{"id":30653,"date":"2008-10-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:15:10","slug":"the_lesson_of_joe_the_plumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/10\/17\/the_lesson_of_joe_the_plumber\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesson of Joe the Plumber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I went back, because I remembered something. This past summer, Gallup put out a poll, McCain needs to hammer this. It was June 27th, headline: ‘Americans oppose income redistribution to fix economy,\u2019 by 84-13%. Hello, Joe the Plumber. ‘When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today\u2019s consumer, Americans overwhelmingly, 84-13, prefer that government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the job situation in the country as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans. Eighty-four to 13. This is back in June. Now, granted, gas prices were very high in June. The economy and the Wall Street mess had not yet come to the fore. It was effervescing out there. We hadn\u2019t gotten to the point where we\u2019re panicking and talking about bailouts. And in another portion of the same — this is Gallup, now — ‘Half of Americans think government is doing too much, not too little.\u2019 This is the Joe the Plumber lesson. <\/p>\n

The Joe the Plumber lesson is not who he is and not what he said. The lesson is what Obama said. But now the Drive-Bys have to go out and destroy Joe the Plumber. As I asked yesterday, how many Joe the Plumbers, Joe Six-Packs and Josephine the Plumbers are there? They are doing everything they can, the Obama campaign staff, the Drive-By Media, to destroy Joe the Plumber, and he\u2019s having some hard economic times right now like a lot of people are. They\u2019re even saying he\u2019s got this fantasy of owning a business. He\u2019s got a fantasy, as though that\u2019s not possible, who is this guy, thinking he\u2019s going to own a plumbing business. The plumber\u2019s union yesterday dumping all over Joe the Plumber about the fact he doesn\u2019t have a license or what have you. The fact is he is a plumber and he can work. They\u2019re doing everything they can to destroy this guy. What is this fantasy business? He has a fantasy. Fantasies are unrealistic, are they not? That\u2019s why they\u2019re called fantasies. Dreams are what he has, that\u2019s right, he has a dream and they\u2019re calling his dream a fantasy. I hope people are noticing what this Obama campaign is willing to do in order to win. It\u2019s a page right out of the Clinton book. You destroy anybody, including average Americans you claim to have formulated your economic plans to help. <\/p>\n

Remember all the women in the Clinton administration, trailer park trash, the whole bimbo eruptions unit to destroy them. Obama\u2019s got the same thing here. Twenty-four hours, the Drive-By Media can unearth everything there is about Joe the Plumber. In two years we can\u2019t even get them interested in finding out who the real Obama is. In all these years, they have no interest with all this controversy about Bill Ayers, they have no desire to talk to him. They\u2019re not camping outside Bill Ayers\u2019 door and demanding he conduct a press conference and answer inquisitive, threatening, intimidating questions. So the die is cast, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to a montage we have here of Drive-By Media trashing Joe the Plumber.<\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: (dramatic music) What do we know about this plumber named Joe? <\/p>\n

JOHN BERMAN: It doesn\u2019t actually appear he\u2019s a licensed plumber, and, it does appear there are some issues about past taxes. There are records of a tax lean filed against Joe! <\/p>\n

WYATT ANDREWS: The man whose personal story steered a presidential debate over taxes, owes some $1,200 in back taxes. <\/p>\n

DAVID ‘RODHAM\u2019 GERGEN: When we found out he was Sam the Non-plumber, it changed a little bit. (snicker) Why the McCain team didn\u2019t vet the guy…<\/p>\n

ROLAND MARTIN: Joe, you know, the fake plumber…<\/p>\n

ANDERSON COOPER: Joe is not actually a licensed plumber. He admits he\u2019s not making anywhere close to a quarter million. His name is actually not Joe; at least that\u2019s not his first name. His name is Sam: Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. <\/p>\n

CHRISTOPHER HAYES: There\u2019s this tremendous gap between the mythical creature of Joe the Plumber and the actual real-life guy, and we see this time and time again. Sarah Palin is a perfect example. <\/p>\n

