Sliming Lieberman

Ned Lamont has said he doesn't know anything about the blogs when asked about Jane Hamsher's little 'blackface' escapade over at HuffPo. Perhaps it's time someone illuminated him. Dan Riehl has dug up a number of lovely images and examples of racist and sexually perverted language Hamsher has used when raising funds for Lamont.

Obviously the Black Face image isn't the first time Hamsher has invoked racial overtones in her condemnation of Lieberman. In this March post she referred to Lieberman as a Ho, pronouncing someone who had the audacity to write a positive NYT's Op-Ed on Lieberman … his pimp. The post, entitled: Ho Lieberman doesn't need the Times to be his pimp was accompanied by a fund raising plea for challenger Ned Lamont.

In a post entitled, Screw Israel, Lieberman Sticks To His Bush, Hamsher had this to say: Commander Codpiece knows that Joe Lieberman can always be counted upon for the public fluff. The codpiece reference is aimed at President George Bush and a fluff girl is pornography industry vernacular for an individual charged with keeping waiting actors stimulated, often with oral sex. Race and sexual perversion appear to be Hamsher's regular stock in trade. Hopefully she's toned it down a bit when offering the Lamont campaign advice on video's and such.

Go over to Riehl World View for the rest of it. It's not stuff that responsible politicians want to be associated with. This is going to severely erode the netroots with the Democratic party. Lamont may be too new to politics to realize how this plays in the general population, but the old hands know. And they are cringing right now and trying to figure out how to politely tell the netroots to keep away from them.