Appearing at an Election Day event for
the Obama campaign in Fountain last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
snapped, plain and simple. He — not a spokesperson — should publicly own up to it and apologize for his conduct. The Denver Post's Allison Sherry
reported
Tuesday that the former Democratic senator who now heads the Department
of the Interior threatened to punch a reporter at the end of an
interview. "Don't you ever ... You know what, you do that again,
... I'll punch you out," Salazar told Dave Philipps of The Gazette in
Colorado Springs. We doubt that was something Salazar learned when
he studied at St. Francis Seminary in Ohio. And it's seemingly so out
of character that we were skeptical of the initial reports. But
the entire exchange was captured on audio. And in listening to the
exchange, it strikes us that Phillips conducted himself professionally
— and Salazar did not...
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