Howard Dean's Concession Speech

January 21, 2004 6:09 AM

I'm sure this is a stupid question, but has anybody seen a link to video of Howard Dean's concession speech in Iowa?

Not passing judgement, I just want to see it for myself.

posted by ajpresto to Law & Government (10 answers total)

The AC/DC version that was on Stern's show yesterday was hilarious. Had I been drinking milk at the time, I would have shot it out my nose.

For what it's worth, it wasn't as wacky as some of the papers made it out to be. He was trying to get his people pumped up, and I think he did a pretty good job of it.
posted by oissubke at 6:14 AM on January 21, 2004

Check the thread on Kerry on the front page (was a day or two ago) and scroll down. I think they linked it at least two places.
posted by konolia at 6:31 AM on January 21, 2004

If nothing else, I have an .mp3 of that bizarre yelling noise he made which sounded like nothing so much as Animal from the Muppet Show. Good times, good times.
posted by Dreama at 6:53 AM on January 21, 2004

Response by poster: Hooray! Thanks, konolia, and thanks, The New York Times.

Just as an aside, I got a free year of the NYT on Audible and I love it. I wouldn't pay for it, but for free, it's really good.
posted by ajpresto at 6:55 AM on January 21, 2004

The BBC has all the main Iowa candidates speeches at this Real Video link.
posted by ascullion at 7:04 AM on January 21, 2004

foxnews.com featured it prominently on the front page, which is not surprising since they probably consider it embarrassing to Dean.
posted by jpoulos at 8:12 AM on January 21, 2004

A friend compared the experience of watching the video to that of meeting the little girl at the end of The Ring.
posted by blueshammer at 8:14 AM on January 21, 2004

Thanks for the link to Dean, wouldn't have found out about this 'Where, instead of giving $16 billion worth of tax breaks to oil companies and gas companies, we'll put it into renewable energy and ethanol and biodiesel.' otherwise. He'd certainly have my vote on this basis.
posted by biffa at 8:34 AM on January 21, 2004

The AC/DC version that was on Stern's show yesterday was hilarious.

That's the version I've been trying to find. No luck so far.

they probably consider it embarrassing to Dean.

Like it wasn't? Even left wing salon had an article on dean going nuts. Embarrassing is putting it lightly.
posted by Dennis Murphy at 12:49 PM on January 21, 2004

i'd like to see this too , is there any copies that can play in windows media player ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:44 AM on January 22, 2004