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Primal scream therapy. An answer. But not THE answer.

The question is: When the hell are so-called supporters of Howard Dean going to reach over and smack the face of someone who says this on national television (in this case, today's CNN Crossfire):

SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (D-CT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Some of the things that -- people in New Hampshire are worried that some of the things that Howard Dean has said are going to be turned right back on him by George W. Bush and Karl Rove and make him unelectable.

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NOVAK [to Rep. Jim Moran D-Virginia]: And what Joe is saying that the things like, [Dean] doesn't think we're safer with Saddam Hussein captured; he doesn't know whether Osama bin Laden is guilty; he doesn't know whether his brother is alive or dead. There's just a lot of peculiar things that Dean has said. Doesn't that bother you?

In my dream world (cue harp music):

MORAN: (STANDS UP AND GRABS NOVAK BY THE COLLAR) Look at me, you lying sack of crap. (SLAPS NOVAK)

(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)

MORAN: Are you telling me to my face that with Saddam captured, we're SAFER? (THROWS NOVAK BACK IN HIS SEAT AND GETS IN HIS FACE) I spent two freaking hours at the airport on the way here undergoing a body cavity search, scared out of my mind because we're in Code Burnt Umber! Because your president went after the WRONG BEARDED GUY.

(CHEERING)

BEGALA: Ha ha ha ha. Jim, I don't think...

MORAN: NO YOU DON'T, PAUL! You let this toad get away with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) day after day and it stops here!

(AUDIENCE GOES INTO APOPLECTIC FIT)

MORAN: And another thing. (THROWS PITCHER OF WATER IN NOVAK'S FACE) You find me the exact quote where Howard Dean "doesn't know whether Osama bin Laden is guilty"! GIVE ME DATES. GIVE ME TIMES. GIVE ME QUOTES. You can't, you lying little weasel...

NOVAK: (GURGLES)

BEGALA: Ho ho. Uh...

MORAN: BECAUSE HE NEVER SAID THAT! NEVER!!! (SLAPS NOVAK REPEATEDLY)

(AUDIENCE THROWS FOLDING CHAIRS ONTO SET)

(UNINTELLIGIBLE)

MORAN: ...said bin Laden was guilty, but that would be up to a jury! WHAT THE (EXPLETIVE) IS WRONG WITH THAT, YOU (UNINTELLIGIBLE)!?!

AUDIENCE: WE WANT TABLES! WE WANT TABLES! WE WANT TABLES!

MORAN: AND HIS BROTHER'S DEAD! That was pretty friggin' conclusive, you heartless ASS... (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

(MORAN OPENS A FOLDING TABLE AND PILEDRIVES NOVAK THROUGH IT)

(CHEERING)

BEGALA: Wow. Gee. When we come back, our RapidFire segment! Then a viewer wants more Michael Jackson coverage. Stay tuned.

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