Joe the Plumber

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ABC and the ADL Don't Represent Me

Sarah Newman | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

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The Jewish community's response is diverse and not the unified front which Jewish groups and the media tried to present.

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Joe The Plumber Sues Over Privacy Violation

AP | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A conservative group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of "Joe the Plumber," accusing three former Ohio officials of violating his ...

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Conservatives and Their Pity Parties

Thomas Frank | Posted 04.04.2009 | Home

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The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

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The Rush to Kiss Rush's Ass

Andy Ostroy | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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With Limbaugh steering the ship, there's sure to be another Republican Titanic in 2010.

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Pay No Attention to The Party Behind The Curtain

Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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The face of the Republican Party has become a buffet of jarring personalities. Bobby Jindal might easily be replaced by a rubber duck. Sarah Palin ...

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Scritti Politti: March 2, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Poor Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher! In town to deliver some plumbing lectures at CPAC, he also made a brief appearance at an area Borders...

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Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream (Austin, Texas: PearlGate Publishing 2008) 192 pp.

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.02.2009 | Media

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Wurzelbacher's deep understanding of the intellectual umbilical cords of modern conservatism is why Mike Gallagher and Sean Hannity have offered their high praise of his work.

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Jonathan Krohn: 13-Year-Old Conservative Wunderkind Wows CPAC, Joe The Plumber

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

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The future of the conservative movement presented himself on Friday, and he was 13. Jonathan Krohn, the author of "Define Conservatism" and political...

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The Wingnut Revolution

Bob Cesca | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

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What the far-right appears to suggest is that ideas that are supported by 82% of Americans are criminal acts of tyranny, and an eventual tax increase of pennies on the dollar for the wealthiest 2% is worthy of opposition by revolutionary means.

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Rubbernecking: Reality Bytes

Holly Cara Price | Posted 03.23.2009 | Entertainment

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The real granddaddy of the reality TV show as we know it today was An American Family, a 12-episode documentary series broadcast in 1973 on PBS.

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Best Way to Get Results From Politicians? Show up and Get Some

Jon Chattman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

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It seems all anyone really has to do to change their luck is to cry or call a politician out when the cameras are rolling. The results are immediate when you're featured all over the nightly news.

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GOP Has Been Left Home Alone

Mike Papantonio | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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The lack of GOP leadership reminds me of the scene in Home Alone when Macaulay Culkin first realizes that he has been deserted. All the grown-ups have left the house.

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Nattering Nabobs of Negativism '09

Eric Williams | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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The Republicans seem to be taking "opposition party" as their sole defining characteristic as they flounder for their place in the new political landscape.

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A Trifecta of Inadequacy

Sahil Kapur | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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Here's your Republican Party in a nutshell: controlled by Rush Limbaugh, seeking wisdom from Joe the Plumber and eager to extol Sarah Palin as their next commanding officer.

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Republicans: Spare Me Your Newfound "Fiscal Responsibility"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

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The Republicans today are conforming to an ideology based on a myth that other Republicans created in 1997, a copy of a copy without an original.

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Who's the Socialist Now, Mitt?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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It speaks a great deal of the Republican Party that in the midst of a historic economic downturn they have chosen one of their major issues to be the right to make virtually unlimited salaries.

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The Evil of Banality

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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It could be that our institutions are so corrupt, our political discourse so banal and polluted, that they are incapable of lifting us up from our national malaise.

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10 New Rules For Republicans

Ben Cohen | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

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If Republicans want to be taken seriously, they will have to rethink their strategy and come up with some different ideas to the worn out garbage they served us under the Bush Administration.

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Scritti Politti: February 4, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media

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As the dawn breaks on a hopeful 2009, it is great to see the rise of a figure who so perfectly encapsulates the sense of responsibility and leadership...

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Joe The Plumber: 'I Don't Know If The American Public Deserves Me'

The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Joe The Plumber yesterday, transitioning from war reporter to political strategist, appeared before congressional aides to offer his two cents on the ...

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Advice to Palin: Give the GOP Elephant His Job Back

Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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If Palin hopes to lead the GOP out of its rut, she will first and foremost need to transcend her current role as the character children see on the front of a GOP cereal box.

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Joe The Plumber To Talk Strategy With Luckless Conservatives

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

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Gah, this guy again. Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher, freshly returned from bankrupting Pajamas Media with his "I Don't Know, Maybe Journa...

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Why Blaming The Media Is So Played Out

Stuart Whatley | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

The battle over blaming the media seems to have heated up to levels commensurate with the actual battle over the Holy Land. Can the media really be fueling both sides in the Gaza conflict simultaneously?

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He Fails, We Fail

Gotham Chopra | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Although I have stored up my own reserve of cynicism for just how much the messiah can achieve, you have to realize that hoping to see Obama fail is plain self-defeating.

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The Essential 'Cooper vs. Plumber' Analysis

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2009 | Media

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This is pretty much ace stuff from Steve Benen: The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb, who used to also blog for the McCain campaign, recently compl...

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