The Daily Kos is linking to a post regarding a phony Ned Lamont bumper sticker in one of Joe Lieberman's ads:
A TV ad, with a message approved by Sen. Joe Lieberman, uses a phony Ned Lamont bumper sticker to falsely claim that all Lamont has to say is "No More Joe."
The ad ran today on Hartford's Fox affiliate WTIC-61, during "Fox News Sunday." (It was also shown during C-Span's airing of the Lieberman-Lamont debate.)
The narrator begins the ad with: "In the battle of the bumper stickers, this one has a simple message: 'No More Joe.' But what else does Lamont really have to say?"
A graphic of a "NO MORE JOE" sticker is shown. The second line of the sticker reads: "Ned Lamont * Democrat for U.S. Senate". In the bottom right corner of the sticker is a URL, www.nomorejoe.com.
Problem is there is no www.nomorejoe.com.
This looks kind of silly, but unlike what The Daily Kos found, there actually is a
www.nomorejoe.com. When you click on the link, you get referred to one of those "under construction" default pages, which means somebody owns the domain name. A simple
WHOIS search comes up with the actual owner of
nomorejoe.com - it's a firm in Arizona called
HighGround, Inc. that specialize in PR and govt. affairs experience.
HighGround has an impressive list of
clients, including John McCain, Wal-Mart, and the Arizona Republican Party. Ahhh. The problem for Joe Lieberman begins to crystallize...
I have no idea if Lieberman has hired HighGround as part of the ad referenced above. It looks like the site was registered way back in 2004, so I highly doubt it has anything to do with Ned Lamont or Joe Lieberman. But at a time when Joe is running as fast as he can from the Republican party, a stupid mistake that ties him (albeit, by total coincidence) to a consulting firm that has done work for the Republican party, is not good news for Joe.
