memeorandum: Palin's e-mails? That'll be $15 million (Bill Dedman/MSNBC)

10:35 AM ET, October 17, 2008

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Operation Destroy Joe the Plumber — My syndicated column today reports on Team Obama and the Obamedia's mission to tear down Joe the Plumber. Yes, we are in the midst of a new contagion: Joe The Plumber Derangement Syndrome. JTPDS. — Now, pay close attention to how the MSM rushes …

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Larry Rohter / New York Times:

Real Deal on ‘Joe the Plumber’ Reveals New Slant — One week ago, Joe Wurzelbacher was just another working man living in a modest house outside Toledo, Ohio, and thinking about how to buy the plumbing business where he works. But when he stopped Senator Barack Obama during a visit …

Discussion: QandO, New York Post, Washington Post, Mother, May I Sleep …, Economix, The Strata-Sphere, Marginal Revolution and Connecting.the.Dots

Patterico's Pontifications:

L.A. Times: Joe the Plumber Has Liens!!!! 1!! — The Los Angeles Times reports: … I think we can all agree that this is critical information. — Not because it says anything about Joe the Plumber, mind you. But it does serve a useful function: it warns any future citizen …

Discussion: A Blog For All, BizzyBlog, Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times and Snapped Shot

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Good news: Toledo moves to shut down Joe the Plumber — Look on the bright side. The media's finally starting to vet acquaintances of Barack Obama. … Also revealed: His boss's business probably doesn't bring in anywhere near $250,000 a year so he should stop dreaming about turning …

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The Politico:

McCain discovers plumber no ordinary Joe — NEW YORK - John McCain hung his final presidential debate performance on an Ohio plumber who campaign aides never vetted. — A day after making Joseph Wurzelbacher famous, referencing him in the debate almost two dozen times as someone …

Discussion: Hot Air, Political Machine, AMERICAblog News, BobGeiger.com and Associated Press

Mark Hemingway / The Corner:

RE: Well That Didn't Take Long — Getting a lot of emails along these lines: … And: … And:

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Guess who else has tax liens? — Yesterday, the Tanning Bed Media discovered unpaid tax liens against Joe Wurzelbacher. Two days ago, we would have said, “Who?” He's better known this week as Joe the Plumber after his impromptu dialogue with Barack Obama produced a blatantly redistributionist answer …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Dean's World and The Campaign Spot

The Trail / Washington Post:

To Avoid Being ‘Depressed,’ Palin Skimps on Campaign News — GREENSBORO, N.C. — No wonder GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin harbors such hostility toward the mainstream media: her staff imposes limits on her access to it. — During a fundraiser here that raised $800,000 last night …

Discussion: TIME.com

Jim Treacher / Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher?:
MY FAVORITE COMMENT FROM THE DAILY KOS POST WHERE THEY GIVE …

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Ace / Ace of Spades HQ:
Congratulations, Obama!: …

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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama supporter steals vote from disabled man

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Michael van der Galien / PoliGazette:
The Left's Evolution into Totalitarians Completed

Discussion: PSoTD

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
What we can learn from the Joe the Plumber episode

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The Huffington Post: Joe The Plumber Makes McCain Ad, Takes More Questions Than Palin

Stacy Cowley / CNNMoney.com:
Fact check: Plumber Joe's taxes

Discussion: American Street and Liberal Values

Bill Dedman / MSNBC:

Palin's e-mails? That'll be $15 million — Even at that price, many records won't be available until after the election — Sarah Palin's office has discovered a renewable resource to bring millions of dollars into Alaska's economy: the governor's e-mails.

Discussion: Think Progress, Washington Monthly and Romenesko

New York Times:

Polls Cause Campaigns to Change Their Itineraries — Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a “narrow-victory scenario” and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, using mailings …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Caucus, MSNBC and The Field on the Narcosphere

Mark Brunswick / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Republicans flood Minnesota with anti-Obama phone calls

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and TPM Election Central

David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
McCain map strategy prompts questions

Discussion: Tales from the Trail, Electoral-vote.com and Oliver Willis

The Huffington Post:
Wave Of McCain Robocalls Reported, Some May Violate State Law

Discussion: Washington Monthly, TPM Election Central, 24Ahead and Swampland

Wall Street Journal:

A Liberal Supermajority — Get ready for ‘change’ we haven't seen since 1965, or 1933. — If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it.

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Washington Post:

Barack Obama for President — THE NOMINATING process this year produced two unusually talented and qualified presidential candidates. There are few public figures we have respected more over the years than Sen. John McCain. Yet it is without ambivalence that we endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.

The Caucus:

McCain and Obama Palling Around? Must Be the Al Smith Dinner — Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee for president, announced that he had dismissed his entire team of senior advisers. “All of their positions will now be held by a man named Joe the Plumber,” he cracked.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Tennessee Guerilla Women

John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama, McCain bring humor to dinner

Discussion: Jonathan Martin's Blogs and Ben Smith's Blogs

Marc Ambinder:
McCain Yucks At The Al Smith Dinner

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Marc Ambinder:
Obama At The Al Smith Dinner

Discussion: Buck Naked Politics and No Left Turns

David Brooks / New York Times:

Thinking About Obama — We've been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn't been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn't been a moment when he has displayed rage …

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Let's Get Fiscal — The Dow is surging! No, it's plunging! No, it's surging! No, it's ... Nevermind. While the manic-depressive stock market is dominating the headlines, the more important story is the grim news coming in about the real economy. It's now clear that rescuing …

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Mark Niesse / Associated Press:

Hawaii ending universal child health care — HONOLULU - Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. — Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program.

Discussion: Hot Air, Dr. Sanity and The Glittering Eye