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I am trying to figure out if he's wearing a hat or if it's his hair.

I had to go back to look at the picture to see the hair again. I'm wondering if he has a gray stocking cap on the top of his head.

It was nippy out there today, so it's entirely possible. I am very suprised he didn't have on a blaze orange cap. I think those are mandatory in Iowa.

Do you know where he was hunting today? Surely not in Iowa.

He said; He said

While Iowa Democrat Party Chairman Gordon Fischer wants the gay bashing story to go away, Dean and Gephardt staff don’t seem to agree. In a separate story the Des Moines Register explores the strong feelings about the incident where Gephardt staffer Mike Kelley is accused by Dean staffer Hunter Allen that Kelley pushed him and called him a faggot. Fischer is reported to have called the two campaign staffs and urged them to get back to focusing on beating Bush rather than continue to propel the gay bashing story. However, both campaign staffs are heated in their resentment of the other campaign’s response to the incident.

Steve Murphy, Gephardt's campaign manager, responded to Joe Trippi, Dean’s campaign manager, calling the allegation false. Part of the Gephardt stance on the incident is there is no video or audio recording of what was said. They point to the fact that Allen had a tape recorder to tape Gephardt’s remarks. So, where’s the tape? The accuser Allen was at the Gephardt appearance to tape record Gephardt’s speech for the Dean campaign. It is reported and agreed to by Allen that he disrupted the Gephardt meeting by taking a phone call and was dressed down by the Gephardt campaign. He also irritated Gephardt staff when he participated in the press conference following the speech. The incident between Kelley and Allen occurred outside, and even though there were press and others passing by no one can substantiate either side in the incident. "You are an astute enough political practitioner to know that making unsubstantiated allegations of this nature is one of the lowest forms of political dirty tricks," Murphy wrote to Trippi in response to Trippi’s call to fire Kelley, according to the Des Moines Register.

The Register reports Dean’s campaign reaction:

Sarah Leonard, Dean's spokeswoman in Iowa, responded: "It's outrageous for someone to question the honesty of our staff person. This is an openly gay young man who was a victim of hate speech. "No, it was not caught on tape. Hate speech is rarely caught on tape. That doesn't mean it is rarely used." News organizations including Fox News, Sunday Times of London, ABC News and MSNBC have all fairly consistently filled reports or made comments that Allen is the least accurate in his account of what happened. Quoted in the Des Moines Register:

But a newspaper reporter, who says he was standing next to Allen, described Allen's behavior as "clearly very provocative," and said he understood why Gephardt staffers sought to remove him. "If anything transpired, for my money, it was Allen who started it," said Tony Allen-Mills, the Washington, D.C., correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. Leonard, representing Dean, said: "We're not backing off of this. We realize that the Gephardt campaign has chosen to deny and attack rather than deal with this serious situation, so we've decided to move on," quoted in the Register.

Chairman Fischer believes that this will now die down. We will see.

http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/CandidatesUpdates/News/news2.htm