Lieberman's A Prick!

Yeah, yeah, I know ... What else is new ...

Unfortunately, it's not a case of the MSM taking the blinders off and getting hip.

H/T to Libby Spencer, for her "Fun with typos", who in turn, Libby H/Tipped Atrios for the pick-up.

AP writer Nedra Pickler, in her boilerplate filing on the breathless Vice President speculation that is running rampant out on the World Wide Web (check out Memeorandum for a peek), "Obama veep announcement expected in coming days" has this little gem (with our emphasis added);

His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.

God Bless'em ...

Lieberman just wasn't a prick in 2000, he's grown and built up his prickness with each, and every, day that has passed, to the point that he has become Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me, and should be sitting on the red side of the aisle in the not-soon-enough future.

So, a memo to the rest of the MSM;

Add this to your style manuals ... Joe Lieberman, from this day, forward, should always be referenced to as a prick.

Look "prick" up in a dictionary, and, at least one of the definitions indicates "See Joe Lieberman"

MSNBC Doc-Bloc on pricks?

At least one segment, or episode, on Joe Lieberman.

End-of-the-year round-up on pricks?

Lieberman at the top of the list.


Bonus "Joe Lieberman - Prick" Links

Greg Sargent: Associated Press Gets One Right

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

Garlictorial: Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!

Biden Slaps Down McCain's Mini-Me

McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee

Lieberman Officially Withdraws From 2000 Ticket; Prelude To Taking Bush Cabinet Post; With Rumsfeld Saying He's Staying, Appointment May Hinge On Cheney Indictment For Last Political Hoorah

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Hmmm ... Maybe He's Reading The Garlic?

Mini-Me may just end up having more time to pal around with Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain in the days ahead.

Reid hints that Lieberman may be booted from committee chairmanship

Now Lieberman's position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee may be in danger, according to the subscription-only Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reports:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday left open the possibility that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (Conn.) status as an influential chairman in the Democratic Conference may not be solid for the long term, even as he reiterated the Independent Democrat’s importance on key party priorities.

Reid’s mixed messages on Lieberman come one day after the Connecticut Senator launched public attacks on the Democrats’ newly anointed presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Lieberman has long backed the presumptive GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), but took that support to a different level in attacking Obama this week.

And Obama, if Reid isn't going to take the necessary steps, wasn't going to let it ride;

Obama backs Lieberman against the wall (literally)

Obama, apparently, didn’t care for Lieberman’s comments, so much so that the Democratic presidential nominee confronted Lieberman directly on the Senate floor this afternoon. Subscription-only Roll Call reported:

[D]uring a Senate vote Wednesday, Obama dragged Lieberman by the hand to a far corner of the Senate chamber and engaged in what appeared to reporters in the gallery as an intense, three-minute conversation.

While it was unclear what the two were discussing, the body language suggested that Obama was trying to convince Lieberman of something and his stance appeared slightly intimidating.

Using forceful, but not angry, hand gestures, Obama literally backed up Lieberman against the wall, leaned in very close at times, and appeared to be trying to dominate the conversation, as the two talked over each other in a few instances.

Maybe, just maybe Harry Reid read The Garlic's latest Garlictorial - "Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!"

Make the move, Harry! ... Make the move!


Bonus Mini-Me Links

Biden Slaps Down McCain's Mini-Me

McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

McCain's Mini-Me's Buddy Is At It Again

I was watching the Sunday News programs, and on one of them (I can't remember which one) there was a Republican hack attempting to make hay, tying Obama, making Obama responsible for the Trinity Church dust ups, with Reverend Wright and Father Pfleger.

The host offered back, what about Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain and his Reverend John Hagee?

The Republican hack blew it off, saying something to the effect "You can't do much when someone's endorsement comes along ...", to which the host didn't challenge any further.

That certainly set off a bevy of Bullshit Meters!

As we all know, very well, Hagee's endorsement of SB John didn't just "come along".

McCain shopped around for a Bible-Thumpin' Jesus Freak and eventually settled on Hagee, standing by Hagee on the first handful of releases documenting Hagee's derangement, before finally throwing him overboard last week.

But Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me, Senator Joe Lieberman (R-I, CT) is still aboard the S.S. Hagee, as we noted in our "McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee", that despite the hidious remarks that prompted SB John to flip-flop, Mini-Me Joe was still going ahead with plans to speak at a Hagee event.

Well, there, Party-Jumpin' Joe, what say you with this latest revelaton?

Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)

On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx."

WOW!

You just can't make this stuff up ...

Can't wait to see the YouTube of Mini-Me speaking at that Hagee event ...


Bonus Links

Pam Spaulding - Ralph Reed: McCain should keep his fundie meetings on the DL

Spencer Ackerman: Don’t Give Me Your Morals, They’re Filth In My Eyes

Hagee Going Emily Litella On Us ...

Radio Listeners Diss McCain's Mini-Me

This had me rolling on the floor.

Stumbling around the WWW, I came across the post "Joe Lieberman Is Ann Coulter", over on No More Mister Nice Guy, and included in it was this list.

