... for recognizing that Edwards and Clark are more viable candidates than Kerry. Kerry's rise is less than a solid consensus than a reactionary snowball phenomenon. Thanks to a totally dishonest media savaging, people freaked out about Dean, went for his stylistic polar opposite, and then voters in subsequent primaries decided he was the chosen one.
And for those of you not aware of the level of distortion re: the Dean scream, Diane Sawyer -- and others -- fess up
here. You'd think TV news professionals would realize that isolating Dean's mike without contextual background noise is a bit like recording one fan yelling at a football game amidst a sea of silence. But have we seen the reality-based version of Dean's concession speech replayed 670 times as a correction?
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