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I Have a Scream PR Newswire
A Kansas City entrepreneur is wasting no time designing buttons about the now notorious "Dean Scream." A new 3-inch round button design dubbed "I Have A Scream" is already available on her website at http://www.PoliticalShop.com.

Dean's scream spawns new doll By Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times
Howard Dean's infamous Iowa scream is being immortalized in plastic. A Connecticut company that specializes in celebrity action figures has just unveiled a howling Dean doll.

Howard Dean, Internet Rock Star by Tricia Romano, Village Voice
Howard Dean's now-infamous concession speech after the Iowa caucuses might have gotten him dubbed as a loony in the mainstream press, but on the Internet it’s making him a rock star. Within a day of his pumped-up rant to Deanites—which ended with the Democratic presidential candidate yelping "Yeaarrrrrrrgh!" and sounding something like a drowning cat—myriad musical mixes of the speech made their way online.

On Language: Guns, God and Gays By WILLIAM SAFIRE, NYTimes
Where did Dean get this surefire attention-getter? Earliest use I can find on the Dow Jones database Factiva -- which sometimes out-googles Google -- is in 1996 at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention held annually in Bal Harbour, Fla. A Wall Street Journal reporter quoted ''one official'' as saying that the '96 election should be about ''jobs and wages, not guns, God and gays.'' My guess from reading the tea leaves in the article was that the official was Steve Rosenthal, then the political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He now proudly asserts his coinage.

(An aside: President Nixon was once stiffed at that annual Florida labor conclave; the next time he was asked, his counsel Charles Colson put his advice in a slogan: ''Remember Bal Harbour!'')

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