http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/54327.html

the plumbing is leaking on this story. Joe the plumber is a FAKE! a PLANT!

i'll let you decide.

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What Obama confessed to is TRUE! He's a socialist!

Funny how the left tries to tie Joe with Alaska. Yeah, go after Joe. Discredit him while BHO has yet to be truthful about his associations with Ayers, Resko, and lest we forget the racist spiritual leader Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Yeah, go after Joe! Btw, I really liked the writing style of the reporter, especially toward the end of the article when they said, "she lasted talked to". I had to read that one over and over. Gotta love those elementary school paper reporters!

Watch out, your every grammatical typo is going to be fair game.

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I wud bea vury concerneded ifted my ocupacation wuz to puit newswuthy infirmashun on the printeded pauge. If eye kepe this up I might canned git a johb wiff the skool papers.

Have at it folks!

Yeah. I've noticed that in the last few years. The abyssmal qualitiy of written (and spoken) English in the journalistic "profession". Incredible when you think that a command of the language should be pretty high up there in a journalists set of tools. I guess that's the result of forty years of liberal education.

- Peter.

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You saided it. I knot saided it.

Thanks to the media and all of the people who give a crap about the story I think its safe to say that Joe will be well above the $250,000 tax bracket when his 15 minutes is over.

Congratulations Joe! If he is a fake/plant then I say, "Well played, Joe."

OOOPS! I forgotted my grammure.

Then we'll see who he votes for....probably is a plant.

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Much of that has to do with the fact that many newspapers have been decimated recently in terms of staff numbers. And those of us who remain are charged with doing twice the work we should be doing for two reasons: We must pick up the work of those who have been laid off, and we are expected to produce news simultaneously on the Internet and in our print edition. Many "Web updates" are posted by some guy who's trying, at the same time, to get everything out for print edition as deadline looms. It's easy to miss a typo when you're reading three things at once, no matter how refined your grammar and spelling are. I'm a very good copy editor, but I've made a lot of embarrassing and silly mistakes because I have to do two or three jobs at once. Of course, I usually go back and fix them, and many editors never make that effort.

Sorry to ramble off-topic, but it bothers me how so many people mock copy editors as uneducated or illiterate when we're really just grossly overworked (and some are illiterate, but still). In the past six months my workload has doubled, and I'm not exaggerating. Over the past two years that I've worked here, it seems every month or two, I get a new e-mail explaining an extra Web-related task I'm expected to take care of every night. And I've had to pick up the work of people who have been "let go" for budget reasons. At least I know one thing won't change: my salary.

Honestly, I think a lot of the best journalists are leaving the industry because it's become such a thankless wasteland. My worst fear was, at one point, that I would be the next one laid off. Now my worst fear is that I'll be the last one laid off.

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Interesting. I last worked in newspers over a decade ago. I was a sysop, not a reporter. The whole online thing was just begining. There was precious little chance of anything slipping thru. After the reporter had finished with it it went to a copy editor, then up to a sub-editor if memory serves. Of course the system had spell checking built in as well so basic spelling mistakes were practically unheard of. Gamatical errors too though sometimes I guess there could be issues of interpretation. However. I mentioned spoken english as well on the radio and TV. Makes me wonder if people actually have to take English classes at college anymore.

- Peter.

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Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
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2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Obama and Co. are real studs for picking on a guy who's door THEY knocked on, he gave them an answer they did not like so its smear the little guy. I think anyone getting their jollys out of Joe six pack getting beat up by two US Senators and likely the future President and Vice President needs an attitude check.

If Obama or McCain knocked on my door I'd sure as hell ask some tough questions but I'll think twice about that now, thats the seed of tyranny.

When I was in school, journalism majors were business school dropouts. And business majors ( a lot of them) couldn't cut it in engineering. But you would think they could compose a sentence or two occasionally.

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Your inclusion of the last paragraph presents an interesting view. If you listen to Palin and McCain speak (especially Palin), you will see their abilities run parallel to the level of what you accuse the reporter. Let us see...a reporter writing at elementary school paper level in comparison to a Presidential and VP candidate team...you may want to listen to the GOP contenders over and over and then decide if you want an elementary level team leading our great country. Say nothing about their dirty tactics in twisting the Ayers, Wright, etc. issues. I noticed you did not offer the fair and balanced approach of including McCain's K-5 involvement nor Palin's religious affiliations. Let us be fair and stick to the real issues not the twisted, divisive ones.

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Haliburton has got to be part of this collusion...