Is Joe Wurzelbacher related to Charles Keating — and does it matter?

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 16, 2008 05:12 PM

Scroll for update…Eisenstadt is a hoaxer

That’s been the left-wing blogger obsession all day. It started with a post from GOP blogger Martin Eisenstadt, who says that Joe Wurzelbacher the Plumber is a “close relative” of Robert Wurzelbacher, who is the son-in-law of Charles Keating. Robert Wurzelbacher served time for his role in the Keating 5 S&L scandal, gave a lot of money to Republicans, and is retired in Cincinnati. There is still no clear indication how exactly they are related and what “close” means.

I asked a reporter on scene in Ohio to check on the claim. He told me that Wurzelbacher was asked this morning at an impromptu press conference outside his house whether he’s related to Keating, and the reporter said Wurzelbacher answered that he didn’t know anything about that. I’ve asked the reporter to follow up and ask specifically if Wurzelbacher is related to Robert Wurzelbacher. Still waiting to hear back.

FYI, there is no mention of the issue in this NYTimes piece published at 1:30pm Eastern. Several left-wing blogs have also erroneously misidentifed a totally separate and unrelated “Joe Wurzelbacher” in Cincinnati as Joe the Plumber — and quietly backtracked after wetting their pants over that find.

The Keating connection claim has sent the left into conspiratorial frenzy. Joe is a plant! Joe is a liar! Joe is a [profanity] member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy programmed by John McCain!

Insane.

Obama dropped in on Wurzelbacher’s neighborhood, not vice versa. And there are plenty of “close relatives” in families who have nothing to do with each other, do not speak to each other, and stay away from each other’s politics and business.

But Team Obama will grasp at any straw to bring this guy down. I’ll have more on Joe The Plumber Derangement Syndrome in my syndicated column tomorrow.

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JTPDS takes over Toledo.

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Update: Well, this explains the Keating/Wurzelbacher hoax. The person who spread the rumor is a hoaxer.

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  1. #503570
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    tyrfing: Pearl Street friday night?

  2. #503573
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:47 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Shut up white boy, and buy me a replacement for my 60″ big screen TV.
    You racist you. : )

    I hope people get the reference to the “shut up white boy” lady with the giant TV.

    That memory is seared, seared in my mind.

  3. #503574
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, lgm said:

    You know the answer to your question, don’t play stupid.

    It makes it look like Joe Plumber (who isn’t a plumber) is not a grassroots guy but a piece of astroturf planted by Republican operatives.

    Let’s just say for your sake that he is.

    The bigger point here is what Obama said, not what the plumber said.

    Obama said he wants to spread the wealth around. He said it, not Joe. Not anyone else.

    That’s pure socialism and class warfare.

    Just as we all suspected. Just what we’ve been saying all along. The man is a socialist.

  4. #503576
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:13 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    We know what you meant and I am left to conclude but one thing… you’re a raaaaaaacist.

    ;)

  5. #503578
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:15 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    Well, with all this publicity going on, I bet Joe’s business is now booming.

    So now he’ll probably make over that $250K threshold and be paying more taxes under an Obama administration.

    Thanks for nothin’.

  6. #503580
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:16 pm, docjohn52 said:

    Let’s start with your house 0.

    Put your money where your mouth is…

  7. #503583
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm, MDH3 said:

    The guy doesn’t have a plumbers license

    An individual tradesman in the state of Ohio does not need to be licensed. If an individual wishes to become a licensed plumbing contractor, i.e., an individual who owns and operates a plumbing company, said individual must:

    1) be at least 18 years of age;

    2) be a United States citizen or a legal alien-must provide proof of being a legal alien;

    3) either have been a tradesperson in the type of licensed trade for which the application is filed for not less than five years immediately prior to the date the application is filed (ED: emphasis mine), currently be a registered engineer in this state with three years of business experience in the construction industry in the trade for which the engineer is applying to take the examination, or have other experience acceptable to the appropriate section of the board;

    4) not have been convicted of or plead guilty to a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or of any felony;

    5) pass the examination in the trade;

    6) carry minimum $500,000 contractor liability coverage;

    7) pay the applicable fees.

    To qualify to take the exam referenced in item number 5:

    TO QUALIFY TO SIT FOR THE EXAMINATION

    Complete the exam application.

