[Dean's World] Dean: Kos & Hamsher's Cute Little Lapdog: Ned Lamont

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Kos & Hamsher's Cute Little Lapdog: Ned Lamont
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1154951036.shtml


   Martin Peretz has an excellent editorial today noting that
   Connecticut's would-be Senator [1]Ned Lamont is Karl Rove's dream
   Democrat: shallow to the extreme, a one-trick pony candidate who
   displays all the depth of a rainpuddle when it comes to the situations
   in places like Iraq and Iran.

   All of that is quite true of course. On foreign policy it's hard to
   imagine a candidate more shallow, ill-informed, and breathtakingly
   simple-minded than Ned Lamont, who actually thinks that "use a carrot
   and stick approach" and "put the UN in charge" are the epitome of
   sophistication.

   But Peretz left out the most important fact about Ned Lamont: he's
   nothing but the lapdog of the most hateful, unhinged fringe leftists
   in the blogosphere, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and Jane Hamsher.

                       Neddy's the one in the middle

   Ned's the cute one in the middle, just so you know.

   Matt Finkelstein notes that Markos Moulitsas Zúniga [2]is stragely
   coy about his close personal friendship and tireless promotion of his
   lapdog Ned Lamont. Why might that be? Hmm, let me think: could it be
   that if he acknowledged the relationship openly, Ned Lamont might have
   to answer for so many of the vicious, hateful, and just plain lunatic
   fringe stuff that appears regularly on Markos's web site?

   Indeed, I'm quite certain Markos has urged his lapdog Lamont to
   distance himself from the blogs, now that the press is actually
   getting wind of just what the "netroots" in the blogosphere are often
   like--racist, hateful, vicious, and totally unhinged while they refer
   to Joe Lieberman as "rape gurney Joe" and make [3]racist, anti-semitic
   cartoons about him. Which you'd think Lamont would just walk away
   from, but he can't, since Jane and Markos helped him raise tens of
   thousands of dollars, helped him make campaign commercials, and almost
   entirely created his campaign. They were there from the beginning, so
   like the good little puppy he is, Lamont can only do so much to deny
   the relationship without being called a liar and/or an idiot.

   Aw, isn't he their precious little baby? Whozza cutest widdle Senator?
   Who's momma's precious little baby? Who's daddy's favor playtoy? Good
   widdle Neddy, good boy, good widdle boy!!!

   (Photoshop by Jaymaster. Thanks also to Martin Shoemaker and
   Bernadette Durbin, who also turned in some pretty swank photoshops,
   but this was the best by far.)

References

   1. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008760
   2. http://newsbusters.org/node/6761
   3. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1154665743.shtml