Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher

Cleveland Plain Dealer Hypes Letter Circulated Against 'Joe the Plumber,' Downplays Partisanship of Signers
By Ken Shepherd | June 22, 2012 | 12:22 PM EDT

Update (June 25, 5:48 p.m. EDT): Wurzelbacher has responded in a blog post at RedState, linking to a Smart Girl Politics post which noted that "[o]f the thirty-one signatories [of the anti-Wurzelbacher letter], all but six are registered Democrats or have made financial contributions to Democratic candidates or PACs."

"A viral campaign video in which Samuel 'Joe the Plumber' Wurzelbacher links gun control to the Holocaust has sickened some members of Ohio's Jewish community, who sent the GOP congressional candidate a letter on Thursday that calls his claims 'misguided,' 'highly offensive' and 'harmful to the Jewish community,'" Sabrina Eaton informed readers of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in an article uploaded yesterday evening. In the video in question, Wurzelbacher noted that gun control programs in Turkey and Germany preceded the Armenian genocide of 1915-17 and the Holocaust, respectively.

MSNBC's Shuster Thanks Joe the Plumber for 'Lesson in Tolerance'
By Colleen Raezler | May 6, 2009 | 4:53 PM EDT

<p> <object align="right" width="250" height="202"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=yd6U2G6Upr&amp;sm=1"></para... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=yd6U2G6Upr&amp;sm=1" allowfullscreen="true" align="right" width="250" height="202"></embed></object>Hear all that shattering glass? That's David Shuster's house. The MSNBC host threw his latest rock when he snidely thanked Samuel Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber for a &quot;lesson in tolerance&quot; during the 11:00 hour of MSNBC's live news coverage on May 5. </p><p>Shuster reported: </p> <blockquote><p> And now a lesson in tolerance from Joe the Plumber. In an interview with Christian [sic] Today, he says we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, even has some friend who are gay. But he says he doesn't let his gay friends, quote, anywhere near his children. Oh, and according to Joe, queer is not a slur. It just means strange and unusual. Thank you, Joe the Christian.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/mayweb-only/118-13.0.html?start... Today</a> asked Wurzelbacher about his views on same-sex marriage at a state level and he responded:

Interviews from NewsBusters at CPAC
By Stephen Gutowski | March 5, 2009 | 9:38 PM EST

There were many famous people at CPAC this year and I was lucky enough to run into some of them. And some of those I ran into even let me ask them a few questions about media bias. The resulting videos are embedded below the fold.

The four interviews I was able to get where with Joe the Plumber, John Ziegler, George Phillips, and Roger Simon. Each have unique experiences with liberal media bias and each articulated different but insightful points about the media.

Make sure you check out each of the videos and watch them all the way through.

TIME Takes Swipe at Joe The Plumber (Now Joe The Reporter)
By Warner Todd Huston | January 15, 2009 | 5:16 AM EST

TIME magazine got a twofer on a recent screed headlined "Is Israel Losing the Media War in Gaza?." Not only did TIME use its article to take a few swipes at Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher (known as Joe the Plumber) but it also took the opportunity to once again blame the Jews for everything going on in Gaza.

Naturally, TIME's description of Joe the Plumber was more a cut at him than an accurate picture. Not only that, but TIME seemed to have somehow forgotten that Barack Obama made Joe famous, not John McCain!