J-Post.com

Samuel Wurzelbacher of Ohio, aka Joe the Plumber, arrived in Sderot at noon Sunday to show local and foreign reporters how to do it right.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” he told foreign reporters.

“You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started,” he said.

Wurzelbacher, the man who stole the limelight from Republican presidential candidate John McCain during the American election campaign, has found a new job - as a correspondent for the Internet Web sites PJTV and Pajamas Media.

Armed with a camera and a temporary Government Press Office card, he got a taste of reality in Sderot, visiting a house hit by a Kassam rocket two weeks ago and experiencing a “Code Red” alert first-hand. He also observed and reported from the house where a Kassam landed on Sunday afternoon.

…”Do you think this is normal, the way you cover this conflict and give away information to your enemy?” he asked the journalists that gathered around him.

“It makes me sick to see the way you behave - you guys need to be protective of your homes, your children, your family.”

“I am angry,” he said, “and this is why I came here.”

It takes a conservative rookie reporter to shine light on the truth in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Screw the liberal media. They have no honor or integrity. No wonder CNN was butt-humped by a fake pro-Hamas video.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

UPDATE 1: Check out the video on breitbart.tv.

International Herald Tribune

TOLEDO, Ohio: Joe the Plumber is taking on a new job.

The Ohio man, who became famous during the U.S. presidential campaign after asking Barack Obama about his tax plan, is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for a conservative Web site called pjtv.com.

Dubbed “Joe the Plumber” by McCain’s campaign, Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher was held up as an example of an American worker who would be hurt economically by Obama’s election.

Wurzelbacher says he’ll spend 10 days covering the fighting and explaining why Israeli forces are mounting attacks against Hamas.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants “go over there and let their ‘Average Joes’ share their story.”

Wurzelbacher later joined Republican John McCain on the campaign trail.

At one stop, Wurzelbacher agreed with a McCain supporter who asked if he believed a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel.

Good luck, Joe!

Joe will be a correspondent for Pajamas Media (PJTV).

Michelle Malkin is predicting that the leftist blogosphere will start wishing death on Joe. I bet Daily Kos will be the first.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

WNWO.com

Toledo Police have confirmed that a TPD records clerk is accused of performing an illegal search of information related to ‘Joe the Plumber.’

Julie McConnell, has been charged with Gross Misconduct for allegedly making an improper inquiry into a state database in search of information pertaining to Samuel Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16.

Wurzelbacher came under the spotlight after being spoken about during the final presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain.

The inquiry into Wurzelbacher’s record is a violation of department and state policy governing the use of the Law Enforcement Automated Data System. The clerk is under fire for making the inquiry for a non-law enforcement purpose.

McConnell was hired by the Toledo Police Department in April 1995 and assigned to the Investigative Services Bureau.

A disciplinary hearing will be scheduled within the next ten days.

This is the second person to be identified as a person that has illegally investigated Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. Scoop This earlier reported that Helen Jones Kelley is being investigated herself for investigating Joe Wurzelbacher.

Just one more person Joe Wurzelbacher can, and should, sue.

Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin

Joe the Plumber and McCain supporters are not the only ones that share this sentiment.

The Washington Times

“Joe the Plumber,” the small business aspirant and overnight media sensation, endorsed John McCain’s presidential campaign Tuesday and said Barack Obama would make America a socialist nation.

The Ohio plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, also agreed with a McCain supporter who asked him if he believed “a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel.”

“I’ll go ahead and agree with you on that,” Wurzelbacher told the man, retired Florida lawyer Stan Chapman who was visiting Ohio.

Staying with the “death of Israel” theme, it is a not far-fetched to make such a suggestion that Barack Obama will not favor Israel if he does indeed get elected President. I simply cannot take Barack Obama at his word that he will defend Israel, and if you are a Jewish American, you too should be concerned. Barack Obama is closely associated with Jew-basher Rashid Khalidi. According to the Los Angeles Times, Barack Obama has said that Khalidi questioned and fermented Obama’s views on Israel.

Even when Barack Obama visited Israel earlier this year, Israeli Jews yelled at Obama, “Israel is not for sale!”

