Tim Blair

They actually played this quote on the radio here in the UK a couple of hours ago, just as I was chewing my muesli. When I first heard the last part I thought: Ah, that's got to be Dean. And then I thought, no it must be Kerry, no one who actually lost could actually talk such stuff without feeling a little embarrassed. And now I learn it really was the third-placed Dean.
Clearly the guy is nuts and has absolutely no chance at all.

In 1974 was discovered that Nixon that called Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau an asshole.

Dean, you are going nowhere (but down and out).

Listen to the mp3 and picture a muppet. Just do it. Hee hee. The ending is pure Kermit. "It's the Muppet Show. YEEEEAAAHH!"

AHAHAHSHAHSDHAShDahhdhgdf oh my god that was priceless.

Well, according to George Monbiot, 1974 is the year our quality of life peaked.

The reason should not be hard to grasp. Our economic system depends upon never-ending growth, yet we live in a world with finite resources. Our expectation of progress is, as a result, a delusion.

This is the great heresy of our times, the fundamental truth which cannot be spoken. It is dismissed as furiously by those who possess power today - governments, business, the media - as the discovery that the earth orbits the sun was denounced by the late medieval church. Speak this truth in public and you are dismissed as a crank, a prig, a lunatic.

Capitalism is a millenarian cult...blah, blah, blah.

So, maybe Mad How thinks we're peaking again?

As it happens, 1974 is also the year that HoF pitcher Dizzy Dean died.

All morning on the local talk station here in D.C., Fred Grandy has been alternating that Dean clip with recordings of Hulk Hogan screaming into the microphone in wrestling interviews. It really does sound like Dean's been studying pro wrestlers' interview technique to develop his public speaking skills. Could Jesse Ventura be his secret mentor?

Maybe Dean is aiming for the Wrestling loving demographic?

I reckon that 1974 was the last time moonbat got laid?

Rob,

that would be when Moonbat was about 8. Which of course is possible...

What's with the crazy "yeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhgggg!" at the end?

Dear God, please, please, please, please let Howard Dean be the Democratic canidate. We need some more laughter in this world. Pls ok thx bye.

"As well, there’s this puzzling Dean line: Most of all, let me thank you from all over America, coming here to change this country. We haven't seen this in 30 years."

Actually, the really puzzling thing about that line is how he got people from all over America to go to the Iowa caucuses.

Is this the real Howard Dean?
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I never realized it, but Howard Dean is just using this campaign to get Vince McMahan to sign him as a new wrestler.. seriously, that was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.

I can already envision the Bush campaign's ads targetting Dean.. Please, let him be the candidate.

I knew Ho Ho Dean had to be a Republican plant . . . 1974 is the year President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon.

It's also the year when running naked (streaking) became very popular.

I think he's referring to both . . . so be very afraid and keep your distance from Ho Ho at the next campaign stop.

one hates to be a pedant, but presumably the '30 years' is not exact and he's referring to mcgovern's 1972 campaign. anyway the man is clearly a wanker.

nice work tim. your blog is one of the first things i read after crawling out of bed most days.

Well, he's clearly talking about the release of one of the greatest rock albums of all time - Mott The Hoople's "The Hoople". Plus the year I first held hands with a girl. I get excited about that year as well. I do recall that Homer Simpson said something about 1974 being the year Rock Music reached its peak.

Lots to get excited about!!!

Actually, the Moonbat is right. By 1974 we had run out of whale oil, so now we sit in the darkness. Plastic will be running out any time now. And, of course, he is referring to that hated day when the Stone Age ended due to a lack of stone.

1974: Richmond won the flag for the second year in a row. I remember it as if it was only yesterday. The tigers haven't been able to match it for 30 years.

Jeezus, Tim, a Neal Sadaka reference? Neal friggin' Sadaka?

Where did you pull that one from? I don't really want to know, I guess.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Sheesh.

SMG

They played it on the radio here in Norway too. Pretty wild.

I also think the "30 years" was approximate, but I guess he refers to the Carter campaign. Carter came as an anti-establishment figure, aided by general disgust with Nixon and Watergate.

Carter came as an anti-establishment figure, aided by general disgust with Nixon and Watergate.

And he left as....well, lets be a frank...a loser.

Well, according to George Monbiot, 1974 is the year our quality of life peaked.

My life peaked before I was born. Interesting.
Silly old twit. I had a far better childhood than my elder cousins born in the late sixties/early seventies, and I was born in the eighties.

McGovern's dominatrix spanking was administered in 1972. That's pretty close to 30 years.