Atrios pointed out yesterday — for the purposes of warning people away from it, so without an accompanying link — the relaunch of the Lieberman campaign blog (or alleged blog), scheduled for today. (As of 4:30 PM EDT, the new Lieberman site is still completely dead. This is not the only respect in which the Lieberman campaign could learn from Phoenix Suns G Raja Bell, who at least managed a countdown timer.)
It will certainly be an accomplishment for the Lieberman campaign to have a presence in the ’sphere that (we devoutly hope) doesn’t use a default Blogger template, so this is already a big step forward from the L/L primary. However, this quote from Atrios deserves attention:
A reminder that the Lieberman blog is apparently going live tomorrow. It’s basically going to be a trap to entice people to say mean things about the Last Honest Man so they can go whine to the press about how mean everyone is unlike Stay the Course Joe.Ah, yes. A “trap” to “entice” otherwise reasonable people to say “mean things” about Joe Lieberman. If there’s one thing the leftosphere has been short on this year, it’s people flying off the handle about Joe Lieberman. Were I working for Joe ‘06, the first thing I’d be looking for would be a cunning scheme to get bloggers to break cover and let their true feelings show.
Seriously, it could be argued that Lieberman has the worst profile in the leftosphere of anyone, ever, including George W. Bush. A trap designed to accomplish this goal would presumably resemble… a keyboard?
Update: Having given this some more thought, maybe a keyboard with a big neon sign pointing at it.







I knew Atrios lived on Mars, but I didn’t realize he wasn’t getting enough oxygen. Pay the bill, Duncan!