RUSH: These people just can\u2019t stand it because Joe the Plumber caused Obama to screw up. Joe the Plumber caused Obama to actually give it up on what his campaign is really all about. You want to talk about past taxes and leans, Charlie Rangel? Does that name come to mind? Does it ring a bell? The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee had to pay back taxes; was trying to cheat the government out of some money on some property he owns down in the Dominican Republic. There\u2019s also a guy named Martin Nesbitt, the treasurer of Obama\u2019s campaign, who has tax leans. His name isn\u2019t Joe? Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher; his name not Joe? Who is this guy? We have to find out who is this guy? This mythical creature? He\u2019s a far more real human being than any of the elitists in New York and Washington. Here is Joy Behar from The View this morning.<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Joe the Plumber doesn\u2019t have a business yet. He\u2019s fantasizing about a business he\u2019s going to have.<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: Fantasizing? <\/p>\n

BEHAR: Well, he\u2019s thinking about it.<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: This is a man trying to —<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Fantasizing is —<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: — realize his hard work. <\/p>\n

BEHAR: Excuse me, fantasizing is —<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: This is his reality.<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Wait a second. Fantasizing is a very legitimate term to describe somebody who\u2019s predicting the future for themselves.<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: Does fantasizing…? When you fantasize —<\/p>\n

BEHAR: Creative visualization, okay?<\/p>\n

HASSELBECK: Fantasizing is a dangerous thing to say because it assumes that it is not attainable.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They\u2019re just doing everything they can to destroy the poor guy. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, do we have time? Barely. Last night on The NewsHour.<\/p>\n

JAMIESON: Joe the Plumber also set up a very concrete example that both campaigns could now play through in the following days. Senator Obama hasn\u2019t specified when people are going to be paying a fine, how many people have to be in a business to call it ‘a small business,\u2019 how much dollar amount does the business have to have to be classified small business. So when Senator Obama says, ‘Well, small businesses are exempted, Joe, don\u2019t worry.\u2019 The fact checkers and news people are now saying, ‘But, Senator Obama, you haven\u2019t specified what constitutes a small business.\u2019 That may actually advance this dialogue. So Joe has made concrete very abstract proposals, and as a result I think he\u2019s advanced this precedent very importantly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And we\u2019ll take a brief time-out here, folks, come right back. Stay with us.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stay focused on this whole business of Joe the Plumber. It\u2019s not about Joe the Plumber. I don\u2019t care if Joe the Plumber landed from Mars and was impersonating a human being and if Karl Rove did set it up six months ago that Obama was going to go to this house and a Republican would answer. This is what the left is saying, by the way. The left is saying that Joe the Plumber is a plant and that they\u2019re uncovering a fraud. They are saying it! This is what they say: Joe the Plumber was a plant. Somebody, Karl Rove, brilliantly arranged all this — including the house that Obama was going to knock on, in the town where Obama was going to be, on the specific date and time, Rove knew it months ago, where Obama was going to be and arranged all this. Joe the Plumber could be a squirrel! It\u2019s what Obama said. Let\u2019s go back, this is Sunday in Toledo, and let\u2019s listen to the original exchange. <\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: I\u2019m getting ready to buy a company —<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Yeah?<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: — that makes about 250, 270, eighty thousand dollars a year. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: All right.<\/p>\n

WURZELBACHER: Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn\u2019t it? <\/p>\n

OBAMA: You get a 50% tax credit, so you get the cut of taxes through your health care plan. <\/p>\n

WOMAN: (laughs)<\/p>\n

OBAMA: So you would actually get a tax cut on that point. If your revenue is above 250, then from 250 down, your tax is going to stay the same; 95% of small businesses make less than 250. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Not true.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What I\u2019m saying is the folks who make more than 250, that that marginal amount above 250 they\u2019re gonna be taxed at a 39% instead of 36% rate. I think when you spread the wealth around, it\u2019s good for everybody.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘I think when you spread the wealth around, it\u2019s good for everybody.\u2019 Now, the Democrats are very worried about this, despite their public protestations, otherwise they won\u2019t be out trying to destroy Joe. I just heard Roger Simon on the television during the break say, ‘His name is not even Joe! It\u2019s Sam.\u2019 No, it\u2019s Samuel Joseph. A lot of people go by their middle name. It\u2019s just petty, and it\u2019s striking. They\u2019re out to destroy one of you; one of us, average Americans, who happened to expose the truth about little Barry: the man-child known as The Messiah. He\u2019s filled with lies here. ‘Ninety-five percent of small businesses make less than 250\u2019? Somebody needs to demand that he prove that. We have the figures from the Small Business Association and the Census Bureau. We shared them with you last week. There\u2019s no way. He\u2019s not even defining revenue. We don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gross; we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s net. Is he including inventories in this? He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about. <\/p>\n

