Man, these people are relentless. I'm not going to link to any of them but clearly the message has gone out. If you dare ask a substantive question that might not be properly worshipful of BLT Barry, look out! Here come the goons (those same goons who always insist to you they play fair, and straight, and respectful) to try and bring down the thunder on you for your glaring insubordination.
Incredible!
Obviously, Joe the Plumber scored and clearly hurt BLT Barry. So, since I didn't see any of the Joe the Plumber stuff -- here's a quick check of one video:
I suspect many Americans feel precisely as this citizen did who felt compelled to send an eMail to Mark Hemingway at National Review:
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 probably vote for him just as a vote for
divided government. I'm far too libertarian in my leanings to be
comfortable with McCain (or Obama, for that matter).
That said,
the way the pro-Obama media and bloggers, and Obama himself, have
responded to Joe has got me nearly shaking with rage. They are
attempting to destroy a man — a private citizen — who had the audacity
to ask The One a question. Mind you, Joe was on his front lawn playing
football with his son when Obama strolled up to give him his
hopenchange spiel. Obama approached Joe, not the other way around. And
Joe asked Obama an honest question. And Obama gave him an honest — and
very, very revealing — answer. Again, mind you, the embarassment was on
Obama's end, not Joe's. It wasn't a gotcha question.
And yet,
for that Joe is being pilloried, every aspect of his private and
professional life being sorted through and exposed. To prove ... what?
What does that have to do with Obama's answer? What does Joe's
situation have to do with Obama's philosophical answer — that he wants
to "spread the wealth"? Obama's answer goes down the memory hole while
the nation concentrates its fire on obliterating Joe the Plumber.
It's sickening, it's maddening and it's downright chilling.
Sorry for the length. But I am just SEETHING.
I had a conversation last night that drifted down that same Joe is illegitimate line, Joe claimed he was buying a business for 250k but it only made 140k, Joe has an 11k lien, on and on and on. None of which made Joe less sympathetic to me. And I kept wondering what the hell did any of that have to do with the price of tea in China!??!
Logic and context is lost on these people. Absolutely lost.
If Palin's nomination hadn't won me over, this surely would have. I'm so cheesed off that I could chew nails and spit metal shavings.
Hell, I might even be able to chew up a pipe wrench.
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie | October 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM
I am also very upset by all of this. How dare the media attack an American citizen just because he does not agree with THEIR guy.
Joe's "dream" is NOT fantasy as some media pundits are saying. How dare they background check him? He has been divorced and is a single man with a 13 YO son and owes some back taxes?!!!Give me a freaking break. We are living in hard times. I hope "Joe" earns some money from all of this media attention so he can pay those back taxes and buy his business.
Media you have sunk to a new low to attack a single parent just trying to make an earnest living.
Posted by: Jeannie | October 17, 2008 at 01:08 PM
Think about it; the combination of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber ALONE kill Barack Obama.
Add in an energized John McCain and the looming landslide is materializing.
Posted by: RattlerGator | October 17, 2008 at 02:29 PM
I'm confused - didn't Joe lie?
His business isn't worth 250k, he makes 40k a year, and he admitted to Katie Couric that he'd get a tax break under Obama's plan... a bigger one than what he'd receive under McCain... both as a personal income driver and as a small business owner.
He's also been all over the news as of today... by choice. I saw him on tv today saying he felt like Britney Spears (in a good way). So yeah... I'm confused, what's the problem with calling him out if he didn't tell the truth in the first place and now wants to up the ante of his 15 minutes of fame.
Posted by: Confused | October 17, 2008 at 08:42 PM
Hey Confused...
He didn't say that HE makes 250K, he said that he hopes to buy the plumbing business that would / could possibly make 250K.
Get your facts straight. He didn't lie.
Stop worrying about the question and the questioner, and start freaking worrying about that answer.
The point is "share the wealth" is the Real Obama. Socialism. Period.
Posted by: Tickleddragon | October 17, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Just found your blog, I like it! The "UF" in my nic stands for ...well...UF...class of '74...
Added you to my favorites.
BTW just bought the biggest plunger I could find and stuck it in the gorund next to my Mccaine yard sign.
Posted by: CinnamongirlUF | October 17, 2008 at 10:12 PM
"Think about it; the combination of Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber ALONE kill Barack Obama.
Add in an energized John McCain and the looming landslide is materializing."
RG
I so hope you're right and I'm glad you wrote this. I've been in shock at the media and the blogosphere in what they've done to this guy. I thought I was the only one who noticed until I read your article. Thanks.
Posted by: Chloe | October 17, 2008 at 10:52 PM
What's frightening is the constitutionally protected MSM in the tank for the Messiah. The ignore Obama's prevarications and obfuscations about his past including Acorn, Ayres and Wright but jump on Palin and Joe the plumber with all fours.
Posted by: whit | October 19, 2008 at 04:41 PM
If "O" wins, and I repeat IF, wait till the media turns on him. They love him now but they will turn on him like a pack of wild dogs going after a stray kitten.
Funny, Barack and Oprah can both be identified as "O". Maybe she is really going to be president if he wins. You know she is bankrolling him up the whazoo.
And I bet it was her, not Michelle, who told him he couldn't have Hillary as his running mate.
Posted by: Lois | October 19, 2008 at 06:43 PM
It's about time someone noticed that it is not Joe's question that's disturbing, but Obama's answer. I don't know about you, I do not need the government to think for me or decide where my hard earned money should go. I can decide that all by myself.
As far as I am concerned, this black woman is voting McCain/Palin '08!!!
Posted by: allseeingi82 | October 20, 2008 at 02:40 PM
Yes, allseeing, yes!
Lois, should he win he'll never be able to do what these folks want him to do and because the Democrats are all about phony conversations between their special interest groups, watching that mess play out could be interesting as all get out. But the Presidency is too important for that so I hope like hell it does not come to that.
Whit, lunch tomorrow? Lets try and figure out how to make it happen sometime this week.
Chloe, hang in there. We will win and we need Republicans to stay positive.
Cinnamongirl, I love that name almost as much as I love the Gators! Remember Joe the Plumber!
Tickleddragon, booyah! Shake it off, Confused, shake it off baby. There are more haymakers where that came from and we have just begun to fight!
McCain-Palin 2008.
Country First!
Posted by: RattlerGator | October 20, 2008 at 03:29 PM