Joe now says bear ad was not about Weicker !

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

Lieberman has ‘a little fun’ with Weicker

Mary E. O’Leary, Register Topics Editor

06/20/2006
-NEW HAVEN — Contrary to what his spokesman said last week, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman Monday said his bear cartoon ad on his Web site wasn’t really about former Sen. Lowell P. Weicker after all.
Heavily criticized on the Internet by supporters and foes alike, Lieberman said, "We put it up after Weicker came out last week to have a little fun. Every now and then, you want to do that."


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"Lowell Weicker has never gotten over the loss to Lieberman. He is pulling the strings of Ned Lamont right now and getting him to do his dirty work," Sean Smith, Lieberman’s campaign spokesman, said last week.

Lieberman, who met with the New Haven Register’s editorial board Monday, said they had the ad for awhile, but didn’t put it on television because it would "send a mixed message. We thought that it gave the wrong impression." They instead put it on their Web site.
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http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16810746&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7576&rfi=6&xb=tabaq

[madinmaryland]

1. It's not about Weicker?

Give me a break! It's the same exact ad, edited to add a reference to Lamont in.

What a moran!

[spazeboy]

2. Actually, it's worse!

I haven't seen the original, but this "new" bear ad is especially low, depicting Weicker as a bear with a bad leg (he now uses a cane as he had his hip replaced last year).

I don't feel bad for Joe Lieberman AT ALL. Having shaken his hand, I'm still not sure I've gotten all the residual blood off my own. That said, I think that the primary challenge should be the least of his worries. My conscience would get the better of me if I were him. Plus, he's a man of faith. Though, if he really believed that god exists, could he live with himself?

[wordpix2]

3. translation:'bear ad was lame & insulting & CT Dems took issue so

we pulled it, and it never meant what it portrayed or stated outright.'---Lieberbush campaign

That ad was the nail in the coffin re: my vote; i.e. I am totally for Lamont now.