and measured -- that was the speech that Howard Dean delivered Tuesday night in New Hampshire, not quite as much fun, though, as the Dean speech a week earlier in Iowa.
Jeanne Moos reports that even talking dolls are trying to match that Iowa scream.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If I hear it one more time...
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Aaaargh!
MOOS: ... I'll scream.
Howard Dean not screaming made the front page after New Hampshire, but a week of imitations took its toll.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aaaargh!
MOOS: There was even cross-pollination of Iraqi and American election jokes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And then we're going to go down to Baghdad!
MOOS: And it wasn't just professional comedians. Weathermen got into the act.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to go to Washington State where we begin with the forecast. Whooo!
MOOS: Even an emcee at a chicken wings eating contest couldn't resist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She will take her game to Michigan!
MOOS: But Dean's supporters have a bone to pick with the negative coverage.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just for the record, I really enjoyed your speech in Iowa.
DEAN: So take that, CNN.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, exactly. MOOS: At a Web site called DeanGoesNuts.com, another Dean supporter has collected more than 50 musical remixes of the Iowa speech. And look who's here. You can already buy the talking "mean dean" doll at Herobuilders.com.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and New Mexico!
MOOS: If you want to contribute to the Dean campaign, there's a Dean scream store where you can buy everything from boxer shorts to thongs emblazoned with the scream. Even if no one can agree on how to spell the sound Dean made, cartoonists have been having a field day stringing vowels together. Just think, you could have a talking Bush doll and a talking Dean doll exchanging gaffes.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don't think we need to be subliminable (ph) about the differences between our views.
DEAN: Aaaargh!
MOOS: Unlike the president, the Dean doll seems to read the papers.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired January 29, 2004 - 11:54 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Calm and measured -- that was the speech that Howard Dean delivered Tuesday night in New Hampshire, not quite as much fun, though, as the Dean speech a week earlier in Iowa.
Jeanne Moos reports that even talking dolls are trying to match that Iowa scream.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If I hear it one more time...
HOWARD DEAN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Aaaargh!
MOOS: ... I'll scream.
Howard Dean not screaming made the front page after New Hampshire, but a week of imitations took its toll.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aaaargh!
MOOS: There was even cross-pollination of Iraqi and American election jokes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And then we're going to go down to Baghdad!
MOOS: And it wasn't just professional comedians. Weathermen got into the act.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to go to Washington State where we begin with the forecast. Whooo!
MOOS: Even an emcee at a chicken wings eating contest couldn't resist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She will take her game to Michigan!
MOOS: But Dean's supporters have a bone to pick with the negative coverage.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just for the record, I really enjoyed your speech in Iowa.
DEAN: So take that, CNN.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, exactly. MOOS: At a Web site called DeanGoesNuts.com, another Dean supporter has collected more than 50 musical remixes of the Iowa speech. And look who's here. You can already buy the talking "mean dean" doll at Herobuilders.com.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and New Mexico!
MOOS: If you want to contribute to the Dean campaign, there's a Dean scream store where you can buy everything from boxer shorts to thongs emblazoned with the scream. Even if no one can agree on how to spell the sound Dean made, cartoonists have been having a field day stringing vowels together. Just think, you could have a talking Bush doll and a talking Dean doll exchanging gaffes.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don't think we need to be subliminable (ph) about the differences between our views.
DEAN: Aaaargh!
MOOS: Unlike the president, the Dean doll seems to read the papers.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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