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		<title>Too Much, Magic Bus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PajamasTV hasn&#8217;t really been in the news since it hired Sam &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher to report on the war in Gaza, but it&#8217;s still kicking. Some of its most popular content is coming from black conservative comic Alfonzo Rachel, who sometimes appears as &#8220;President Zobama.&#8221; He&#8217;s put together a music video that is mostly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PajamasTV hasn&#8217;t really been in the news since it hired Sam &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher to report on the war in Gaza, but it&#8217;s still kicking. Some of its most popular content is coming from black conservative comic Alfonzo Rachel, who sometimes appears as &#8220;President Zobama.&#8221; He&#8217;s put together a music video that is mostly notable for the way it captures the little memes and stories that have been forgotten outside of the deep conservative base.</p>
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<p>A little decoding: it is considered noteworthy, and hilarious, that President Obama dispatches political allies who become a problem to him. Indeed, this is pretty strange and no politician has done it before. But since the cliche &#8220;throwing [person or thing] under the bus&#8221; took hold, conservatives have applied it to anyone that Obama apparently distanced him from, ever.</p>
<p>• The video begins with Rachel running over a TV image of &#8220;my white grandmama,&#8221; whom conservatives believe was &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; in Obama&#8217;s speech on race when he talked about her admitted uneasiness among black men.</p>
<p>• The reference to the &#8220;brother in a shack&#8221; is to<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4583353.ece"> George Obama</a>, the president&#8217;s half brother, who lives in Nairobi.</p>
<p>• The lyric about the &#8220;magic negro&#8221; story is sort of garbled — Rachel says the &#8220;New York Times called&#8221; Obama that, but it was black critic David <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Edelstein</span> Ehrenstein in The Los Angeles Times. Rachel jokes that Rush Limbaugh was pilloried for citing the comment, but it didn&#8217;t really become an issue until Republican National Committee chairman candidate Chip Saltsman sent around a CD of parody songs including &#8220;Barack the Magic Negro,&#8221; sung by an Al Sharpton impersonator.</p>
<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s the state of PajamasTV at the moment.</p>
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		<title>Swat Valley High: Taliban Spokesman Goes Quasi-Viral</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Ackerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NEFA Foundation has gotten ahold of an English-language video interview given by a Swat Valley spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban &#8212; think of them as a big tent of Taliban factions &#8212; apparently recorded on April 27. You can hear Haji Muslim Khan expand on the finer points of Taliban jurisprudence, like torturing a teenage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nefafoundation.org/multimedia-intvu.html#muslimkhan">The NEFA Foundation has gotten ahold of an English-language video interview</a> given by a Swat Valley spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban &#8212; <a href="http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jwit/jwita062.html">think of them as a big tent of Taliban factions</a> &#8212; apparently recorded on April 27. You can hear Haji Muslim Khan expand on the finer points of Taliban jurisprudence, like <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/International/Story?id=7246780&amp;page=1">torturing a teenage woman in public</a>, and the virtues of killing &#8220;collaborators.&#8221; He&#8217;s happy with the agreement with the Pakistani government to let his band of fanatics rule the Swat Valley (and why wouldn&#8217;t he be) but upset with the pace of its implementation. &#8220;U.S. forces are on the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan and we are working here to implement the Sharia.&#8221;</p>
<p>OK, what about President Obama?<span id="more-41255"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>He is enemy, only, of Islam and of the Muslims.  So nobody &#8212; nobody show to the world about this. Especially Pakistani media. Pakistani media will show, they will turn to the people and show, what he want. What Mr. Obama want. Nobody can reject this. Nobody can reform the United States.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Taliban has its own Joe the Plumber! Khan goes on to say that he&#8217;ll allow &#8220;all journalists from the U.S.&#8221; to come to Swat. PajamasTV, I&#8217;m looking at you. Go after the story of how Obama is a self-hating Muslim.</p>
