Collateral Damage
The award for shortest career as a mouthpiece for the Democratic party goes to ... Brian Lambert.
That is, if you don't count his freelance Democratic party mouthpiecing during his previous 15 years with the Pioneer Press. But it was only 11 short days ago he got his mind and his paycheck stubs aligned. According to the Star Tribune:
Sen. Mark Dayton has hired former St. Paul Pioneer Press media critic Brian Lambert as his senior media adviser, Lambert confirmed Friday.
He won't be Dayton's spokesman, but he will "be working with the press in the Twin Cities and around the state, helping with op/ed pieces and writing speeches," Lambert said of his new job, which begins Monday.
Writing speeches? I wonder if he was involved in crafting today's performance? According to King Banaian:
I had two faculty members pretty much run to my office to tell me: Dayton does a five-minute press conference, reads his statement, and on the radio you could hear the phone click, indicating he ended the conference in some haste.
Well ... in Lambert's defense, he only had his job for 11 days. What did you expect, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
For a glimpse of the glory that might have been, we turn back the clock 11 days (again from the Star Tribune):
"In many ways, Senator Dayton is not completely defined for the people of Minnesota," [WCCO-TV's Pat] Kessler said. Lambert's appointment "is a signal that he is going to be very aggressive in getting his message and his image out in the next two years."
Or ... it's a signal he's about to quit. (But maybe it was done "very aggressively," I've yet to hear the tape.) Either way, we wish Senator Dayton and Brian Lambert the best in the future. According to show business precedent, there's always room for another paid mouthpiece in a ventriloquist act.
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