Here's another take on the whole Lieberman campaign web site hacking whodunit. It comes courtesy of Ned Lamont's web guru, Tim Tagaris. He's pretty upset about this whole thing.

Tagaris tells us something interesting. He says that not only did the Lamont campaign offer to help the Lieberman camp with their Web woes, but that the Lieberman campaign didn't even respond to the offer.

“At first I was sympathetic to the possibility that this might be a hack. We offered to send them technical support, we offered to host their website on our server,” Tagaris said. Tagaris adds that Lamont’s campaign manager called Lieberman four hours ago. "They haven't responded," Tagaris says. Then he really got warmed up -- more after the jump.

Tagaris took the Lieberman camp to task, charging that this might not have even been a hack at all.“They’re completely taking advantage of the fact that most people don’t know anything about technology. It’s par for the course with them: they treat reporters and treat people like idiots.” He says that the site came down not because of a hack, but because “they pay fifteen dollars an hour” for their site, and it couldn’t handle the traffic.

Tagaris insisted that what really happened was that traffic overloaded the server, and because Lieberman's site is the largest on there, it got knocked off the server. "You kick the fat kid off the bench," Tagaris said.

At this point, Tagaris was really rolling along. “This reaffirms even more in my heart that [Lieberman] does not deserve to be senator,” he said. “He’s run a slimy campaign from the beginning, because he can’t talk about the issues."

Tagaris paused, then let Lieberman have it one last time: "His campaign should be embarrassed from the senator on down.”