    List dates of employment – must have start and end month, day and year to verify five (5) years working experience in that trade with no breaks in that five year history immediately prior to completing the application. Be specific in nature of duties.

    Attach copies of documentation to support your credentials such as: any local licenses or registrations, permits obtained, union card, pay stubs, W-2’s, signed contracts, invoices, and letters of recommendation or verification of employment on company letterhead.

    Notarized application

    SOURCE:
    Ohio Department of Commerce
    Division of Industrial Compliance
    Ohio Construction Industry Licensing Board (OCILB)

    But don’t let facts get in the way of the narrative. Stay intellectually honest, liberal America. You’re so, so good at it.

  8. #503584
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:26 pm, FamilyMan said:

    lgm said: Nothing.
    The thing you don’t understand sport, is that the messenger may not be perfect but he did expose your idol.

  9. #503590
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:34 pm, MDH3 said:

    Now, in terms of the City of Toledo…the regs are not nearly as straightforward…and without knowing what sort of work Wurzelbacher does, or how he represents himself professionally (i.e., tradesman, journeyman, or apprentice), it is difficult to judge whether he is contravening existing laws.

    All of which is, of course, beside the point.

  10. #503592
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:36 pm, vickisoup said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, lgm said:
    It makes it look like Joe Plumber (who isn’t a plumber) is not a grassroots guy but a piece of astroturf planted by Republican operatives.

    I know…isn’t it delish?!??
    The only thing sweeter than a McCain/Palin victory would be a McCain/Palin victory using a play right out of the Democrats’ playbook!
    :P

  11. #503594
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:37 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Why does anyone care what Joe does. He forced Obama to actually expose his agenda.

  12. #503595
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:38 pm, xblade said:

    You can’t choose your relatives. You can choose whose racist church you sit in for 20 years, and which domestic terrorist you choose to hang with.

    Besides, I thought associations didn’t matter. I guess what they really mean is Obama’s associations don’t matter, but eveyone else’s is fair game.

  13. #503600
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:45 pm, brooklyn red said:

    FamilyMan said:
    lgm said: Nothing.
    The thing you don’t understand sport, is that the messenger may not be perfect but he did expose your idol
    .

    FM, don’t get so personally/emotionally connected… these are not people that you can box with… or reason with for that matter. You might as well be cursing out the program that asks you to press 1 for English, LOL. It is just software… maybe it has a body, maybe it lives in a chip, whatever, but don’t joust with windmills, OK?

  14. #503602
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:47 pm, Boomer said:

    The Obamamedia attack dogs are making a huge mistake in attacking and trying to rip apart Joe Wurzelbacher. Not only do they further expose the death of journalism in this country by being in league with the anointed one, but they have at the same time declared open warfare on every working man and woman in America. Punishing an everyday American citizen for tripping up the anointed one with a legitimate question is very dangerous and could very well lose their messiah the election. To their declaration of war against all of us I say, “CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!” :twisted:

    Welcome to the United Socialist States of America! We’re boned!

  15. #503603
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm, MDH3 said:

    Why does anyone care what Joe does. He forced Obama to actually expose his agenda.

    The bastards care because he forced Obama to tell the truth.

    I mean, God forbid anyone yell ‘the Emperor has no clothes!’

  16. #503605
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:49 pm, nyk said:

    Do you really, in all seriousness (should the rumors about “Joe” turn out to be true) not see the hypocrisy in deeming this relationship unimportant? If McCain were asked a question that may have been 1) asked purely to gather a soundbite to be used against him by the Obama campaign and 2) was asked by a possible Obama plant 3) who was related (even distantly) to, say, the Kennedy clan, can you tell me it wouldn’t matter — and that those who comment on this site wouldn’t be yelling about underhanded Democratic tricks and malfeasance? Even the most minimal appearance of impropriety on Obama’s part becomes fodder for days of useless chatter here. For a group that has made so much of even Obama’s most tenuous relationships — a group that seems to recognize a conspiracy in every Democratic move or word — I really find the flippant disregard for this situation truly amazing and the most obvious admission of complete hypocrisy.

  17. #503606
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:50 pm, FamilyMan said:

    brooklyn red said: but don’t joust with windmills, OK?

    I’ll give it a go but I’m so sick of idiots.

