As a private citizen, I guess you'd better not be asking The Messiah any probing questions, even when he comes to your neighborhood and randomly picks you from the line ... or else. He. Will. Destroy. You.

Or maybe when he's elected, send you off to a ... er ... re-education camp.

What We Can Learn from the Joe the Plumber Episode. They want to discredit the man who only asked the question as if he’s some political operative who magically forced Obama to sound … well, a little like a Marxist. Why? They want to distract people from Obama’s answer by sliming the man Obama picked at random to ask a question.

Indeed.

So what have we learned from this episode?

1. Thou shalt not offend The One by asking him a question. Of any kind.
2. Anyone who questions The One will have to undergo a public pillorying of a kind unseen since the Red Scare, or perhaps the Inquisition.
3. The Tanning-Bed Media will happily participate in any inquisition, as long as it keeps them from investigating irrelevant issues like Obama’s ties to the Chicago Machine, William Ayers, ACORN, or his record on protecting infanticide. Read it all.

Operation Destroy Joe the Plumber.