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Are Howard Dean and Judy Dean abortionists? In a well-reported and thoroughly analyzed January 8th, 2004 interview with People Magazine, Drs. Dean were asked if they “were active in Planned Parenthood in Burlington”. The conversation from that point went like this: Judy: We both worked there, while we were residents, but I wouldn't call it active. Howard: And no, neither of us ever did an abortion. Q: Why do you say it that way? Howard: Because I always get asked that. Q: Why didn't you perform abortions? Howard: Because we don't do them. They don't train residents to do that....

Howard Dean won the chairmanship of the national Democratic Party over the weekend and quickly began looking for a home in Washington. "This is really goodbye to Vermont, for now. There's lots of work to do," Dean told supporters. Eyebrows were raised after it was revealed that Dean's wife, Judy, will not be joining her husband in his move. "She has a career as a doctor, her patients require her attention," said one Dean friend. The Deans will join the growing ranks of "commuter marriages," with both partners living in different locations. Developing...

<p>A big career is an asset, unless she won't give it up. Her family has to come first -- but the campaign is paramount. He says she's his rock, his compass, that he couldn't do it without her. She says... well, that's just the point. The role of the candidate's spouse is being rewritten as the campaign rolls on. But no one -- not the voters, not the press, and certainly not the spouses themselves -- can agree on the script.</p>

<p>LET'S GO to the videotape. Oh no, let's not go to the videotape. The best news out of the New Hampshire primary may be that we can now drive a stake in the heart of the videotape.</p> <p>In the first four days after Iowa, the 15 seconds of Dean's primal scream was played 633 times. I'm no Deaniac, but I began to think it was a media plot to turn Dr. Dean into Dr. Strangelove. And I am the media, or some particle thereof.</p>

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- President Bush wound up last week's State of the Union address by recounting a letter he received from a 10-year-old Lincoln, R.I., girl who had written to him expressing a desire to help "save our country." Whereas Bush's commentary earlier in the night on homeland security sent the cameras gazing on Secretary Tom Ridge, the President's discussion of young Ashley Pearson's letter, no doubt intended to be the night's most heartwarming moment, precipitated a screen shot of Laura Bush, glowing and clapping. The camera's gaze on Mrs. Bush at that moment reaffirmed the image of her as...

MIAMI BEACH, Jan. 25 — Howard Dean was all smiles at a Women for Dean rally on Sunday in Hooksett, N.H., as he stood in front of a crowded room with Judith Steinberg Dean, his politically reluctant spouse who has made few campaign appearances. The couple exchanged loving glances as she read her introduction of him from a laptop computer. But after the event, Dr. Dean's tone changed, as he said discreetly but audibly: "Get her out. Get her out. Get her out." It could be that Dr. Dean was trying to shield his wife from the crush of supporters....

After reading Howard Dean's stance on healthcare reform and his comments on healthcare for the elderly, I decided to research his wife's practice to see what she is doing to help the elderly in Vermont. Apparently, not much. According to medicare.gov's participating physician directory, (http://www4.medicare.gov/Physician/Search/PhysicianSearch.asp then search by name or location) Judith Steinberg, MD is NOT a participating provider in the Medicare program. Medicare participating providers agree to accept Medicare's approved amount as payment in full for covered services. Physicians who do not participate in the program are not restricted to Medicare approved fee amounts and may also require their...

Howard Dean was courting the women's vote at a Women for Dean rally yesterday in Hooksett, N.H., with the help of C-Span cameras carrying the action live. But it turned ugly after the rally when he ordered his aides to remove his politically shy wife, Judith Steinberg Dean. "Get her out," he said. "Get her out. Get her out." The cameras and microphones caught it all. Earlier, Dr. Steinberg had introduced the candidate. They even exchanged loving glances. But, inexplicably, Dr. Dean turned into Mr. Hyde. Dean's campaign has been in freefall since an appearance just before the Iowa caucuses...

<p>As she did the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses, Judy Dean stood by her husband's side yesterday, smiling raptly and at times offering a look of delighted astonishment, as when a crowd of supporters at a campaign office here let out a series of frenzied whoops.</p>

Dean, Lobotomized He shouldn't take that abuse from Diane Sawyer. By Timothy Noah Posted Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, at 10:00 PM PT You think Howard Dean is too angry? In his interview on Jan. 22 with Diane Sawyer of ABC News, he wasn't nearly angry enough. After the (unmarried) New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd sniffed that "the doctors Dean seem to be in need of some tips on togetherness and building a healthy political marriage," and the first female editor of The New Yorker compared Dean's missus to "the mad wife in Jane Eyre, screaming in the attic upstairs,"...

