Lieberman as Charlie Brown, The Times as Lucy
In today's Observer, Tom Scocca has a really nice reported exegesis of the New York Times endorsement of Ned Lamont.
In the piece, Joe Lieberman's loyalists suggest that "the goalposts have been moved," but Scocca explains why it was more a matter of "Lucy Van Pelt yanking the football away from Charlie Brown yet again."
He notes, in particular, that the Times' decision is actually consistent with what they've written about Lieberman in the past - notably in 2000, when there were no fewer than three angry editorials taking him to task for his double-track candidacies for VP and Senate.
And, crucially, Scocca gets Editorial-page editor Gail Collins to talk about the cookies the Times served to the candidates up on 43rd Street.
-- Josh Benson
Translation from the Liebermanese: "Waaaaaaaaaaah!"
The great NY Times hates, really hates, Orthodox Jews even when they agree with them 99% of the time (like Shelly Silver). They trash people like Silver and/or Lieberman first chance they can.
Remember this is the great newspaper that endorsed George Pataki for Governor.
May the Times go bankrupt.
The article pretty much told us nothing about the Times endorsement -- not even what kind of cookies were served, despite the teaser!
hey Rebbe. It seems Lieberman and Silver are both hated by one Gail Collins who mustve been raised to hate those Christ-killers. Maybe she'd like Mel Gibson. And I'd bet the cookies were not kosher.
The folks at the TIMES know a great story while its building and the possibility that the liberal/progressive wing of the Democratic party will purge moderates is too good to pass up. Millionaire Grenwich-based Lamont is endorsed over Lieberman-- a former "Freedom Rider" who enrolled Blacks at his own peril in the pre-civil right South and who saved Bill Clinton's presidency during the Impeachment crisis of 1999. Go figure.
Lieberman supported desegregation in the South. Big f'n whup -- so did a lot of other people who did so without expecting a vote or millions into their campaign fund.
At any rate, you're only as good as your last term -- last I checked, you're not Senator for life. LIEberman is now sending black people to die in Iraq, to kill brown people, all for a lie he helped propagate. The only beneficiaries thus far are a clique of white people who already pimped and ho'd their way into the White House.
Yeah, I guess he should have left all those brown people to suffer under Saddam's tyranny in perpetuity. They don't drive Volvos, sip Chablis, or go to Ned Lamont's country club, after all.
hey 1:12PM,
you got your stereotypes wrong:
it's Chardonnay, not Chablis. Plus you forgot latte and sushi.
Lieberman loves brown people in Iraq but prefers to see them dead in Gaza and the West Bank. Go figure.