| Today, Dan Gerstein is peddling the line that Joe Lieberman is above party politics and he is helping his boss aggressively court the conservative, right-wing, Republican vote with the help of child-abusing scum like Mel Sembler. (Maybe that's why Joe so desperately wants to protect the Republican leadership who so miserably failed the young pages under their care.)
Now he's busy trying to smear the ordinary people who have the temerity to exercise their First Amednment rights by posting on blogs.
Yet not so long ago, Gerstein was masquerading as a blogger, assiduosuly doing Joe Lieberman's bidding.
There was a time when Lieberman wanted to get out the line that Lieberman is a flaming liberal. Gerstein obliged.
Lieberman receives a ranking of 76.4 percent from ProgressivePunch, a nonpartisan searchable database of Congressional voting records from a liberal perspective. The score, however, was deflated because of votes missed while Lieberman was running for president in 2003. He scored 85.5 percent among the 414 votes evaluated in which he actually voted. Dodd scores 87.2 percent from the liberal group.
Of course, some things never change. Lieberman has always been telling anyone who'd listen that Lamont is a wacko. Once again, Gerstein leapt into the anonymous blogosphere to do his master's bidding.
What really jumped out to me there is the use of the word "moderate" to describe Lamont. Lamont seemingly was a moderate before deciding to jump on the anti-Lieberman bandwagon, voting with Republicans on his town council 80 percent of the time. Now during this campaign he is embracing the hard-line, anti-Clinton wing of the party that wants to resurrect protectionist trade policies, government-run health care, and unaccountable public schools.
And there's more where that came from.
Imagine! Pretending to be a simple little blogger, religiously peddling the Lieberman line chapter and verse, and then suddenly, mysteriously getting sucked to the very top of the Lieberman campaign apparatus! Sounds to me like there was some coordination going on. Wonder how much he got paid?
As it happened, the poor sap who was running the pro-Joe blog that Gerstein co-opted to serve the Lieberman campaign while pretending to be just a "regular guy," got so fed up with Lieberman's tactics that he abandoned his blog.
Wonder if anyone in the press is paying attention to this? Nah, probably not. That would be too much like journalism. So much easier to regurgitate Dan Gerstein's smears into yet another he-said-she-said disservice to the reading public. |
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