Deanomania

I don't want to seem like I'm picking on Dean all the time (or do I?) But really he deserves it. Look at what Tucker observed:

Libby (Cedar Rapids, IA):
Very sorry that Harold Ickes did not call you on your throwaway comment that Dean has a "demonstrated lack of [self] control" - or similar verbiage. Please, please go back to the damned Dean Scream: look at it unfiltered, as it were. The man is pumped, he is elated, he is hoarse [and getting a cold - check next 2 days' clips] - and he croaks out an exuberant whoop. Please: be the first on your block to actually look at this [and succeeding clips] and say publicly that this man maybe does have a little self-control. Need more proof? He got through med school, where self control counts for way more than a good mind.

Tucker:
I don't need to look at the clips. I was there in the room, about 10 feet from Dean when he screamed. You're correct in one sense, that nothing he did that night seemed remarkable at the time. Everyone in the room was screaming. Dean was hardly the only person there who lost control of himself. But you're wrong to think I was referring only, or even especially, to the famous scream when I said Dean lacks self-control. I was also in Iowa a few days before, when Dean barked at a man at a rally who dared to question him, and then berated reporters for no apparent reason. I watched as he made comments about Osama bin Laden ("innocent until proven guilty") and Saddam Hussein and partial birth abortion and Israel and the U.S. military and a lot of other topics that clearly he hadn't thought deeply about before uttering. In other words, Dean is a guy who just says whatever pops into his larger than normal head. Which may be good. Or not. But it's not evidence of self control.

This is taken from Tucker's PBS website.