Lest We Forget

posted by gyma

This is why the Liebermans of the world are worrisome:

With his hideous fake folksiness, much-celebrated "great sense of humor" and relentless Beltway hype as just the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet (David Brooks calls him "transparently the most kindhearted and well-intentioned of men"), Joe Lieberman is easy to hate—which makes him easy to hate for the wrong reasons. Sure, he's an arrogant, condescending prude; sure, he's a willing, energetic censor who outrageously poses as an aggrieved champion of "decent people everywhere"; and sure, he reminds you very much of the lecturing, overbearing high school vice principal you once had who ended up getting busted on a kiddie-porn rap ten years after you graduated.

But all of that means nothing. What is important to remember about Joe Lieberman is that his individual personality is incidental. Lieberman is just another "winner" to be rolled off the line and served up to Democratic voters by the behind-the-scenes corporate masters bent on controlling both sides of Washington politics, using whatever scare tactics necessary to ensure success. He's a pawn and a stooge whom they've gotten good mileage out of so far because he happens to have a special talent for being just the kind of officious, self-righteous prick you have to be to sell their muddled policies in public—but his time is up now, and not because of him but because of them. People are tired of being told who can and cannot win. As it turns out, they get to decide that for themselves.

I hope the Connecticut voters are proud of themselves.

[Excerpted from a 2006 Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone.]

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Comments

[spork_incident]

But he's with us on everything except the war!

Harry Reid said so!

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[spork_incident]

Oh, and were you aware of this?

"Lieberman likes expressions of American power. A few years ago, I was in a movie theatre in Washington when I noticed Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, a few seats down. The film was “Behind Enemy Lines,” in which Owen Wilson plays a U.S. pilot shot down in Bosnia. Whenever the American military scored an onscreen hit, Lieberman pumped his fist and said, “Yeah!” and “All right!”"

I did that.

When I was eight years-old.

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[gyma]

I just bookmarked the article and will read it more thoroughly tomorrow. I *love* the illustration, though.

What a shtick drek.