TYT: Joe The Plumber Will NOT Go Away
By Heather Saturday Nov 29, 2008 6:00pmFrom The Young Turks Nov. 26, 2008. I agree with Cenk. We're going to see Joe the Plumber doing a reality show before he finally goes away. And the McCain campaign is going to go down as one of the worst in history for relying on someone like guy this to keep their campaign alive.
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...but he has to unclog the shave-scum from my sink.... and he's not allowed to talk to me while he does it.
I think it is a good idea for him to stay around as long as possible. He is the gift that just keeps giving. It was not that long ago that a stunt like this worked. See Willie Horton. If not for people like you and me that watch this stuff closely, they would have gotten away with it again. Fortunately, now there are people with research tools that rebut this stuff immediately. That is the biggest difference now. Everyone is held accountable for things they say.
Joe the Plumber is the Kato Kaelin of the new millennium.
A talk show is an absolute must.
Am I the only one who finds the resemblance between Joe the Plumber and Josh Marshall from TPM uncanny? And you never see them in the same place....
not even remotely.
Shaving both ends of the head, and ditching the glasses, of course. ;)
.... ;)
I think his name is Steve. They kind of look alike and he got his own show. You never know.
I'm also somewhat worried about the fact that we never see Hank Paulson and Jesse Ventura in the same place...
Except Steve would only work for Jerry Springiner, he would never prostitute himself like Joe the Plumber!
Jeff "I'm not a real journalist, I play one on TV" Gannon (Joe the Plumber, that is)
Although I haven't seen too many pictures of Josh since he shaved his head (or did he?)
what was the point of joe the plumber? he didn't want to get taxed for something that he wasn't going to get taxed for anyway? how does that make him a folk hero? I just don't even see one item of anything that makes this guy different from anyone else.
There was his willingness to lie like a cheap rug. His desire for his 15 minutes at the expense of anything remotely resembling reality garnered him just about everything he got (I stop at the invasion of his privacy...no matter how much I dislike this schmoe, his privacy should not have been invaded).
The point was McAncient needed a Joe Six Pack image, between his houses, cars and rich bitch heiress wifey-poo, he was losing the knuckleheads that suck beer, think WalMart is heaven and believe African-Americans are still property. You know, Ronnie Ray-Gun and Shrub's base constituency, the kind that shout "kill" at Palin rallies?
Too many of them realized J the P was a shill and a fake.
They just won't go away right away.
The pain and the itching never stop.
I would DELIBERATELY seek this companies competitor and give them my business.
I guess velocittstore only wants Republican base business.
On the other hand, I think it's pretty smart. While the Republican base only constitutes three people in ten, they are the three people most likely to think this is all a communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. Who better to pacify the wingnuts than one of their own?
Only Republicans are backwards enough to need one of those DTV converter boxes. :-)
Joe the Plummer lost his job and has debts and has to pay his ex wives. Now before he became John McCain's best friend he was about to go back on welfare. Joe has to make quick money from the same way Sarah is making her's. Look anyone in their right mine wouldn't give Joe the time of day but here in America we celebrate the idiots. We even want our kids to grow up like Paris and Britney. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are role models for make believe marriage and teach us how it's ok to steal a woman's husband. Laura Bush is our example of how College Students can pay their tuition by being a College Drug Dealer and if you need lessons on how to get back at the boyfriend who dumped you Laura can show you how to run him over with your car and get away with it. Ok you'll be taking medication for the rest of your life but you wont go to jail.
to get those kind of breaks. I'm surprised Melon-Scaife hasn't taken joe underwing.
Good Lord, I've seen hostage videos that look less scripted and more relaxed.
In the famous interview with Barack Obama in which Joe, the phony, Plumber walked up and asked the political question concerning his up and coming Plumbing business, you would swear he was already forming that business. Why has he not mentioned anything about that business since he first framed the question?
Talk about a free pass, this Plumber guy got away with telling the biggest lie in the whole campaign. There was no up and coming Plumbing business and the MSM knew it. If they were not in such a hurry to make this past election a horse race, they would of exposed Joe for what he was: A planted liar for John McCain's campaign.
I am no fool, but the only thing Joe did after asking that infamous question was related to bringing Obama down from his growing lead in his race to become president. With a few well structured questions, the truth about Joe's motives would been brought out.
Now that the three arms of the government are Democratic, lets see how the media acts. It will become very clear they will try to balance the power dynamic with their one sided influence in the MSM. CNN, MSNBC, and of course Fox News will be right there to exaggerated every political issue they can for the Republican Party. For now, it feels good to be on the winning side.
Joseph
Obama is already getting blamed for a recession and his response to Mumbai will be debated tomorrow on the talking heads along with the 'economy team'. he will be criticized for having too many clintonites or for not having the right mix or for presumptively assuming the powers of the presidency too early or for not working enough with boosh.
take your pick. they will try to make a jimmy carter out of Obama. It has already begun.
