Opinion: How the GOP used ‘Joe the Plumber’ to sell a myth | CNN
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Headlines marking the passing of Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ are a window into the past, when for a brief moment during the 2008 presidential campaign he became a well-known face in debates over economic policy that Nicole Hemmer argues have been feeding a right-wing myth for decades.

Headlines marking the passing of Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ are a window into the past, when for a brief moment during the 2008 presidential campaign he became a well-known face in debates over economic policy that Nicole Hemmer argues have been feeding a right-wing myth for decades.

  • Kbin_space_program@kbin.social
    16·
    1 year ago

    Fun Fact: the elite used the exact same strategy to drum up support for:

    The US Revolution. One of the Adams brothers owned a newspaper and would pen letters pretending to be uneducated laymen and forced the editors to publish them under fake names.