Dean fu

By Aziz P. -
Salon goes ahead and rains on our collective parade by providing an excerpt to the clip of Ninja III: The Domination where Policeman, played by one Howard Dean, exclaims "Proceed with caution!" (see screenshot at right).

Spoilsports:

Dean, unfortunately, says it's not him. Jay Carson, a Dean spokesman, told Salon he asked Dean "point-blank" -- and the Democratic front-runner said he was in no way associated with "The Domination," the story (from producers Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan) of a beautiful '80s aerobics practitioner possessed by the spirit of a ninja slain on a golf course.
[...]
But as with WMDs, belief dies hard, especially when a wily ninja is such a promising metaphor for, say, Karl Rove. The mind invents explanations: Is it so hard to imagine that Dr. Howard Dean, admittedly stuck in Vermont most of 1983, might have spent a weekend in Arizona with a buddy from med school ... and then, finding the local links closed down for a movie shoot, stumbled upon some B-movie filmmakers who were short one helicopter cop...?


Alas, the Salon article doesn't mention that Dean Nation scooped Kos, Atrios, and Pandagon on the story. None of the others mention the true legacy of the whole affair: the birth of the concept of Dean fu :)

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