  18. #503609
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm, wighttrasch said:

    ALBA GO BRAGH!!

    Or rather: ERIN GO BRAGH – LESS

  19. #503611
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:56 pm, vickisoup said:

    nyk says, “Do you really, in all seriousness (should the rumors about “Joe” turn out to be true) not see the hypocrisy in deeming this relationship unimportant? Even the most minimal appearance of impropriety on Obama’s part becomes fodder for days of useless chatter here.

    You know, it takes a particularly twisted mind to provide a moral-equivalency argument to a [possible] Keating relative who asked Obama a perfectly legitimate question about taxes, and a friend of Obama’s who planted bombs and blew up buildings, and now says he wished he would have done more.
    You’re one twisted mo-fo, nyk.

  20. #503613
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pm, nyk said:

    nyk wrote:

    Do you really, in all seriousness (should the rumors about “Joe” turn out to be true) not see the hypocrisy in deeming this relationship unimportant? If McCain were asked a question that may have been 1) asked purely to gather a soundbite to be used against him by the Obama campaign and 2) was asked by a possible Obama plant 3) who was related (even distantly) to, say, the Kennedy clan, can you tell me it wouldn’t matter — and that those who comment on this site wouldn’t be yelling about underhanded Democratic tricks and malfeasance? Even the most minimal appearance of impropriety on Obama’s part becomes fodder for days of useless chatter here. For a group that has made so much of even Obama’s most tenuous relationships — a group that seems to recognize a conspiracy in every Democratic move or word — I really find the flippant disregard for this situation truly amazing and the most obvious admission of complete hypocrisy.

    …and, I might add, proof of the blind, unquestioning, automaton-like allegiance to a candidate/party that you accuse Obama supporters of having.

  21. #503614
    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pm, FamilyMan said:

    vickisoup said: You’re one twisted mo-fo, nyk.

    DITTO!

  22. #503617
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:02 pm, Rob said:

    vickisoup said: You’re one twisted mo-fo, nyk.

    Why even respond to the moron?

  23. #503620
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm, nyk said:

    You know, it takes a particularly twisted mind to provide a moral-equivalency argument to a [possible] Keating relative who asked Obama a perfectly legitimate question about taxes, and a friend of Obama’s who planted bombs and blew up buildings, and now says he wished he would have done more.

    It takes a linear-minded simpleton like yourself, I suppose, to not see the parallels. The principle remains the same: If there were even the slightest suspicion that Obama had planted a colleague’s relative at a McCain rally, with the intent to obtain a favorable outcome for the Obama campaign, the outcry here would be deafening.

  24. #503622
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:04 pm, brooklyn red said:

    OK, yes but don’t let the idiots play you. Check this out, log on, say something inflammatory & bug out.

    You can spend the rest of the day raising your BP, & writing an intellectual response to a sniper who is long gone… (I don’t say troll, I say sniper). lgm will never read your response, cause he is long gone, doing satan’s bidding elsewhere… the effort that you spend answering these errr, condoms could be better spent e-mailing your congress critters (for example)…OK?

  25. #503623
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:05 pm, nyk said:

    Why even respond to the moron?

    Particularly when she has called you out on your collective, mind-blowing hypocrisy.

  26. #503625
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:06 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Brad Pitt is related to Obama, that has been established. That Bail-out gave tax credits to Actors, Producers, Screen Writers etc.
    Obama caused the banking crisis to aid his family!
    Hillary Clinton is cousin to Angelina Joline, that has been established.
    Brad Pitt and Angelina Joline are “an item”.
    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton involved in incest—use public money!

    I should be a writer for the New York Times!

  27. #503627
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, FamilyMan said:

    proof of the blind, unquestioning, automaton-like allegiance to a candidate/party

    nyk just exposed his bigotry by assuming we all want McCain or the Republicans. He needs a course in logic.
    The left has a mindless ideology. Conservatives question all assumptions.
    nyk Go teach in public schools. You may get away with those garbage arguments.
    p.s… sorry brooklyn red. I can’t help my self

  28. #503628
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, vickisoup said:

    nyk, Joe asked a question about taxes. What’s wrong with that, no matter who he’s related to? How about focusing on the question, instead of who asked it? Who cares who asked it?
    Or are you of the mind that any legitimate question is made automatically illegitimate when it’s asked of Obamessiah (”he who must not be challenged”)?

