Giant bug intrudes on Howard Dean MSNBC interview

By Kathleen Miller
Friday, October 16th, 2009 -- 12:33 pm

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Giant bug Former Democratic National Committee Chairman and one-time presidential hopeful Howard Dean was upstaged by what appears to be a huge bug crawling across the screen during an interview on MSNBC's Dr. Nancy show.

"Politicians at the federal level who are talking about tort reform are just blathering," Dean says before the creature makes its cable network debut. YouTube user "jeffmaxweed" uploaded the video to the site, and Raw Story has confirmed it did air Friday.

One possible explanation is that the bug crawled across the lens of a backstage projector while cameras were rolling.

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TexMex
Looks like a female cricket with the typical saber like ovipositor at the end of the tail. What species? Hard to know.

DWAYNE
UUUGGHHH!!!

lousgirl84
Yikes. It looked huge whatever it was

thepoliticalcat
Dr. Dean FTW!

OldAtlantic
Hispanics.

meatybones
Oh, it was just another cockroach republican trying to obstruct...

Adam503
Howard Dean saves health care reform from giant insect of doom!

Adam503
Howard Dean saves health care reform from giant insect of doom!

damixaustex
Now I know why he seals his lips shut when he's not talking!!!!
It's not a twitch, it's defensive!

Watch other interviews, you'll see what I mean.

libertate
looked like the balloon boy to me

dennycrane
It was one of those L Ron Hubbard's "bugs" with cameras that report to the mother ship zeno or whatever the hell it's called.

rrm47
The Media Research Center

Paging Congressman Alan Grayson! Here is a quote that validates what you said about those EVIL Republicans:

"We're going to have to, if you're very old, we're not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It's too expensive...so we're going to let you die."

Aha! So it turns out that Grayson was right when he said "Republicans want you to die quickly." Only one "little" problem here. That quote did not come from a Republican. In fact it came from the very liberal former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who is now an economics adviser for Barack Obama.

Big Dan
YOU are an idiot and proof of how Rush Limbaugh and rightwing media spins lies:

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
More Desperation from the Right

Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Rush, and the right-wing blogosphere seem interested in a talk I gave in September, 2007 to students in a political science class here at Berkeley, in which I played the role of a presidential candidate so politically incorrect and tone-deaf as to pummel every sacred cow in sight -- including the notion that our society could afford and would continue forever to pay whatever amount of money was required to keep everyone alive forever. The whole point of the mock exercise was to show that presidential candidates can't state what everyone knows to be the truth because they'll be taken apart by the Right or the Left. I slew many other sacred cows in that mock exercise, some of which are held dearly by the Left. Nonetheless, two years later the Right has exhumed the lecture and taken my words completely out of context purportedly to show that Obama and the Democrats plan death panels.

If their desperation weren't so pathetic it would be funny. After all, they have proven the whole point of my lecture. UC Berkeley maintains an archive of webcasts and my speech is available there verbatim, should you wish to listen to it in its entirety.

posted by Robert Reich

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?...

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=dow...