Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Death Of A Truism

I want to dramatize Steve Benen's point. Forget the fact that "Joe the Plumber" is the nickname of a right-wing media personality who attained prominence during the 2008 election. Just take the name the way you would've taken it in 2007, while considering this sentence:
You don't hire Joe the Plumber to be your war correspondent in Israel.
Seems like a truism, doesn't it? The kind of thing somebody would say, and obviously it'd be sort of a straw man in whatever discussion you were having, but they would've made their point.

Of course, that's exactly what the craziest right-wing forces in the media did.

2 comments:

Max Kingsbury said...

His coverage is about as "fair and balanced" as a game between USC football versus UCLA women's swimming team.

Tlazolteotl said...

The only reason for it is because wingers have this obsession with 'pissing off the liberals" that drives a lot of what they do. Sucks for them that they can't tell the difference between liberals who are pissed off and those who are openly mocking them.