Christy at Firedoglake:

Rumor has it that Joe Lieberman may be cancelling some events today ... to film a new campaign ad -- which is said to be a mea culpa on his support for George Bush and the Iraq War. So much for this gem:

It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be Commander-in-Chief for three more critical years, and that in matters of war, we undermine Presidential credibility at our nation's peril....

Atrios:

I'd love to see how they play this one.....

Well, if this really happens, I don't know how Lieberman's people will play it, but I know how the Right will play it: as the kind of recantation that would have resulted from a Stalinist show trial, or "reeducation" in the Cultural Revolution.

Alternately, they'll call it a confession extracted by means of torture.

Trust me, if Joe tacks to the left on Iraq, you will hear one of these metaphors used -- not just by right-wing bloggers, but by mainstream pundits.

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By the way, I really, really don't want to have to defend this graphic.* (UPDATE: This is the image; it's been removed from the post now.) For crissakes, people, can we stop doing this? Can we please operate under a new corollary to Godwin's Law and recognize that any use of blackface, like any use of the word "Nazi," automatically makes further reasoned discussion impossible?