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hotair.com - 10/17/2008

What we can learn from the Joe the Plumber episode

— hotair.com — 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 ... (more) What we can learn from the Joe the Plumber episode

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corner.nationalreview.com - 10/17/2008

RE: Well That Didn't Take Long

— corner.nationalreview.com — Getting a lot of emails along these lines: I don't know why I'm e-mailing you, except that... I just need to vent to someone on The Corner. Pass this around to the others if you like -- I bet I'm not the only one. I really don't like McCain. I'll ... (more) RE: Well That Didn't Take Long

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youtube.com - 10/17/2008

The real Joe the Plumber (video)

— youtube.com — The truth behind John McCain, Sarah Palin, and their Joe the Plumber.... (more) The real Joe the Plumber (video)

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Media Declares Race Over as McCain Creeps Within Four Points
JammieWearingFool — ... . Why should we listen to the liberal media, which wants nothing more than to depress turnout among Republicans? I suspect the Obama camp realizes what a disastrous move Obama made revealing his true socialist self. Why else would they be on such a vicious smear campaign against a guy Obama approached for a photo op? The uglier the attacks become against Joe Wurzelbacher, the more independents and blue-collar Democrats will recoil at such tactics. The polling outfits are all using ...

Fell deeds awake.
Rachel Lucas — ... , but damn what’s true. What really matters is raking some random guy who asked a serious question all over hot hot coals of unwarranted public scrutiny. ...

Hypocrisy Watch
Political Animal — HYPOCRISY WATCH.... In general, I find the interest in Joe Wurzelbacher -- also known as "Joe the Plumber" -- kind of silly. For that matter, I have even less interest in criticism of the left from far-right blogger Michelle Malkin. But this Malkin piece , about the "dirty, desperate war against Joe Wurzelbacher," is too rich to pass up. The left's political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life and predictably wielding the race card once again. [...] Left-wing blogs immediately went to work, blaring headlines like "Not A Real $250k ...

The War on Citizen Joe
Slublog — "If you can’t beat him, smear him. It’s the Obama way."

Is Joe The Plumber Fair Game?
Ross Douthat — ... Chait embeds his argument in an attack on Michelle Malkin's hypocrisy, since she led the charge to investigate the Frosts but posted an outraged attack on the media invasions of Wurzelbacher's privacy. But citing Malkin throws into relief another difference between the cases. As Byron York ...

Piling on versus covering up
Cold Fury — ... by citing him endlessly in the last debate. But if you’re talking about the vexed question of how much privacy the media should afford citizens whose life stories become political footballs, the Frosts and Wurzelbacher seem like at best imperfect equivalents: The S-Chip family asked for their celebrity to a far greater extent than Joe the Plumber did. Chait embeds his argument in an attack on Michelle Malkin’s hypocrisy, since she led the charge to investigate the Frosts but posted an outraged attack on the media invasions of Wurzelbacher’s privacy. But citing Malkin throws ...