It comes from NPR, on All Things Considered, their on-going series, "Vocal Impressions"

"In "Vocal Impressions," a monthly contest, listeners provide word pictures brought to mind by distinctive voices."

They put it out in their latest offering, the voice of McCain's Mini-Me, Senator Joe Lieberman (R-I, CT)

It's hysterical!

Joe Lieberman

A flat tire on a Segway

A soggy brown paper bag

A turtle standing on a stack of telephone books

A grease stain on a new silk blouse

Max White [the father character on the TV show Alf] reprimanding Alf for trying to eat the family cat, Lucky

The straining engine of a previously owned Yugo

An exhausted math teacher who needs to explain what a square is for the Nth time

A person suggesting we form another committee to look into a "mission statement" after a two-hour meeting

The fine, boring, important print in your insurance policy

Ben Stein being smothered with a pillow by Ralph Nader

A dog's squeak toy after the squeak has been removed

The cowardly lion's petite weaselly, older brother

A discarded banana peel

Like Gumby and Pokey were his speech therapists

As to Steve M's post, hitting on Mini-Me Lieberman for his continued embrace of the Final Days Minister, John Hagee;

I think there's a real possibility that he'll go too far. His trajectory is starting to look a bit like Ann Coulter's -- every criticism generates an even greater desire to provoke, and no apology is ever forthcoming.

The problem is, when you're provoking at this level of public scrutiny (i.e., if you're more mainstream than, say, Michael Savage), you eventually find yourself, like Coulter, regularly testing the limits, and eventually you go over the edge, with the mainstream press watching, because you're just in a unilateral rhetorical arms race. Coulter went over the edge when she started fag-baiting heterosexual Democratic politicians while declaring Jews "incomplete" Christians (along with attacking 9/11 widows and embracing McCarthy); Lieberman, I think, is just going to keep backing Hagee (and probably other Christian Zionists) ever more publicly while making increasingly strident McCarthyite attacks on Democrats until, by November, I expect to see him in the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal or on a Sunday talk show saying flatly, "Yes, I do think Barack Obama hates his country and would like to see it destroyed." His buddies in the media, like Coulter's, will continue to see him as not having gone too far, but it will be increasingly clear, particularly to Senate colleagues, that he's gone too far.

Maybe, Stumblin Bumblin' John McCain's Mini-Me Lieberman can be talked into, when he speaks at Hagee's summit, he can do it in costume, say, as Gumby or Pokey ... Or a soggy brown paper bag ...


Bonus Links

Lieberman’s capacity to be a Republican hack knows no bounds

Biden Slaps Down McCain's Mini-Me

Garlictorial: Why Wait - Toss Lieberman Over To The GOP Now!

Breaking News! Lieberman Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”; Post-Debate Bombshell - Lieberman Announces Plan C – Will Run In All 50 States; Hires Nader For ‘Underdog” Experience; Pledges To Support “Whichever Party Elects Me”

Update

Crooks and Liars: It’s confirmed. Lieberman is still speaking at Hagee’s July CUFI Summit

McCain's Mini-Me Hearts Hagee

Man, when it comes to Stumblin' Bumblin' John McCain, and his trusty sidekick, Mini-Me Lieberman, this stuff practically writes itself.

About a week after SB John finally was told that he had to dump the Hateful Hagee, with the latest reports surfacing on Hagee's account of how, actually, Hitler helped the Jews, Mini-Me Lieberman isn't ready to let go;

Max Blumenthal: Joseph Lieberman To Headline Upcoming Pastor Hagee Summit

And in light of all the recent rants on Hagee, this really shines for Mini-Me;

Last year, when Lieberman spoke at Hagee's summit, he compared the Texas televangelist to the biblical prophet Moses, dubbing him "an Ish Elochim," or "a man of God." Unless he rescinds his pledge to appear at this year's summit, Lieberman can be expected to deliver another soul-stirring tribute.

And Steven Benen, over on The Carpetbagger Report asks;

So, it’s not that Hagee loves Israel, so much as he foresees a blood-soaked war in the Middle East that leads to Jesus’ return, at which point the Jews who survive will become Christians.

Lieberman is not only comfortable with all of this, but is even willing to headline one of Hagee’s events?

Brad, from Sadly No, wonders "It’s Time We Redefine The Term, ‘Self-Loathing Jew,’ No?"

Phoenix Woman, on Mercury Rising predicts "This Should Kill Any Talk Of Putting Lieberman On McCain’s Ticket", giving some advice to Mini-Me Lieberman;

Hey, Joe: Last time I looked, Moses didn’t advocate establishing the Jews in Israel just so they could be the disposable caretakers of the staging area for the end of the world.

We keep telling you, this campaign is going to side-splitting fun!


Bonus SB John and Mini-Me Links

Steve Benen: Lieberman defends radical McCain ally John Hagee

Ben Smith: Hagee's apocalyptic support of Israel

Wonkette: John Hagee Loves Hitler More Than McCain!

J Street: Don't go, Joe!

Hagee Going Emily Litella On Us ...

"Wherever McCain goes, Lieberman is sure to show up ..."