On January 19, 2004, Dean’s rivals John Kerry and John Edwards pushed him into a third-place finish in the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses, representing the first votes cast in primary season. Dean’s loud outburst in his public address that night was widely rebroadcast and portrayed as a media gaffe that ended his campaign.
You may LOL but thoughtful “progressives” in 2004 did not think this was funny and said it was a media hitjob.
Fortunately they were wrong, this is still incredibly funny and I thank CNN for doing whatever audio tricks to make it more entertaining.