Video: Joe the Plumber laughs at reporter’s claim that media wasn’t stumping for anyone
posted at 4:01 pm on December 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Skip ahead to 2:10 if you’re pressed for time. The spontaneity of it proves its sincerity, but he’s awfully quick to back down. Which, given who’s making the claim, maybe he shouldn’t have been.
I’m giving you the full clip rather than the Newsbusters version so that you can hear him knock McCain for supporting amnesty at the beginning. To repeat the question I posed yesterday, does he know that Sarah “The Real Deal” Palin supports it too?
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Come on, Allah. Like people said yesterday, did you expect her to go off the reservation from what McCain was promoting?
prolix on December 23, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Even this response is weak.
Why not just say “You are corrupt”?
faraway on December 23, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I will be celebrating News Year’s in 8 days.
January 1 will be the first day of the year 2 AP (After Palin)
faraway on December 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM
I have no problem with throwing McLame under the bus.
Please, continue.
lodge on December 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Barry’s in the political arena so where are his shots?
MSM could have a field day with all the well deserved shots they could take at Barry!
christene on December 23, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Who is this deep voiced woman interviewing Joe?
Sugar Land on December 23, 2008 at 4:08 PM
What a laff.
This “reporter” actually interrupted the interview to ask why Joe was questioning his “journatistic integrity”
It’s beyond stunning to witness the regard these “journalists” have for themselves.
Joe should have said that he has the same amount of respect for journalists as he does for the objects of his previous employment…..toilets.
notagool on December 23, 2008 at 4:09 PM
“How dare you cast aspersions on my journalistic integrity, prole!?”
Jim62sch on December 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM
It was hilarious. I would have smacked Roberts’ “journalistic integrity” to his face. Joe shouldn’t have backed down.
As for Palin, she better start reading Michelle Malkin’s blog and other conservative blogs to get an idea about how we feel about amnesty. She might have been spewing McCain talking points. I don’t know if Alaska has this problem with illegal immigration, but she should read up on it.
Illegal immigration got us three of the five men that were convicted yesterday for wanting to kill our service men and women at a fort here in NJ.
jencab on December 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM
LMAO @ that reporter
“why would you cast aspersions on my journalistic integrity…I don’t even know you!”
lodge on December 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Journalistic integrity!?! You can almost see the dog collar he’s wearing.
Kensington on December 23, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Yeah, I loved Robert’s assertion that a personal relationship would be necessary in order to cast aspersions. All you have to do is watch them on the television for thirty seconds to recognize lapdogs for what they are. I don’t have to be on intimate terms with the jackass.
Kensington on December 23, 2008 at 4:13 PM
“What do you believe?”
I believe that you’re a twit!
thomasaur on December 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM
end of October, i went to a debate between Jonah Goldberg and Peter Beinart.
Beinart made the claim that the media was “maybe a little soft on Obama”, the crowd without hesitation busted out laughing at him, it was awesome. Even Beinart smirked and realized he had nothing to come back with, then Goldberg went in for the kill.
jp on December 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM
So your not supposed to question the integrity of journalist , why not? Are they “more equal” then others ?
The hyena lives in total denial.
the_nile on December 23, 2008 at 4:16 PM
There truly was no decent candidate for president this year. McCain was badly flawed over amnesty and his enchantment with Ted Kennedy, and Obama was a tax and spend liberal.
I understand Joe’s position. Maybe next time we will have a decent choice.
P.S. I thought the Palin chice was a bonehead move. She didn’t seem to me to be a serious candidate. It was more a sideshow like Dan Quaile.
saiga on December 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Don’t back down next time Joe.
meltenn on December 23, 2008 at 4:18 PM
is this the daily kos?
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Yeah, sitting governor are not serious candidates
we need more serious candidates like the one just elected President … first term senators just removed from being a “community organizer”
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I wish every Conservative being interviewed by the media was this straightforward, direct and firm in their convictions.
Way to go Joe.
Good interview.
Did anyone ever question B Hussein Obama as in depth on either of his books? (That he may or may not have written)
hawkdriver on December 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Perhaps it was that the reporter was only interested in Joe’s take on McCain that led him to question his integrity.
Ronnie on December 23, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Bashing Governor Palin isn’t as important to Kos as it is to Allah.
Kensington on December 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Guess he still hasn’t figured out that she was McCain’s VP, not the other way around.
