The behavior of the “tanning bed media” – the hordes of media vultures that descend on whomever dares to question The One – should be getting some reactions.  The “Joe The Plumber” story is merely the latest incident…:

“It actually upsets me,” Mr. Wurzelbacher [AKA “Joe”] said. “I am a plumber, and just a plumber, and here Barack Obama or John McCain, I mean these guys are going to deal with some serious issues coming up shortly. The media’s worried about whether I paid my taxes, they’re worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America. They really don’t. I asked a question. When you can’t ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me.”

Mr. Wurzelbacher confronted Mr. Obama over his tax proposals, asserting that the Democratic nominee’s plan would tax him more if Mr. Wurzelbacher bought a plumbing business.

 

In the course of their conversation, Mr. Obama said, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success, too. I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

…in a trail of behavior that should make every “liberal” that’s spent the last eight years howling about the Bush Administration’s (largely imaginary-to-the-point-of-paranoid) transgressions against American civil liberties blanche with horror – were it not for the fact that nearly every damn one of them is a mindless partisan hypocrite.

The media took plenty of time off from reporting on two wars and an economic crisis to find, and report with rapturous glee, that Wurzelbacher isn’t licensed, hasn’t drawn up a business plan, and wouldn’t be buying a company that made over $250K even if he did, and has a few unpaid fines and a divorce in his past.

I’ve heard a couple of liberals respond “Then his question doesnt’ count!  He couldn’t have even bought the business!”

Buncombe.  A guy can dream – and he doesn’t have to vet his dreams with a producer in New York before asking a Presidential candidate a question.

Is it personal?  Yell, hah.  Last week, I got into an email exchange with a liberal about Obama and his Democrats’ crimes against the First Amendment.

> [The reinstatement of the “Fairness” Doctrine would be a harm felt…]
> by whom besides Limbaugh and those who echo
> him?

Which is a statement that could only come from a person for whom the (liberal) ends justify the (authoritarian) means (and who supports a campaign that seems by all indications to believe the same).  Is Limbaugh’s speech not protected by the First Amendment?  Is not one who a (dimwitted) liberal might believe (wrongly) “echoes” Limbaugh – that’d be me – entitled to it?  (We all sound the same to them).

Apparently not.

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