The attempt to dismantle Joe the Plumber

Joe Wurzelbacher, the now-nationally famous "Joe the Plumber," struck a nerve when he caught Barack Obama stating that he favored redistribution of wealth. Class warfare is a loser issue to campaign on.

For the Obama campaign and its enablers, the strategy is simple: Dismantle the plumber, as Video Done Right reports:

The impulse to learn more about Wurzelbacher is perfectly normal. Readers and viewers are no doubt want to know more about the man now that he is all over the news. I know I do. And speaking as a journalist, let me add that reporters should be curious enough to do some basic background research.

But why is it that political reporters only get curious when a conservative Joe America storms onto the scene? Why aren't they just as curious when liberals trot out, say, a 12-year-old boy to give a national radio address?

It has been almost a year to the day since journalists dropped the ball on telling America more about Graeme Frost, the boy who made the case for sinking billions of dollars more into the State Children's Health Insurance Program. But when Michelle Malkin and other curious conservative bloggers did the legwork the press wouldn't, they earned the scorn of their mainstream colleagues.

This time around, with Joe The Plumber as their target, the MSM is coming out with guns blazing. Maybe they should spend more time telling the bigger story about Wurzelbacher — that he managed to get Obama on the public record as favoring a socialistic redistribution of wealth.

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