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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (275363)	10/19/2008 7:07:33 AM
From: Tom Clarke	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793639

"In what kind of nation, do the media investigate critics more than candidates?" politics.boogietrain.nl

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (275363)	10/19/2008 9:58:32 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793639

But after witnessing the media's blitzkreig on Joe 'the Plumber' Wurzelbacher, I can only muster anger, and no small amount of fear. I AM JOE! Iowahawk has a Bingo with that statement.....we all KNOW that is precisely why we feel as we feel right now. Joe the Plumber is different. He was a guy tossing a football with his kid in the front yard of his $125,000 house when a politician picked him out as a prop for a 30 second newsbite for the cable news cameras. Joe simply had the temerity to speak truth (or, if you prefer, an uninformed opinion) to power, for which the politico-media axis apparently determined that he must be humiliated, harassed, smashed, destroyed. The viciousness and glee with which they set about the task ought to concern anyone who still cares about citizen participation, and freedom of speech, and all that old crap they taught in Civics class before politics turned into Narrative Deathrace 3000, and Web 2.0 turned into Berlin 1932.0. Godwin's Law! you say? if the jackboot fits, wear it.