| 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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