  29. #503629
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:12 pm, mgraves said:

    If the liberals want to play guilt by association I say bring it on!

    Ayers, Rezko, Wright, Farrakhan, ACORN, Fannie, Freddie, Raines, Jim Johnson…where does it end?

  30. #503631
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:14 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    If McCain were asked a question that may have been 1) asked purely to gather a soundbite to be used against him by the Obama campaign and 2) was asked by a possible Obama plant 3) who was related (even distantly) to, say, the Kennedy clan, can you tell me it wouldn’t matter — and that those who comment on this site wouldn’t be yelling about underhanded Democratic tricks and malfeasance?

    I see your point, but at this time it’s speculation. Give it a little longer, I suspect within 2 days we’ll know more about JTP than we know about BHusseinO after 2 years.

  31. #503635
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, brooklyn red said:

    FM, Well, nyk to his/her credit sticks around to answer… you may engage at will.

    sniper/trolls take a pot shot and run off to oh, Idontknow, a nambala meeting or something… don’t waist your time on them.

  32. #503636
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, John Ansell said:

    :lol: Breaking News: Plumber Joe distantly related to William Ayers. Way back when their was a guy named Adam and a Gal named eve…….story at 11. Back to your normal program.

  33. #503639
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    a question that may have been 1) asked purely to gather a soundbite to be used against him

    Seriously nyk, you are normally better than this. “A soundbite to be used against him?” You mean because he answered truthfully it can be used against him? Or most Americans disagree with him so it can be used against him? Or Joe tricked him into saying something he didn’t believe, or….

    Really any American should be able to ask any candidate anthing they want – and we get to judge them by their answer. Goes for Palin, goes for Obama.

    All of this – silly as it already is – goes headfirst into tinfoil land (in the pike position for Katie Couric fans) when it ignores the fact that Obama showed up in this guy’s neighborhood and not the other way around. I like to think of it as paranoia and not lack of intelligence…

  34. #503640
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm, MDH3 said:

    Obama had planted a colleague’s relative at a McCain rally, with the intent to obtain a favorable outcome for the Obama campaign

    1. Charles Keating is not a seated US senator – so there goes “colleague’s relative”.

    2. Joe asked a question of Obama who, unsolicited, walked up to Joe – so there goes the “at a McCain rally”. Matter of fact, there goes the whole OH MY GOD HE’S A PLANT theory.

    What else have you got?

  35. #503641
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm, brooklyn red said:

    AlohaGuy re:
    …Seriously nyk, you are normally better than this…

    Can you smell the fear??

  36. #503642
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm, MDH3 said:

    oh, and 1a. where is the proof that Keating and Joe are related?

    But the crux of the matter is this – who cares to whom the man is related? He asked a legitimate question, Obama got caught flatfooted and looked pretty bad, and now the left is looking to tear the guy limb from limb.

    It’s foul.

  37. #503643
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm, vickisoup said:

    I don’t even care if he WAS a plant. He asked a good question, Obama answered it in exactly the way Obama wanted to, and now he hopes for a do-over because of some what…some what??
    nyk, you need to call the waaaaahmbulance, stat!
    :roll:

  38. #503644
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm, FamilyMan said:

    vickisoup said: Who cares who asked it?

    nyk. If Catie Kuric asked the question of Joe, would you be looking into her background?

  39. #503645
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm, nyk said:

    Conservatives question all assumptions.

    I truly don’t believe this (to be honest, I believe quite the opposite), but I believe it even less if the conservatives we’re discussing are the ones who comment on this blog.

    nyk, Joe asked a question about taxes. What’s wrong with that, no matter who he’s related to? How about focusing on the question, instead of who asked it? Who cares who asked it?
    Or are you of the mind that any legitimate question is made automatically illegitimate when it’s asked of Obamessiah (”he who must not be challenged”)?

    There’s nothing wrong with asking questions of the candidates. It should be encouraged! But if this person is only “asking” questions to achieve a political end — if there is a questionable motive to their questions — if they may very well be affiliated with a particular campaign (and being a relative of a candidate’s associate(s) at the very least raises all those questions) then, of course people will be suspicious.

