Honestly, I'm rather surprised that Joe Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber") and his rope-line dialogue with Barack Obama has managed to stay in the news for as long as it has. I knew when I first heard the exchange that it went badly for Obama. I didn't expect Joe the Plumber to be the main topic of the last presidential debate. And I certainly didn't expect Obama supporters to keep the story alive by their rabid character assassination of a man who did nothing more than ask a question - at random.
Now, we have people crawling over his tax records, his voter registration, his professional licensing, and whatever else they can find in the public record. Someone has linked him to the long-deceased Charles Keating, suggesting that somehow Obama managed to pick a McCain plant out of a rope-line full of people by accident. How much longer before a certain blogger at The Atlantic demands a paternity test to see if Joe the Plumber fathered Sarah Palin's baby - or Bristol's, for that matter?
There is a stench of desperation surrounding this, as if they sense defeat coming from a moment of honesty from Obama about his real intentions to institute a regime of redistribution. They want to discredit the man who only asked the question as if he's some political operative who magically forced Obama to sound … well, a little like a Marxist. Why? They want to distract people from Obama's answer by sliming the man Obama picked at random to ask a question.
Joe Wurzelbacher didn't give a speech or make a commercial. He simply asked a question. He stood on the street and Obama picked him to ask it. The Tanning-Bed Media seems to feel that they now have a duty to expose every last part of Wurzelbacher's life, but that asking Obama to explain his political partnerships with Tony Rezko and William Ayers, and his long friendship and financial support of rabid demagogues Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger, are not just out of bounds but downright racist and unecessary.
So what have we learned from this episode?
- Thou shalt not offend "The One" by asking him a question. Of any kind
- Anyone who questions "The One" will have to undergo a public pillorying of a kind unseen since the Red Scare, or perhaps the Inquisition
- The Tanning-Bed Media will happily participate in any inquisition, as long as it keeps them from investigating "irrelevant issues" like Obama's ties to the Chicago Machine, William Ayers, ACORN, or his record on protecting infanticide
Don't ask questions. Don't check the records of people running for political office, but do check the records of those who dare violate Rule#1. No dissent will be tolerated. Our political and media masters have spoken.
I only ask one favor of the Left and the media: please keep this story alive for another three weeks. Maybe by then the American public will have awakened from this dangerously, deep sleep and realize what we are letting them do to us. They , the media and the Left are choosing our President for us.
