…Joe Lieberman post (for a while) as every other media outlet in the nation is all over him. But the Connecticut media news peg here is Gail Collins of the New York Times, formerly a Connecticut state house reporter. She concludes today’s column with a recollection from her days in Hartford covering then- State Senate Majority Leader Joe Lieberman:
We got along very well, except for one interview, during which he talked about working for J.F.K., and how he kept a Mass card from Robert Kennedy’s funeral to remind him of the principles to which he had dedicated his career. Showing me the card, he remarked casually that he hadn’t looked at it for some time.
I wrote an article using the neglected Kennedy card as a metaphor for Lieberman’s fall from his old ideals into the pragmatic politics of a party leader. He was outraged and wounded, and I believe I apologized.
Taking back the apology now.
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