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The New Republic's anti-semites for Lieberman
I take my cues, not from Kos or the Democratic Party but from Joe Lieberman's friends, like Lanny Davis, who smears Ned Lamont -- and the blogs as a whole -- with his deft use of comments on blogs that refer to Lieberman.
Got that? Comments on blog posts that refer to Lieberman.
(Davis, by the way, is a friend and frat brother of one George W. Bush who was once branded by the prez in a not homoerotic ritual -- as well as being a current Bush appointee. So, you know, he's the perfect guy to be commenting on what the Democratic Party should be comprised of.)
So, given that commenters on blogs that refer to something comprise a fair and balanced assessment of that something, I thought I'd try my hand at this nifty trick.
Here goes.
For my maiden voyage I thought I'd take the leap from Lanny Davis' Wall St. Journal rant for Joe Lieberman to the pages of those perennial Lieberman backers, The New Republic.
In all honesty, I'm just impressed that TNR even has comments, something the National Review's blog doesn't deign or dare to do.
So I sifted through TNR's straw poll for comments on today's Lieberman/Lamont race and found some interesting things that can irrefutably be tied to TNR and Lieberman supporters. Except, whoops, TNR supports Ned Lamont. You know how you can tell? It's right there -- in the comments. By about a 2-1 margin (though I didn't have the patience to read every comment and count -- please correct me if I'm wrong).
But here are some other comments that can be read as reflective of TNR, and therefore Joe Lieberman (or, GAH!, have I ruined my own experiment and they can now be read as representative of Ned Lamont!)
Lesson: comments can, and often are, made by anyone with the ability to type. They have something to do with the blog, but not a hell of a lot. Smearing a blog based on the commenters has about as much relevance as smearing a speaker based on a heckler...
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