So my son, Charlie, age 8, and I are watching Keith Olbermann, and we get to his favorite bit, Worst Persons in the World, and this time, it’s Joe Lieberman who wins the gold, for accusing the Ned Lamont campaign of hacking their website in 2006, when it was discovered well before election day that the problem was a poorly configured and overloaded web server, so it was Lieberman who hacked Lieberman’s web site.

My son knows that Lieberman is someone I detest, but there are a lot of those, so he asks, “Is he the one who hates blacks Jews and women?

Realizing just who he was thinking of I reply, no, the one who hates blacks, Jews, and women is Pat Buchanan.

He nods sagely, and says, “OK.”

And then I say, “Joe Lieberman is Jewish”.

And he smacks himself on his head, and says, “That is so embarrassing”.

I’m not sure that Non-Jews get the cultural overtone, but this is a perfectly Jewish moment.