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Bloggers responded with everything from conspiracy theories that Lieberman's own campaign had done it to cast Lamont in a bad light, to allegations that the campaign had failed to pay the bill for its server. They claimed it could not have been a "denial of service" attack, some giving technical explanations of their point.
As the day wore on bloggers issued comical counter charges. They cited a host of problems, from physical ailments to traffic accidents, that they attributed to the Lieberman campaign. "For the past twenty-four hours my toaster oven has been acting funny," wrote a blogger that goes by Branfordboy on his site, My Left Nutmeg.com. "I turn the little darkness thingy all the way up and the toast still comes out only half toasted. I believe this is a retaliation by my political opponents for my blogging about their dirty tricks."
By late afternoon, Tim Tagaris, Lamont's Internet communications director, went on the offensive. He said the Lieberman campaign had chosen an inferior web host, or ISP, and was only paying $15 a month to operate its site. The campaign website, he said, probably had the most traffic of the sites being hosted by that ISP and was overloading the system. "The raft is sinking, the raft is sinking, so you kick the fat kid off of the raft," Tagaris said.
By comparison, the Lamont campaign is paying $1,500 a month to host its website and that doesn't include the entire cost, he said.
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