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Typing Without a Clue
The New York Times - Op/Ed Guest Collumnist ^ | 12/8/08 | TIMOTHY EGAN - NY Times Op/Ed

Posted on 12/07/2008 2:15:28 PM PST by gridlock

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61 posted on 12/07/2008 4:30:08 PM PST by nutmeg (No terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11/01. Thank you President Bush.)
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To: gridlock

***There was a time when I wanted to be like Sting, the singer, belting out, “Roxanne ...” I guess that’s why we have karaoke, for fantasy night. If only there was such a thing for failed plumbers, politicians or celebrities who think they can write.***

Or failed thinkers who write rubbish!!!!


62 posted on 12/07/2008 4:31:37 PM PST by sodpoodle (Man studies evolution to understand His creation.)
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To: gridlock

This crap was actually in a newspaper? It’s a joke,right?


63 posted on 12/07/2008 4:59:42 PM PST by Seven plus One
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To: Seven plus One
This crap was actually in a newspaper? It’s a joke,right?

Yep, the New York Times.

That's the answer to both questions....

64 posted on 12/07/2008 5:06:04 PM PST by dirtbiker (Joe Biden has an IQ of 146 and no idea how to use it....)
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To: sodpoodle
***There was a time when I wanted to be like Sting, the singer, belting out, “Roxanne ...” I guess that’s why we have karaoke, for fantasy night. If only there was such a thing for failed plumbers, politicians or celebrities who think they can write.***

There is.

Again, it's the NY Times....

65 posted on 12/07/2008 5:08:35 PM PST by dirtbiker (Joe Biden has an IQ of 146 and no idea how to use it....)
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To: gridlock

Timmy’s afraid it might get out: anyone can be a writer.


66 posted on 12/07/2008 5:08:59 PM PST by Oratam
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To: gridlock
Our next president is a writer, which may do something to elevate standards in the book industry. The last time a true writer occupied the White House was a hundred years ago, with Teddy Roosevelt, who wrote 13 books before his 40th birthday.


Books by Ronald Reagan:

Where's the Rest of Me? The Ronald Reagan Story (1965, memoir, with Richard G. Hubler)

Sincerely, Ronald Reagan (1980, memoir, edited by Helene von Damm)

Rendezvous with Destiny (1981, memoir)

A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan (1983, speeches, edited by Alfred Baltizar)

Ronald Reagan: In God I Trust (1984)

Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1984, nonfiction)

Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches with Personal Reflections (1989, speeches)

An American Life: The Autobiography (1990, memoir)

67 posted on 12/07/2008 5:14:20 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: gridlock

Wow so I guess unless you write for a failing paper you have to right to share your views in print? Looks like with stories like his they want to be out of buisness ASAP?


68 posted on 12/07/2008 5:35:27 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: gridlock

Morons...the more attention they give it the more it will sale.


69 posted on 12/07/2008 5:48:01 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: gridlock
The New York Times only flushes with union plumbers.
70 posted on 12/07/2008 5:51:22 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (making full use of an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas)
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To: gridlock
Maybe if Pinhead Egan had told Joe's story, Joe would have had nothing to sell.

ML/NJ

71 posted on 12/07/2008 6:20:19 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: gridlock

Prediction: Joe’s book sells more than Tomothy’s.


72 posted on 12/07/2008 7:32:39 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: Taichi

This guy assumes that Barack Obama wrote his own books, so he assumes Joe The Plumber will write his own, as well.

I will give long, long odds that JTP will use a ghost writer on his book. I would give similarly long odds that Wacky Baracky did the same, though he will never admit it.

The reason JTP’s book is important is because Joe can tell the story of how he was attacked by the Barack Obama slime machine and how government power was abused by Obama to persecute him. It is a pattern we should learn to recognize early on, because we are going to see it over and over again.


73 posted on 12/07/2008 8:16:36 PM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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Joe, a k a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was no good as a citizen, having failed to pay his full share of taxes,

I trust Mr. Egan vociferously opposed the candidacy of one Al Franken for the same reason.

I would bet you dollars to donuts that Barack Obama has not paid taxes on the value of favors he has received from Tony Rezko, amongst others. The sweetheart deal on his Chicago mansion was worth at least $300,000. Did Obama pay the taxes on the fair market value of this gift? That's more taxes evaded than JtP will pay in a decade.

74 posted on 12/07/2008 8:19:40 PM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: gridlock
The book (Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream) was coauthored with a published novelist, Thomas Tabback, who receives front-cover credit.

It's listed at Amazon as "Out of Print - Limited Availability," with no publisher named. But there are three snotty reviews.

75 posted on 12/07/2008 10:35:16 PM PST by Tenniel2 (Sometimes you have to confront evil head-on. Mutt-boy delenda est.)
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To: gridlock

Hmm. Never heard of this assclown Egan. Is that his real name, ya think?


76 posted on 12/07/2008 10:39:31 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Apparently Egan has written several books that sold several copies each. They were reviewed well by the New York Times, but nobody else seems impressed.
77 posted on 12/08/2008 5:05:58 AM PST by gridlock (QUESTION AUTHORITY)
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To: gridlock

Of course you’re right. The whole thrust of the article is to marginalize JTP so that the sheeple will ignore his story of government abuse.


78 posted on 12/08/2008 5:35:00 AM PST by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: gridlock

Typing without a clue? He obviously was.


79 posted on 12/08/2008 7:17:50 AM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: gridlock

Of course not, because he denies that it was a gift.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of what Egan calls “failing as a citizen,” do you think he’d say the same of Obama, who felt entitled to ignore lots of parking tickets from his years at Harvard ... until he decided to run for president.

He finally paid them last year, after being a scofflaw for almost two decades.


80 posted on 12/08/2008 8:02:20 AM PST by freespirited (Honk to indict the MSM for treason.)
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