Plumbing the Depths of Personal Destruction
Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher, for having an honest disagreement with Barack Obama over tax issues, has come under fire from the Left. Well, "under fire" seems like a rather mild description. The blog HolyCoast referred to it as a "crucifixion", not in the sense that he’s dying in the press for anyone’s sins, but he is getting himself turned inside-out for the sake of a very calm conversation he had with the Democratic Presidential nominee. Both men, Joe and Barack, let each other speak, there was no heated arguing at all, and yet the Left can’t seem to bear to have The One(tm) contradicted.
Rather than point to all the individual examples, others have done the research that I’ll point to instead. They’re good roundups of the incredible personal destruction that lefty blog sites and mainstream media — from the obscure to the prominent — have visited upon someone who simply disagrees with them.
Stop the ACLU notes that the preeminent blog of the Left, Daily Kos, plastered Joe’s personal details for all to see, including home address. And there are others like Politico.com and the New York Times scrounging around for dirt.
The Anchoress details reaction from the Right side of the blogosphere. She also makes a great point.
But here’s the thing: what or who Joe the Plumber is does not matter. What matters is what Barack Obama said to him. The focus on Joe the Plumber – the obsession on him, and the need to somehow discredit him in the eyes of the nation – is meant to distract you from what Barack Obama said, and nothing else.
The lefty blogs and the NY Times (indistinguishable from each other, especially when a Democrat is having trouble) show their true colors.
Update: More links to the smearing of Joe at Redstate. Add Andrew Sullivan to the list of the "honorable" Left.
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I blogged along the lines of the Anchoress over at New Covenant. It is outrageously amusing, in a way, to see how the MSM has fallen over themselves dissecting Joe W. All the time ignoring the blatantly MARXIST statement that Obama made about spreading the wealth around.
Yeah, the guy dared to even ask The One a question, and they’re trying to make sure he loses his job — and they’re trying to destroy the company he works for as well!
If only they’d go after seedy abortionists the way they go after people who dare question The One!