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Lede of the Day

By | 05.01.09 | 12:43 pm

John Hawkins wins the Internet:

When I was in college, I studied Southern Long Fist Kung Fu for more than a year and my teacher told me something that I never forgot.

I’d like to think that the F. Scott Fitzgerald rip is intentional. Sadly, the rest of the More…

Swat Valley High: Taliban Spokesman Goes Quasi-Viral

By | 04.30.09 | 9:40 am

The NEFA Foundation has gotten ahold of an English-language video interview given by a Swat Valley spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban — think of them as a big tent of Taliban factions — apparently recorded on April 27. You can hear Haji Muslim Khan expand on the finer points of More…

Joe the Plumber at Michigan Tea Party: Saying ‘In God We Trust’ Will Get You Shot In Some Places

By | 04.15.09 | 4:12 pm

Instant icon: Joe "the plumber" Wurzelbacher made headlines last fall when Republican presidential candidate John McCain brought him to light during a debate with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He spoke in Lansing Wednesday as part of the national Tea Bag Protest to protest taxes in the country

LANSING, Mich. — Thousands of people descended on the Michigan Capitol earlier today as part of a national movement of “tea parties” to protest high taxes and what they argue is an encroachment of socialism into American government and society.

Addressing the rally was Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, commonly More…

Still Here, Still Not Plumbing

By | 03.05.09 | 11:10 am

Just in across the transom:

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced a press conference with Samuel Wurzelbacher — “Joe the Plumber.”

The event is open to the press and the public.

While Wurzelbacher was in town last week for the Conservative Political Action More…

Joe the Plumber on Rick Santelli, John McCain and Sarah Palin

By | 02.25.09 | 4:17 pm

I could not shake the sense that Rick Santelli, CNBC’s Angry Man, was going through the same media cycle that Joe Wurzelbacher was. So, at an Americans for Tax Reform luncheon today, I asked Wurzelbacher if he agreed with Santelli’s appearance last week, in which Santelli blasted the mortgage rescue More…

Joe the Plumber Goes to Washington

By | 02.25.09 | 1:37 pm

Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is in Washington today through the weekend, having spent the morning at Grover Norquist’s Wednesday breakfast, taken a quick smoke break, and lunched with conservative journalists before a series of events at CPAC.

The most important question: Is he still working as a plumber? “For More…

Joe the Whiner

By | 02.05.09 | 2:56 pm

Look, the media doesn’t pay enough attention to Samuel Wurzelbacher. The key scene in Wurzelbacher’s latest episode of “Just Joe,” the Pajamas TV web show comes when he’s talking to a small group of reporters in the Capitol. Why aren’t there more reporters in the room? What is it More…

Punditin’ Ain’t Easy

By | 01.13.09 | 4:57 pm

One of the Right’s most prolific online political writers, Jennifer Rubin, puts out a story today headlined “Obama’s Centrism Could Drive the GOP Out of Business.”

The greatest champion of liberals (they thought) is on the verge of repudiating their agenda. But he is also undermining the opposition. The

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TrainWreckMedia

By | 01.12.09 | 9:15 am

I turned down a (very polite) request to appear on one of Pajamas Media’s online shows last week. Why?

This is why.

In Defense of Joe The Plumber’s Reporting Cred

By | 01.07.09 | 1:52 pm

Get that tone out of your voice, Aaron! You slyly mock Joe The Plumber’s forthcoming reporting assignment for Pajamas TV in Israel. But a closer look at the ongoing war in Gaza demonstrates why, now more than ever, the region needs Joe The Plumber.

Human rights groups and Palestinian More…