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		<title>Plus, &#8216;Obama&#8217; and &#8216;Fidel&#8217; Both Have Five Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds&#8217; &#8220;American Tea Party&#8221; interview with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I&#8217;ve been familiar with Publius Pundit for years as a site that covered popular revolutions in third world nations. Mayer informs viewers of the PajamasTV show that the Tea Party anger is the &#8220;same kind [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obviously I watched Glenn Reynolds&#8217; <a href="http://www.pjtv.com/video/American_Tea_Party/American_Tea_Party/1662/6034/">&#8220;American Tea Party&#8221; interview</a> with Publius Pundit blogger Robert Mayer as soon as I could. I&#8217;ve been familiar with <a href="http://www.publiuspundit.com/">Publius Pundit</a> for years as a site that covered popular revolutions in third world nations. Mayer informs viewers of the PajamasTV show that the Tea Party anger is the &#8220;same kind you see in all of these countries that have had these revolutions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Weren&#8217;t those revolutions in countries that didn&#8217;t have functioning democracies? Well, so is this one! People are angry, says Mayer, &#8220;whether it&#8217;s due to massive electoral fraud or the emergence of big corrupt banks with big corrupt politicians.&#8221;<span id="more-38021"></span></p>
<p>I&#8217;d thought, somewhat naively, that President Obama&#8217;s decisive winning margin ended the agonizing &#8220;not my president&#8221; debates of 2001-2005 and to a lesser extent (thanks for nothing, Greg Palast) 2005-2009. But maybe, just maybe, ACORN <a href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/">scared up 9.5 million fake votes</a> for Obama. Who can say, really?</p>
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		<title>Joe the Plumber Goes to Washington</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Weigel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samuel &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher is in Washington today through the weekend, having spent the morning at Grover Norquist&#8217;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? &#8220;For friends and family, absolutely,&#8221; Wurzelbacher said. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Samuel &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; Wurzelbacher is in Washington today through the weekend, having spent the morning at Grover Norquist&#8217;s Wednesday breakfast, taken a quick smoke break, and lunched with conservative journalists before a series of events at CPAC.</p>
<p>The most important question: Is he still working as a plumber? &#8220;For friends and family, absolutely,&#8221; Wurzelbacher said. &#8220;I work for PJTV &#8211; they sent me to Israel.&#8221; He&#8217;s also selling a book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Plumber-Fighting-American-Dream/dp/0976974037">Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream</a>, co-written with Thomas Tabback, who sat behind the table at the luncheon interjecting occasional insights.</p>
<p>&#8220;I miss plumbing tremendously,&#8221; Wurzelbacher said. &#8220;I miss working, building things &#8230; making things with my hands.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Right-Wing Website Sends Joe the Plumber to Israel to Report on Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Wiener</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past three months, Joe Wurzelbacher has gone from plumber to pundit to potential Congressman. The logical next step? War correspondent, of course.
The Associated Press reports that the conservative PajamasTV Website is sending Wurzelbacher to Israel to cover the Gaza invasion. He plans to spend ten days there to let &#8220;&#8216;Average Joes&#8217; share their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the past three months, Joe Wurzelbacher has gone from plumber to pundit to <a href="http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/10/24/joe-the-plumber-says-hes-mulling-run-for-congress/">potential Congressman</a>. The logical next step? War correspondent, of course.</p>
<p>The Associated Press <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmp5zIMOvD2VKKwWDSYLhxiCNDZwD95IEJ9G1">reports</a> that the conservative <a href="http://www.pjtv.com/">PajamasTV Website</a> is sending Wurzelbacher to Israel to cover the Gaza invasion. He plans to spend ten days there to let &#8220;&#8216;Average Joes&#8217; share their story.&#8221;</p>
<p>Says TWI managing editor Laura McGann: &#8220;Maybe <a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/643519.html">Levi Johnston</a> can fill in for him while he&#8217;s gone.&#8221;</p>
<p>I have nothing to add.</p>
<p>UPDATE: No wait, I do. Back in October, when asked if <span class="t13">&#8220;a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel,&#8221; Joe <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1032257.html">responded</a>, &#8220;</span><span class="t13">I&#8217;ll go ahead and agree with you on that.&#8221; </span><span id="more-24251"></span></p>
<p>Now I truly have nothing to add.</p>
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