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Friday, October 17, 2008
And asks all of us who are 'just ordinary Joes' to do something...my emphasis.
TennesseeFree co-blogger tgirsch posted his own lefty hit-piece on Joe Wurzelbacher earlier this week, and comments on my earlier post "Democrats roto-rooting the Plumber" thusly...
We've all witnessed a lot of insanity in American politics over the last few years. Up until the last few days, none of it has seriously bothered me; hey, just more grist for the satire mill. But after witnessing the media's blitzkreig on Joe 'the Plumber' Wurzelbacher, I can only muster anger, and no small amount of fear.
Politicians -- Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton, et al. -- obviously have to put up with some rude, nasty shit, but it's right there in the jobs description. Joe the Plumber is different. He was a guy tossing a football with his kid in the front yard of his $125,000 house when a politician picked him out as a prop for a 30 second newsbite for the cable news cameras. Joe simply had the temerity to speak truth (or, if you prefer, an uninformed opinion) to power, for which the politico-media axis apparently determined that he must be humiliated, harassed, smashed, destroyed. The viciousness and glee with which they set about the task ought to concern anyone who still cares about citizen participation, and freedom of speech, and all that old crap they taught in Civics class before politics turned into Narrative Deathrace 3000, and Web 2.0 turned into Berlin 1932.0.
Godwin's Law! you say? if the jackboot fits, wear it.
If it's meta-memes and meta-meta-narratives these media headlice want, so be it. I hope you will join me in expressing a simple bit of solidarity with this guy, Spartacus style. I AM JOE. I am a Wal Mart schlub in flyover country who changes my own oil and unclogs drains without a license. I smoke and drink beer and toss the football in the front yard with my kid, and I figure I can fend my way without handouts from some Magic Messiah's candy bags. Most everyone in my family and most everyone I grew up with is another Joe, and if you screw with them, you screw with me.
Are you a Joe? Say it proud. Leave it on every goddamn newspaper comment section and online forum. Let these pressroom and online thugs know you won't stay silent when they try to destroy the life of a private citizen for speaking his mind -- because for every one of them, there are a million Joe Wurzelbachers. And for that we should all be thankful.
I tend to agree that Joe’s getting a bit of a raw deal here, but it was McCain who subjected him to this, not Obama. He didn’t start getting all this attention until McCain started trying to use him as a campaign prop.So, it's best, tgirsch, to remain silent and not offer opinions? For fear of 'your' side's reactions? tgirsch, you would likely smack any of your own family membesr who had enough temerity to speak against the One!.
And of course, Joe didn’t do himself any favors with the Sammy Davis, Jr. remark, and certainly hasn’t seemed to shun the spotlight now that it’s on him. So all things considered, my sympathy for him is limited.
Joe Wurzelbacher is average everydayman, but he's much smarter than you are, tgirsch. He's not head-over-sensibilities-fallen for an out-of-control 'Democrat' party with the most disturbing left-wing agenda, an agenda that's nothing more than poorly disguised socialism, led by the farthest-left presidential candidate in American political history; a candidate chosen for a speech he gave at a convention and little more.
A troubling candidate with problematic associations. Those associations would have kept him out of the U.S. Military, had he the courage to join, instead of smoking dope, 'dabbling in cocaine' and hanging out with campus radicals at Occidental College and Columbia University.
Obama hasn't released any of his grades or information from Occidental or Columbia, but do you or your ilk try to find out any of that very pertinent information? No, instead, you're much more concerned with some nobody guy's liens or licenses or DUI's or whatever else you can drub up, for to destroy him...all in defense of your sorry candidate. Your posts's callous and dogmatic attacks against Joe Wurzelbacher are symptomatic of leftist narratives. Those sort of reactions provoke nothing but disgustin me, and I'll bet millions of others who aren't so blinded by Obama.
Oh, btw, I, too, am Joe.
