TNR Grades Dean on Gay Marriage...

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TAP DANCE
by Michael Crowley

Candidate: Howard Dean
Category: Intellectual Honesty
Grade: D
It's not often that Larry King subjects his guests to a rigorous grilling. But during his interview with Dean last night, King pressed the ex-governor for his precise personal view on gay marriage with surprising persistence. Dean, who moments earlier had joked about his dangerously blunt tongue, was suddenly unable to deliver his famous brand of troublemaking straight talk:
KING: All right. On your own state level, if it were a referendum, would you vote for gay marriage?
DEAN: If what were--we don't have a referendum in my state, and we have civil unions, and we deliberately chose civil …

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