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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 16, 2008, 07:49:34 PM
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Honestly, I’m rather surprised that Joe Wurzelbacher and his rope-line dialogue with Barack Obama has managed to stay in the news for as long as it has. I knew when I first heard the exchange that it went badly for Obama. I didn’t expect Joe the Plumber to be the main topic of the last presidential debate. And I certainly didn’t expect Obama supporters to keep the story alive by their rabid character assassination of a man who did nothing more than ask a question — at random.
Now, we have people crawling over his tax records, his voter registration, his professional licensing, and whatever else they can find in the public record. Someone has linked him to the long-deceased Charles Keating, suggesting that somehow Obama managed to pick a McCain plant out of a ropeline full of people by accident. How much longer before a certain blogger at The Atlantic demands a paternity test to see if Joe the Plumber fathered Sarah Palin’s baby — or Bristol’s, for that matter?
There is a stench of desperation surrounding this, as if they sense defeat coming from a moment of honesty from Obama about his real intentions to institute a regime of redistribution. They want to discredit the man who only asked the question as if he’s some political operative who magically forced Obama to sound … well, a little like a Marxist. Why? They want to distract people from Obama’s answer by sliming the man Obama picked at random to ask a question.
And where’s the Tanning Bed Media on this topic? Danny Glover lays it out:
Jonathan Martin of The Politico was among the first out of the gate, with blog posts noting that Wurzelbacher, affectionately known by most of America as “Joe The Plumber,†has a tax lien against him and doesn’t have a plumber’s license. Martin conveniently forgot to mention that the law doesn’t require one.) Bloomberg also has a story on the tax lien, and AP and The Washington Post did their part to make a story out of the “unlicensed†non-story.
Expect more of the same over coming days. In fact, don’t be surprised if all of those investigative reporters sent to Alaska after John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running mate suddenly get reassigned to the plumber beat in flyover country. Joe The Plumber must be discredited at all costs! …
But why is it that political reporters only get curious when a conservative Joe America storms onto the scene? Why aren’t they just as curious when liberals trot out, say, a 12-year-old boy to give a national radio address?
It has been almost a year to the day since journalists dropped the ball on telling America more about Graeme Frost, the boy who made the case for sinking billions of dollars more into the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. But when Michelle Malkin and other curious conservative bloggers did the legwork the press wouldn’t, they earned the scorn of their mainstream colleagues.
Indeed. And Joe Wurzelbacher didn’t give a speech or make a commercial. He asked a question. He stood on a rope line, and Obama picked him to ask it. The Tanning-Bed Media seems to feel that they have a duty to expose every last part of Wurzelbacher’s life, but that asking Obama to explain his political partnerships with Tony Rezko and William Ayers, and his long friendship and financial support of rabid demagogues Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger, are not just out of bounds but downright racist.
So what have we learned from this episode?
Thou shalt not offend The One by asking him a question. Of any kind.
Anyone who questions The One will have to undergo a public pillorying of a kind unseen since the Red Scare, or perhaps the Inquisition.
The Tanning-Bed Media will happily participate in any inquisition, as long as it keeps them from investigating irrelevant issues like Obama’s ties to the Chicago Machine, William Ayers, ACORN, or his record on protecting infanticide.
Don’t ask questions. Don’t check the records of people running for political office, but do check the records of those who dare violate Rule #1. No dissent will be tolerated. Our political and media masters have spoken.
I only ask one favor of the Left and the media: please keep this story alive for another three weeks. I can’t wait to read Michelle’s column tomorrow.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/what-we-can-learn-from-the-joe-the-plumber-episode/
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Just goes to show the depths the MSM will sink to in a blatant effort to prevent anything negative from impacting Obama.
Free speech in this country is DEAD if he gets elected.
If he takes the White House...anyone and EVERYONE...you and me included that dares speak ill against him will get this same kind of treatment IMHO.
God forbid anyone in the military says anything. The Clinton era courts martial for that kind of stuff will return.
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Now that McCain has used Joe in a commercial he had better step up and defend this man and tell Obama to call off his brownshirts.