    My point is, I simply do not believe, after having read this blog for so long, that were the situation reversed, that charges of “cheating” wouldn’t be leveled at Obama. It strikes me as odd predictable that a group that has had so much to say about associations and alliances doesn’t find this situation the slightest bit interesting (not to mention a group that is on a constant lookout for possible plants — at least, where their own candidate is concerned). If the tables were turned, there is no way those that comment here would so easily dismiss the situation out of hand.

  40. #503646
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm, June said:

    Comment by Paul (Lancaster,CA)
    October 16th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
    I have a new reason to hate Obama. He got Joe the Plumber fired. No lie it’s on hot air. He reported him to Toledo plumber association. Liberals have sunk a new low!

    Comment by OMGIAMGOINGNUTS – Cindie
    October 16th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
    Greta,
    Please look into this. The obama camp has made it where JOE THE PLUMBER can’t work. Is there some way we can help him?

  41. #503649
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Can you smell the fear??

    It’s really goofy time. Their guy is up in the polls and they’re having a heart attack about him saying what he actually believes in front of a camera – and making up absurdly convoluted expalantions of the episode.

    Even if McCain himself hired the guy from central casting, bought him a house in that neighborhood in anticipation of Obama’s arrival, told him what to ask and bribed an ABC cameraman to record it – the question is legitimate, and Obama choose to answer it, and answer it the way he did.

  42. #503650
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm, nyk said:

    nyk. If Catie Kuric asked the question of Joe, would you be looking into her background?

    This is an asinine question.

  43. #503651
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:28 pm, madchef said:

    The Obamiacs and his followers will stop at nothing to get what they want. If you make money, they will take it. If you speakout against them, they will try to destroy you. I can just vision a health care system under the left where if you have TWO good cornea’s and a gangbanger needs one, they will take one. A wino crackhead needs a kidney and you have TWO healthy ones give it up. They will say ” health is better when you spread it around”. Liberals are thieves, it’s that simple.

  44. #503652
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:29 pm, FamilyMan said:

    It looks like nyk may need some “DEPENDS”

  45. #503653
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:30 pm, FamilyMan said:

    nyk said: This is an asinine question.

    WHY?

  46. #503655
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm, jsr said:

    A couple days ago I jokingly posted that an attack was coming on Joe the Plumber. Little did I know how inhinged the left would become and now he is the main issue of the day, even one that could be appreciably hurt Obama. New prediction: by morning the line of attack will be What did McCain know and when did he know it?

  47. #503657
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm, vickisoup said:

    Honestly. I’m frosted by this stupid issue. We’ve got possibly 200,000 fraudulent voter registrations in the state of Ohio alone. We’ve got Obama’s campaign race-baiting by fabricating, out of whole cloth, some alleged McCain supporter saying, “Kill Him”, which the Secret Service says is total bunk.
    And nyk and his weenie pals crying about a possible planted, but perfectly legitimate, question of their candidate who’s gotten a total free pass at every turn. So, brooklynred, I don’t smell fear. What I smell is a loaded dirty nyk diaper, to whom I loudly scream, “Get over it, ya big baby!”

  48. #503658
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:32 pm, FamilyMan said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:30 pm, FamilyMan said:
    nyk said: This is an asinine question.
    WHY?

  49. #503659
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, tyrfing said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 7:09 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    tyrfing: Pearl Street friday night?

    Rabbid! You’re from CO as well? Where abouts, the People’s Republic of Boulder?

  50. #503660
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, brooklyn red said:

    AlohaGuy said:
    - the question is legitimate, and Obama choose to answer it, and answer it the way he did.

    I can smell the fear… ummmmm, delicious.

  51. #503661
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:33 pm, FamilyMan said:

    nyk. WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!

  52. #503663
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:35 pm, FamilyMan said:

    nyk. WWWHHHHYYYY?

  53. #503665
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:36 pm, vickisoup said:

    But if this person is only “asking” questions to achieve a political end — if there is a questionable motive to their questions

    So you mean like Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson? Got it.
    Dude, please…you’re killing me.
    Every interviewer asks questions to achieve a political end. There is nothing wrong with that. The “political end” is an informed election, which is good news!

  54. #503668
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:37 pm, vickisoup said:

    And I’m sorry I called you a weenie and a big baby. That was over the line.

