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Byron York is Concerned
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Byron York: I don't know anything about Joe Wurzelbacher, but I just have one bit of advice. If you have anything in your past that you're not proud of — a messy divorce, a DUI, an unpaid bill, an indiscreet comment, whatever — be prepared for it to become public knowledge. The lefty blogosphere, along with allies in the press, will see to that.Right. Of course, if he were a 12-year-old boy, everyone would just leave him alone.

Sliming Joe the Plumber
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Karen Tumulty says he's being 'swift-boated.' The New York Times says he's being 'slimed.' One partisan blogger says the other side ought to stop 'snooping around.' Another accuses adversaries of launching 'a baseless smear campaign.' Commenters at Democratic Underground label those at Free Republic 'scum' for investigating his personal life. That's right: Democratic Underground, Paul Krugman, Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, Time Magazine, and lots of others on the Left were defenders of privacy when Graeme Frost ...

Sliming Joe the Plumber
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Tumulty says he's being swift-boated. The New York Times says he's being slimed. One partisan blogger says the other side ought to stop 'snooping around.' Another accuses adversaries of launching 'a baseless smear campaign.' Commenters at Democratic Underground label those at Free Republic 'scum' for investigating his personal life. That's right: Democratic Underground, Paul Krugman, DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, ThinkProgress, Time Magazine, and lots of others on the Left were defenders of privacy when Graeme Frost ...

Funny...when it's health care for children, accountability matters a great deal
Brilliant at Breakfast — Remember Graeme Frost? He's the Baltimore seventh grader who spoke out in favor of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program because the program helped pay for his recovery from a devastating car accident -- and found himself the youngest person ever to be swiftboated by the lunatic right. They were perfectly OK with going after a twelve-year-old whom they thought didn't "deserve" to be in the program, but when anyone makes an effort to put ANY kind of accountability behind the billions -- probably trillions before it's all over -- of federal money being shoveled into ...

Win One for Ted
The Mahablog — ... attempted a creative conflation of the Graeme Frost fake outrage campaign with the Paul Wellstone fake outrage campaign and came up with a post bristling with fake outrage that one of the senator’s grandsons said a prayer at the funeral that mentioned health care. ...