Frankly, I don’t know what her position is on amnesty, but if she is against it, I wouldn’t expect her to make an issue of it during the campaign. And if she’s for it? Well, in 2012, it won’t matter anyway. Amnesty will already be in place, courtesy of Obama and the Democrat congress.
xblade on December 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM
You mean like Jessie Ventura
saiga on December 23, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Palin/Plumber 2012.
- The Cat
MirCat on December 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM
lol, yeah
its getting tougher to tell the difference between Benny Shakur and the exit questions.
Why don’t we just have a story comparing the resumes of Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin next …
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Which major political party does Ventura belong too?
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Well, I think Joe doesn’t mean to insult anyone – whereas if we laughed and said that, most of us would mean to insult XP
Note to self: If I ever get interviewed on TV, have at least 5 examples of the interviewer being left-slanted in hand.
apollyonbob on December 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM
As to the backing down. He needs to practice dealing with political confrontation. He did well with Obama, but that’s just easy.
MirCat on December 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I think most likely Joe doesn’t ever watch CNN, had no idea who this “journalist” was (I sure don’t) and pulled back just on the off chance that maybe he might be a lone rational voice on CNN. A smart move on Joe’s part. But the laugh was priceless! I continue to be impressed by how well he articulates himself. Much better than the ums and ahs of Barry Omanboobs.
ctmom on December 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Sarah Palin isn’t a sideshow, and neither was Dan Quayle.
If Barack Obama had been a Republican, the MSM and the late night talk shows would have painted him as the unaccomplished empty suit he really is, with a side order of Uncle Tom smears to boot.
It’s all about what letter comes after your name, and unfortunately few Republicans are as skilled as Ronald Reagan was at short-circuiting the relentless character assassinations that come with the territory of being a conservative seeking high office.
Kensington on December 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I don’t think Crazy is a major political party yet.
apollyonbob on December 23, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Ack, when did this idea that checks and balances being for parties start?
Dems are way left, Gop is center right, if you balance them the country leans to the left.
- The Cat
MirCat on December 23, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Journalistic integrity?
When did “John Roberts” get that? Before or after he was “J.D. Roberts” of Canada’s 1980s heavy metal show Power Hour?
fivefeetoffury on December 23, 2008 at 4:28 PM
The “news” this election has only been about smearing people that the journalists don’t know personally or have any facts on. But Joe isn’t a professional journalist , so we got to hold him to a higher standard.
And when Joe got unfairly targeted by those professional journalists, he just got to accept it as the name of the game…
the_nile on December 23, 2008 at 4:29 PM
This is year zero, so next year would be 0001 A.P.
BadgerHawk on December 23, 2008 at 4:29 PM
I can’t yet see a Republican candidate with the juice to get elected next go round. Something will have to shake loose in the next 4 years. It takes a real likeable personality to win. George W. Bush was a likeable guy, and so was Obama and Clinton. Kerry was Lerch and McCain was a pain in the ass. Palin is likeable, but not Presidential. I hope a superstar will come out in the next year or two. Jendal could be the guy, but I doubt it. Huckaby is likeable, but a little too folksey, and Rudy is too much a one trick pony. We will see what bubbles to the top next go round. As of now, I can’t see a winner on the radar screen.
saiga on December 23, 2008 at 4:30 PM
Didn’t Jefferson say something along the lines of “The only honest reporting in the newspapers are the advertisements”
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:32 PM
John Roberts + pissy about being outed = lulz.
MadisonConservative on December 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Hasn’t he gone through his 15 minutes yet?
grdred944 on December 23, 2008 at 4:36 PM
No , i think he works for CNN.
the_nile on December 23, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Where were the questions when mr o threw his granmama under the bus?
Journalist are in the public eye, therefor are open for aspersions on their journalistic integrity.
lexa on December 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM
After George W. and McCain, My loyalty to the party is diminished and my loyalty to conservative principals is stronger. I may even vote for a blue dog if a good one runs like Zell Miller.
saiga on December 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I, too, would laugh at John Roberts “journalistic integrity”. And if he asked why, I’d tell him that ex-video DJs are not trained to be journalists, just newsreaders. Pompous ass.
Andy in Agoura Hills on December 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM
The correct answer to the VJ’s response would be,
Jim708 on December 23, 2008 at 4:38 PM
I heard more probing questions of Joe the Plumber during John Robert’s five minute interview than I heard the entire MSM ask Obambi during all of his months of campaigning.
