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Malkin, Now And Then
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
On the press and "Joe The Plumber":
...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. ...
Left-wing blogs immediately went to work, blaring headlines like “Not A Real $250k Plumber!” Next, they falsely accused Wurzelbacher of not being registered to vote—he’s registered in Lucas County, Ohio, and voted as a Republican in this year’s ...
Sex and Cigarettes
I Am TRex —
... So, I keep opening the WordPress ‘write’ screen to blog about, oh, I dunno, Michelle Malkin’s breathtaking hypocrisy (yeah, big surprise) on the question of Joe the Plumber or ...
On Behalf of Our National Joes
The Democratic Daily —
... If there is a Hall of Fame in Hell, where they keep this World’s Records of egregiously meretricious flat-out plain and fancy lying, this must certainly be a new World’s Record — if only for the Northern half of the Western Hemisphere. (I’m not the only one who’s noticed. And ...
Of “Totalitarians” and Short Memories
PoliGazette —
... to get S-CHIP expanded. When he gave the address talking about how thanks to S-CHIP he was able to receive life-saving medical care, the right-wing blogosphere went medieval on him and his family, questioning their economic status, their intentions etc. Michelle Malking famously stalked the family by visiting their business and cruising by their house. We were reminded that they had marble countertops on the kitchen, so clearly they didn’t need S-CHIP! TNR has a great roundup here. ...
The Stench of Desperation (I am [not] Joe).
Comments from Left Field —
... Everywhere you turn, it seems doctrinaire right-wingers, in concert with the McCain campaign, are flailing wildly, lashing out with every trick they know, every demonstrative tactic that used to be filed under ’slam dunk’ in the wingnutosphere handbook.
But you know what?
None of it means a goddamn thing, because–sorry, wingnuts–it’s still the fucking economy, stupid; all the irony-free ‘I am Spartacus’ circle jerks in the world won’t magically ...
Is Joe The Plumber Fair Game?
Ross Douthat —
Jon Chait, on the media coverage of everybody's favorite everyman: ... Running with thinly-sourced or unconfirmed
allegations about Wurzelbacher's personal life--his financial records,
his license situation, his marriage--goes too far. Wurzelbacher doesn't
seem particularly skittish about speaking his mind or getting attention
for it. But there's no way he could be prepared for the kind of
scrutiny that comes with being the political world's most famous
talking point. As a result, writers should allow Wurzelbacher a
bit more privacy than they would ...
Piling on versus covering up
Cold Fury —
Lots of Left nutbags have tried to hurl the Graeme Frost contretemps in our teeth , as if it justified their despicable lynching of Joe the Plumber. ...
Right wing: rights are for them, not for you
Orcinus —
... who earlier this week descended even farther into self-parody by complaining that poor Joe the Self-Promoter's Plumber's ordinary rights as a citizen were being trampled upon by the "deranged" liberal bloggers and reporters who decided to look into his background. ...
