Tom Brokaw scores a two-fer:

Moderator Tom Brokaw started out by saying Dean had "fired the man who brought you to this dance," and Dean swiftly disputed that.

"No, I didn't," he said.

Brokaw described Neel as a "quintessential Washington insider" and lobbyist and asked whether that didn't mark a fundamental change in Dean's antiestablishment candidacy.

Dean said Neel had "never lobbied and kept faith" with the ethics pledge he made in the Clinton administration. He then pivoted back to his bedrock campaign claim. (Emphasis added.)

Either Brokaw reads this blog or this blog has learned how to think like a whore. I don't know which possibility is scarier.