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Claims to fame: Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy; ex-communications director for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Mormon, UT); assistant director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management under Ronald Reagan; Washington Examiner editorial page editor; former assistant managing editor of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times; hard-hard-hardcore Republican; alleged john
Moral apex: Implicated in the Franklin Credit Union Child-Sex Ring Scandal.
It figures: Uses words like “vociferous” and “homosexual activists” in the same sentence.
Fun fact #1: His “About Me” blurb on his blog reads: “Follower of Christ, devoted husband of Claudia, doting father of Marcus and Ginny, conservative lover of liberty, journalist, Formula Ford racer, Okie by birth/Texan by blood/proud of both, resident of Maryland.”
Fun fact #2: He’s been blogging since September, 2004, and as of this writing (June 12, 2006) his counter shows 7,387 views (including two hits from us) of his profile page. That’s an average of 10 whole hits a day! (Lesson: Don’t feel bad about your blog’s low traffic; this guy is actually supposed to be somebody!)
Fun fact #3: Took a bunch of U.S. senators to task for pushing “earmarks” (pet projects, or legislative “pork”), then had to apologize for “misreading” the data he used — and possibly misidentifying the senators he was attacking. We say: Nice investigative journalism, Mark! Not.