That 250 figure is just his magic figure. Now they have to say, ‘Well, Joe didn\u2019t open the business. Even if he bought the business, the business would not be in the 250 or above range.\u2019 He wants it to be! We\u2019re talking about somebody\u2019s dream here. ‘Well, he\u2019s got tax leans.\u2019 So does Charlie Rangel. So does one of the chief treasurers of Obama; a lot of people have tax leans. A lot of people are in debt. You want to punish all of them? You want to say they\u2019re all discredited from having a political opinion about a political contest because they\u2019re in debt? How many of us are going to be disqualified if they allow that? This next one is popularity. This is Obama yesterday. Everybody talks about, ‘Why is McCain in this state and that state? That state\u2019s lost. Why didn\u2019t he go down to Florida? Why doesn\u2019t he go back to Ohio?\u2019 What is Obama doing in New Hampshire? Why the hell is Obama in New Hampshire? That ought to be in the bag. He was in Londonderry yesterday speaking in an apple orchard, and he brought up the plumber himself. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: He\u2019s trying to suggest that — that — that a plumber is the guy he\u2019s fightin\u2019 for. How many plumbers do you know makin\u2019 a quarter million dollars a year?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, do you understand the multileveled condescension in this short sound bite? Mike, play this again. This is Obama speaking in an apple orchard in New Hampshire yesterday. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: He\u2019s trying to suggest that — that — that a plumber is the guy he\u2019s fightin\u2019 for. How many plumbers do you know makin\u2019 a quarter million dollars a year?<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the first place, McCain\u2019s fighting for everybody, Obama. You\u2019re the one that\u2019s divvying up for who you want to fight for. You want to punish certain Americans. McCain doesn\u2019t want to punish any. Of course he\u2019s fighting for plumbers. He\u2019s fighting for everybody! He has fought for everybody, Obama. Name one time you\u2019ve fought for anybody other than a bunch of leftist radicals who want to overthrow the country as it exists? You\u2019re fighting for Warren Buffett\u2019s ideas. Here\u2019s another thing, Obama and the rest of you. He\u2019s copying his vice president here, Joe Biden. ‘How many plumbers you know making quarter of a million dollars a year?\u2019 What a condescending thing to say? Do you realize how he is insulting you plumbers, trying to discredit a voter? <\/p>\n

This guy is trying to discredit a voter by saying, ‘How many plumbers you know make 250 grand a year?\u2019 As though plumbers are just dirt. Plumbers are just dirt. I\u2019ll bet there are plenty of plumbing businesses. I know damn well. Try to get one when you need one! There are plenty of plumbing businesses that do very well in this country, but to me, this is just striking. ‘How many plumbers you know making a quarter of a million dollars a year?\u2019 Obama, this is not about Joe. It\u2019s not about Sam. It\u2019s not about anybody but you and your obvious condescending view of the people you claim you want to help. Would somebody explain to me how it is that you make poor people rich by making rich people poor? How does that happen? <\/p>\n

Now, unusually, ladies and gentlemen, it\u2019s the Democrats who parade people like Joe the Plumber all over the Senate and all over the House, all over these hearing rooms; and they portray them as sob stories. And they try to blame the Republicans for the circumstances these old people are in or these welfare recipients are in or these pregnant women are in or what have you. Now, somehow this guy Joe the Plumber is a fraud because he\u2019s in debt? He\u2019s a fraud because he doesn\u2019t really earn $250,000? He never said he did. He said he thought the business did but he wants to buy it and grow it. Here\u2019s guy to the best of his ability is articulating the American dream, and the Democrat Party is trying to squash this guy like he\u2019s a cockroach. Now, to this US News and World Reports blog post by James Pethokoukis. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how to pronounce his name, so I\u2019m just giving all the variables \u2019cause I don\u2019t want to be accused of mispronouncing his name, and the headline of his post here: ‘Did Barack ‘Spread the Wealth\u2019 Obama Just Blow the Election? — No. Really. You\u2019re kidding me. Barack Obama actually told that Joe the Plumber guy that he wants to ‘spread the wealth around.\u2019 What, did Obama just get done reading the Wikipedia entry on Huey ‘Share the Wealth\u2019 Long or something? Was he somehow channeling that left-wing populist from the Depression? Talk about playing into the most extreme stereotype of your party, that it is infested with socialists,\u2019 except, Mr. Pethokoukis, it\u2019s not a stereotype anymore. The Democrat Party as a socialist party is not a stereotype. He then says… Get this. Now, this is a reporter from US Snooze &amp; World Report. <\/p>\n

