Howard Dean: A Child Porn Producer?

No, the headline is not true; it was an intentionally bad joke, designed to mimic what Howard Dean did on Wednesday night in a speech in Minneapolis (sub required, but I've copied the relevant part). In his speech, he accused Rush Limbaugh of snorting cocaine. Limbaugh, once addicted to pain medication, has never taken cocaine and has never been accused of taking cocaine. But that didn't stop Dean from pandering to his audience for a few laughs.

Between a speech he delivered without notes and a question-answer session, Dean regaled an appreciative audience for nearly 90 minutes without once raising his voice, as he did after last year's Iowa primary election. But he did draw howls of laughter by mimicking a drug-snorting Rush Limbaugh. "I'm not very dignified," he said. "But I'm not running for president anymore."

And Democrats like to accuse Republicans of being "mean" and resorting to "name calling." How about slander, Howard?