[rabair]

Follow the link. You have got to watch the video!!!!! He says it at about 1:15 in to the video.

First off it would be stupid, but overlookable if he'd just tried to create a simile and failed... but the fact that he chose to use "Hide the Salami", makes it hilarious... Perhaps he thought they were talking about Clinton! Either way, what is this guy in 6th grade that that phrase would just come out so unconsciously, as if he says it all the time?

And, as a born and raised (although not currently residing) Vermonter, I just find this hilarious because one could go to the "civil union" arena to make some great jokes out of this.... Please everyone, give it your best... I can't wait to read 'em and I really hope we see this on the late shows tomorrow. What an idiot... This really needs to become 2005's "Yaaaaaaaaaaargh".

[gulfcoast6]

Dean confuses himself.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

LOL that's hilarious! Maybe dean had a freudian slip and was just telegraphing what he wanted to do with the blonde haired chrissy mathews!

[Right Wing Assault]

Howard is a salami. Quick, someone hide him.

[Zacs Mom]

[Puddleglum]

Good grief ... "Hide the salami"? What a Tourettes-afflicted freak.

[beyond the sea]

Dean ........... accuses Bush of playing "hide the salami" with Miers?

I could not believe he said that. Isn't that off color...... what exactly does that mean?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Sounds like a game Clinton used to play with Monica and the other interns.

[Musket]

I would watch it but MSNBC requires that I launch it from IE 6, which is complete BS. None the less, I'm sure this has legs.

[Musket]

MATTHEWS: Do you believe that the president can claim executive privilege?

DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in the this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to go out there and say something about this woman who's going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.

[Vaquero]

good thing he didn't refer to 'bury the baloney'.....or for that matter, to 'slip the salami'! that would have been truly evil.

[Chanticleer]

ROTFL

I wish this would stay with Dean the way the potatoe debacle stayed with Quayle.

Ugh! What a visual!

[OldFriend]

Proving again how utterly stupid this so called doctor is.....just about all of the senators know Meiers. She's been the one they deal with when they go to the White House to discuss the various judges that have been nominated so far.

But you see, if the doctor doesn't know her, well then no one knows her.

[Americanexpat]

I remember Howard Dean as a cocky, arrogant, loud mouth during the primaries. I thank God that he was never elected President of the United States.

[sono]

Howard Dean is angling for a permanent job with Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Does anyone else feel Dr. Demento is a Rove plant?

[meema]

bttt

[JustAnotherOkie]

What a jackass, some clever editing and we will be seeing that one for years to come.

[mware]

What the heck did Matthews say to that comment????

[maggief]

[bmwcyle]

Howard Dean is confusing Bush to the last president. Bush married a attractive heterosexual. Clinton chased everything that moved.

[maggief]

Not this sh!t again ...

MATTHEWS: I mean, the Dean scream was good material, like the ride in the tank was good material for the Republicans when they went after Mike Dukakis.

DEAN: Well, as you know very well, based on Diane Sawyer's report on ABC, that didn't exactly happen the way it was shown on television 700 times that week. But leaving that aside, I think it's very clear.

MATTHEWS: I know: it was a directed mike. I understand the technology.