No to Ned - An offensive, anti-Lamont blog that posted a picture of bin Laden wearing a Ned Lamont sticker - which must be what Joe's talking about when he calls for civility in politics. Five total posts. UPDATE: Lieberman's blog has de-linked No-to-Ned (h/t T.Party)
Joe for Progress - This looks like it wants to be a blogging community. From what I can tell it has one author, two total posts, and a blogroll containing pretty much the same sites as Joe's campaign blog - Bull Moose, Austin Centrist, Maverick Views, & Moderate Voters - as well as six news and policy sites.
The Bull Moose - Infamous Democratic Leadership Council hack Marshall Wittman is a known commodity. Wittman has notably worked for the Christian Coalition before switching sides moving on to the DLC.
Austin Centrist - A "non-partisan...sensible center" blog from Austin, Texas. I was hoping it was from the ill-marketed Austin, Connecticut. This blog hasn't posted on Lieberman since the day after the primary.
Maverick Views - A San Antonio, Texas based blog. One of the first posts is titled "Why I'm Not a Neo-Con" and is in response to his commenters accusing him of being a neo-con, which is a problem that I've never seen a Democratic blogger have with his audience. This blog hasn't posted about Lieberman since the day after his primary defeat.
Moderate Voters - Based in Southern California, this blog seems to exist solely to blockquote. It also has not posted (an article) about Lieberman in two and a half weeks.
Lieberman's blogroll is made up entirely of blogs outside the state of Connecticut (if any are Connecticut based, they don't advertise it). The top three have a grand total of ten posts between them and were created in the last three weeks. One is forced to wonder if the delay in launching Joe2006 v2.0 was to allow their "ringers" a chance to get up to steam (snicker).
The only substantive - and I use that word loosely - blogs Joe links to are based in Texas and California. I can't say that in itself is a problem, except for the fact that these blogs haven't devoted any attention onto the Connecticut senate race or Joe's vanity campaign. Does Lieberman have to reach back a month in time and across thousands of miles of American prairie and farmland to find blogs that kinda, sorta support him? Yes, yes he does.
By way of comparison, the official Lamont campaign blog lists seven Connecticut blogs and ten blogs that cover national politics in their blogroll (full disclosure: Emboldened is not on either list). The blogs Lamont links to update on a daily basis and provide a wide range of commentary. To the best of my knowledge, none of the bloggers Ned Lamont links to also write blogs filled with anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate speech*.
Ignoring the fact that Lieberman's blog was instituted with mousetrap like intentions, it yet again reinforces the fact that the Lieberman campaign does not have the slightest clue as to how they should engage and communicate with bloggers. They don't have any support online so they link to falsifiable bloggers who are either out of state, haven't written about Joe in almost a month, or have only written a few posts ever. This campaign does not get it and yet again the take one big step forward and fall flat on their face.
*Lieberman may have made a big mistake linking to Chris Arnell's site. Arnell looks like a fecund source of opposition material to use against Joe and his fetishization of Muslim violence - from car accidents to jihad - is truly disturbing. The Lieberman campaign has repeatedly ran to the press with the scary, anti-Semetic (and universally condemned) remarks by anonymous blog commenters. We, however, now have a face to attach to Lieberman's more unsavory supporters and Joe has condoned Arnell's hate speech by linking to him on his blog.
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