From Best of the Web Today:
Keep Your Day Job, Howard
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, stopped by the offices of the liberal American Prospect for lunch last week, and according to the Prospect's Tapped blog, Salon's Walter Shapiro had this exchange with him:
Shapiro: Governor, from where you sit, is the fact that there will be two caucuses between the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary a done deal, or is this still open for negotiation, as to whether there will be caucuses and/or
whether New Hampshire will have its traditional unmolested Iowa/New Hampshire role in American history?
Dean: We don't molest anybody. We leave that to the deputy press secretary of the Homeland Security agency.
Dean's reference is to Brian Doyle, who was arrested this month for allegedly sending sexually explicit emails to a "14-year-old girl" who was actually a police detective. Blogger Kevin Aylward notes that this case has gotten lots of attention from liberal bloggers, "heaping generous portions of blame on the Bush administration."
But it turns out, also according to Aylward, that Doyle is a career civil servant and a registered Democrat! (Emphasis mine.) Dean's little joke is not only tasteless but is at the expense of his own party.
BTW, why is Howie Spleen still called "Governor" when he has not held that office in years and has never been a character in a Dickens novel? There is no way I would address Gerald Ford or Goober II as "Mr. President". (Heck, Clinton would be lucky if I refrained from spitting in his face.)
Sorry, Howie, this is America and we don't have honorary titles. Why don't you win an election and get back to us.
Democrass Doyle Update:
Out of Time
It turns out that Brian Doyle, who resigned as deputy press secretary at the Department of Homeland Security after being charged with solicitation of a minor and transmitting pornographic material to a minor, is not a career civil servant, as we said yesterday. As CNN reported earlier this month, he actually spent most of his career in the mainstream media:
That explains a lot.
Friends and former co-workers say Doyle was disciplined by Time magazine after he allegedly used company computers to view adult pornography in the publication's Washington bureau office. . . .
Time began an investigation after an employee in the bureau complained after finding offensive photographs on her computer, sources said.
The photos, which were not of juveniles, were traced to Doyle. The complaint was dropped after Doyle's colleagues signed a petition of support, the sources said.
Doyle received a formal warning and was required to undergo mental health counseling before returning to work, the sources said.
Sources disagree over whether Time suspended Doyle or whether he took a leave of absence after the incident.
Time magazine said only that it employed Doyle for 26 years and refused to comment further.
Doyle, a registered Democrat, left Time in 2001 to work for the government.
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