Sir --
I am writing to protest the treatment "Joe the Plumber" has received from the new York Times.
This is a poor schmuck who had the temerity to embarrass Senator Obama after the Senator chose to chat with him on a campaign appearance. His treatment at the hands of the press since then, including the New York Times, has been nothing short of despicable. For his crimes, the poor man has had his tax issues, his divorce, and his employment questioned in your paper. (Ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/politics/17joe.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=joe%20the%20plumber&st=cse&oref=slogin)
At the same time, Obama Campaign officials with larger tax liens seem to have avoided this scrutiny. (Ref: http://webofdeception.com/nesbitt.html)
Frankly, I've more or less given up on the notion that the New York Times, once the example of journalistic probity, could be expected to show impartiality or even basic honesty in its treatment of the candidates, but this investigation of a mere bystander who happened to ask an uncomfortable question is a low to which I had never before imagined the Times could sink.
Sincerely
Charles R (Charlie) Martin
Update: Thanks for the link, Glenn!
Let me encourage anyone who follows the link here to consider writing the Public Editor yourself. You’re welcome to borrow my links and such, but it will be ever so much more effective if you write it in your own words. Of course, be polite; this poor guy has a tough job. Imagine if it were your job to defend the Times.
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Letters to the NYT certainly do have some sort of an impact; one of their columnists even replied to me once.
However, here’s something that would be much, much more effective. Let’s say that ten people went to BHO’s events and asked him really tough questions, the type of questions that the NYT would never dare to ask him. And, let’s say that BHO’s responses were many, many times more damning than his response to Joe the Plumber. And, let’s say those responses were uploaded to Youtube and millions of people saw them.
Wouldn’t that not only knock BHO out of the race but also show millions of people that the NYT has been covering up for him? Wouldn’t that pretty much undercut the NYT and the rest of the MSM?
So, why isn’t Instapundit helping push that plan? He’s glomming on to the JTP fad, yet he’s not urging people to take it to the next level. Why is that? Is there something he’s not telling us?
24, as I said over at JOM, that’s really not much Glenn’s style. Nothing to stop you from pushing that idea, though. I’ll certainly link it and make it prominent here if you do.
Say, don’t I recall – perhaps a year or more back – posts about Democratic plants at McCain (and other Repub) events asking planted questions? As I recall, bloggers did the investigations that revealed them. I’m just sayin’.
BTW, I sent my own version of your letter to Mr. Hoyt; I don’t really expect an answer. (My Congressional ‘representatives,’ Dems all, never answer me back, either.)
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