Lamont Supporter Puts Racist Picture on Huffington's Blog

Talk about perfect timing! You are campaigning with two prominent black leaders when one of your supporters puts a picture of your opponent in blackface on a blog:

The bitter Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut erupted in fresh controversy Wednesday over a doctored photo of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) in blackface that was posted by a blogger who has been an influential promoter of challenger Ned Lamont.
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The photo, showing former president Bill Clinton in dark glasses and Lieberman in blackface, appeared early Wednesday, accompanied by a dispatch attacking Lieberman, his supporters and some news organizations.
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The controversy came on a day when Lamont campaigned with two of the most prominent African American politicians in the country, Jesse L. Jackson and Al Sharpton. The intersection of events focused attention on two critical aspects of the Senate primary fight: the influence of the bloggers on Lamont's antiwar candidacy and the importance of the black vote in determining the outcome on Tuesday.

And how much do you want to bet that Sharpton and Jackson don't pursue this they way that they would if this were a Republican?

And then there's this:

Arianna Huffington, the founder of HuffingtonPost.com, said that no one from the Web site has asked for the photo to be removed. "We did not ask her, nor would we have asked her," she said. "It was a satirical point she made in the picture, and there was nothing in the text that was racist, and there is nothing about Jane that is racist."

Wow, Arianna! Don't you know that this is the stuff that firefighters in NY city have been fired over. And you don't have a problem with it on your blog?

Read the rest here. Go read it because I left out the amusing part about Lamont's Country Club membership which the press probably won't pursue either.

You can see the picture here.

Updated: Talk about being a hypocrite:

"Does the first lady not know who Eddie Cantor was?" Hamsher wrote. "Or does she actually think it's appropriate to invoke a comedian famous for appearing in blackface when talking about minority students, and then crack wise about their erstwhile future as criminals?"

Updated again: here is Jackson's response. I predicted it. (Links via Michelle Malkin)