  55. #503670
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pm, FamilyMan said:

    nyk. Does it take you that long to answer a question.
    You must not have a strong core value system.

  56. #503671
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:39 pm, flenser said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, lgm said:

    It makes it look like Joe Plumber (who isn’t a plumber)

    He is a plumber, you pathetic moron.

  57. #503673
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:42 pm, brooklyn red said:

    vickisoup re:
    Honestly. I’m frosted by this stupid issue. We’ve got possibly 200,000 fraudulent voter registrations in the state of Ohio alone.

    Which we caught

    Do not doubt your countrymen, we are tens of millions God fearing strong, and we are not blind, nor stupid.

  58. #503675
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:43 pm, flenser said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm, nyk said:

    There’s nothing wrong with asking questions of the candidates. It should be encouraged! But if this person is only “asking” questions to achieve a political end — if there is a questionable motive to their questions — if they may very well be affiliated with a particular campaign (and being a relative of a candidate’s associate(s) at the very least raises all those questions) then, of course people will be suspicious.

    Using that criteria, I have to assume that you are “suspicious” of half the members of the MSM who have close connections to the Democratic Party.

    Right?

  59. #503677
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm, vickisoup said:
    Honestly. I’m frosted by this stupid issue. We’ve got possibly 200,000 fraudulent voter registrations in the state of Ohio alone. We’ve got Obama’s campaign race-baiting by fabricating, out of whole cloth, some alleged McCain supporter saying, “Kill Him”, which the Secret Service says is total bunk.
    And nyk and his weenie pals crying about a possible planted, but perfectly legitimate, question of their candidate who’s gotten a total free pass at every turn. So, brooklynred, I don’t smell fear. What I smell is a loaded dirty nyk diaper, to whom I loudly scream, “Get over it, ya big baby!”

    You are right about all of that, vickisoup.

    I do believe, though, that there is something to be said for intellectual consistency/honesty (one of the things I think is so lacking on the left). At the risk of invoking the wrath of the board, I do think nyk raises a valid point. It’s too early to tell whether there’s any truth to all of this, but if there is, it should be called out.

    It should not, however, distract from the fact that BHusseinO let the cat out of the bag himself.

  60. #503683
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:48 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Why do they always run when I ask the simple question WHY?

  61. #503684
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm, vickisoup said:

    It’s too early to tell whether there’s any truth to all of this, but if there is, it should be called out.

    matt, “called out” as what? If Joe Plumber is Charles Keating’s son who just had breakfast with him earlier in the day and had gone to the rally hoping, even muscling his way to the front so he could ask this question on taxes because Charles Keating asked him to do just that, what
    would this mean to you? What would this mean to the election? How does this compromise the intellectual consistency and honesty of the McCain campaign?
    Please…be specific. I’m thick.

  62. #503686
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    Or Joe tricked him into saying something he didn’t believe, or….

    Lets go with this one and we’ll even acknowledge that Joe is a republican plant and he’s not a “real” plumber.

    Fake uneducated non-union plumber fools ‘the smartest’ person running for the most powerful job in the world into giving a real answer!

  63. #503687
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm, brooklyn red said:

    FamilyMan said:
    Why do they always run when I ask the simple question WHY?

    Look FM, I grow weary… you ask questions to which you know the answer…

  64. #503688
    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:59 pm, docflash said:

    lgm, worrying about a plant is picking the pepper out of fly poop.Since it looks like your boy Hussein is going to slime his way to the office your taxes are going up and your freedoms down.You will still be able to swoop in here and drop your bombs.At least until the goons shut it down.

  65. #503691
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm, lgm said:
    You know the answer to your question, don’t play stupid.

    It makes it look like Joe Plumber (who isn’t a plumber) is not a grassroots guy but a piece of astroturf planted by Republican operatives.

    Umm, ma’am – Obama PICKED Joe out of a line of people.

    Are you telling us that Hussein Obama purposly picked a Republican Plant just to make himself look stupid?

    Maybe he is that stupid! Miss lgm may be on to something here gang. All this time we thought Obama earned some of those grades from Haaavaad when it turns out all along he’s a run of the mill dummy socialist affirmative actions moron.

    Thanks for shining some light on the subject lgm, now go to your room you silly little girl.

  66. #503693
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:04 pm, brooklyn red said:

    At least until the goons shut it down.

