CNN Remembers Joe The Plumber As The Star Of 'White Identity Politics'

Alex Christy | August 29, 2023
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, died on Monday and for Tuesday’s Inside Politics on CNN, the assembled panel recalled his confrontation with Barack Obama in 2008 on taxes by labeling it the beginning of “grievance politics” for white working class men while lamenting that Democrats have not been able to connect with such voters despite the passing of the infrastructure bill.