‘A while back I chatted with a University of Chicago professor who was a frequent lunch companion of Obama\u2019s. This professor said that Obama was as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States. Now, I tend to quickly dismiss that kind of talk as way over the top. My working assumption is that Obama is firmly within the mainstream of Democratic politics.\u2019 He is. (laughing) They are radical extremist socialists. Anyway… ‘But if Obama is as free with the sort of redistributive philosophy in private as he has been on the campaign trail this week, I have no doubt that U of Chicago professor really does figure him as a radical, and after last night\u2019s debate, a few more Americans might think that way, too. McCain\u2019s best line: ‘Now, of all times in America, we need to cut people\u2019s taxes. We need to encourage business, create jobs, not ‘spread the wealth around.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘By the way, I just notice that had IBD\/TIPP poll, the most accurate in 2004, has McCain down by just three points. If the contest is perceived by the voters as a contest between a wealth redistributor and a wealth creator, then it could be a long night come November 4th. This is still a center-right country, gang. Note this Gallup poll from June,\u2019 and then he cites the 84-13% figure who do not want redistributive policies in the federal government. McCain has to hammer this. Palin does. Palin hammers this constantly in her appearances. But that\u2019s what this is all about. The University of Chicago professor says he\u2019s ‘as close to a full-out Marxist as anybody who\u2019s ever run for president.\u2019 Of course, the Drive-Bys say, ‘Yeah, you\u2019ve gotta disregard that kind of talk. I think he\u2019s in the mainstream of the Democrat Party.\u2019 These guys don\u2019t even know who he is. Half these journalists don\u2019t even really know who he is and they\u2019re not curious to find out because they\u2019re too busy trying to destroy Joe the Plumber.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I can\u2019t get past audio sound bite number eight. Obama saying about the plumber. Well, he\u2019s talking about McCain. He\u2019s trying to suggest that a plumber is the guy he\u2019s fighting for? ‘How many plumbers you know making a quarter of a million dollars a year?\u2019 You know, Obama, you\u2019re the guy with class envy; you\u2019re the guy that looks in disgust at certain groups of people and elements. McCain\u2019s fighting for everybody, buddy. But I just can\u2019t get over this condescension that Obama has for everybody. The plumber is supposedly his demographic. Normally people like Obama love people in debt like Joe, \u2019cause it\u2019s not their fault, like these people with their mortgages that they shoulda never been given in the first place. We gotta bail them out. Why isn\u2019t Obama asking to bail out Joe? Oh, you got leans? How can we help? Why the hell is he not doing that? He\u2019s doing it for everybody else. Some college student complained to him the other day, we had the sound bite, that she is having to pay for her education. Well, well, well, we can\u2019t have that, Obama said, we\u2019ll do what we can to help out. That\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna do. Now he\u2019s making fun of a guy who\u2019s in debt and making fun of a guy who doesn\u2019t make $250,000 a year. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to tell you something, folks. It\u2019s not just plumbers. It\u2019s about electricians, the guys who install your Lumber Liquidator floors. The guy who comes to your house, sprays for bugs, maybe does your yard mowing and your landscaping, the people that cut your hair, and if you happen to be vain, if you get manicures and pedicures, people who do that. It\u2019s about people that mail and deliver your packages; it\u2019s about all these people who fix your cars; it\u2019s about all the great plumbers that install these Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters; it\u2019s what all the people that build fences, it\u2019s about all the people that put on roofs; it\u2019s about all the people that serve food, about all the people that cook food. Obama may as well have been insulting every working person in this country when he asks, ‘How many plumbers you know make $250,000 a year, huh, huh, huh? How many you know?\u2019 The truth of this guy is coming out and Joe the Plumber did it. There\u2019s nothing mountainish about this. There is nothing eloquent about this. We are witnessing a thug who has no sense of humor, which you shall hear in moments coming up, we get to it in the next hour. And Sarah Palin, by the way, is hammering this. This is this morning, West Chester, Ohio, at a campaign rally. The Drive-Bys, I\u2019ve seen them this morning, ridiculing her for bringing this up.<\/p>\n

