Liberal dismissiveness

In a story in the NY Times about the manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays whose father was a plumber named Joe is this sentence about Joe Wurzelbacher,

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... but it also turned out that Wurzelbacher has operated without a plumbing license and owes back taxes.

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I have noticed the Times often does this sort of thing when its favored candidate is challenged by a voter. They did the same thing with the swift vets trying to find a way to dismiss the case against the liberal Democrat. In Wurzelbacher's case it is totally irrelevant. It is also got nothing to do with Obama's gaffe in response to the plumber's question. What was relevant was Obama's blurting out that he favored wealth transfers.

But what the Times does is try to find to dismiss the relevant with some irrelevant detail. With Kerry the Times used some inconsistency on one of the vets story of events decades before, to camouflage Kerry's obvious false statement about spending Christmas in Cambodia. The Times was also never bothered by Kerry's slander against those who served in Vietnam. If they actually agreed with Kerry when he accused us of being war criminals, that is really disgusting.

But, since the 2004 election Kerry's slander and lies are forgotten and the dismissive is used against the vets in order to turn their effort into a pejorative for liberals.

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