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Shep Smith grills Joe the Plumber: Why is a vote for Obama a vote for “the death of Israel”?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Shep Smith grills Joe the Plumber: Why is a vote for Obama a vote for “the death of Israel”? posted at 6:02 pm on October 28, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly What J the P should have said: “Ask Sarkozy” (who’s already issued a perfunctory denial of the Haaretz report, natch). Shep’s consumed here with the incongruity between Wurzelbacher’s accusation and The One’s consistently, and conspicuously, strong support of Israel on the stump, but one needn’t impute sinister motives to Obama — as JTP seems to do early on by mentioning his associations — to worry about the practical effect of his Middle East policy. ...
Fox's Smith defends Obama on Israel
Michael Calderone's Blog —
The Obama campaign may think they never get a fair shake on Fox, but Shep Smith didn't let inaccurate statements go by yesterday on-air.
Smith questioned Joe the Plumber on his foreign policy views after for the prominent McCain supporter agreed with a fellow supporter that "a vote for Obama is a vote for death to Israel."
After hearing Joe's position -- despite admitting to not a foreign policy expert, but someone who knows "just enough to be dangerous" -- Smith shot down the guy who's become a staple of McCain's stump speech.
"I just want to make this 100 percent perfectly clear, Barack Obama ...
Joe the Plumber torched by Olbermann
The Swamp —
by Frank James
Caught MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and got caught up on Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher's (JTP) doings. I learned he's contemplating a run for Congress, has an odd opinion on where Barack Obama stands on Israel, has hired a publicist and is trying to get a country music contract. Olbermann, as one might expect, savaged JTP.
I also learned from Olbermann that Fox News's Shep Smith took JTP to task for misstating Obama's support of Israel, as Jon Stewart did last night too.
I'm thinking Joe's about 13.5 minutes through his ...
JOE THE PLUMBER: A VOTE FOR OBAMA IS THE ‘DEATH OF ISRAEL’
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What Joe the Plumber Knows that Shep Smith Ignores: Israel
Stop The ACLU —
[image] Somewhere at a McCain rally, a Jewish senior citizen stepped up to the mic and told Joe the Plumber that he thought “a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel.” Joe said he could agree to that. The story has morphed into Shepard Smith’s (Fox News) indignant outrage directly at Joe the Plumber. How dare Joe put that dangerous idea in the heads of silly Americans. Joe said he had his opinions, and McCain could have his and Americans can research and make up their own minds. Smith did his best to skewer Joe and intimated that Joe’s opinions were formed from the “hateful things spread all over the internet .” Smith shook his head in dismay and ...
David Quigg: I Am Professor Khalidi (Why John McCain Doesn't Get to Pick My Halloween Costume)
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Happy Halloween. Nice costume, buddy.
Now take the damn thing off. You don't get to pick your own costume.
Nobody does. Except John McCain. He gets to pick for all of us.
Ask Rashid Khalidi.
Khalidi is a big-time professor. Which is to say that, until quite recently, he was someone most of us had never heard of. But then John McCain picked Professor Khalidi's new Halloween costume. Here's how a Washington Post editorial detailed the ensuing "vile smear":
"In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East ...
Joe the Plumber/Reporter is Off to Israel
Politics Daily —
Filed under: RepublicansBreitbart is reporting that Joe the Plumber is headed for Israel to report on the conflict there: TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook. The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting. Sure, Joe the Plumber is perfect. He's just as qualified to call himself a reporter as he is a plumber, and there's a huge demand here for ...
Joe The Reporter?
Stubborn Facts —
You know, I almost didn't want to blog on this, but I just had to share a few thoughts on JTP's new job as foreign policy analyst, with PJTV. I'm getting a negative vibe from this whole outfit, although not enough to lose any sleep over. Look, the professional media has certainly made, and continues to make big mistakes in their Israel-Palestine coverage. That much is clear. I certainly have no objection to bloggers, or anybody exercising their right to offer up their perspective. That being said, assuming JTP's coverage is supposed to have some meaningful value, I cannot shake this feeling that this will turn out to be less about covering Israel, than the pumping up ...