And go ahead and say it Joe. Roberts is a big-time liberal hack journalist, tutored under the wing of Dan Blather. Here’s your first clue … he works at CNN.
fogw on December 23, 2008 at 4:38 PM
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Palin conformed to McCain’s ‘08 platform ticket, but his amnesty for illegals may not have been Palin’s favorite choice, and may not be what she pursues in her future efforts to facilitate the processing of legal immigrants with citizenship.
TIME WILL TELL. The New Year won’t be long in coming, but will seem to last forever as this entire campaign was going full steam full throttle since before last Christmas. So give the acrimony a couple days break!
John Roberts is one of many who feasted without apology on the flesh of public figures, and not satisfied to consume conservative politicians, ate the flesh of any person daring to express an INDEPENDENT opinion. This John, while lauding his own public status, takes offense at someone’s light-hearted chuckle at John’s imperfection. This John deigns fair play while again attacking Mr. W, perpetuating the very feeding on human flesh that John presumes himself above such participation. Joe expressed an opinion. The media put it on the air; Joe was not the director nor the executive producer making that decision. Joe was not a politician, nor a journalist, just an All American private citizen off the street.
Tra-la-la. Mr. Wurzelbacher has no problem getting past other people’s hang-ups. Merry Christmas to Joe the Plumber!
maverick muse on December 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM
For 95% of the MSM, “Journalistic Integrity” is a contradiction in terms. And I’m being generous with the percentage.
kingsjester on December 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
- Mark Twain
MB4 on December 23, 2008 at 4:43 PM
AS IF ads are reliable truths. Advertise “Trust Me”–sell whole cloth–once it sells, it must be true because someone bought it, someone believes it. That makes a lie true/ Not.
maverick muse on December 23, 2008 at 4:44 PM
Two plungers up for you, brother! (or sister)
Mr_Magoo on December 23, 2008 at 4:45 PM
“Journalistic Integrity” = oxymoron.
Actually though, it is a shame that the decent 1% of the journalists give the other 99% a good name.
kurtzz3 on December 23, 2008 at 4:48 PM
I still say Fred could do it if he’d listen to his wife, get off his lazy a$$ and hit the campaign trail in 2010. Unfortunately, he seems to treat the run for the Presidency like a chore on his honey-do list.
Mr_Magoo on December 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM
thanks for the correction
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM
The reporter is John Roberts, formerly known as JJ Roberts from Canada. Speaking of journalistic integrity, Roberts has plenty of experience as a DJ on radio and entertainment reporter (sort of like Entertainment tonight). With that kind of experience, JJ believes he should be taken seriously (sort of like Princess Caroline being considered seriously for the senate). In fact he is no more qualified as a journalist than Joe the plumber. But do you all notice how he purposely lowers his voice to sound more credible. :)
This is JJ’s career high point: “In 1979, he branched out from his music personality work to function as an entertainment reporter.”
poxoma on December 23, 2008 at 4:51 PM
“when you enter the poltical frey poeple are going to take shots at you” …. when HE entered the political fray? you mean When he dared ask obama a question that just to happened to make obama tell a
truthfulmistaken answer.The media attacked this guy, he didnt enter the politcal fray, they swarmed him, dug illegaly into his background and released it to the national media…. yeah joe has a right to question your “integrity”
Donut on December 23, 2008 at 4:55 PM
Sorry to say, Joe fumbled this one. He should have replied:
“I’m not casting aspersions on your journalistic integrity John – you don’t have any integrity to cast aspersions on.”
EnglishMike on December 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM
Damn straight. John has it ass backwards. The media attacked Joe for asking a question. Up until that point nobody had heard of Joe. Saying that it is fair game to have Joe’s privacy violated for asking a question is insane.
Guardian on December 23, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Send him on a one-way coach to Texas and declare him persona non grata in Ohio.
Problem solved.
sethstorm on December 23, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Oh man that was funny.
First Roberts got all huffy that someone called him a hack then in his next breath he is saying how if you’re out there on the trail you need to expect some scrutiny.
Candy ass.
NeoKong on December 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM
What does that have to do with anything? Are youtrying to rile people up, Allah?
snaggletoothie on December 23, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Hey John, people don’t have to know you personally to know you’re a Democrat shill. The irony is that people might actually have a little respect for the media if they would just own up to their obvious liberal bias, but instead they continue to show their arrogance and lack of respect for people by propagating the lie that they’re neutral.
clearbluesky on December 23, 2008 at 5:51 PM
And unless i’m just not seeing it, the video time isn’t displayed anywhere which makes it kind of hard to find the 2:10 mark.
clearbluesky on December 23, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Just typical Allah arrogance snaggletoothie.
