The degree of hysterical, over-the-top anti-Dean PR being produced by alleged progressives as well as alleged objective journalists at this point is shameful and reminscient in a small way of the "Get Clinton" years.
Give us a Republican Chimpanzee who spent half his life snorting cocaine, boozing, womanizing, going AWOL from the military in the Viet Nam years, who has been involved with corporate scandals, who was an academic underachiever, and who can't complete a sentence without help, and nothing happens.
Give a Democrat who goes "yeah!!" real loud into a microphone at a rally, and we have a hysterical campaign topic of the greatest importance worth weeks of discussion and numerous predictions of death for the most revolutionary presidential campaign since Barry Goldwater.
The alleged progressive "thinkers" and "media commentators" who have fueled this "speech" issue should be ashamed of themselves, because are they participating in what in essence the same thing as the Clinton Impeachment scandal.