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"David The Journalist," "Tito The Builder"

Perhaps you’ve heard Gov. Palin refer to”Tito the Builder” on the trail recently (in the same bit where she calls her opponent “Barack The Wealth Spender”)?...
October 21, 2008

Perhaps you’ve heard Gov. Palin refer to”Tito the Builder” on the trail recently (in the same bit where she calls her opponent “Barack The Wealth Spender”)?

Here’s David Corn’s encounter with Tito Munoz, who announces he is “disgusted with you guys,” for “going after Joe the Plumber” but not reporting “all the time” on Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers. And by “you guys,” Tito’s “talking about NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN. And New York Times. And Washington Post.” When Corn replies that the New York Times has had “the longest story to date about Ayers,” Tito answers, “and also another one about Cindy McCain that was probably insulting and negative.” (If, you know, Tito had to guess).

Yes, that is Byron York of National Review visible at times in the footage.

“No, no,” Munoz shot back. “Even the state, the state cannot take that right away.”

“Right, right,” Corn quickly agreed.

“Nobody can take that away,” Munoz said.

And indeed they can’t.

Related: Who should be the next Person With Job To Be Used As Political Pawn (er, Name-Checked On the Trail)? Vote at the Indecision2008 blog for “the next _____ the _______.” Me, I voted for “He Man The Master of the Universe.”

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.