I await Ed’s next post where he screws up and refuses to correct it.
BRYAN!!!! Come back!!!
Michelle, fire these turds.
Jim708 on December 23, 2008 at 5:54 PM
I don’t think Joe backed down. He laughed at Roberts saying “I don’t stump for anyone, I’m a journalist.” He was laughing at the implication that being a journalist means he doesn’t stump for anyone, as the headline says accurately. What he then went on to say was he didn’t know about Roberts specifically but he knows the media in general is far left. That’s not backing down.
OneGyT on December 23, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Jim708
I wouldn’t want them fired. I’d complain no matter who it was.
snaggletoothie on December 23, 2008 at 6:00 PM
The comedy goes on and on.
Yeah,, Joe entered the political arena when he questioned the Obama. If only the media questioned Obama as hard as they questioned this plumber!!
This is so amazing. The plumber is still an issue and the President Elect is not!
JellyToast on December 23, 2008 at 6:03 PM
If the best example you can find is someone elected in Minnesota, your argument is pretty weak (sorry Ed) but with what we’ve seen their voting habits are rather out of the mainstream.
Red State State of Mind on December 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM
From her Unavision interview…
Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They’ve got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.
To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.
chunderroad on December 23, 2008 at 6:28 PM
MEMO to RNC:
I want ‘Joe the Plumber’ hired in some form or fashion
that teaches Republican Politicians the fine art of
dealing with the combative Liberal MSM!
One example,besides Joe,was the verbal slaughter that Dick Cheney performed on Wolf Blitzer,now,Joe is the template
for any Republican to deal with the hostile Lefty MSM!
Use this video if your not sure how it should be done!
Oh ya,every single time that the truth is besmirched,
correct it before the MSM cut you off,so the soundbite
doesn’t endless reverberate aound CNN 24/7/365,or become
a You-Tube of a million hits!
RNC,you must respond! Thank-you!
canopfor on December 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM
I miss Bryan too.
:c(
Califemme on December 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM
I was being sarcastic with that response … in case you are claiming that I am pushing Venture
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 6:33 PM
ventura even
joey24007 on December 23, 2008 at 6:34 PM
McCain / Kennedy’s bill was CRAZY AMNESTY like all amnesties ever before combined.
chunderroad on December 23, 2008 at 6:39 PM
When the documentry came out,about how many times the
Clinton Administration did not respond to killing OBL,
and the dam#ing evidence presented,the Clinton’s screamed
to the high heavens!
So,
How about a Documentery,just as hard hitting,of how,who,
and whys,of how the Liberal media went to bat,and how they
bedded done with Team Obama/GaffeBiden to fraud the American
people!
Then,
watch the Lefty Liberal Marxist Socialist Media scream and
howl,h#ll,the amount of screaming will be an indicator as to
how close to the truth the documentry bites!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
canopfor on December 23, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Wah, wah. Send her an email if you like, so she can ignore it. Allah makes a good point, and rather than avoid criticizing her, we should be clear on what she stands for.
MadisonConservative on December 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM
Steele/Huckabee 2012
tjexcite on December 23, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Roberts,
.
Joe should have repeated the laugh. . . . .or
just giggled, winked and said Riiight.
Texyank on December 23, 2008 at 7:11 PM
I was referring to Mr. Plumber. Someone who I am looking forward to watching experience their obligatory DUI/assault charge/video store robbery that we are accustomed to seeing our pop-culture celebrities go through. I was sympathetic at the treatment he received after being plucked out of a crowd by The Black Caesar but he is just tiring now.
And suddenly he is shilling a book. Next he will be opening for Larry the Cable Guy.
grdred944 on December 23, 2008 at 7:12 PM
From an article about this story on instapundit’s web site:
“John Roberts interviewing Paul Begala on CNN just now slipped and said ‘we’ when asking how Democrats should respond to Republican attacks.”
So much for Roberts’ alleged journalistic objectivity and “integrity.” You’ve never demonstrated any kind of bias, have you Johnny? You’re much too fair-minded and impartial to ever do that, right?
Who do these people think they’re kidding?
AZCoyote on December 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Seems AP want’s to chuck Palin there as well.
aikidoka on December 23, 2008 at 7:18 PM
“when you enter the political fray”
I thought all Joe did was have the audacity to ask a Presidential Candidate a question. How dare he…..
