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Worth Knowing: Who's Sliming the Plumber

Paul asks:

Since you, as a journalist, get every piece of campaign spam there is, you are in a position to tell us if Rick Davis is telling the truth and that the attacks from the blogosphere on Joe the Plumber are indeed coming from the Obama campaign or if instead that Rick Davis talking to Hugh Hewitt is full of it.

Can I trust you to do the right thing?

Rick Davis, on this score, is full of it. I should have pointed it out earlier. All of the "anti-Joe" (or at least "questioning Joe") material I've received has come from bloggers, columnists, friends, etc. (And, of course, from righties decrying their actions.) Here is what I've received from Obama and related entities about Mr. The Plumber:

UPDATE: Image fixed, sorry.

FURTHER UPDATE: The point of the screenshot is to illustrate that "official" Obama spokespeople are not overtly engaged in attacks on Joe. The stories they've spammed mention Joe, yes, but don't take up any particular character critique. I'm sorry if this wasn't clear.

AND YET MORE: A little bird reminds me that the New York Times added to the Plumber portfolio as well, though that piece was not spammed out by the Obama campaign as well. Did it slime the guy? Well, it didn't do him any favors.

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