Lieberman loses it on air with radio host

[WI_DEM]

A Connecticut radio host who wrote an op-ed piece saying he would "with some sorrow" vote for Ned Lamont in the Democratic Primary had the Senator on his show and Lieberman lost it on the air:

McEnroe: You probably know that I wrote in the Currant last Sunday that if I had to vote in the primary right now I would, with some sorrow, vote for Ned Lamont simply because you have kind of drifted so far towards the Bush Administration whose policies I don't approve of very much. Tell me why I'm wrong, tell me why I should vote for you.

Lieberman: Well I...think that your statement just then was as ridiculous and unfair as your column was. I was really upset by it. I don't get to hear you a lot because I'm in Washington but if you're saying that on the air really I hope your listeners are taking it with a grain of salt. First off let me go to something that really bothered me. You have this line saying that I've come to a point where I'm saying that those who do not parrot my support of the war are unpatriotic and you take Totally out of context something that I said in a speech that I gave last December when I came back from Iraq and I urge you to go back and look at that whole speech.

McEnroe: Okay, tell me why...

Lieberman: Let me just finish this!

(McEnroe then went on to try and read the quote in question and force Lieberman to respond but Lieberman kept cutting him off, he wouldn't have it)

McEnroe: Let me read the line to you and then you tell me how to interpet it.

Lieberman: I know what the line is! I said it!

McEnroe: Okay but the listeners don't

(The famous line is: "It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and in matters of war we undermine the president's credibility at our nations peril.")

Lieberman responded: "This quote is totally out of context. You might have gotten it from the bloggers who love to do this."

McEnroe said he got it from the NY Times to which Lieberman responded, "Well, that's just as bad!"

(too bad McEnroe didn't say he got it from Fox News)

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[MADem]

1. Sounds like the wheels have come off the Joementum bus!

A bit shirty, eh???

[Poll_Blind]

2. LIEberman, who had so much promise, is self-destructing publicly. n/t

PB

[Lerkfish]

3. I think joementum's underpants are chafing.

couldn't happen to a better traitor.

[Burried News]

10. Maybe Joe is has a wedge issue. That can happen to a guy that

spends so much time on his Knees servicing the Elephant.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Incendiary! No wonder Lieberman lost it.

"...you have kind of drifted so far towards the Bush Administration whose policies I don't approve of very much."

Those are some hard, hard words.

[Inland]

6. Lieberman couldn't tolerate the

statement of disapproval. That he's in line with the Bush adminstration has him glowing with pride.

[Inland]

5. Backing the president because he's president not so popular now.

Not even among the named republicans.

I think Lieberman is hankering for a little fascism. His concept that it is someone noticing the president's lies and fuckups that undermine the credibility, that we have to follow whoever is in the office, is just more of the opposition = traitor that the named republicans give us.

[MoonRiver]

7. The faster he self-destructs the better.

Keep talking Joe. Your mouth is your worst enemy. :thumbsdown:

[Gato Moteado]

8. why did gore pick that clown as his running mate?

and believe me, i was saying that the minute i heard he had picked him.

if he was worried about florida, bob graham was the guy to pick.

gore made some mistakes when campaigning, but his biggest mistake in 2000 was picking lieberman.

i sure hope gore doesn't make that same mistake in 2008.

[Burried News]

9. Joe got no mow ... cmon Joe is that all ya got?

Looks like Joe gonna have to spend alot of green to lubricate the machine.

[riona]

11. it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck....

yes, it's a light red duck

[Theres-a]

12. Holy Joe is on his way out

There's a new sherrif in town.Ned Lamont!

[CBGLuthier]

13. The sooner that quisling is gone the better nt