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"Joe" The Plumber Actually "Sam"
No, I'm not kidding . Jesus, the McCain campaign is bad.
Good news: Toledo moves to shut down Joe the Plumber
Good news: Toledo moves to shut down Joe the Plumber
hotair.com — Look on the bright side. [...] Read the rest »... (more) Good news: Toledo moves to shut down Joe the Plumber
 Obama Mocks Joe the Plumber, Crowd Laughs (video)
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Obama Mocks Joe the Plumber, Crowd Laughs (video)
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Real Deal on ‘Joe the Plumber’ Reveals New Slant
Real Deal on ‘Joe the Plumber’ Reveals New Slant
nytimes.com — Samuel J. Wurzelbacher is not a licensed plumber, and the premise of his complaint about taxes may... be flawed. > (more) Real Deal on ‘Joe the Plumber’ Reveals New Slant
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More Obamanaut Lessons In Civil Liberties
Discriminations — ... see that it’s also risky even for lone individuals to say things in public the Obamanauts dislike. I’m referring, of course, to Joe The Plumber, whom the Obama forces have now “exposed” as unlicensed (the quotes, because as an employee he doesn’t need a license), have published his home address on the Daily Kos, and, in the weirdest example of objecting to Republican naming middle names, have now revealed (gasp!) that Joe The Plumber is really Sam The Plumber (Joseph is his middle name)! (HatTip to Tom Ellis) ...

Joe the Plumber Learns What It’s Like to be a Gay Republican
GayPatriot — ... our party’s presidential nominee, than he becomes subject to rabid attacks from the left. Kind of sounds like the hazing we go through when we come out to our gay friends as conservatives. They ridicule him for not having a license without bothering to mention that in Ohio, “he only needs [one] for commercial work, not residential work.“  And they bring up his tax lien. Ol’ Doc Sullivan is even making an issue of the fact that Joe is not his first name.  Turns out it’s his middle name.  Given that Daniel is my ...

Joe the Plumber & His 15-Minutes of Fame
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] Some people are doing everything they can to discredit Joe the Plumber: Democratic Underground is convinced Joe is a Republican plant. The Toledo Blade says Joe isn’t a licensed or registered plumber and he does have a tax lien on his house. Andrew Sullivan #1 complains because Joe uses his middle name. Andrew Sullivan #2 issues a correction [emphasis supplied]: “Correction “Joe” the “Plumber”, pace HuffPuff, does not ...

Never Question Obama
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... but now government officials are after his business. *Lefty blogs publishing his home address and writing up attacks on him and digging into his family tree. *Here's a NY Times article digging up more dirt on Joe than they've bothered to cobble together on Obama, and another here. *Andrew Sullivan finds a new obsession with the plumber, reducing this man to a "hood ornament[]" (here, here, and here). *Here is a roundup of the media frenzy. Remember, read all these and ask yourself ...

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republicans launched an enormous wave of phone calls Thursday, including one that blasts Barack Obama for "having worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers," party sources said. The calls are part of a $70 million last ...