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September 08, 2006
KT to Joe: Bubbele, Kill the Blog Before It Ruins Your Campaign
KT told Joe Lieberman, over and over again, beware the blog on your campaign website. Don't get into a blogwar with Lamont, focus on your campaign, stick to the issues and your identity as the sober, serious senator.
But did Joe Lieberman and his fancy-shmancy communications consultants listen to KT? Noooooo. And now a link from the website has chomped down hard on his campaign's tuchus. The Greenwich Time carries the sordid tale, which I'm hearing on the radio and elsewhere today:
A link to a doctored photo of Osama bin Laden sporting a Ned Lamont bumper sticker has been pulled from Sen. Joe Lieberman's campaign Web site, just days before the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Featured on the pro-Lieberman Web site no-to-ned.blogspot.com, the picture shows the mastermind of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks wearing a traditional white headdress with a blue Lamont sticker.
Beneath the photo, which was posted on Aug. 29 by the unidentified operator of the Web site and remained there yesterday, it says "Four out of Five Terrorists Agree: Lamont for Senate!"
Lieberman's campaign pulled the link and condemned the doctored photo. Still, it makes one wonder if they're paying attention to the blog and the harm it can do to Lieberman's image. This could be a one-day story, or it could presage a string of miscues that puts the press focus on the site and its blog rather than on Lieberman's positions.
Let Lamont have his blog. I would say don't try to match him in that department, but stay on your record and Lamont's lack of a record or specific plans for Washington. By all means, Joe, don't let the campaign blog turn into your equivalent of Gary Hart's 1984 escapades on the "Monkey Business." More moronic Osama links or sophomoric attempts to slam Lamont on anything other that substantive issues will become a huge distraction. The fallout will give even more momentum to Lamont, who will wind up looking positively statesmanlike as he stands above the fray.
Van | 09/08/06 at 03:54 PM | Categories: - GOTV '06 to '08
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