2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHoward Dean Continues To Troll Trump, Stands By Cocaine Tweet
One of the most distracting things from last night's debate, outside of Trump's exceptionally angry. pointing tiny fingers, wild gesticulating, and eye rolling was his chronic and extremely noticeable sniffing. And it wasn't just here or there, it was literally dozens of sniffs. Twitter was on fire with ideas, from a cold, to allergies to even..... drugs.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/09/howard-dean-continues-troll-trump-his
Botany
(70,581 posts)n/t
catbyte
(34,447 posts)disagreed with me. But, on MSNBC this morning, over half of the Hillary coverage was that dumbass tweet and Dean's defense of it. We went ballistic when Ghouliani floated those despicable health theories about Clinton, so why is this okay? It was just a big fat distraction when they could've been piling on about the latest Trump outrage. I'm all for gutter fighting, but be smart about it, for chrissakes.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)It is a pointless distraction that does not serve us well. In fact, the potential for it to backfire is significant. Move on and forget about this.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)would be unethical to diagnose someone over the air, then he proceeded to do just that, suggesting he had "snorted coke or something." WTF?
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)differential diagnosis of an edgy, fidgety, sniffing patient. Did he say it was absolutely cocaine, or just that it could be?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)has he gotten out of it.
Fucking *brilliant*
catbyte
(34,447 posts)could've been twisting the knife into Don the Con even deeper, but the press was hung up on that stupid coke thing, forcing other surrogates to "disavow" Dean's remarks. What good is that? Seriously. What good is it?
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Any second of airtime Dean takes up is one that can't be used to soft-peddle a Trump administration onto the public by the media, which is exactly what they'd been doing up until now. Even networks like MSNBC are guilty of this, if you actually listen to even just half of what Chuck Todd and Chris Matthews are saying sometimes.
Turnabout is fair play. Always has been; always will be.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)he is a Doctor.....
How many people diagnosed HRC when she had pneumonia?
Still continue to.
I dont want the maggot to be a coke addict, I keep hoping for ebola.
LynnTTT
(362 posts)we don'T need your help
renate
(13,776 posts)Emphasis on the nervous. I love that he was so rattled.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)It was the mic crackling.
Democat
(11,617 posts)And half of DU runs scared. Can't win.
OnDoutside
(19,970 posts)BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)just to fit in with the "cool kid" pundits he's so obviously trying to impress with his even-handedness, he just comes across looking like every other spineless cable talking head bloviator. It makes one wish that the former Democratic campaign operative would criticize the GOP even half as much as he goes after other Democrats.
David Axelrod, you're a sellout. Delete your account.
skylucy
(3,743 posts)a shitty one.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)Now he's just trying to fit in with the other dumb pundits.
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts)There is far more evidence on this subject from Howard Dean than Trump had on Raphael Cruz being involved in JFK's assignation.
I'm just saying. I don't know. I haven't seen a drug test. Some people say.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)In my humble opinion.
I would rather stick to proven factual attacks on the big cheetohead
LAS14
(13,783 posts).. for unsubstantiated health claims like they've done to Clinton?
Anyway, why is everyone defending Trump? Why not cocaine? It was certainly the first thing that crossed my mind.