Video.

Come November, if you are a friend of Israel, vote wisely.

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio’s inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on “Joe the Plumber.”

Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK’d the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.

She said there were no political reasons for the check on the sudden presidential campaign fixture though the Support Enforcement Tracking System.

According to Ace and Gateway Pundit, Helen Jones Kelley is a maximum donor to Barack Obama’s campaign.

Ace writes:

Yes, Helen Jones-Kelley (two e’s in Kelley) just happens to be a maximum $2300 contributor to Barack Obama.

What a fucking shock, huh?

But she provides this sort of illegal intrusion into personal records for anyone who “comes into the public light.” It’s a public service, you see.

Right.

Riiiiight.

Helen Jones Kelley says that “sudden public notoriety” is enough of an excuse probable cause to investigate anyone (unless you support Barack Obama).

Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was politically vetted by the LEFT in order to destroy his life. He asked Barack Obama a question, Obama screwed up answering the question and looked like the liberal idiot that he truly is, and now Joe is on the Daily Kos-Huffington Post-Liberal Mainstream Media hit list.

I truly do hope Joe Wurzelbacher files a lawsuit against Helen Jones Kelley and everyone else involved.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Ace writes:

Tip: Obama Partisans in Ohio Goverment Agencies Illegally Pawed Through Joe the Plumber’s Private Records?

Joe Wurzelbacher’s personal information was rummaged through by partisans in three agencies.

For no legitimate purpose, with no legitimate reason for a state investigation, records were illegally accessed in the Toledo Police Department, the office of the (state) Attorney General, and, for reasons unknown, the Cuyahoga County Child Enforcement Agency (just to let you know how vicious a fishing expedition they were willing to conduct).

There can be little doubt that Obama partisans were illegally accessing private information about a citizen.

Should be something about this popping up in the next 2-3 days.

Joe Wurzelbacher is “Joe the Plumber”, if you do not know his real last name.

So, a private citizen asks Barack Obama a question, the answer that Obama gives makes Obama himself look like a fool, an idiot, and a Socialist, and then Obama’s supporters illegally search your private records?

These are the beginning stages of Nazism. If you are not in support of the government, you will be investigated, and your reputation will be crucified.

Kelsey has been right all along.

Welcome to Liberal Fascist Socialist Nazism Totalitarian Rule.

However, it is not too late to legally purchase guns and ammo.

They will be needed.

Hat Tip: ACE OF SPADES HQ

UPDATE 1: And just like clockwork…

The Columbus Dispatch

“State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about “Joe the Plumber.”

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Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher’s driver’s license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.

It has not been determined who checked on Wurzelbacher, or why. Direct access to driver’s license and vehicle registration information from BMV computers is restricted to legitimate law enforcement and government business.

Paul Lindsay, Ohio spokesman for the McCain campaign, attempted to portray the inquiries as politically motivated. “It’s outrageous to see how quickly Barack Obama’s allies would abuse government power in an attempt to smear a private citizen who dared to ask a legitimate question,” he said.

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The attorney general’s office is investigating if the access of Wuzelbacher’s BMV information through the office’s Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway computer system was unauthorized, said spokeswoman Jennifer Brindisi.

“We’re trying to pinpoint where it came from,” she said. The investigation could become “criminal in nature,” she said. Brindisi would not identify the account that pulled the information on Oct. 16.

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On Oct. 17, BMV information on Wurzelbacher was obtained through an account used by the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency in Cleveland, records show.

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The State Highway Patrol, which administers the Law Enforcement Automated Data System in Ohio, asked Toledo police to explain why it pulled BMV information on Wurzelbacher within 48 hours of the debate, Hunter said.

If you speak out against Barack Obama, you will be illegally investigated.

Hat Tip: ACE OF SPADES HQ

UPDATE 2: Hot Air is all over this story.

Joe the Plumber’s voter registration records were also looked at.

UPDATE 3: Michelle Malkin asks if privacy champions will come to Joe the Plumber’s defense.

This illegal search was absolutely politically motivated. Michelle asks who performed the search.

We have 10 days to find out.