{"id":3502,"date":"2008-10-20T06:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2008-10-20T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:00:04","slug":"dissent-must-be-crushed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Dissent Must Be Crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The behavior of the “tanning bed media” – the hordes of media vultures that descend on whomever dares to question The One – should <\/em>be getting some reactions.\u00a0 The “Joe The Plumber” story is merely the latest <\/a>incident…:<\/p>\n

“It actually upsets me,” Mr. Wurzelbacher [AKA “Joe”]\u00a0said. “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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

…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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard a couple of liberals respond “Then his question doesnt’ count!\u00a0 He couldn’t have even bought the business!”<\/p>\n

Buncombe.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Is it personal?\u00a0 Yell, hah.\u00a0 Last week, I got into an email exchange with a liberal about Obama and his Democrats’ crimes against the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

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

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).\u00a0 Is Limbaugh’s speech not protected by the First Amendment?\u00a0 Is not one who a (dimwitted) liberal might believe (wrongly) “echoes” Limbaugh – that’d be me – entitled to it?\u00a0 (We all sound the same to them).<\/p>\n

Apparently not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 The “Joe The Plumber” story is merely the latest incident…: “It actually upsets me,” Mr. Wurzelbacher [AKA “Joe”]\u00a0said. “I am a plumber, and just a plumber, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}