CBS news spin

[coppertales]

Over on the CBS news site there is a long article reporting that "Joe the plumber" who reported that Nobama is going to play Robin Hood with people who make over 250000 bucks a year, does not have a plumbing license.  They make it sound like he is not qualified to make his statements because of this.  Another attempt of the MSM trying to cover up something that points fault at their favorite obama........chris3

[El Tejon]

Does one need a license to plumb in Ohio?

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

not if one is buying the buisness.  one needs to employ a licensed plumber though

[MicroBalrog]

ABC News found that he does not have a plumber's license, and does not need one because he is the sole employee of a small plumbing firm that does residential work. This small firm is the business Wurzelbacher described to Obama as making more than $250,000 per year.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber

[roo_ster]

I wish the MSM took as much interest in BHO's background.

[Tallpine]

I wish the MSM took as much interest in BHO's background.

Joe Plumber isn't even running for office  :rolleyes:

yet ... 

[longeyes]

Stay tuned: The Media versus The People.

At some point, watching the press rip a "neighbor" to shreds, "we" will have finally had enough.  That point may come sooner than many think.

McCain should take on the media head-on--but he won't.  Others will, though, and many will identify with Joe the P.

[roo_ster]

Email sent to nationalreview.com:

I don't know why I'm e-mailing you, except that I just need to vent to someone on The Corner. Pass this around to the others if you like — I bet I'm not the only one.

I really don't like McCain. I'll probably vote for him just as a vote for divided government. I'm far too libertarian in my leanings to be comfortable with McCain (or Obama, for that matter).

That said, the way the pro-Obama media and bloggers, and Obama himself, have responded to Joe has got me nearly shaking with rage. They are attempting to destroy a man — a private citizen — who had the audacity to ask The One a question. Mind you, Joe was on his front lawn playing football with his son when Obama strolled up to give him his hopenchange spiel. Obama approached Joe, not the other way around. And Joe asked Obama an honest question. And Obama gave him an honest — and very, very revealing — answer. Again, mind you, the embarassment was on Obama's end, not Joe's. It wasn't a gotcha question.

And yet, for that Joe is being pilloried, every aspect of his private and professional life being sorted through and exposed. To prove ... what? What does that have to do with Obama's answer? What does Joe's situation have to do with Obama's philosophical answer — that he wants to "spread the wealth"? Obama's answer goes down the memory hole while the nation concentrates its fire on obliterating Joe the Plumber.

It's sickening, it's maddening and it's downright chilling.

Sorry for the length. But I am just SEETHING.

[longeyes]

The media vipers are really quite taken with themselves, but I think they are on very dangerous ground.  Sarah Palin is a public official, and what they're doing to her is bad enough, but this guy is EveryMan.  This will reverberate.  People can turn on you like that.  Are you hearing that, Sen. Obama?

[ArmedBear]

Spread the word.

My only concern is that a lot of people don't pay any attention, and will go pull the lever in November based on, well, nothing much.

[Owens]

I have pondered this for quite a while now.

Most people don't know that a broadcast station holds their license from the FCC 'in the public trust'. When they are up for renewal, they need to show that they are serving the public.

What if...
When a station is up for renewal (can be found out with a quick phone call) they and the FCC were flooded with letters about how they weren't holding the trust?  Slanted reports, half truths, out-right lies, deception, etc complaints ARE  not serving the public trust. Especially their stumping for Obama (influencing an election??).

The television broadcast industry was GIVEN the RF spectrum they use in exchange for holding the public trust. Theoretically, betray the trust, lose the license.

Just a thought and maybe an idea?

[RocketMan]

You would have to challenge the licenses of most or all the stations in a network to have any real effect.  It's the stations that are licensed, not the networks themselves.

[crawdaddyjim]

I will donate $100.00 to Mr.Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher so that he may move to a more hospitable state of residence and start his plumbing business.

Who is with me?


 For crying out loud the man was in his own front yard and Senator Gooberment approached him! It is high time the reporters who have perpetrated this affront on him payed dearly for their misdeed!

Jim

[Owens]

You would have to challenge the licenses of most or all the stations in a network to have any real effect.  It's the stations that are licensed, not the networks themselves.

True. But..how would the networks react if enough of their distribution centers were having difficulty in renewal? They might just get the message. If enough people wrote, MAYBE things would change. Don't we as shooters write various agencies and at times make headway?

Change can come voluntarily from the top down or involuntarily from the bottom up.

I'm just thinking out loud here.