What happened to his plumbing business?
It went down the drain.
Joseph I agree, if he is starting out as a contractor, why is he not busy plumbing, or preparing estimates, meeting prospective customers, buying materials. If he is such a go-getter he would not have the time to make infomercials. I guess acting is easier than plumbing work.
...if you do not showcase his antics. Funny how that works.
NEED I SAY MORE?
This guy and Flava Flav belong together.
The only reality shows you’re going to see this joker on is speeders, cops or worlds dumbest criminals.
no one seems to keep track of the facts, especially cenk and other centrists. this guy was a plant. it's a shame that the people who need to keep sight of the facts simply want to amuse themselves.
I still cannot believe that McCain and Palin used this guy the way they did. That tells you a lot about them and how they would have governed....makes me sick!
of the keating five.
an ambitious ne'er do well who got more than his 15 minutes of fame.
that that was disproved. It is a common name in OH and he is not related, if I recall correctly.
Hy babe!
"two free forty dollars coupons from the government". Why that's socialism!! Redistributing the wealth!! Joe the plumber needs to team up with Johnny Fairplay.
Did you notice how annoying and distracting
Cenk's narration was? Almost as intrusive
as Joe the Plumber's video was awful.
Cenk, please let us enjoy the video without
a voice-over. And please stop falling into
the con's trap of talking down the other side.
Joe did a fine job of showing that there's one
tool outside his kit--and it talks.
You're doing the same thing, Cenk.
Smarten up.
i didn't enjoy it either.
I wish more people would talk over this stupid mother fucker.
Big time.
Yeah! That was not too professional!
I hope he's a better plumber than he is an actor.
He is neither.
I think he should be referred to as "Joe" the "Plumber."
this story was in the toledo blade last week. so, it doesn't matter if blogs report on this "moran" or not, not when the home town paper is going to write about him.
the comments section at the blade gave me some hope, though. while a few people were defending joe/sam the not-a-plumber, just as many people from toledo want this jackass to go away.
My daughter's boy friend has always bragged about what a great handyman he was. I had to stay with him, my daughter and grandson several years ago. My daughter worked from 5 AM to 2 PM then went to a second job from 4 PM to midnight while he either hung around at home or at his sisters. One time, while I was there, he got a job doing carpentry for a guy. The very first day he got fired because he was supposed to give the guy the measurements for a door they were going to replace. He gave the guy the measurements, including the frame and the door ended up being way too big. Instead of telling the guy his mistake, he tried to cut the door down to size. It was a hollow door so he destroyed it.
For all this guys bragging about being a plumber, he must be an "out of work" plumber because he's sure got a lot of free time on his hands. Joe the Plumber is a con artist and I don't understand why they keep giving him the air time at all.
and regular folks living in their cars are "aspiring actors"...
Ari Fleischer, Jeff Gannon, Larry Craig, Joe the plumber...what is it with republicans and bald headed white guys?
It is because they look like penises? Small wonder the republicans are populated with closet queens.
Really!?! At this point, who the hell is listening to "Joe, I'm not really a plumber, but I *PLAY* one for the McCain campaign" Don't get me wrong.. I'm sure he gave some GOP campaign strategists a real chub. The closet GOP fags are always looking for a big strapping man for their "love me, daddy" crowd. But, when did "Joe" ever matter? Can he really hang on til 2012 and become Palin's economic advisor?
Two of my favorite "moments" from the campaign were:
1. when John McCain referred to Joe... then said to the audience, "Where is Joe? I thought he was going to be here. He isn't here? OK, well anyway!"
and...
2. another televised event when Joe actually showed up... McCain introduced him, he came out of the audience and got to the stage... and said, "Well I don't really have anything prepared."
I just wanted to say that TWO DAYS after Joe was introduced to the world by the Palin/McCain campqaign... the blogs were reporting what a FRAUD he was, and that he was locally known for being a regular partisan talker on right-wing-SQUEEL-radio, and that he wasn't a plumber, and that he had mis-represented the company he worked for, and that he wasn't going to buy it anyway. Olbermann picked up the true story... I read about it right here on C&L.
It's OK with me if he makes a bazillion bucks and gets his own show on QVC! Every time I see his face on TV I will remember what LOSERS the Republicans were to make him the CENTER FOCUS of a national presidential campaign.
The repugs are such inbred liars these days, that as a central focus of their campaign they attempted to market "Joe the plumber" as THE average Joe. In fact, he certainly does represent the average Republican Joe these days: a dishonest, uneducated idealog that bashes the government while trying to game the system; a LOSER LOSER LOSER!
I listen to Cenk every day, like a guilty pleasure.
God bless TYT.
and stuck with plumbing, he could've gotten his license and started his own business. I'm sure he would've done well based on the name recognition alone. Instead, he made himself into a national joke. Well done, Samuel!
IRRELEVANT.
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