Andy Lappin did the typical smear job we’ve come to expect from the right in the e-mail that you received from M Feiger. The Daily Kos is a blog and like any blog there will be posts that are distasteful because in this country we have the freedom to express our views, even views that we might not share or like. It is true that some people who post on the Daily Kos do not like Joe Lieberman but Andy Lappin took those comments out of context. The primary reason the Daily Kos bloggers don’t like Senator Lieberman is not because of anti-semitism but for the same reason I don’t like him– he has been a lapdog to President Bush and has been supporting the immoral and incompetent war in Iraq– a war Mr. Kirk has been supporting all along as well. Yes, there have been some inappropriate and racist remarks about Mr. Lieberman but by and large the negative remarks about the Senator are because of his unwavering support for our incompetent and dangerous President.
Moreover, what Andy Lappin didn’t bother to mention was that the Kos convention was a big event here in Chicago, not just attended by Dan Seals. It was covered by all the national media. Seven of the Democratic candidates appeared before this important constituency. Specifically, Edwards, Obama, Clinton, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich & Gravel all spoke to this group. Wesley Clark and Howard Dean also appeared at this convention. I believe Howard Dean’s wife is Jewish. Is he an anti-semite? So, are all these people anti-semites?
If any of you who received the email from Andy Lappin still have concerns, I encourage you to go to www.dailykos.com and read it for yourselves. You may just learn something.
Thank you for your time.
[…] And from Arch’s second response, aimed at those who may have read the attack email and explaining the actual context of Mr. Lappin’s wildly out-of-context “citations”: The Daily Kos is a blog and like any blog there will be posts that are distasteful because in this country we have the freedom to express our views, even views that we might not share or like. It is true that some people who post on the Daily Kos do not like Joe Lieberman but Andy Lappin took those comments out of context. The primary reason the Daily Kos bloggers don’t like Senator Lieberman is not because of anti-semitism but for the same reason I don’t like him – he has been a lapdog to President Bush and has been supporting the immoral and incompetent war in Iraq – a war Mr. Kirk has been supporting all along as well. Yes, there have been some inappropriate and racist remarks about Mr. Lieberman but by and large the negative remarks about the Senator are because of his unwavering support for our incompetent and dangerous President. […]