It's been a wild week, so how about a little comic relief? Turns out Howard Dean does his own personal polling—among his wife's employees. And, surprise! They tend to agree with him. The DNC Chairman was chatting with Tom Brokaw on MSNBC this afternoon.
TOM BROKAW: What did you think of Sarah Palin last night?If only Brokaw had thought to ask Dean to mention the canards that were true! In any case, a bit later Dean described how he keeps his finger on the people's pulse.
HOWARD DEAN: I think the first half was terrific. I thought she really laid out who she was. I was fascinated. The second half, she sounded like Dick Cheney, she really did. The same old attack stuff, the same old canards about Democrats that mostly weren't true.
BROKAW: But from a tonal point of view, and an introduction of herself to the country, pretty successful speech.Any polling experts out there? Wondering what the margin of error might be on a non-anonymous, five-person sample exclusively composed of people who rely on your family for their livelihood.
DEAN: You know, I sort of do any informal focus group. My wife has a doctor's office in Burlington and five women work for her and some of them are Republicans. They all said pretty much just what I said: they thought that the first half of the speech was really interesting and that she was kind of mean in the second half of the speech.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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He did more than that.
September 4, 2008 - 16:12 ET by superconDEAN: You know, I sort of do any informal focus group. My wife
has a doctor's office in Burlington and five women work for her and
some of them are Republicans. They all said pretty much just what I
said: they thought that the first half of the speech was really
interesting and that she was kind of mean in the second half of the
speech.
He asked his own staff as well and some of them are Republicans also and they all thought the same thing too.
Victory in Iraq.
Liberals suck.
McCain for Preznint.
Lebowski's focus group agreed that Dean is an idiot!
September 4, 2008 - 16:18 ET by jefflebowskiHow this wild-eyed idiot can be at the helm of the DemonRat party shows just how pathetic and leftist they are. He is truly an embarrassment to our country.
Jeff Lebowski
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The Big Three... Dean,
September 4, 2008 - 16:40 ET by SickofLibsThe Big Three... Dean, Pelosi and Reid.
Leadership to be proud of - this is the cream-o-the-crop, Dems?
If I was a Democrat philosophically, I'd lie and say I was an Independent.
Gore, Kerry, and now Obama/Biden!
September 4, 2008 - 16:48 ET by IamTinmanWith a pool of 300 million americans, approximately half democrats, this is the best they can come up with? The cream of the crop? How sad for them!
Pelosi, Reid, Dean
September 4, 2008 - 17:36 ET by GlidedonThis is exactly what you get with a seniority based hierarchy.
We need to remove seniority based power in congress.
ms. biden's clientele
September 4, 2008 - 19:42 ET by tejanodiablobiden's wife is a psychiatrist and her sole patient is her hubby joe ..
never look a gift skunk in the tail ..
Best thing that has
September 4, 2008 - 16:20 ET by bigtimerBest thing that has happened since sliced bread...they made Dean head of the DNC...I have been laughing ever since.
I posted elsewhere about Deans first part of his interview...if he wants to try to use Cheney's name to tie Palin with, I say...yep...Help Is on the Way!
By the way Mark...if you are still around...I sure hope you caught the opening with Matthews and Buchanan on Hardball....something else!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I did catch the Hardball
September 4, 2008 - 16:23 ET by Mark FinkelsteinI did catch the Hardball opening, and it was very amusing. Chris and Pat going after each other hammer-and-tongs. I did sense it was done in somewhat tongue in cheek, WWF, spirit.
Pat was karate-chopping up a
September 4, 2008 - 16:42 ET by SickofLibsPat was karate-chopping up a storm; his hands were a blur.
How about that rope line Crissy walked down???
September 4, 2008 - 17:32 ET by TheSterAt the end of his "CRY-A-THON", Chris spit on 8 people in a row. Eight people out of that protest mob, including 9/11 trufers, were asked what they would ask McCain. SHOCKINGLY ENOUGH...7 were Obama supporters. He let them spin and moved on...no critical rebuttal. One brave soul said he was a Republican...Chris drilled him for a full minute on Bush policies.
I hope one of you can link a clip of this "exchange of ideas" with the common folk.
ps. Please excuse any gramatical/typo's...I two-finger-pound the keyboard.
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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Why is it that liberals and
September 4, 2008 - 16:23 ET by Susan IWhy is it that liberals and media considered her "mean" or "sarcastic" but apparently didn't seem to think the same of Biden last week, or Hillary for that matter. They said that Biden was expected to be the attack dog. Evidently dems can attack, but repubs are just mean.
Hipocracy!!!!
WAHHHH! WAHHHH! WAHHHHH!
September 4, 2008 - 16:30 ET by NorthCoasterWe've been poking her with a stick and now she's turned on us. She's so mean! Wahhhhhhhh!
Lesson #1:
"Don't poke the Pit Bull with lipstick"
EEAAHHHHH!!!!!
Not only that, don't poke a
September 4, 2008 - 17:17 ET by ThisnThatNot only that, don't poke a Pit Bull that is wearing lipstick.
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Margin of error in this
September 4, 2008 - 16:32 ET by SickofLibsMargin of error in this situation I'd put at 100%.
She sounded like Dick Cheney, Howard? Mission accomplished!
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Boy, Dick Cheney sure has.....
September 4, 2008 - 16:42 ET by connmana lot of Foreign Policy experience. You sure you want to make that comparison Howie?
