Tag: Toledo

  • ‘Joe the Liar’

    (Photo: Jim Young/Reuters) Wurzelbacher speaking to Sen. Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio, last week. And so “Joe the Plumber” dies a swift, ignominious death. In so doing, he enters the pantheon of fictitious Republican agitprop–such as Reagan’s apocryphal Cadillac-driving welfare queens–that have no basis in reality. “Joe the Plumber,”…