FOX News: New Haven Firefighter Reminds Us All of Poor Joe the Plumber
By bluegal Thursday Jul 16, 2009 9:00am
Video and story from Media Matters, July 13:
Megyn, Megyn, Megyn. What has gone to the FOX anchor's head? It's one thing to demonize People for the American Way, we kind of expect that. But in an interview with the attorney for the New Haven Firefighter who sued for reverse discrimination (in a case made notable by the involvement of Judge Sotomayor) BAM out of nowhere you compare him to Joe the Plumber? Joe not-a-plumber, Joe who toured with McCain as a prop? Poor Joe, the "innocent" guy who wanted to avoid the public spotlight so vigorously, he hired a Nashville publicist to handle his press requests?
And somehow, stating that the GOP "failed to vet" Joe the Plumber is an unfair smear?
Kudos to the attorney for agreeing quickly with Megyn Kelly as if it were her own idea. You do what you can for your client and your own firm's PR, no matter how divorced from reality your claims might be. Every lawyer knows the value of billable hours, my friends.
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"Joe the Plumber -- you can quote me -- is a dumbass. He should stick to plumbing." -meghan mccain
Sorry sweetie, he can't.
He's not a plumber.
Just the same as your daddy is not a war hero.
John McCain served his country and survived being a POW. Let's not play dirty politics and swiftboat his time in the military.
Yeah...the GOP would never do that to a decorated veteran.
Thank you for your concern.
So now the truth is "dirty" ?
The United States killed two million Vietnamese civilians in the Vietnam war.
McCain described what he was doing as bombing a "heavily populated part of Hanoi."
Is it any wonder they beat him senseless when they found him on the ground ?
This twit is a walking blonde joke.
The worst part is...she's a bottle blonde. Honey...the roots! the roots!!
Me thinks the dye has seeped into her brain.
Farm Out
Right Arm.
Joe the Plumber = Rush, Hannnity, Beck, Malkin, Coulter, etc. True..
Joe the Plumber = Anyone who works for a living. Total lie.
at a restaurant last night as she was leaving. She had her big Stepford smile going on. She really is quite stunning looking (and very pregnant). I wanted to ask her why she's wasting her talents pushing pernicious propaganda for Fox but she left rather quickly.
They don't mention that it was a 5-4 decision that set a new standard.
Joe the Plumber is an ignoramus actively seeking the limelight and who asked why Senator Dodd hadn't been "strung up" yet, among his other authoritarian ideas. He's not a martyr, he's an opinionated idiot (mostly standard Limbaugh BS) spouting some irresponsible and dangerous crap.
He is not amused:
http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/chri...
he sued to get his job and sued again to get a raise...= Pathetic
He sued because the exam was unfair to him because he was dyslexic.
Which we know is not a choice.
Like being black is.
A Tool, is a Tool, is a Tool.
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yes...but fresh batteries are a necessity.
Not with Davey's mom.
You should've seen his face when he and Goliath saw what his mom was doing with an oiled up Larry the Cucumber.
This is the guy that should have been called up to testify but neither the Dems or the GOP saw fit.
This was her real weakness.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/14/story_o...
to my reading, the crucial statements in Jeffrey Deskovic's interview are,
"When that decision came down, my lawyer moved to reargue the case in front of Judge Sotomayor and her colleague, Rosemary Pooler, and that, too, was denied, and the US Supreme Court did not grant me permission to appeal to them."
And then he says, "They compared the DNA which didn’t match me to the database, and it matched the real perpetrator. Again, it’s really flukish, which is all the more serious as to what the judge’s ruling was. I mean, if he had not committed an unrelated crime, then his DNA wouldn’t have been in the database, and I still would have been in prison."
Tragic that a young man served time for a crime he didn't commit, but I do not see a Sotomayor mistake. She is not psychic, she can only go on what's is front of her. The guys attorney missed a filing deadline, and yet the court still reviewed their brief. The DNA test exonerating the man didn't come until 6 years later. If the ruling was outside the bounds of legitimacy, one would think that SCOTUS would have heard it.
I do not find the case on Lexis, but there is a Deskovic appeal from 1994. That was denied too, and Sotomayor wasn't on the bench.
The only connection between Ricci and Joe might be that they are both spotlight hounds. Opportunist, if you will. No one forced either of them out on the stage.
No one forced either of them out on the stage.
No one can get them off either!
Please...someone...GET THE HOOK!
Interviewer: Who is your favorite active journalist?
Kelly: Brit Hume. The man truly knows everything about everything.
http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgfp1206+snoopy-i...
Does Joe the non-plumber have a job or is he receiving money from some "socialist program"?
http://i3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/652/809/56...
about liberals being vicious people....hmmm....so people with legitimate critiques are hypocrites and vicious. Well Karen, did you ever consider that for the last 8 #@$% years we've had a no brain douche political hack representing this country with a vice president that ran an illegal assasination squad? Vicious? You bet your ass! We're done with bogus political props like Ricci and Joe the non plumber.
When Ricci began this suit I don't think he had visions of the spotlight. But now he has won his case and sees an opportunity to grab the spotlight with both hands. Will he be like Joe the whatever and get a book deal? It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
One of the reporters said this morning when Ricci, and the other firefighters who came with him, entered the confirmation room, Judge Sotomayor went over and greeted them and thanked them for coming. Now that is CLASS!
Would she work for faux news?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZFxOa8ji9U
Or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1vJioUQgw
?
I don't see the point of his testimony now, as the Judge did not personally do anything to him, she simply ruled on his case. Soliciting pity for any hardships the lack of promotion might have resulted in for him is not what these confirmation hearings are all about.
Wouldn't that require empathy?
Oh lord, I hope not. Empathy is a bad word. ;)
It's laughable the amount of uneducated, blonde whores that Faux Noise picks off the street and hires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_2YyzNAT98
but it must be one hell of an interview process!
they prob. get a lot of these:
(apologies in advance)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3untIn88_Q
will u accept intellect and pigment challeged?
Even if she acts like a dumb blond, it is rather impolitic to call her one. Why gild the lily? She stands for what she is. And where it that kid who did 'leave poor brittany alooooone!' when he is needed to uphold the dignity of Joe-the-Plumber-oid?
Once again Faux viewers get an earful of bullshit and twisted realities.
But nowhere near as vicious as the Neanderthal right.
Its funny how the rightwing is against lawsuits when they benefit their agenda.
Also, how is it out of bounds to point out that Ricci has a "Litigious" work history. If the guy goes around suing his employers all the time its fair to point that out. Its called presenting the facts so that viewers can make their own conclusions, something Fox talks about but really doesn't understand.
of Sarah Palin.
I don't understand how these morons can continue to disparage good investigative journalism into the past behavior of PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHOSEN TO BECOME PUBLIC FIGURES.
If Joe the Plumber, Sara Palin, and now, Frank Ricci don't want their lives scrutinized, then don't put yourself out there for public scrutiny.
- None of these people are private actors who have suffered some invasion of their privacy.
- They are willful Public Figures (and in the case of Palin, a Public Official)
- They want all the benefits of attacking other Public Figures/Officials (i.e., Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor) but none of the natural risks that such role obviously presents to the taker.
- Finally, not one thing that has been uncovered about any of these people has ever been proven untrue. NOT ONE THING. But to dingbats like this Fox newscaster and Ricci's attorney, outrage trumps the truth.
If I were Frank Ricci, I'd take this exchange as a huge insult. Whatever you think of his history of lawsuits, by all accounts he's a great and dedicated firefighter. Comparing him to Joe the Plumber is a major putdown on the part of both Fox and his attorney.
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