October 29, 2008 06:15 PM
Pushing To Extend Those Fifteen Minutes Of Fame
Guess who has got himself a fancy-schmancy agent?
That's right, it's Joe the Plumber.
If he gets his way, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber," plans to enjoy a lot more than just 15 minutes of fame. Two weeks after emerging as the Republican Party's favorite proxy for the American working man, Mr. Wurzelbacher has signed a management deal meant to keep him in the public eye past next week's election and earn him some money at the same time, preferably as a show business personality.
"Joe the Plumber is fast becoming a brand," said Jim Della Croce, president of the Nashville-based Pathfinder Management group, who is part of the trio that will be representing Mr. Wurzelbacher from now on. "He is a dynamic speaker and an everyman who has become an overnight celebrity. It's going to be our job to find Joe's strengths and give him some options."
God help us all. Some of Joe's "options" include recording a country album, a television talk show and of course, running for public office.
since when does being an asshole make you famous or powerfull? Sorry, my bad.
picked palin out of his ass.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Not really though. Mr. McDouche has been on all the faux news shows.
Joe the Plumber is not a plumber at all. Disgraceful.
And he was made a fool of by FOXX noodle Sheppard last night (or was it this morning).
~albabe (The Writer/Artist Formally Known As Al Gordon)
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And in the interest of fair and balanced broadcasting, Fox will probably fire the noodle and give his slot to Mr. the Plumber.
Am I the only person in this country who doesn't think this guy being a member of the Keating family is a friggin' coincidence??? Geez!
-ep
Some people have mentioned this, but it has never really made the news. Haven't heard much about Keating at all during this entire thing.
But I guess that's the culture we live in. If you can see Russia from your house, you have foreign policy experience to be President.
Also, if you appear Middle-Class enough, White enough, Christian enough, and most importantly angry enough...then I guess you qualify to have your own press conference on our Isreali foreign policy.
I hope he just focuses on the singing...
dumb. ass.
republicanasswipe
douchebag
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Oh please run for office. Please oh please oh please. I might move to Ohio just to challenge and defeat him. >D
joe clearly has an ego the size of the state of ohio. do you know who this "moran" thinks he has the ability to run against? marcy kaptur!!! i don't expect most to know about her, but she's an amazing woman who actually gives a shit about the people she serves. not only that, but she'd currently serving her 13th term!!!! 13 freaking terms she's been elected, and this joe the egomaniacal asshole thinks he has a chance to beat her.
Watching her talk during the bailout business was inspiring. I loved that. You are lucky to have her. (Sorry you have Joe the Dumber.)
i actually got out of toledo about 4 years ago and now live in the glorious liberal bubble of los angeles. toledo's not bad, though, and is quite blue leaning. but, it wasn't big enough for me, and there really are too many joe the "moran" types. he's exactly like the many guys who'd threaten to beat me up in the early 90's for being a woman with a shaved head. i can't even listen to joe talk, just his image makes me shudder with bad memories.
and yeah, marcy kaptur is freaking awesome!
I see a WWF wrestling career blossoming here...
Has that really been proven? I gather the name is not that uncommon in parts of the country with heavy German-American populations?
Except that the only "meaty" part of him... is his head.
~albabe (The Writer/Artist Formally Known As Al Gordon)
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He's not "Joe". He's not a plumber. The business he was planning to buy wasn't making over the threshold to be taxed by Obama's plan. So why is this Republican Keating relative in all the Republican ads?
are true.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Now he'll be able to buy that plumbing business, pay no extra taxes, and yet he'll still BITCH, BITCH, BITCH!
I was reading a financial blog this morning about those 40 percent of people who don't pay taxes and people were bragging about taking this paper deduction (on property values) and that deduction, blah blah blah. Who pays the least amount of taxes (percentage wise)? Those who have the most.
Mind you, I can't and don't bitch much. I have enough of my own deductions. And I make a good amount of money. I would gladly pay more taxes if it actually went to something for US, the American people!!