Hog Wild on December 23, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Allah, I don’t post often, but I have read enough to suspect that you have CDS*.
*’Cuda Derangement Syndrome
;o)
kakypat on December 23, 2008 at 7:44 PM
“why would you cast aspersions on my journalistic integrity…I don’t even know you!”
Humm lets see?
CNN’s John Roberts declared his interview with Barack Obama on Monday a “Rev. Wright-free zone” to telegraph he wouldn’t ask the Democratic presidential contender about the controversy over his former pastor.
CNN’s John Roberts: Palin Might Neglect Her Disabled Infant?
CNN’s John Roberts, after briefly alluding to the issue of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s experience he called into question earlier on Friday’s Newsroom program, asked correspondent Dana Bash about how the Alaska governor’s newborn son with Down’s syndrome might be affected if she were elected:
CNN’s facade of fairness totally out the window as its John Roberts refers to Democrats as ‘We’
You know, this almost looks like what happened in 2004 where the Bush campaign was very, very good at defining John Kerry in their own terms, and he was on the defensive, and he was always trying to fight back against them. Do we risk, or does the Democratic Party here risk Barack Obama becoming John Kerry II?
Who’s the “we” here?
DSchoen on December 23, 2008 at 8:07 PM
sorry, thought you were being serious.
Red State State of Mind on December 23, 2008 at 8:17 PM
And suddenly he is shilling a book. Next he will be opening for Larry the Cable Guy.
grdred944
Your point is?????
http://money.aol.com/forbes/general/highest-paid-comedians
“Larry The Cable Guy
$20 million
There’s nothing funny about being the highest-earning stand-up comic in the United States. Larry the Cable Guy grossed $21.5 million in ticket sales last year”
Olbermann Paid $7.5m Per Year To Supply World With O’Reilly Antithesis
Sean Hannity re-upped with Clear Channel for five years at $20 million a year
DSchoen on December 23, 2008 at 8:43 PM
*shrug* Let him go for it. After a public anal exam, I won’t begrudge it.
ddrintn on December 23, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Joe Nailed this leftist monkey on shilling for the left.
I hope people take this for how it’s intended: McCain showed more integrity than I could ever think of possessing as a prisoner of war but unfortunately, McCain left that integrity in a jail cell in Vietnam. If it weren’t for Sarah Palin, I would be embarrassed to have voted for him.
nelsonknows on December 24, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Bwaaaaaaaa!
Jaibones on December 24, 2008 at 12:35 AM
It’s called taking advantage when an opportunity is presented. AKA the American dream.
rokemronnie on December 24, 2008 at 1:07 AM
Obama couldn’t afford to be perceived as attacking Joe the Plumber, though he tried working him into some jokes on later on the campaign trail. The media will play the same game.
chunderroad on December 24, 2008 at 6:04 AM
I wish he had said “Don’t you think ‘journalistic integrity’ is an oxymoron?” and made the CNN guy defend it.
Kafir on December 24, 2008 at 8:32 AM
How quickly this oaf defends his so-called journalistic integrity, as if Joe were personally attacking him. These fools really don’t know how corrupt and compliant they’ve become.
Really looking forward to the death of the MSM. Can’t happen soon enough.
EMD on December 24, 2008 at 10:20 AM
“It was more a sideshow like Dan Quaile”
“Dan Quayle’s public service began in July 1971 when he became an investigator for the Consumer Protection Division of the Indiana Attorney General’s Office. Later that year, he became an administrative assistant to Governor Edgar Whitcomb. From 1973-74, he was the Director of the Inheritance Tax Division of the Indiana Department of Revenue. Upon receiving his law degree, he worked as associate publisher of his family’s newspaper, the Huntington Herald-Press, and practiced law with his wife in Huntington.
Dan Quayle’s political career began when he was elected to the United States Congress in 1976 at age 29. He was elected to the United States Senate at age 33. On January 20, 1989 he took the oath of office as the 44th Vice President of the United States at age 41.
Dan Quayle is widely considered to have been one of the most active Vice Presidents in history. In his constitutional role as Vice President, Dan Quayle served as president of the United States Senate. On February 9, 1989, President Bush named Dan Quayle head of the Council of Competitiveness, which worked to ensure US international competitiveness in the 21st century. He made official visits to 47 countries, was chairman of the National Space Council, and served as President Bush’s point man on Capitol Hill. As a leader in causes from legal system reform to deregulation to the renewal of basic American values…”
davod on December 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM
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