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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (561745)	4/19/2010 3:50:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572604

He became famous because of Obama's response to him, which was pretty much a socialist manifesto. And a socialist manifesto is what?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (561745)	4/19/2010 4:10:14 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572604

>He became famous because of Obama's response to him, which was pretty much a socialist manifesto. Not true. From what I can tell, nobody said anything about it before McCain did. ABC News, on whose program McCain mentioned Wurzelbacher the morning of the 14th, did do a fact-check on its blog a couple of hours later. blogs.abcnews.com By the way, if you listen to the whole exchange (which I'm not sure I ever had before), it was a pretty reasonable exchange. And by the way, you're right -- eliminating the capital gains tax on small businesses really is "pretty much a socialist manifesto." After that, Cavuto got Wurzelbacher on his show later that day. But nothing really blew up until "Joe the Plumber" was mentioned 11 times during the debate. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (561745)	4/19/2010 4:42:24 PM
From: SilentZ	Respond to of 1572604

>He became famous because of Obama's response to him, which was pretty much a socialist manifesto. Actually, I was just going through Blogger's archives from the days in question. A handful of conservative bloggers picked up on the story after Fox News aired the clip on the 13th. There's a favorable reference on the 12th from a blog written by an Obama supporter, referring to the original quote in the Toledo Blade among several others of Obama talking to people. I can't find any references to the "mainstream media" looking into his background until after the debate. Google is cool. -Z