Palin / Wurzelbacher 2012....
no doubt.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Ha, I was just thinking he'd be the new president comacho (sp?), watched the movie yesterday.
America is such a great country that you can have a Moose/wolf killer and a (pseudo) plumber run it. What a great place to live!! You must be proud.
sarcasm off...
This is too funny. The unrestrained id of the republicans is too much.
A traveling clown act.Just what we need- a little comic interlude for the swill-loving pondscum.
big shoes and honking red nose. Ahhh perfect! It's joe the clown ladies and gentlemen!
Bill the Cat...
GAG. ACK. BARF.
We'll be finding his so-called biography in the bargain books sections around Christmas time.
Bozo the Clown?
Mack the Knife?
Beaver the Cleaver?
Bob the Builder?
Tom the Turkey?
Sam the Butcher?
America the Beautiful?
Arnold the Pig?
Homer the Simpson?
What the F#@K?
Who the Hell?
…
Taarak – the tired…
spareus the details
Bullwinkle the Moose
I predict he'll get cast in two porno movies with that Sarah Palin look alike (Joe the Plumber snakes some drains), the producers will pay him off in free beer, and his estranged wife will sue him for half of it. He'll be back to being a no-name loser, cleaning condoms out of U-bends by the end of November.
I need to go puke now. Brain bleach is not enough to get that image out of my mind.
Full lobotomy, please.
Mind if I pick out a few recliners first for the rest who will be joining us?
As the cold north warms to the shrill
Out of the two Os will walk a head of mirrors
All will look, as the Cain withers
Hey, Nostradamus had it pretty easy…
(The other little known fact about Nostradamos is that, before he became famous, he had a part time job writing all those strips of paper inside the fortune cookies. Ironically, it was some of his best work.)
As for Joe, he's just following the advice of one of Nostradamos' contemporaries, Leonardo.
"When fortune comes, seize her firmly by the forelock, for, I tell you, she is bald at the back." --Leonardo da Vinci
(Joe, like Sarah Palin and George Bush, thinks Leonardo is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, but it doesn't stop him from following some damned good advice when he hears it.)
"He who shall, so shall he who."
LMAO. You do know it will sell, right?
McCain sure can find the divas!
sashay shante, girl!!
Ugh...on Fox News this morning, they brought up this character. I guess the guy is thinking about suing some agencies in Ohio for doing their job. He's all hurt that people found out that he wasn't a plumber and feels that his privacy has been violated. Funny that he wants to sue people over privacy when he has made himself overexposed. I am gobsmacked by the doubletalk. I want this guy to go away. Please, let him go away. He distracts from anything that is important.
let Him become a spokesman for The RePugs. What a metaphore! Joe the plumber ,try to unplug the party that got dumped down the national toilet. Get that plunger Joe! ooog whooosh ooog wooosh Keep going Joe!
That's a great visual...it should be put into a political cartoon.
joe the plumber can go fxxk himself. i'm sorry. i'm sick of his bullshxt agenda. he's another caricature/mascot. the guy has professional grade knee pads.....jerkoff.
So... maybe a cute Elephant Mascot costume?
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The single best metaphor for 'life, the universe, and everything,' in the USofA is the lottery.
for most of us the number only comes up once, and that's when our number's "up"!
if you get another chance, you'd better ride that spavined pony like your on for the ride of your life, cuz you are...the next one you're gonna get is a sway-backed nag pulling the hack to the burying ground...
I take a very tiny solace from the fact that, the last time I checked, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" is still required reading in Hi School...
You gotta know the game, otherwise your just dead meat...
LOL...good, let him make his money, get him a reality show while at it. That way, he will be paying more taxes cuz he'll be making over $250,000. When he has money, he shouldn't mind so much to pay more taxes right? Right!
a fucking dime.
He'll get an "American Idol" type indentured servitude contract. They will use his lame ass up and spit him out.
"It's going to be our job to find Joe's strengths"
I think you are asking a lot of your company. You might need to open branch offices to find any strengths.
