Historian Douglas Brinkley on CNN:"Dean really hurt himself" re "sit down"

[Eric J in MN]

Historian Douglas Brinkley on CNN: "Howard Dean really hurt himself when he told that senior citizen to sit down."

Malarky rightwing talking-points.

That "senior citizen" was a Republcan heckler who had already talked for 3 minutes and proceeded to interupt Howard Dean as he responded.

I hope Douglas Brinkely has hecklers, if anyone shows up for book-signings or whatever.

Then we can see how he likes it and what he does.

[blm]

1. He said that was when the POLL numbers started tracking down for Dean.

That is true. Why pretend it isn't?

[RetroLounge]

2. Why pretend it is related at all?

Who really knows about it except political junkies and DU'ers?

It didn't get the coverage of the scream.

You're reaching.

[blm]

3. He used it as the starting point for the poll number drop.

Nothing more. It played more in Iowa then it did nationally.

[Blitz]

4. That and Dean having disparaged

the Caucus process on Canadian television years earlier. Plenty of Iowans were very aware of both incidents.

[peaches2003]

5. Sure it did

It hurt him badly in Iowa and was played ad nauseum on FoxNews. Of course the guy was a Republicn phony and plant, of course he had talked for 3 minutes and was baiting Dean to blow up. But what hurt Dean was that he did blow up and that's all that gets shown and remembered.

[Indiana Democrat]

6. Telling someone to "Sit down"...

...Is never a good thing. I'm sure it didn't do him any good.