Trippi speaks about Monday night

[artr2]

Joe makes a lot of good points, I just wonder how many posts will come before the trolls start sounding off


The Real Story
Here’s the real story on Monday night – the one the press still hasn’t told.

I’ve been around campaigns for a long time. On most campaigns, if you come in third in Iowa with 18% and you go to the after party, you’re lucky to find 4 people there. Most every one by the time it’s over has left to find another party and another campaign.

But on Monday night Howard Dean walked in to the ballroom in Des Moines and there were 3500 people there. And the energy was higher than most victory parties I’ve been to.

The Governor looked out at the room and saw 3500 people who had come from all across the country because they believed in changing their country and he wanted them to know how proud he was of them and their efforts. And he wanted them to know that we’re going on no matter what.

He wasn’t thinking about the cameras. It was the people right in front of him who had done so much because they believe in a better America that he was speaking to.

That the press would report on his speech for one day is understandable. But what’s remarkable is that they could run it over and over for 48 hours and still call it journalism. The State of the union took place. The next day we find out that Bush plans to ask for $40 billion more for his war in Iraq. But what do they run over and over again?

We’re going to fight back in New Hampshire. We’re getting our message out. I’ve been reading your comments on the blog and the forum and your emails and the dedication you’re showing now is what is going to win this.

Howard Dean has the courage, integrity and record of leadership to win the nomination and defeat George W. Bush in November. Contribute what you can to help us win New Hampshire. Come here to volunteer. Together we are going to take our country back.

Joe Trippi
campaign manager
Dean for America

[Melodybe]

1. As long as Trippi gets Dean on the Daily Show and Letterman in the next

week I'll forgive him for being so crappy at PR.

[PretzelWarrior]

2. He should have thought about the TV cameras.

bottom line. no matter the reasons Trippi or others give. This is a TV election. It's been that way for at least 40 years.

[goodhue]

3. 'you’re lucky to find 4 people there"

please, even DK had hundreds
what a joke
fiction if you will

[joefree1]

6. Maybe not

"Dean had thousands."

[bitchkitty]

16. Joefree! That graphic -

I'm stealing it, can I can I huh huh?

[delhurgo]

4. I think this is spin, and I'll tell you why.

I think Dean planned to do exactly what he did. People never mention what he did before he started yelling the names of the States and then the big scream. If you recall, he took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves, and then, and this is the important part, he pulled a knit cap from out of his back pocket. He waved it in the air as if to mockingly suggest 'surrender' then threw it into the crowd. Now why would you go to a speech indoors and have a big, wadded up knit cap in your back pocket? I think he planned everything he did, from rolling up his sleeves to throwing the cap. He thought it would play better than to give a typical concession speech, and that he would steal the attention from the other candidates. It wasn't a bad strategy; he just took it too far. He screamed too much, flailed his arms, and then let out that scream at the end. If he would have toned it down a bit, er, I should say, alot, it probably would have worked.

[hellhathnofury]

5. We'll he sucked up 2 days of candidate media air.

I say it worked.

Now it's debate and Sawyer time.

[dreissig]

7. The Buzz is About Dean

Kerry is civilized, haughty, somewhat condescending, and boring. He wins Iowa and it's still Dean Dean Dean. That's the difference between talent and no-talent. The buzz is about Dean.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

8. Uh, yeah.

And Dean's buzz is negative. Very negative.

[joefree1]

9. Like Clinton in 1992, see this article ...

Ominous Polls:
A look at the Gallup polls over the past few months show why Democrats are becoming increasingly nervous about putting Clinton at the head of their ticket.
In a head-to-head match up on March 20, Bush led by only 52-43 percent and Clinton was indeed within striking range. But as the weekly disclosures took their toll during the ensuing primaries, Clinton's margin fell to 54-38 percent on March 29 and then fell further to 54-34 by the beginning of April.
Edit ...
"The negatives are forming on Bill Clinton like a political stalactite, drop by drop," said veteran Democratic consultant David Sawyer. "Each drip leaves a residue that builds on his negative image."
Edit ...
Quayle campaign committee, "We're following the Napoleonic maxim: Never interfere with the enemy when they are in the process of destroying themselves."
http://www.worldandi.com/public/1992/june/cr6.cfm

"If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you."
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

[JNelson6563]

13. Amen! As I tell my friends at

another forum, look at history. It is the greatest of prophets. ;-)

Julie

[Guaranteed]

12. OHHH SO negative...

He screamed. WHOOPEDY FRICKIN' DOO!

Get OVER yourself.

[molly]

18. He looked like an immature child having a temper tantrum

[nofurylike]

10. thank you for posting this, artr2! n/t

[JNelson6563]

11. I'd rather they show that speech over and over again

instead of this:

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=97# (click top right--can't miss it)

Julie

[seaglass]

14. Who are the trolls, anyone who doesn't think the Iowa

speech showed Dean in the best light?

[zulchzulu]

15. Dean knew there were cameras there, ferchrissakes

I was at the Kerry after party in Des Moines and there were cameras, press, photographers, radio reporters and everything in between from all over the World. Kerry knew they were there. He wasn't about to come out and act like some guy who was running for county supervisor or mayor. He knew to come out as a presidential candidate. And I think he did a great job.

If Dean doesn't get it that you don't care or know about the legions of international press that are attached and latched to every word, every motion, every expression on your face or emotion and looking for a story, then he needs to get a better campaign advisor or do a reality check on his staff. Or as Letterman said, chill off on the Red Bull.

Trippi's endless apologies about Dean's gaffes and miscalculations are rather predictable and tiresome. He might want to work on his resume.

[dave29]

17. Even if Kerry tried to show this kind of passion

he would still look like he was barely emoting. I'm sorry, but someone had to say it.