The American Spectator

br> — Dave Goforth /p> p> I usually enjoy you articles but I am a little perplexed by this one. You are evidently speaking as an outsider, one who has had discourse with Dean, but didn’t really see him in action. I remember those shows you speak of but never bothered to watch them because they were in essence phony. The Dean face on there was far different than the Dean face in office in Vermont. Howard Dean was one of the sneakiest SOB’s ever to hold the governor’s office. Ruth Dwyer ran two campaigns against him for Governor and found out just how vicious he is. The Civil Union battle showed us just how underhanded he can be and more than a few business people, along with some municipalities, found out how vindictive he is. You may think you knew Dean from his “political virginity” but we were legislative freshmen from Burlington together back in 1983, when he first was elected to office. We went head to head then. He was the Planned Parenthood advocate, along with every other liberal Democrat cause of the time, including the defunct Nuclear Freeze movement. The biggest issue was ERA, which was defeated at public referendum and which he had a big hand in getting it pushed through the legislature( I was in opposition). Political Virgin? Give me a break. It’s about time you came down to earth concerning this person and really looked at what he is. Only those of us who fought him in this state and who bear the burden of his decisions really understand what he is all about. br> — Pete Chagnon /p> p> DIDN’T REGISTER br> Re: David Hogberg’s Paranoia at the Des Moines Register : /p>

Many of the articles I read in the conservative press correctly point out the excesses of loony left journalism. But this is not news anymore. The information that might be interesting is:

Who or what is the Des Moines Register? Who owns it? Is it public? Can I buy stock? When is the next shareholders meeting? Are directors’ meetings ever public? Who is the editor and what is his background? Who insures the paper? Can the insurer be lobbied to pull coverage on the grounds that sooner or later this person, and probably others, is going to slide over into actionable defamation? What is their street address? Email addresses for complaint? Names and addresses of senior officers and management? Is the board a conservative board? How do they let people like this publish? Do they even know?