‘Joe the Plumber’ Fires Back at CNN Host: ‘So This Is TMZ’
Josh St. Louis
NewsBusters
3/8/2012
In a heated exchange Thursday between CNN’s Zoraida Sambolin and Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as “Joe the Plumber,” Sambolin dug up comments he made about “gay people” in 2009, causing Wurzelbacher to quip that “this is TMZ. This isn’t CNN, is what you’re saying.”
Sambolin also questioned his qualifications to run for office, and mislabeled his liberal opponent as a “conservative Democrat” while branding Wurzelbacher as a “conservative Republican.”
CNN deems it necessary to press a conservative candidate on his social positions while, as their liberal bias on LGBT issues suggests, they would hardly question a liberal candidate over his social stances.
Sambolin also labeled Wurzelbacher’s Democratic opponent, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, as a “conservative Democrat.” Kaptur is clearly a liberal. She owns a 2010 liberal rating of 85 with the group Americans for Democratic Action, while possessing a lifetime rating of under 15 with the American Conservative Union…
…SAMBOLIN: And what do you think, or how do you think that qualifies you to run for Congress? …
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CAJ note: Geez, don’t you wish someone from CNN had asked our President that question in 2008?