    I do trust that the Madame Hostess has planned for that… if not, this would be a good time to :)

  67. #503695
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:04 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm, vickisoup said:
    Please…be specific. I’m thick.

    Well, now, I don’t think I believe that. :-)

    “Called out” as in shady tactics. There’s no doubt about the legitimacy of the question, but getting someone connected to a shady character himself to ask it, just reaks (sp?) of impropriety, looks bad, and ultimately becomes a distraction. Particularly with the media we have now, any slip-up by our side will be bandied about for days on end. Instead of focusing on BHO’s idiotic answer, the focus becomes the questioner, and that by extension becomes an attack on McCain’s campaign.

    I don’t know if it compromises the intellectual consistency of the McCain campaign. I’m saying our side, as conservatives, Republicans, McCain supporters, what have you, is compromised by not calling out something that we would call out if it was on the other side.

  68. #503702
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm, flenser said:

    “Called out” as in shady tactics. There’s no doubt about the legitimacy of the question, but getting someone connected to a shady character himself to ask it, just reaks (sp?) of impropriety,

    What sort of garbage is this?

    a) He is “connected” to a “shady character” is the same sense as Obama is connected to the Prince of Wales.

    b) Nobody “got him” to do anything.

    c) The Fascist picked Joe at random out of a crowd to ask a question. Do you think he was being manipulated by a Rovian mind-ray?

  69. #503705
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pm, flenser said:

    What sort of garbage is this?

    a) He is “connected” to a “shady character” is the same sense as Obama is connected to the Prince of Wales.

    b) Nobody “got him” to do anything.

    c) The Fascist picked Joe at random out of a crowd to ask a question. Do you think he was being manipulated by a Rovian mind-ray?

    Dude. Settle down. We’re talking hypothetically. I’m not saying he was a plant, and I’m not saying he is connected to that other guy. None of that is proven.

  70. #503709
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm, flenser said:

    mattymatt10

    I do think nyk raises a valid point.

    Which point would that be? His assumption that it is the role of the media to destroy private citizens who dare ask awkard quesions of our masters?

    We’re slouching towards despotism, and you’re worrying that a person who points that out is the second cousin twice removed to some “shady character”.

    Americans do not deserve to be free. So they won’t be.

  71. #503711
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:18 pm, flenser said:

    We’re talking hypothetically.

    So when you said that our totalitarian thug nyk “raises a valid point”, were you being hypothetical?

  72. #503712
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:21 pm, tyrfing said:

    Which point would that be? His assumption that it is the role of the media to destroy private citizens who dare ask awkard quesions of our masters?

    We’re slouching towards despotism, and you’re worrying that a person who points that out is the second cousin twice removed to some “shady character”.

    /cheer

  73. #503713
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:21 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    Have you read, you know, my whole posts, or do you just like picking out a line here or there?

  74. #503714
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, FamilyMan said:

    mattymatt10 YOU CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT NYK REFUSES TO.
    If Catie Kuric asked the question of Joe, would you be looking into her background?

  75. #503716
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    FamilyMan, I’m not sure what you’re asking there.

  76. #503717
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Our trolls are out in force–Halloween is coming, isn’t it? Why are we arguing with people who don’t believe their own words? Freddy Kruger and his love child Igor are just not that important.

    Don’t Feed The Trolls-ignore them.

  77. #503718
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm, FamilyMan said:

    mattymatt10 If Catie Kuric asked the question of Joe, would you be looking into her background?

  78. #503719
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm, tyrfing said:

    I’m just laughing at the troll’s “Obama is the victim here” spin.

  79. #503721
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:27 pm, flenser said:

    FamilyMan, I think matty is committed to playing stupid.

  80. #503723
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    nyk. If Catie Kuric asked the question of Joe, would you be looking into her background?

    I’m afraid America has already looked into her “background”…

    (I applaud her actually for doing the cancer screening on TV since it might’ve helped others.)

  81. #503724
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm, FamilyMan said:

    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm, FamilyMan said:
    mattymatt10 If Catie Kuric asked the question to OBAMA, would you be looking into her background?

  82. #503725
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    FamilyMan, are you saying if Curic asked the tax question of Joe? I’m still not quite sure what you’re getting at.