He ends up in the system.(Courts)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
He can't afford to pay his $1200 he owes in back taxes, but he can afford to hire a publicist. Those McCain connections: the grifts that keep on grifting.
I think the IRS needs to be informed about this, hmmmm.
KO just called him Joe the Con man, which is exactly what he is.
Is it the 21st century yet?
celebrity
Hook him up with that blonde idiot on "Housewives of Atlanta".
/watches too much Bravo
the roto-rooter man might be able to put him to work.
Do Americans really beleive this idiot? What a crock! He is a McCain shill, no doubt about it. I can't wait until November 4th. I want this shit to be over!
1) Absolutely no knowledge
2) Plenty of opinions
3) Willingness to say anything for money
4) Failure at prior career (in Joe's case, as a failed unlicensed plumber; in Hannity's case, as a college drop out and failed contractor; in O'Reilly's case, as a failed smut author)
I missed that story...or was this the flafel thing?
O'Reilly attempted a novel in the 90s, Those Who Trespass. Al Franken had a ball with some of the passages and he put them in his Lying Liars book. Real cheesy shit.
Don't forget an unhealthy sense of entitlement.
A Day In The Life of Joe Republican
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards.
He takes his daily medication with his first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.
All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too because his employer needs to offer competitive benefits to hire the best people.
Joe prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Joe takes his morning shower reaching for his shampoo. His bottle is properly labeled with every ingredient and the amount of its contents because some liberal fought for his right to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.
Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath. The air he breathes is clean because some tree hugging liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air.
Joe drives to work in one of the safest cars in the world because some liberal fought to raise safety standards and emission controls.
Joe begins his work day; he has a good job with good pay, medical benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some liberal union members fought and died for these working standards. Joe's employer pays these standards because Joe's employer doesn't want his employees to call the union. If Joe is hurt on the job or becomes unemployed he'll get a worker compensation or unemployment check because some Liberal didn't think he should lose his home because of his temporary misfortune.
Its noon time, Joe needs to make a Bank Deposit so he can pay some bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC up to $100,000 because some liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from greedy, unscrupulous bankers like the ones who ruined the banking system before the REPUBLICAN Great Depression.
Joe needs to pay his Fannie Mae underwritten Mortgage and his below market federal student loan because some liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and earned more money over his life-time.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He arrives at his boyhood home. He was the third generation to live in the house financed by Farmers Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural loans. The house didn't have electric until some big government liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural electrification. (Those rural Republican's might still be sitting in the dark!)
He is happy to see his dad who is now retired. His dad lives on Social Security and his union pension because some liberal made sure he could take care of himself so Joe wouldn't have to. After his visit with dad he gets back in his car for the ride home.
He turns on a radio talk show, the host keeps saying that liberals are bad and conservatives are good. (He doesn't tell Joe that his beloved Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe enjoys throughout his day)
Joe agrees, "We don't need those big government liberals ruining our lives; after all, I'm a self made man who believes everyone should take care of themselves, just like I have".
Simply brilliant!
Can I reprint it? Please, pretty please.
I found it quite a few years ago and have seen it a couple places since, so I'm sure it's OK to copy. I've emailed it to a few of my redneck friends in response to their rants about liberals wanting everything done for them.
I am curious.
Must've left them speechless.
Requires thought.
"Joe prepares his morning breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry. "
Wait a minute. Did we just have a bunch of people die from eating tainted eggs because some anti-liberal stacked the FDA with political hacks and cronies who are dedicated to the ideal of NOT making sure the food and drugs Americans consume are safe? Or was that cabbages? So many people are getting poisined by so many tainted things these days, I'm losing track.
But your point is made. My observation is that it's usually the people that rely most heavily on government that hate OTHER people who rely on it, or advocate good government the most. Again, it's basically a self-loathing, insecurity thing. Do you remember Joe's rant out in front of his house about "I'm not ashamed of the things I got, I worked for 'em. And stop appologizin' for Murika..." etc. Who, on the liberal side of the political spectrum, ever said anything about being ashamed of the (few) things he's got? It's obviously a sore spot for the guy. It's basically the same for all middle or lower middle class rednecks. It's all about deep-rooted insecurities.
