One of the luckiest things in my life has been my good fortune to meet and become friendly or even real friends with some of the most interesting people in politics. Growing up in Detroit, I never would have guessed I’d get to know Tucker Carlson, Christopher Hitchens, David Limbaugh, etc. – so many people, I could write a column just name-dropping. It’s weird to me still, having politically grown up watching these people on television and learning from them. To become friends with Andrew Breitbart before he was famous, and experiencing the circus the media created around him, of which he was the master, as he grew in stature was an incredible thing to witness.
“Joe the Plumber” is another such person. But this isn’t about Joe, or any of the other people I’ve been blessed to know, even though Joe plays an important part, this is about Barack Obama. I didn’t “get to know” Obama, but I can claim to have had a few cigarettes with him back in the day when we both smoked.
I was a press secretary in the US Senate in 2006, and I smoked. I’d step outside for a cigarette from time to time and then Senator Obama, also a smoker, would come walking from the Capitol having a smoke and would finish it with us other smokers. Like you would with anyone, I would just shoot the breeze with him. It didn’t happen often, Senators have busy schedules. But he’d walk outside from the Capitol to the office buildings sometimes rather than use the tunnels for the same reason I did – because you wanted to have a smoke or two.
He was perfectly nice and engaging, which isn’t really an accomplishment because you have to try to be a jerk when you’re just standing around with one or two other people having a smoke. But I can’t say I know the man because I don’t.
When he ran for president in 2008, he just “came across” someone else just going about their business – the aforementioned Joe the Plumber.
All Joe did was ask a basic question about taxes. In his answer, Barack Obama used the “spread the wealth around” line that exposed his true radical leanings. That terrified David Axelrod and the Obama guard in the media, which set out to destroy Joe.
In the next 48 hours we learned more about Joe – did you know his name was really Samuel, not Joe? Joe is his middle name – then we still know about Obama. Joe’s taxes were illegally leaked by the state of Ohio, for example, yet we have not ever, and likely will never see Obama’s college transcripts or know how a man, who by his own claims, was an average high school student who spent a lot of time smoking weed managed to get into three of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning on the planet. Not because there aren’t answers to that question, but because the people with the job of asking are steadfastly refused to.
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Just like the refused to ask any questions about Obama’s background or life. Have you ever seen an interview with one of his close friends growing up? Anyone from high school? Any human being who remembers Barack Obama from college, who was his actual friend? Nope. And no ex-girlfriends.
Well, there is one ex-girlfriend, an evil white girl who dated Barry (which is what he went by before it was politically advantageous to be “Barack”) who was finally tracked down.
By “tracked down '' mean looked for. She wasn’t in hiding, it’s just that no reporter cared enough to do any basic journalism – it’s much easier to rewrite press releases rather than report, lest you lose your space where their lips were firmly planted on Obama’s posterior.
Her name is Sheila Miyoshi Jager, and Obama lied about why he broke up with her in his second autobiography, “Dreams from My Father.” (As an aside, that title always struck me as odd since his father wanted nothing to do with him, abandoning him as a baby. His mom wasn’t much better, but she waited longer before ditching him with his grandparents so she could follow a man around the world.) His version had to do with his a-woke-ening to blackness and identity politics, her version is he was a jackass refusing to condemn anti-Semitism. (For a lot more on this and the lies around Obama, read this article.)
Whatever the case, the fact that you likely didn’t know that or anything about Barack Obama “the man” is not a testament to just how incurious the press is, but how protective. Joe the Plumber was attacked and smeared for asking a question Obama answered, as he might say, “stupidly” because he answered honestly. To this day there are people who hate Joe, one of the nicest, most genuine people I’ve ever had the pleasure to call a friend, for asking that question. They are disgusting people and they populate the prime-time line-up of MSNBC. How they live with themselves, I’ll never understand.
But they aren’t going anywhere, and they’re still throwing themselves on grenades for fraudulent Democrats.
The story of Barack Obama – the myth he and his handlers created around him – is the real “Big Lie” in American politics, and no legacy media employee has bothered to even ask a skeptical question about it. They’ve shifted from protecting Barack Obama to protecting Joe Biden. It’s a tougher sell, and they do feel a little dirty prostituting themselves for a corrupt, rich, old white man, but the agenda must be served. Besides, the only things that changed from Obama to Biden are the age and skin color, and they only pretend to care about those things anyway…
Hookers might not like their clients, but they have a job to do and will get in trouble with their pimps if they turn down a trick. Having a press pass doesn’t change that dynamic, it just legitimizes it…at least as much as being a whore can be legitimized.
PS: Joe the Plumber is fighting for his life against pancreatic cancer right now and he and his family could use your help. Please check this out.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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