  83. #503726
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    I guess I’m not sure why would we look into Curic’s background? The country knows all about Katie Couric.

    As for you Flenser, don’t be calling people stupid when all you do is pick and choose what lines in a post you want to respond to.

  84. #503727
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pm, torabora said:

    Being a plumber is a crappy job. So is being a reporter. Reporters are always digging up s**t. Plumbers have to have a license to dig up s**t but reporters don’t. How is this possible when we know the Fourth Estate is totally in the tank for truth and fairness?

    BTW, I can’t imagine BO has EVER having worked a job that required him to do anything close to resembling work. His pandering to blue collar types like me angers me.

  85. #503729
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:33 pm, FamilyMan said:

    The point mattymatt10
    WHO CARE WHERE THE QUESTION CAME FROM
    GEEEEEESSSS!!!

  86. #503733
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:37 pm, flenser said:

    Go away, you witless troll.

  87. #503734
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:38 pm, ajmontana said:

    ***** Faux News Alert*****
    Joe the Plumber is really Uncle Fester.
    Lerch put him up to asking Obama a simple question just to drive the libtards crazy with Obama’s dumba$$ answer.
    “Thing” was with Michelle O’ doin his thing and unavailable for comment.

    film at 11:00

  88. #503736
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:39 pm, flenser said:

    Awkward facts.

    Mr. Wurzelbacher was playing football in his front yard with his son, Joey, on Sunday afternoon when Mr. Obama made an unscheduled stop to go door to door greeting voters and asking for their support.

    Wow, that was some brilliant “plant” on the part of the McCain campaign. I may have to rethink my assessment of the cranky old fool.

  89. #503738
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm, FamilyMan said:

    Wow, that was some brilliant “plant” on the part of the McCain campaign.

    They were using the newest techniques in remote mind control to make Obama stop and talk to Joe.

  90. #503739
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm, tyrfing said:

    Wow, that was some brilliant “plant” on the part of the McCain campaign.

    McCain must have 1000s of strategically placed operatives. You’ll never know where the next mildly difficult question will come from Sen. Obama!

  91. #503741
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm, mattymatt10 said:

    Obviously I’m not communicating my thoughts effectively here. Let me try to summarize thusly:

    1. The question was, of course, valid. Absolutely, no questions asked.

    2. nyk’s point, as I read it, was that calling out shady relationships on one side, but not calling out shady relationships on the other side, is hypocritical. Did you all take something else from that? Cuz I do think it’s a valid point. As I said earlier, it goes to intellectual honesty and consistency, which I don’t view as a bad thing.

    3. Nothing has been proven yet as far as Joe’s relationship. Therefore, this is hypothetical.

    4. It matters where the question came from because, as I wrote earlier, if the questioner can become a distraction, it pulls focus away from BHO’s response, to the questioner, which, rightly or wrongly, leads back to the McCain campaign. C’mon, you people know the media we have in this country. You know this is exactly what would happen.

    How is anything that I wrote sympathetic to FauxBama? All I’m talking about is intellectual consistency.

    I loathe FauxBama just as much as anyone here. He belongs in the White House only as a tourist. To suggest I’m a troll or something is ridiculous. I’ll put my conservative bona-fides up against anyone here.

  92. #503742
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:46 pm, Misscheryl said:

    Off subject but Gallup shows Obama 49% and MCain 47% which is within the margin of error! For those who are into polls.

  93. #503746
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:52 pm, flenser said:

    matty, matty, matty.

    Try reading what your favorite totalitarian thug actually wrote.

    Even the most minimal appearance of impropriety on Obama’s part becomes fodder for days of useless chatter here. For a group that has made so much of even Obama’s most tenuous relationships — a group that seems to recognize a conspiracy in every Democratic move or word — I really find the flippant disregard for this situation truly amazing and the most obvious admission of complete hypocrisy.

    That is, our little thug is saying that the hypothetical notion that some private citizen is distantly related to sombody is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT to Obama’s long standing close relationships with terrorists and racists.

    And you, matty, are playing along with him. Suggesting that you are very stupid or just another moby.

  94. #503747
    On October 16th, 2008 at 9:54 pm, flenser said:

    For a group that has made so much of even Obama’s most tenuous relationships

    Yeah, spending twenty years in a racist church is sure “tenuous”.

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