| Well, I was off by a day, but sure enough, Gerstein was on MSNBC today as a "Democratic strategist" lending his discredited voice to the right-wing attack on the blogs:
"There's a big problem in the Democratic Party right now," says Dan Gerstein, political strategist and Lieberman's 2006 campaign spokesman. "I think for a lot of Democratic bloggers, there's extremism, there's an anger, and there's a lack of accountability for what people say and do."
Digby has more.
After being so utterly destroyed online throughout the 2006 race, Gerstein seems to be making it his life's sole mission to wedge the netroots from campaigns and the party infrastructure, even going so far as to delusionally claim in a DLC magazine article that the 2006 election results were all about voters wanting more "bipartisanship." He is joined in this mission by fellow DLC dead-enders and many of the same right-wing blogs that backed Lieberman last year.
They are fighting the same fight. The man certainly has no shred of credibility as a "Democratic" strategist.
Actually, he retains no shred of credibility as a human being. Here's the short version:
- In the spring and summer, Gerstein - anonymously and unofficially - went after the Huffington Post demanding Howie Klein be censored, smeared Ned Lamont as anti-semitic by going after Maxine Waters, defended Lieberman's race-baiting flyers in CT, and much more.
- In September, Gerstein lied and said Lieberman had not "taken a significant amount of money from registered Republicans".
- Right after the primary, Gerstein went absolutely nuts in an inverview with a Hartford Courant columnist Helen Ubiñas.
- In October, Gerstein wrote a seriously unhinged, furious letter to the NY Times all but claiming that they had been brainwashed by bloggers, after they endorsed Ned in the general.
- And, of course, he once seriously tried to convince people that a sunset was a sunrise.
And this man is talking about "anger" and "lack of accountability"?
(Another Overly Cautious Disclosure: I am currently doing some online work for Ned Lamont.) |
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