Guys, I must suggest that the Dean coverage right now should be seen as a testing phase. With the increasing desperation and opposition of the rival campaigns, our press full of Democrats is acting like a truly confused set of party members. Are we for Dean? 0r is Dean a 49-state loser? If he wins Iowa and New Hampshire and looks like a lock, the media will get back into lockstep.

I would not say that Fineman’s article was a get-Howard piece. It did present the doubts of wavering Deanies and the complaints and coordinations of rival campaigns. But it also let Dean speak his mind (I suppose you could suggest that’s the most anti-Dean thing you could do.) Did you see where he’s totally flip-flopped from Osama-presumed-innocent to off-Osama-now?