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Wurzelbacher, Samuel Joseph (Joe the Plumber) • well-deserved evisceration...
...PLUMBER sent to Israel as "war correspondent," suggests barring reporters from war zones...
...stimulus principle will be change. Obama campaigned for it and won a mandate to pursue it. If he can make sure every initiative promotes his top priorities - reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, investing in our future competitiveness and rebalancing our economic playing field in a way Joe the Plumber would call spreading the wealth - the stimulus can succeed even if it fails to stimulate...
...down the occasional rocket sent by Hamas into Israel. Still, the press has once again found itself caught in a different kind of cross fire: the propaganda battle, across all media platforms, between Israel and Hamas (and the supporters of each) for international sympathy. And the reason Joe the Plumber is angry is that, despite (and perhaps also because of) Israel's overwhelming military superiority, the Jewish state is losing on the propaganda front. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...stack civilian bodies like cordwood for the cameras and proclaim the virtues of its "steadfast resistance," but it has offered the Palestinians no explanation of how this fight will advance their national goals. To many a foreign journalist, then, this war conjures an image with which Joe the Plumber will be familiar: the proverbial pig whose nature can't be disguised by any amount of lipstick...