Margaret Carlson Is Not Amused by Joe the Plumber

NewsBusters ^ | October 18, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

One can picture Queen Victoria huffily declaring, "We are not amused," when reading this Margaret Carlson column about Joe the Barber in Bloomberg. Carlson appears to be upset that a "mere" plumber is steering the campaign away from the direction she wants it to follow (emphasis mine):

The most dispiriting thing to come out of the debate was the morning after. I woke to see Joe Wurzelbacher's street in Holland, Ohio, lit up like Times Square with network and cable satellite trucks clogging the place.

I thought the press was beyond 23 mentions of Joe the Plumber by one candidate and three by the other, while Asian markets were dropping 10 percent and the Dow has been diving.

Unless he starts making courtesy calls to fix the running toilets of the journalists making him famous, let's relegate Joe the Plumber back to the playroom with Bob the Builder or the 15- minute hall of fame with Harry and Louise and Ross Perot's crazy aunt in the attic.

[PJ-Comix]

I haven't seen Margaret on the tube much lately.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[FDNYRHEROES]

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[From The Deer Stand]

So what? I’m not amused by Margaret Carlson.

[Jeff Head]

Margaret, here in my part of the country...and I bet in most others...we just don't care whether you like it or not, or are amused or not.

Obama went to that neighborhood and if he can't stand the honest questioning of a single hard-working American, than he not only is incapable of leading 300+ million of us, he does not deserve to be President.

Joe revealed this...he smoked it out about Obama, irrespective of what you think about Joe or the circumstance.

But because Joe the Plumber was honest about the impact of the Obama plans from his perspective, and because he did not drink the Obama kool-aid, the MSM, the DNC, and the Obama campaign now consider that hard working, well spoken, young man as the enemy.

They are attacking him relentlessly.

So be it, it will reflect badly back on them just as their attacks on Sarah have done, and it will continue to smoke Obama out for the marxist/socialist he is and the real impact of his so-called "change".

Just as Patrick Henry indicated, and that truth still holds today...if we will hold the course, God in Heaven will raise up friends to help fight these battles.

Sarah Palin is one such friend...now, out of obscurity, Joe the Plumber is another.

All thanks for this goes, IMHO, to a merciful God in Heaven! and millions of hard working, partiotic, loyal Americans who will not give up...two of which, Joe and Sarah, have been brought forth before us all to express these sentiments.

The truth is that the left, the Obama campaign, the DNC, and the MSM will lie, fabricate, misquote, commit fruad, beg, borrow, or steal in their effort to slow down what is happening on the ground with the McCain campaign right now, and particularly with the likes of Joe and especially Sarah Palin who is burrowing underneath all of their hype and drawing 25-30,000 people at a time to her rallies and getting the message of hope and conservative values out.

Obama and his ilk know it, they fear it, and they will do anything they can to stop it...but they shall also fail in the attempt. Truth has a way of shining all the brighter in darkness.

SARAH PALIN DRAWING HUGE CROWDS ALL ACROSS AMERICA

[wny]

Unless he was trashing McCain and ripping Bush. Then he’d be a left wing hero.

[FDNYRHEROES]

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[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

O'S PLUMBER: JOE'S A JOKE!

Note to the 'Rats: Keep diggin'....

[AnnGora]

Margaret has been relegated to the Keith Olbermann suckfest on MSDNC. Oh, how the mousy have fallen!

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

let's relegate Joe the Plumber back to the playroom with Bob the Builder or the 15- minute hall of fame with Harry and Louise and Ross Perot's crazy aunt in the attic.

Good Grief! She pigeonholes Joe with crazy loonies! What the &^%* did Joe do besides ask a very pertinent question? He became an icon of what is good in America (just like Sarah), therefore, they have to attack and brutalize him.

[yankeedame]

Margaret who?

[GraceCoolidge]

It also ignores the fact that Joe shouldn’t be the issue... the issue should be Obama’s answer to the question. Doesn’t matter who asked the question, the answer is what is significant. I think a lot of people could do without the media investigation on Joe’s divorce, Joe’s tax liens, Joe’s business license, Joe’s voting registration... but they might be interested in an investigation as to what Obama’s answer actually means.

[Harry Wurzbach]

Trained, experienced, and wise journalists are scooped by an apprentice plumber.

[mewzilla]

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O'S PLUMBER: JOE'S A JOKE!

Note to the 'Rats: Keep diggin'....

[kempster]

Folks, Joe the Plumber did us a service. He asked a question and without a teleprompter in front of him Barack exposed himself as a true Socialist.

It is up to us to ask the news media to give us more information about the ties that Obama has to a Socialist past.

Someone posted a link to a bunch of media sources the other day, if someone has it repost it and lets tell them we want to know more about those associations and we don’t care about Joe’s past history as he isn’t running for President.

[Northern Yankee]

Yep... zero barry is being exposed. The more they hammer Joe the bigger its going to blow up in their faces.

America loves the underdog; and as they trash him their numbers will plummet.

[mewzilla]

Whoops. Hows about this one...

GOP group says Joe the Plumber is the right guy to unclog Washington

[blueyon]

I am not amused by how the democrats are tearing Joe down, searching into his personal information and are being so mean and nasty to this man, not peace loving and diverse as they claim they are. The left are showing their TRUE COLORS! They are not, never have been, the gentle, sweet, wonderful, we think every one should be able to express themselves people they claim to be....................UGH!!!!!
Why are people not waking up to want the RATS are truly like!

[Diogenesis]

============= Roanoke, Virginia =========================

Americans protest the zero-content Democratic Communist Barack Hussein Obama
at the Roanoke Civic Center Friday, Oct. 17, 2008 with plungers.
No word from any one of the MSM, off busy looking for birth certificate, divorce,
voting and medical records of Joe-the-Plumber, unlike for Obama-the-CryptoKenyanIslamicSocialist Democrat 'Manchurian' candidate for Emperor.

"I am Joe-the-Plumber"

[alrea]

No More Drips in the White House.

Liberal affirmative action lending policies almost broke the the financial system. Liberal policies gave us $4.50 gas. Food costs jumped because of liberal energy policies. Can you afford any more liberal policies? Stop the leaks.