Joe the Plumber's Bogus Use of Nonpartisan

Joe the Plumber told Pajamas TV the Club for Growth, the Heritage Foundation, and the Kato Institute are nonpartisan organizations.

The Federal Election Commission filed a lawsuit against Club For Growth. The FEC lawsuit contends Club For Growth should have filed as a political action committee. Club For Growth raised $21 million in the 2003-2004 election cycle for Republican candidates.

The Cato Institute is funded by tabacco money. News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch has served on Cato's board.. Cato fellow Douglas Bandow was paid by Jack Abramoff to write favorable to the lobbyist's clients.

The Heritage Foundation's tagline is "Conservative Policy Research and Analysis." Enough said.

Wurzelbacher is being dishonest. This is a guy that blew off a McCain campaign rally and got tagged by Shepard Smith for not knowing what he was spinning.

SMITH: Joe, do you know Barack Obama’s positions on Israel?

WURZELBACHER: Listen, I know you wanna really get some answers on this one, I’m just not gonna help you out here, Shepherd. Let people go out and find, that’s what I’ve been telling people. […] Listen, you don’t want my opinion on foreign policy. I know just enough probably to be dangerous.

SMITH: Yeah, well that’s what I was kinda wondering.

Joe is a clever huckster and Roger Simon and Charles Johnson are gullible enough to pay him. I find it hysterical the Pajamas Media will pay Joe the Plumber, but not conservative bloggers.

Related: Kieran Healy wrote about the madness of Pajamas Media launch. Johnson and Simon decided on Judy Miller as keynote speaker. What a great way to gain instant credibility.

Punked

Mr. G has been punked. I have written before about how the G Man doesn't understand scientific research. Amanda Marcotte and I challenged the bogus science of Karen Malec. Mr. G posted it because it confirmed his unfounded believe that abortions cause cancer.

What Mr. G fell for is comedy gold.

I, along with a number of other bloggers, and even Rush Limbaugh, apparently, fell for what has turned out to be a complete hoax. A made up abstract published at the website of a fake science journal purports to explain global warming by monitoring bacteria emissions. As I stated in the post, I can't claim to understand the research which formed the basis of the argument in the paper, which is now obvious as it was totally made up. It struck me as interesting and I brought it to you.

Michael Berube an brilliant post on how conservative bloggers are utterly predictability. Berube wrote parody posts of conservative. Roger L. Simon eerily wrote similarly worded posts.

Berube:

Everything changed for me on September 11. I used to consider myself a Democrat, but thanks to 9/11, I’m outraged by Chappaquiddick.

Simon:

The big loser of the confirmation hearings so far is Teddy Kennedy. In his hectoring and tasteless attack on Samuel Alito he has succeeded in nothing but reminding us of his (Teddy’s) past. While Alito may have been associated with a creepy Princeton alumni publication of twenty years ago, Kennedy was associated was something much worse than that—and we all know it. . . . When Mrs. Alito walked out of the room, I thought of Mary Jo Kopechne.

I wish a wrote a parody post about organic foods causing global warming.