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Timm Herdt, newly linked on the left, is state bureau chief for the Ventura County Star. He blogs mostly about politics on the Star's site, and in a recent item admitted the reaction to his recent speech before the Camarillo Democratic Club. A lady came up after and said, "I love your column...but like many people who have a talent for writing, you are a lousy speaker. You nearly bored us to death."
On Sunday, the paper's editor, Tim Gallagher, guest-blogged on the scene at this weekend's off-the-record, pol-packed Gridiron Dinner in Washington, where he schmoozed with the likes of Dick Cheney, Maureen Dowd and Howard Dean.
The roof nearly fell in when Dean appeared in one skit as himself and closed the song by recreating the scream he made famous after his loss in the Iowa primary. Dean appears to be a good sport about the whole thing. He sat directly across from me for most of the evening and howled at the jokes focused on his riches-to-rags campaign story.
Gallagher wrote that the prevailing buzz had President Bush skipping the dinner in order to snub the Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt.