What is disgusting to me is the failure among some to rally behind a very successful President because of one bad night

[The Unmitigated Gall]

74. "The Dean Scream"...

You can actually google it up, if you want. He was in a packed ballroom full of stomping, yelling and cheering supporters, I think it was in Iowa. He was fired up and yelling over them the states they were going to take on next, and he gave out this primal yell.
The media took it and ran with it on a "Holy shit he's come unglued!" angle.
There were accusations that CNN screwed with their recording, minimizing the ambient ruckus and amplifying his voice, and Impersonally think they're right. You listened to it on some recordings and it almost sounds like he did it at a quiet dinner gathering. Other recordings show he could barely be heard over the noise he was surrounded by; there was no inappropriateness whatsoever; the entire space was energized.
But the "scream" was removed from it's context and used to sink his candidacy. It was played over and over and over again and shrub, with his criminal neglect of the nation's security, got a second term.