Well, from now on, with a national health care system those clowns will be able to afford to go to a SHRINK. Which means they'll no longer HAVE to vote Republican to deal with their unresolved high school insecurities.
The only thing wrong with your statement is the fact that Joe is a scab which means he works for some asshole who doesn't give Joe any benefits and pays him way below what a bona fide apprenticeship trained journeyman, licensed plumber who is qualified to do any plumbing job that comes his way and that means Joe is so fucking lazy that he didn't think it was worth the effort to go the extra mile and get the proper credentials! In other words, I wouldn't let this cocksucker slug my toilet, much less let him do any complicated job!Joe, go fuck yourself, you creep!
Absolutely beautiful! And it could go on and on and on, but Joe just doesn't get it.
I'd get that agent on the horn to Johnson & Johnson...to be the new face of Mr. Clean!
When you said Johnson & Johnson I was sure you were going to suggest they put his shiny, bald mug on a jar of Baby Powder.
Isn't he going to be the Secretary of State?
in a digital age.
He ain't going anywhere. Except into oblivion along with others like him.
the necessary knowledge, is quite incurious, takes orders how to think very well. I'm thinking emergency Republican VP replacement.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
maybe a sexy twins gay porno with Jeff Gannon. (I think they might have been separated at birth)
Hasa Diga Eebowai
How do you know so much about American politics?
I am very, very impressed by you.
Hell, JtP could be president...your description of him (short of the taking orders) reminds me of Bush.
with American politics that began with a subscription to Rolling Stone. I think Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail gave me quite a boost in that direction as well. It's still worth reading.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Thank goodness for your enjoyment of music.
You certainly add a lot here.
I can see him doing a commercial for beef jerky.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
I can see him as Mr Clean.
The only problem with him is he isn't.
In fact, he's dirty.
I betcha he ends up in the system.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
...If he had signed with an agent that didn't represent Eddie Money, Bryndle(!), Henry Gross, Night Ranger, etc.
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
... W. The Plumber
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
Joe the Dumber
Like it.
We're not going to get very far if you keep injecting logic into the conversation!
she shoulda hired an agent...then she coulda gone around the country claiming that obama is an arab
half of this country is insane
She could have talked to herself on SNL. Oh how funny would that be.
I bet the SNL actress (I don't recall who that was) might actually tolerate being in stage with her. She's just delusional, not an outright liar like Palin.
Ted the teacher here. Lived in Korea for 11 years, and travelled a lot: foreign policy experience galore. I'm Canadian, but what the hell, Joe the plumber isn't a plumber. I wanna be the next VP. OK?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Oh, and I can see America from my friend's house, back in Canada. Hey hey.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
For a guy who was upset that the government wanted to take 35% of his money has now hired somebody to take another 20%.
Talk about spreading the wealth around
The unPlumber is confirmed proof Communism exists in the Republican ranks because he's sharing a brain with the rest of these like-minded dimwits. As you can see the diminished capacity of this model is doomed.
Don't mean to blogwhore, but there's a longer piece on this topic at http://abcparty.org entitled "Why Joe the Plumber is the perfect symbol for the Republican party."
They truly are made for each other.
Despite the ever-increasing threat to my blood pressure brought on by his nightly appearances, I hope this animated turd continues to be a crackpot celebrity long enough to become forever the emblem of the Republican Party in 2008. And is it just me, or does anyone else think that with a mustache and goatee Joe would bear a striking resemblance to V.I. Lenin? ("Plumbers of the World Unite!")
...I can guarantee you, if you run for office I will donate money to your opponent.
Is it a requirement that all republican spokesperson's be border line idiots?
"This is your brain on republican bullshit! Don't do republican!"
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
It never surprises me when the GOP opens their arms to another lying, confirmed fraud. The unPlumber is as versed on foriegn policy as McShame's running mate. The GOP is such a friggin joke! Freakin pathetic.