January 23, 2004 On TV With His Wife, a Softer, Gentler Dean By JODI WILGOREN ANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 22 — Howard Dean said he is just another hockey dad. His wife of 23 years, Judith Steinberg Dean, said she cannot remember the last time he lost his temper. She said he's "a good dancer." He said "she's a lot smarter than I am." Nestled on a formal sofa in a quaint Vermont inn, the couple appeared in their first nationally televised interview Thursday in an effort to save Dr. Dean's embattled presidential campaign by reassuring the public that his emotional...

FLASH: DIANE SAWYER TO INTERVIEW GOVERNOR HOWARD DEAN AND HIS WIFE, DR. JUDITH STEINBERG, FOR A REPORT AIRING TOMORROW NIGHT... would this be his bill clinton moment?

Judy Dean, Dr. Judith Steinberg, Mrs. Howard Brush Dean III -- whatever you call her -- you can also call her the smartest woman in politics. Steinberg, a practicing internist, knows enough to want out. Note how Steinberg has managed to navigate this grueling presidential primary having appeared next to hubby Howard Dean only twice -- including Sunday's Iowa romp. She probably figures those were two days too many. No slight meant to those hearty spouses who have slogged through Iowa stumping for their lesser halves, but what woman in her right mind would want to endure the thankless grind...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Howard Dean (news - web sites), facing a tight battle in Monday's Iowa caucuses, got some last-minute help from a surprise source on Sunday -- his wife. Judith Steinberg, Dean's wife and a doctor in Vermont who has not appeared with him on the campaign trail, joined Dean at the airport in Davenport. The couple spent several minutes alone on Dean's chartered jet before emerging to face a phalanx of cameras. Both wore sweaters -- Steinberg's a bright blue -- and no overcoats despite the below-freezing temperatures. They smiled and hurried across the...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Judith Steinberg Dean flew into Davenport Airport, Iowa, Sunday to boost her husband Howard's faltering campaign. The weather was chilling Arctic cold but Mrs. Dean, dressed stylishly in blue, wore no overcoat as she hurried to the campaign bus from her plane alongside her husband, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean. Mrs. Dean will be appearing alongside Dean at campaign appearances in Davenport, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City before flying home. She will not remain in Iowa to campaign with him on Monday because she has patients she is scheduled to see in her medical practice,...

The lovely and talented Page Hopkins of Fox News Channel just completed an interview with representatives of the Gephardt, Kerry and Dean campaigns in Iowa. She asked Dean's campaign manager, Joe Trippi, whether it wasn't hurting Dean for his wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, not to be campaigning for him. Answered Trippi: "She has a very important job as a doctor, and we wouldn't take her away from that." Responded Hopkins, in a spontaneous way, "come on! If my husband ran for president, I'd be out of FNC so fast and out there campaigning for him!" To which an angry Trippi...

Much has been made of the Invisible Wife of Dr. Howard Dean. Where's Judith? Mrs. Dean, also known as Dr. Judith Steinberg, has stumped nearly everyone with her unusual absence from her husband's campaign. Is she shy, aloof, unsupportive, self-centered, passive-aggressive? Odd? From what little we do know, it appears that Mrs. Dean is simply N/I - not interested. She doesn't like politics. She likes being a doctor and she's good at it, she says. She is not good at public appearances and would prefer to be left alone, thank you.

People magazine published an interview with Howard Dean this week, full of the usual babble and fluff. But buried beneath it were some surprisingly newsworthy comments. Consider Dean's skittishness during the interview about his work for abortion provider Planned Parenthood. "Were you both active in Planned Parenthood in Burlington?" asks People of Judy and Howard Dean. Judy Dean tried to downplay their work: "We both worked there, while we were residents, but I wouldn't call it active." Not active? Howard Dean served on New England Planned Parenthood's executive board. Then Howard Dean defensively answered a question not asked: "And no,...

From the People magazine January 8, 2004 interview with Howard Dean and his wife, Judith Steinberg: Question: Is there a silly, playful, affectionate side, like if you're cooking does he come up behind you with a tickle or something? Dean: Certainly we're not going to discuss THAT! Steinberg: I don't cook. _________________________________________________________ “Here's a good one — highly qualified teachers, right? The president is going to decide who highly qualified teachers are! [crowd laughter] He had so many of them, right? [more laughter] I shouldn't have said that. It's not presidential." — Howard Dean, December 28, 2003, in speech in...

"Where is Mrs. Dean?" demands the headline on The Drudge Report, signaling not simply a painfully slow news day but an ostensibly urgent inquiry about the possible future of the republic. The page features a cropped vertical shot of the rageoholic governor being tailed—or is it stalked?— by his elusive wife, Judith Steinberg Dean, who is less notable for being an M.D. than for her utter invisibility during her husband's presidential campaign. Drudge links to a New York Times story filled with the advice that if the Drs. Dean want to be writing prescriptions from the White House come next...