Naturally:

(New York, May 17, 2006) – Richard (Rick) Stengel has been named Managing Editor of Time it was announced today by John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc. Stengel succeeds Jim Kelly who was promoted to Managing Editor of Time Inc. yesterday. The appointment is effective June 15, 2006 though he will work alongside Kelly during a transition period prior to that. […]
Stengel has a long history with Time and has served at different times as both its national and culture editor as well as the editor of Time.com. As a senior writer and essayist he covered both the 1996 and 1988 Presidential campaigns. Stengel has also written for The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times. He’s been a frequent television commentator on CNN and MSNBC. In 1998 he taught a course at Princeton called “Politics and the Press” before moving to a very different political arena in 1999 as a senior advisor and chief speechwriter for presidential candidate Bill Bradley. Since 2004 he has been the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, which is a museum, education center and think tank on Independence Mall in Philadelphia dedicated to teaching the importance of the Constitution and civic engagement. It’s non-partisan and a non-profit chartered by the federal government, with a million visitors a year, a third of whom are students. The Center is dedicated to finding common ground among all Americans on the most important issues of the day, and it offer debates and conversations and dialogues that bring light to the most important constitutional issues that America faces.

At least Bradley seemed like he had some principles, so it could have been worse. Hell, it could have been Tina Brown.

I predict that liberal bloggers will express dissatisfaction because Time did not appoint a former Dean speechwriter, and that this is just more evidence that the media lean to the right.