PALIN: We\u2019ve really gotta hand it to Joe. Somehow, he got Barack Obama to finally state his intentions in plain language. Senator Obama said that he wants to spread the wealth, and he wants government to take your money and decide how to best redistribute it according to his priorities. Joe suggested that that sounded a little bit like socialism. Whatever you call it, I call it bad medicine for an ailing economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bad medicine for an ailing economy. And they\u2019re all over her for continuing to bring this up, because they know that Senator Government — I think that ought to be the permanent name for this guy — Senator Government has really exposed himself. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to give you another analogy here about Joe the Plumber because one of the things that the Drive-Bys are trying to do — and, by the way, do you realize we know more about Joe the Plumber than we know about most of the terrorists who blew up this country in 1993 and 1999? The Drive-By Media has had more interest in exposing whoever Joe the Plumber is. By the way, his name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. They\u2019re saying, ‘His name is not even Joe.\u2019 Yes, it is! Joe is somebody comfortable with his middle name and allows it to be used, as opposed to who? There\u2019s this kid out there named Obama, and we\u2019re not allowed to mention his middle name, which is Hussein. But Joe Wurzelbacher is very comfortable having his middle name mentioned. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to disqualify him, because they know the Obama vulnerability here. The vulnerability is Obama\u2019s answer to Joe\u2019s question, not what Joe said. So they\u2019re trying to disqualify Joe\u2019s question. ‘Well, Joe really isn\u2019t a plumber and Joe really doesn\u2019t make 250. So Obama\u2019s answer doesn\u2019t count. Obama\u2019s answer is irrelevant because Joe lied in his question.\u2019 Let me give you an illustration of this. Suppose Obama\u2019s going door-to-door in south Florida, or in Brooklyn, and he knocks on somebody\u2019s door and the door opens, and the person inside says, ‘Senator Obama, as a Jew, I want you to promise to support Israel,\u2019 and Obama said, ‘Israel is going to have to pay. They\u2019ve got an unfair advantage and they have to give up half of their hand. They\u2019re going to have to pay. They\u2019ve got an unfair advantage. Those people are poor; Israel is wealthy. They\u2019re going to have to pay.\u2019<\/p>\n

Later it\u2019s found out that the person asking the question was not a Jew, so Obama\u2019s answer doesn\u2019t count? That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to say today, that Obama\u2019s answer does not count. Obama, I\u2019ve been watching him, he\u2019s making a speech somewhere today. He\u2019s uptight. He has been focusing in this speech. McCain has hit him hard, ‘Senator Obama, my name is not George W. Bush, and if you wanted to run against George Bush, you shoulda done that four years ago.\u2019 McCain hammered him on that last night, too. Obama\u2019s defensive as hell. He got mad. He\u2019s focusing on that, wherever he was. He was in Virginia today. <\/p>\n

Why is Obama in Virginia? He\u2019s supposedly up ten points in Virginia. Why is he wasting time and money in Virginia if he\u2019s up ten points there? If he\u2019s up ten points, how the hell could he lose Virginia with such little time to go? <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Drudge just posted a link that said Saturday Night Live has a script, a little skit coming on Joe the Plumber as John McCain\u2019s imaginary friend. They keep piling on, folks, and I\u2019m smiling about it. Don\u2019t fret.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: McCain spoke this afternoon in Miami. I mentioned that he was going to come to the defense of Joe the Plumber. Here\u2019s how he did it.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks. (wild cheers) Give it up a little for Joe! The question Joe asked about our economy is important because Senator Obama\u2019s plan would raise taxes on small businesses that employ… (boos) that employ 16 million Americans. He could have had a simple answer to Joe\u2019s question. All he had to do to say to Joe the Plumber and millions of small business people around this country is, ‘I won\u2019t raise your taxes,\u2019 but he couldn\u2019t do that because he\u2019s going to raise their taxes. (boos) My friends, when politicians talk about taking your money and ‘spreading it around,\u2019 you better hold onto your wallet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they went nuts again. So there\u2019s McCain defending Joe the Plumber. ‘Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks.\u2019 The Democrats just have to go out and destroy these people left and right, average Americans. They could resonate. This actually could resonate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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