Josh McNeill » fact checking http://www.joshmcneill.com Audio Engineer, Composer Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:46:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The whole “Joe the Plumber” conversation. http://www.joshmcneill.com/2008/10/the-whole-joe-the-plumber-conversation/ http://www.joshmcneill.com/2008/10/the-whole-joe-the-plumber-conversation/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:41:09 +0000 Josh http://www.joshmcneill.com/blog/?p=55 Honestly, I’m getting tired of hearing only three words from this five minute long conversation. It seems everywhere I turn there’s someone repeating the phrase “spread the wealth” as if those were the only words Obama said to Joe Wurzelbacher from Ohio. This is usually followed by claims that Obama is a socialist, a communist, and wants to punish successful people. This even sometimes flows into claims that Obama is a terrorist, un-American, and isn’t even a natural-born US citizen.

The level of xenophobia lately is crazy. In the news I’ve seen anything from a man cackling as he shows a camera his stuffed monkey with an Obama hat that he calls “Little Hussein” to someone’s Halloween decorations that include a lynched ghost with “Obama” written on it as well as “Husain” (yes, it was spelled wrong). There is such a huge amount of disinformation, racism, fear, and just plain hate lately that I wouldn’t even know where to begin to start correcting some of it so I guess I’ll just correct one thing.

Here is the entire “Joe the Plumber” conversation.

And before you get swept away in all the non-sense propaganda out there, take at least one look at FactCheck.org. Seriously, don’t be stupid.

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