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Ho hum. Government contractor abuses access to citizen’s confidential info. Left shrugs. Privacy invader gets a slap on the wrist. Crickets chirp:
A year ago tonight, “Joe the Plumber” entered America’s political consciousness.
Republican Sen. John McCain’s mention of the Toledo-area man during a presidential debate ultimately led to the downfall of an Ohio cabinet director for [...]

DOH’bama strikes again.

Bill Whittle responds to criticism of PJTV and Joe the Plumber.
More here.
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Update: JD Johannes has an update on his initial reaction to JTP:
I hope this never gets lost in the translation: Joe is wonderful when he is relating the story of regular working people in a dire situation.
As a child-less bachelor who has [...]

“He also observed and reported from the house where a Kassam landed on Sunday afternoon.”

“Professional” question of the morning.

My syndicated column today looks at the MSM sneering over Joe Wurzelbacher’s trip to Israel sponsored by PJTV, recounts how The Fraternal Order of the Professional Journalist has squandered its own credibility, and exposes how liberal media elites have attempted to shut out conservatives from membership in the journalism club by redefining their craft [...]

Joe The Plumber will cover the Gaza conflict for PJTV. He’ll be there for 10 days. Stay safe, Joe!
Joe the Plumber is taking on a new job.
The Ohio man, who became famous during the U.S. presidential campaign after asking Barack Obama about his tax plan, is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for a [...]

Heads finally roll.

“Dictated word for word.”

Duh.

“F__G__D__Joe the G__D__M__F__plumber! I want M__F Joe the plumber dead.”

“No reason to believe…”

Well, it sure took them long enough, didn’t it?
Via Dayton Daily News (which you’ll notice fails to mention that Jones-Kelley is a max contributor to Obama’s campaign):
Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and former head of that department in Montgomery County, has been placed on paid administrative leave by [...]

Can the Democrats’ “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” file get any bigger? Thanks to Jeff Poor at the Business and Media Institute, we now know that the Democratic National Committee is employing the very data mining techniques to build its party base that Democrat leaders have assailed when used by the Bush [...]

“F__G__D__Joe the G__D__M__F__plumber! I want M__F Joe the plumber dead.”

It keeps getting uglier. The Columbus Dispatch is reporting tonight that an Ohio state employee is contradicting her superiors; the worker says she was ordered to rummage through Joe The Plumber’s records — and she stated the blindingly obvious truth that such searches had never been done before simply because a citizen had come to [...]

Photoshop: David Lunde
My syndicated column today spotlights the silence of the left-wing privacy champions who care more about protecting suspected terrorists than Barack Obama’s critics. Earlier this week, I contacted the national ACLU office in New York twice for comment about the raid of Joe The Plumber’s records. No reply. After my filing deadline passed, [...]

Fresh air.

Effigies, voter fraud, and Ohio’s snoopers.

Chilling effect.

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Photoshop: David Lunde
Just in: The Toledo Police Department confirms that one of its records clerks has been charged with performing an unlawful search of Joe The Plumber’s records.
That makes two Ohio government employees identified in the snooping case. (Obama donor Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, approved [...]

Solidarity.

Of course.
I ask again: Will the privacy champions come to Joe the Plumber’s defense?
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More: Ohio’s inspector general is investigating…
Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.”
Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that [...]

Unmasked.

There is something in the water in Ohio.
They’ve got a fraud-friendly Secretary of State, infestations of out-of-state students and Obama workers sabotaging electoral integrity, and now…government employees or accomplices thereof rifling through the records of Joe the Plumber immediately after the last presidential debate.
You’ll remember that a national media uproar ensued after it was [...]

He’s not “unlicensed.” He’s “undocumented.”
Hat tip: Commenter Maine Yankee.
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Joe The Plumbers are everywhere. They’re speaking up in Tennessee:
Joe Schwark, owner of JMS Plumbing in Spring Hill, said he has a general distrust of politicians, but appreciated the recognition of his craft.
“Personally, I don’t think either of them is what the country needs,” he said. “But [...]

You can catch me on Fox and Friends today at around 8:15am-ish Eastern talking about the war on Joe the Plumber and the rage that’s not on your front page.
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Update: Video’s here.

Scroll for updates…McCain defends Joe the Plumber…

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My syndicated column today reports on Team Obama and the Obamedia’s mission to tear down Joe the Plumber. Yes, we are in the midst of a new contagion: Joe The Plumber Derangement Syndrome. JTPDS.
Now, pay close attention to how the MSM rushes to uncover every last [...]

Plumbing.

“Americans are catching on.”