RSSFebruary 19, 2008
Quick Quiz: Joe Lieberman
Just seeing a photo of Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman's self-righteously sanctimonious face compelled Paul Slansky to gather a bunch of negative information about him, leading to a photo of Joe Lieberman's smugly pious punim appearing right here.
1) According to Washington Jewish Week, what prompted Joe Lieberman to date his future second wife Hadassah Freilich Tucker?
He thought it would be interesting to go out with someone whose name was also the name of the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
He thought it would be interesting to go out with a child of a Holocaust survivor.
He answered her personal ad, in which she expressed a desire to go out with a prim moral scold.
2) What happened soon after Joe Lieberman said his 2004 New Hampshire primary campaign was gathering "Joementum"?
Many jokes were made at the expense of the word "Joementum."
He finished fifth with 8.6 percent of the vote, which dismal result he spun as part of a "three-way tie for third place."
Both of the above, and it's worth noting that the top of the 2000 Gore-Lieberman ticket did not endorse him.
3) False or true? Joe Lieberman said that if "principled reasons" were behind the refusal of Catholic hospitals to give contraceptives to rape victims, they shouldn't be forced to go against their beliefs.
False. Lieberman gave an impassioned speech about the importance of the separation of church and state.
True. As he observed, "In Connecticut it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital."
4) What is one of Joe Lieberman's major concerns?
The use of torture by U.S. interrogators.
The plight of poverty-stricken disaster survivors.
Violence in video games.
5) Which one of these statements does NOT apply to Joe Lieberman?
He voted to make it harder to file federal class action lawsuits against corporations.
His spontaneous Sunday morning talk show blurt committing the Gore campaign to support for the counting of all military absentee ballots, regardless of whether they'd arrived on time or not, may well have enabled his ticket's failure in the Florida recount.
He spoke out against affirmative action, then for it, then against it.
He co-founded an organization that attacked universities for their alleged anti-Americanism.
He injected himself into the Terri Schiavo case, protesting the removal of her feeding tube.
He spoke on behalf of the confirmation as ambassador to Belgium of a prominent Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contributor.
He was kissed by George W. Bush. Eeeeeww!
He took to the floor of the Senate before any other Democrat to express his "deep disappointment and personal anger" at, and support for the censure of, Lewinsky-blown Bill Clinton.
He voted - as did the man he endorsed for president, who previously claimed to be against torture, since he was himself a victim of it, what a whore! - in favor of waterboarding.
He is a beloved figure among his Democratic colleagues in the Senate.
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