This town needs an enema! - The Joker
In reality connman, Cheney
September 4, 2008 - 16:52 ET by bassndudeIn reality connman, Cheney has quite a bit of experience with countries other than the US. He has a bit of goverment experience as Sec. of Defense, and Whitehouse Chief of Staff, to mention 2.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
ummmm BnD
September 4, 2008 - 16:56 ET by connmanI think that was my point.
This town needs an enema! - The Joker
BREAKING... AP: Dean's
September 4, 2008 - 16:47 ET by SickofLibsBREAKING...
AP: Dean's housekeeper, Milagra DeViagra, also believes second half of speech was mean-spirited. (At least the parts she could understand.)
"Milagra DeViagra" --
September 4, 2008 - 16:53 ET by Mark Finkelstein"Milagra DeViagra" -- LOL
"Senor Dean: it's a miracle!!"
Imagine that!
September 4, 2008 - 16:57 ET by sawing battaan employee tells the boss something she wants to hear???
STOP THE PRESSES.
I don't think she was mean.
September 4, 2008 - 17:18 ET by balboaI don't think she was mean. I think she took a ton of really easy shots that someone else worded just right for her.
"I think she took a ton
September 4, 2008 - 17:48 ET by Blazer"I think she took a ton of really easy shots that someone else worded just right for her."
hey bal, at least she didn't steal it, like a certain other fella may have. Way to parrot the latest DNC-MSM talking point.
Sarah may not have made the baseball she was throwing, but last night she delivered a 110 mph heater directly over homeplate that made the Dems and their cohorts in the media standing there with their bats stunned, looking stoopid. STEEEEEERIKE!!
Sarah's no shrinking violet. She just changed the game and can handle her own and you guys cant' handle that.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
I think she delivered a
September 4, 2008 - 17:52 ET by balboaI think she delivered a great speech that took some easy shots. Everyone seems to be treating her, after one speech like she walks on water.
I ain't buyin' it yet.
"I think she delivered a
September 4, 2008 - 18:11 ET by Blazer"I think she delivered a great speech that took some easy shots. Everyone seems to be treating her, after one speech like she walks on water."
You mean like a certain individual who gave one great speech in 04', and now parts the seas and walks on water ?
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
I recall Mario Cuomo
September 4, 2008 - 18:15 ET by Free StinkerI recall Mario Cuomo (formerly Governor of NY) delivering a speech to the Democrat convention and all we heard for months was "He's Presidential Material!"
Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !
Absolutely, Blazer. It's the
September 4, 2008 - 20:20 ET by balboaAbsolutely, Blazer. It's the same thing. I don't think Obama's speech makes him any more qualified than Palin's does.
Sarah Palins not gonna just
September 4, 2008 - 17:24 ET by BlazerSarah Palins not gonna just shatter the glass ceiling, she gonna jump a turbo-charged snow-machine through it with a moose tiied to the hood.
Howie I'm sure you truly have an in depth focus group of women at your wifes office who honestly were being truthful and totally not afraid of a pinkslip when they answered your question. I'm sure they never once felt intimidated by you. "YEEEAAARRRGGGHHH !!!!"
It's a doctors office where these women work to get a paycheck, not a campaign office !
Dont' get used to being DNC chair come Nov. Howie.
Oh and heres another thing Howie that alot of let down, dis-enfranchised voters in your party and independents just took notice of. When you insult our conservative women, our wives our sisters or our mothers, go practice spittin' out teeth.
Good thing your a dentist.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Howard Dean Supports Sarah Palin
September 4, 2008 - 17:28 ET by Lame CherryHoward Dean just said Sarah Palin was terrific, but it was sort of "mean" the way she attacked Barack Obama.
Mr. Finkelstein, does not that sound like Howard Dean agreed with EVERY charge Gov. Palin made on Barry Obama in being true?
To answer the question as YES YES YES.
No one here at Newsbusters has been covering the PUMA attempt now by Phil Berg to in federal court remove Obama from the ticket or make him come up with a real birth certificate.
These are Hillary Clinton people. The same Hillary today who came out swining for Sarah Palin against the sexist attacks on her.
Howard Dean just GAVE DNC support to Sarah Palin as in making her their nominee as she is terrific and is telling the world in a mean way that Obama is a fake and a disaster in the making for America.
Listen to Democrats people. The patricians of the east coast have just abandoned the Chicago syndicate of crime Obama.
That is the news story to be busted in even liberal women agree with Sarah Palin at the wifey's world office. I blogged here that this can go to 60% Hillary voters for Sarah Palin.
Biden has no idea what to do as he is caught between a loss and a crime place in what Beau Biden did in false arrest on Lawrence Sinclair. He is even sticking up for Sarah Palin as it was Obama's intelligence crew who has been savaging her.
Biden in his DNC speech shook his head NO when it came to Obama for President. Obama has just been abandoned on public in his attacks and his campaign by the entire racist left of the Democratic party.
I know Bill, Hillary and Chelsea are voting for McCain Palin, now the PUMA and Delaware mafia are telling the world they are voting for her too if Obama stays on the ticket.
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Howard Dean looks
September 4, 2008 - 18:27 ET by jkwtradingHoward Dean looks skinny...
I loved his comment .."his wife has a medical practice with two r's working there( yeah right and x-mas is in July) whom thought her last half of the speech was "mean" ...oh Howard, mean is YOU ol boy.
oh btw Howard, ya better win or you are back to taking on doctor's calls.
And then I asked my
September 4, 2008 - 23:19 ET by Hunter12And then I asked my dog how she felt Palin had treated Obama and she said "Ruff", but she's a bitch, so I wanted a second opinion, so I asked my neighbor's goats if they felt Palin had been fair to the Democrats and they said "Naaaah!".
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill