[lbo-talk] The netroots delivers yet again...

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Thu Aug 3 22:43:23 PDT 2006


The young turks get a little too far ahead:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/situation.room/blog/2006/08/lieberman-accuses-lamont-of-lying.html


>
> Ned Lamont's Senate campaign has been bolstered by the support of
> liberal bloggers. Joe Lieberman's Connecticut Senate campaign is
> accusing Democratic challenger Ned Lamont of lying about his
> relationship with bloggers after a liberal web site posted a doctored
> photo of Lieberman in blackface on the web.
>
> Questioned by reporters after campaigning in Bridgeport, Conn. about
> the controversial graphic, Lamont reportedly said, "I don't know
> anything about the blogs. I'm not responsible for those. I have no
> comment on them."
>
> The Lieberman campaign calls that characterization a "lie" and
> demanded Lamont to break any connections with the blogger who posted
> the blackface graphic.
>
> Jane Hamsher of the pro-Lamont Web site Firedoglake.com posted the
> graphic on HuffingtonPost.com. It portrays Lieberman campaigning in
> blackface alongside Bill Clinton, an apparent attempt to criticize
> Lieberman's appeals to black voters in Connecticut.
>
> [...]
>
> In a video posted at the popular site YouTube.com, Lamont himself
> references "friends at Firedoglake" in an interview with Hamsher.
> There is also a link to Firedoglake.com at Ned Lamont's official
> campaign web site.
>
> Hamsher denied working for the Lamont campaign. She said she has
> interviewed the candidate twice.
>
> "I never checked with Ned before I printed anything," Hamsher said in
> a phone interview. "He has no control over what I post."
>
> However, Hamsher said she removed the controversial image at the
> Lamont campaign's request.
>
> On her web site, Hamsher apologized "to anyone who was genuinely
> offended by the choice of images accompanying my blog post."

--ravi

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