Joe Lieberman

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Connecticut Republican Joe Lieberman

Sen. Lieberman (transl. Loverman) and President Bush share a tender moment.

Lieberman and Bush have been chastised for their frequent public displays of affection on the Senate floor. High resolution.

Joe Lieberman is the epitome of old meme. A Republican Senator from Tel Aviv, Lieberman left the Democratic Party after losing his 2006 primary bid against upstart anti-war candidate Ned Lamont at the hands of communist bloggers such as Daily Kos, Wonkette, and the so-called "netroots" movement including anarchist groups such as MoveOn. Joenertia's defeat in the 2006 summer primary may be the first election of national importance in which Internets drama have played an important role.

He was the Vice Presidential running mate of unsuccessful Presidential candidate Al Gore, who together formed the most boring Presidential ticket in United States history. In revenge for their electoral defeat, culminating on September 11, 2001, Lieberman orchestrated a series of attacks against the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Capitol Hill.

Alongside his ex-wife, Hillary Clinton, he is currently on a crusade to outlaw every game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise.

[edit] Joe H4XX0R3D

Joe reaching out to the blogosphere.

All the above is unfunny by definition. But, on the DAY of the election, Lieberman's web site went down. His campaign immediately ran to the old media claiming that h4x0rz from his opponent's campaign had pwned the site with a denial of service attack. A federal investigation was promptly launched.

[edit] The e-investigation

Lulz ensued as Wonkette went all e-detective, digging through public filings of Lieberman's campaign expenses and deducing that he had paid $1500 to 2 Dog Media for "web hosting and web changes." Wonkette further revealed that Joenertia's campaign site was on a shared server with as many as 72 other clients hosted by MyHostCamp.com, and that ALL those clients were down because the entire hosting company had blown its shared bandwidth allotment. Whoops!

From 2 Dog Media's crappy web site:

"2Dog Media has had many experiences with bad hosting companies. From sites not being available to e-mails getting lost, we know the hardships of finding a good hosting company. You lose money, clients, and credibility during those times. That’s why we do the worrying for you and make sure your website is constantly accessible with our hosting product."

lollerskates!

Even better, after Wonkette's posting of the juicy details, the owner of 2 Dog Media contacted Wonkette and threatened an Internet lawsuit after claiming that 2 Dog had not hosted joe2006.com for 3 months, since Sean Smith, a Lieberman campaign manager, decided to go with some guy he knows for hosting.

Late on election day, Joe's campaign team mustered up some serious Joementum and switched his site to $3.99/month GoDaddy hosting — another decision rich with irony, as GoDaddy's Superbowl ad featured a cheerleader having a "wardrobe malfunction" in front of a crusty panel of government censors. Lieberman has in the past been quite the crusader against sex on TV.

[edit] Further snubs

During the initial debacle, Lieberman's opponent Ned Lamont offered to foot the bill for his own web team to solve the problem.

Late in August, still plagued by over two weeks of downtime and outages, Lieberman's campaign offered $300K to Blue State Digital, a web development company serving Democratic campaigns. Blue State refused, stating, "Unfortunately, we cannot be of service to the Lieberman campaign. We work exclusively with Democratic candidates."

Blue State Digital is Ned Lamont's web team — the same one he offered to pay to help Lieberman out when Lieberman's campaign was making the h4x0r accusations.

Shortly after, another web political services group calling itself Plus Three also refused Lieberman's money.