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Let the Obama Brown-shirts tear into Joe the Plumber, he can defend himself. It will also expose them for the pathetic losers that they are.
Paladin0
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Let the Obama Brown-shirts tear into Joe the Plumber, he can defend himself. It will also expose them for the pathetic losers that they are.
Paladin0
This is going to be the Mondale line of this campaign. But where Mondale only stuck his foot in his mouth, Obama and his minions are savaging an innocent man, and the whole world is finally seeing the veneer ripped away from Obama with too little time left to repair the damage done to himself.
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I'm still astonished that a plumber, is worried about paying extra taxes if he suddenly earns more than a quarter million a year :whatever:
Lets' be honest... those worries likely won't come to fruition...
I did books/taxes for a small family-owned plumbing company. They grossed over two million dollars per year. Their net was somewhere in the quarter million range. It is not a reach at all.
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I'm still astonished that a plumber, is worried about paying extra taxes if he suddenly earns more than a quarter million a year :whatever:
Lets' be honest... those worries likely won't come to fruition...
You've obviously never had to hire a plumber...
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You've obviously never had to hire a plumber...
no kidding -- hell - getting one to snake your sewer drain will cost better than 300 bucks - which isn't bad for 15 to 30 minutes of work. If an independent plumber does that job once every other day, he will gross $55K for the year.
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Related story:
The Left Declares War On Joe the Plumber
Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after Citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s No. 1 Ordinary Joe, had no choice.
Obama-Biden simply can’t tolerate an outspoken citizen successfully painting the Democratic ticket as socialist overlords. And so a dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher is on.
The left’s political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life and predictably wielding the race card once again. It’s standard operating procedure for the Obama thug machine.
Wurzelbacher, in case you’ve been in hibernation, is the small-business man from Ohio who questioned Obama about his tax plan during a Toledo campaign swing last weekend. The revealing exchange was caught on tape and broadcast widely across the Internet and TV airwaves.
In response to Wurzelbacher’s question about why he should be “taxed more and more for fulfilling the American dream,†Obama sermonized that he needed to “spread the wealth around†because “it’s good for everybody.â€
MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37695)
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Related story:
The Left Declares War On Joe the Plumber
Six-term Sen. Joe Biden’s got some nerve going after Citizen Joe the Plumber. But the entrenched politician from Delaware, who fancies himself the nation’s No. 1 Ordinary Joe, had no choice.
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I'll take our Joe the Plumber over their Joe the Dumber any day.
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I'll take our Joe the Plumber over their Joe the Dumber any day.
Yeah, at least the plumber works for a living.
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no kidding -- hell - getting one to snake your sewer drain will cost better than 300 bucks - which isn't bad for 15 to 30 minutes of work. If an independent plumber does that job once every other day, he will gross $55K for the year.
$300 vs. crapping in a bucket. Not a tough choice to make at all.
:-)
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I'm still astonished that a plumber, is worried about paying extra taxes if he suddenly earns more than a quarter million a year :whatever:
Lets' be honest... those worries likely won't come to fruition...
Apparently you've never had to pay one for working on your house.
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Joe is the MSM tar-baby. They can't resist screwing with him but the more they do it, the more stuck they get. One of the DUmmies actually hit on the truth in the thread PJ spoofed, which is that the more he stays in the news, the more good it does McCain and changes the long-term effect of the entire debate in his favor.
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$300 vs. crapping in a bucket. Not a tough choice to make at all.
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Been there, done that. And Home Depot rents snakes. Bet Joe Biden even rents them out from time to time after he goes to Katie's for breakfast.
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WOLVERINES!!!!
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Been there, done that. And Home Depot rents snakes. Bet Joe Biden even rents them out from time to time after he goes to Katie's for breakfast.
Probably not, but he does know a thing or two about sewers. :uhsure:
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WOLVERINES!!!!
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h5
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Now that McCain has used Joe in a commercial he had better step up and defend this man and tell Obama to call off his brownshirts.
The way rush talks about this guy I'd bet he and his boss will not be short of work for a very long time.
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I am hoping Joe gets on the cover of Newsweek. The more they pound this guy, the better it is for McCain. Keep it up, you dummy morons.