Who are these people who claim that Joe the Plumber is of equal intelligence to Albert Einstein? They sound suspiciously like straw people, what with their beli

Who are these people who claim that Joe the Plumber is of equal intelligence to Albert Einstein? They sound suspiciously like straw people, what with their belief which falls over if you blow upon it combined with shadowy ability to hijack entire cultures, almost as if they might have been saying "all men were created equal", Gettysburg Address style, not "all men have equal intelligence".