The Repugs are going to use him for all he's worth and just flush him down the proverbial toilet, Just like Susan Carpenter McMillan did with poor worthless Paula.
but I remember a smarmy little pest-control guy from Texas that made a career out of "hammering" people in the House of Representatives until he resigned in disgrace after presiding over the most corrupt Republican Congress in recent history. So. Stranger things have happened. But I sure don't want to have to listen to this guy for any length of time, or watch him pull up his jeans to cover his butt crack.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
A world full of Dumbasses.
This is it folks. If Obama doesn't win, we're going to be overrun with Dumbasses. In fact, if McCain wins, Joe the Dumbass will probably get credit for the victory. That should be worth his own show on Fox, although Rupert Murdoch may want to launch a whole new network around Joe -- The Dumbass Network.
This is my nightmare of nightmares...hope you're wrong.
I seem to remember that Nixon had a plumber or two hanging around him as well. Just sayin'.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Americans are confronted with unhappy holidays. Nebraska is forced to revise its unwanted child-taking law, as even teens
are getting dumped in the state. Palin's too cheap to pay for her own plane fare. Palin has the gall to call Dems obstructionists.
Palin says PLO and Joe the Plumbers claims Obama will bring "Death to Israel."
It is clear that the McCain campaign and the RNC are trying to subtly claim that Obama is secretly a Muslim plotting to destroy Israel and the United States.
Please, Please, call them out on this. I do not believe, for one second, that Joe the Plumber just happened to say this at a press meeting. It was a planned attack to scare voters with only a few days left to dispel the rumor.
This is their October surprise. A well orchestrated, last second smear that scares millions into voting out of fear.
Please, please, call them out on this.
If Mr. Wurzelbacher follows in the footsteps of his neocon role models chances are his career path will cause him to be a toe tapping bisexual, who films amateure porn in airport restrooms. After all when reich wingers go by nick names like Joe the Plumber it's way to easy to think of jokes about them. He is probably talking with Ted Stevens right now about where to find some help to build himself a log cabin. lol
The new ticket-- Palin and Joe? Educational expertise!
Sara -- 5 colleges in 6 years learning how to throw old white corrupt men under bus.
Joe -- 10 years and can't pass a plumbing exam but slept in Holiday Express for foreign experience.
Doesn't get any better than that. Go GOP!
1lt
That guy just sound more dumber every time he talks.
Joe the Republican is a perfect mascot for the neocons: He's a liar, tax-evader and none-too-bright. Perfect!
If he gets outed as homosexual in some embarrassing and very public way...THEN and only then, would he be the perfect neo-con mascot...but ya nailed everything else though.
Why hasn't the media blacked out his story like AP did with Britney Spears for weeks at a stretch?
Sounds like easier money that having to get his plumber's license. There are a bunch of idiots out there that would spend their last 10 bucks on a CD....but they ain't gonna hire an unlicensed plumber.
I'm beginning to hate the term fancy-schmancy.
There some furniture commercial, I don't know or care for which store, that has a spokeswoman with short red hair that looks like it was cut by a lawn mower, who thinks bugging her eyes, saying things like fancy-schamncy, and generally acting spastic is her equivalency to being personable.
Maybe she'll be palin's 2012 running-mate.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
A perfect allegory for the power of the media, and the extent to which a) some people will go to make a buck and b) the media will go to fill airtime, which is all a self-created void.
I wonder how much
Joe the plumberSam the moron is paying some huckster PR firm and lawyers to rep for him.Yeah, cause every working guy you know has a publicist and a lawyer...
Do Republicans think everyone is as vacant as they are?
Yes, they do.
Joe is going on a tour with Larry the Cable Guy.
You just can't make this shit up!
This guy has gotten WAY over his fifteen minutes...and I wonder as well why no-one bothers to bring up the Keating connection.
I wish he WOULD just go sing somewhere, and stop yammering on about subjects (Isreal) he knows nothing about.
--he appears to be realizing that his options may soon be reduced to selling ad space on his head.
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