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Matthews Picks Wrong Day To Mock Joe The Plumber on Ghostwriter
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/01/2008 5:17:15 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Note to Chris Matthews: when mocking someone for using a ghostwriter, it's best to avoid doing so on a day when Hillary Clinton is prominently in the news . . .

On this evening's Hardball, Matthews went out of his way to mock Joe The Plumber for his use of a ghostwriter on his just-released book, Joe The Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream.

This on the day Hillary Clinton was in the headlines, having been named Barack Obama's Secretary of State. You know, Hillary Clinton. The woman famous, in writing "It Takes A Village," for failing to credit her . . . ghostwriter.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: chrismatthews; ghostwriters; hillaryclinton; joetheplumber; takesavillage
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1 posted on 12/01/2008 5:17:15 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

You wanna talk ghostwriters, Matthews? Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/01/2008 5:18:14 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bump


3 posted on 12/01/2008 5:21:28 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a petty little man he is, and what is with the excess of saliva. Very unattractive.


4 posted on 12/01/2008 5:23:57 PM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So now everytime Obama uses a monitor or reads something, he’s going to tell us who wrote it for him?


5 posted on 12/01/2008 5:25:56 PM PST by RC2 (Where is Obama's Birth Certifacte?)
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To: Bahbah

Ewwww....lol


6 posted on 12/01/2008 5:28:27 PM PST by fml (So?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What about his man crush guy, Obama, who has William Ayers write Dreams of my Father???

OOOPSY, Chrissy, you better be careful when you criticize others for failings of your loved ones.


7 posted on 12/01/2008 5:32:12 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth

The tingle Matthews feels on his leg comes from his wetting himself repeatedly.


8 posted on 12/01/2008 5:45:55 PM PST by mathurine
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9 posted on 12/01/2008 5:46:46 PM PST by musicman
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Looks to me like Joe gave the guy cover credit as an author.


10 posted on 12/01/2008 5:47:36 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Libs are so petty. Their disdain for actual working people is pathetic.


11 posted on 12/01/2008 5:50:35 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: Ramius

Exactly.

As mentioned in the article: “If Matthews would have looked at the screen, he would have seen that, his insinuations aside, Joe wasn’t trying to hide the fact that he had help in writing the book. To the contrary, prominently featured on the book’s cover is ‘with Thomas N. Tabback.’”


12 posted on 12/01/2008 5:50:42 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: BigBobber

Yup.


13 posted on 12/01/2008 5:56:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Chrissy ought to look into all the ghostwriters used by prominent Demagogues, so many not even credited, before he picks on Joe-the-Plumber!!

Just another example of the Mediascum with their hypocritical double-standards, still picking on JTP while pumping up their empty suits like Obama, Hillary, Albore, John Kerry, John Edwards, et al.


14 posted on 12/01/2008 6:00:57 PM PST by Enchante (Countless Innocents in Mumbai, India Now Face the "Religion of Peace" in Action)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's takes a Village spillage.
15 posted on 12/01/2008 6:07:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I bought the book to help Joe!

I AM JOE THE PLUMBER!


16 posted on 12/01/2008 6:08:15 PM PST by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Doesn’t Sissy have more important things to do, like order his Special-O Hope-n-Change Special kneepads for his special, private, extensive interviews with The One?


17 posted on 12/01/2008 6:10:57 PM PST by ScottinVA (Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Link to Joe's book purchase page.... Joe's Book
18 posted on 12/01/2008 6:11:56 PM PST by Randy Larsen ( BTW, If I offend you! Please let me know, I may want to offend you again!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

... Roger that. More to the point then he’s not a “ghostwriter”. He’s an author, or perhaps co-author.

As a practical matter there’s really no other way for guy to crank out a book in mere weeks and in time to catch the wave of publicity, that won’t last long... That’s the time to call in a professional. A “regular joe” just aint gonna get that put together in time to hit the market before interest wanes.

An eminently wise decision, that.


19 posted on 12/01/2008 6:12:47 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Txsleuth

yup, that and his new VP is a plagarist.

Nutty hypocrats don’t bother with seeing their own hypocrisy do they?

I don’t even use the word democrats anymore since Zell Miller retired.


20 posted on 12/01/2008 6:19:09 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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