elegantelliotoffen Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/03/jo...-life-election/ Joe the Plumber is short on cash and unemployed but that's not stopping him from opening a new charitable foundation and penning a book on American values. "I got no financial offers. I am broke," Joe Wurzelbacher said Monday, explaining that he's got a few ideas on how to spread the wealth to himself and others following bogus reports of a professional management deal and potential country music career. But charity isn't Wurzelbacher's sole goal. Sharing the wealth also means helping himself. To that end, he's working with writer Tom Tabback on a book about American values. "Everyone came at me to write a book. They had dollar signs in their eyes. '101 Things Joe the Plumber Knows' or some stupid s--- like that. Excuse me, I am sorry," he said. "You know I will get behind something solid, but I won't get behind fluff. I won't cash in, and when people do read the book they will figure out that I didn't cash in. At least I hope they figure that out." The book, called "Joe the Plumber -- Fighting for the American Dream," is to be released by a group called PearlGate Publishing and other small publishing houses. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/03/jo...-life-election/ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think we'll all refer back to Andy Warhol on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Damn. Maybe this isn't going to be a landslide. It looks like McCain just locked up the Bald Fraudulent Celebrity Authors on Welfare vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidNation Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It shows he has more principle than any of you. He wants less taxes and less programs so he can be free to make a living and not live off of other people. The only reply liberals have is he's broke, or unlicensed. The bottom line is he asked a good question and now he's ostracized for asking it. The media, and not him, rode this. He is complicit insofar as riding it with them, but not many people wouldn't. It says more about you, than it does about him, to find this important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It shows he has more principle than any of you. He wants less taxes and less programs so he can be free to make a living and not live off of other people. The only reply liberals have is he's broke, or unlicensed. The bottom line is he asked a good question and now he's ostracized for asking it. The media, and not him, rode this. He is complicit insofar as riding it with them, but not many people wouldn't. It says more about you, than it does about him, to find this important. The bottom line is he lied and now he's ostracized for lying. If he had asked his question as a hypothetical and not said "I'm going to buy the company", nobody would have a problem with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 The bottom line is he lied and now he's ostracized for lying. If he had asked his question as a hypothetical and not said "I'm going to buy the company", nobody would have a problem with him. Yeah, right. He would have been attacked and ostracized regardless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It shows he has more principle than any of you. He wants less taxes and less programs so he can be free to make a living and not live off of other people. The only reply liberals have is he's broke, or unlicensed. The bottom line is he asked a good question and now he's ostracized for asking it. The media, and not him, rode this. He is complicit insofar as riding it with them, but not many people wouldn't. It says more about you, than it does about him, to find this important. Hey stupid, nice post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Btw, since when has writing a book before you had accomplished anything ever been an issue? Obama got a hefty advance for his autobiography while he was still in law school. On what basis do we laugh at Joe but say Obama's podium was deserved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly the Dog Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It shows he has more principle than any of you. He wants less taxes and less programs so he can be free to make a living and not live off of other people. The only reply liberals have is he's broke, or unlicensed. The bottom line is he asked a good question and now he's ostracized for asking it. The media, and not him, rode this. He is complicit insofar as riding it with them, but not many people wouldn't. It says more about you, than it does about him, to find this important. People jumped on the fact that McCain and Palin use him as a symbol of everyman, and a reason people should vote for McCain, when Obama's plan was better for him, and people like him, and 98% of the everymen and women in America. All he did was ask a question, and Obama answered it, fully, in six minutes of conversation which ended quite amicably. A couple days later, not during the interview, Joe called it socialist. After it was mostly forgotten, McCain himself brought it up in the debate and mentioned it 21 times. That is why he became a public figure. When you make a person not only emblematic but the central theme of your Presidential campaign, I think it's pretty fair to look into that theme and emblem. The idea that he just asked a simple question and was vilified for it is nonsense. His simple question was given a detailed answer. He didn't like it, which is fine. But he and McCain chose to make it a national issue and something more than the simple question. Now he's a celebrity, giving foreign policy advice, playing country music, signing with PR firms looking for book deals, and getting as much press time as he can instead of plumbling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Yeah, right. He would have been attacked and ostracized regardless. By what logic? It's a basic rule of the media. Don't give them something to attack you for and you won't be attacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Btw, since when has writing a book before you had accomplished anything ever been an issue? Obama got a hefty advance for his autobiography while he was still in law school. On what basis do we laugh at Joe but say Obama's podium was deserved? It was suppose to be about race relations, but he wrote about himself. He a pathological narcissistic socialist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 It was suppose to be about race relations, but he wrote about himself. He a pathological narcissistic socialist. Race relations is one of the major themes of the book. And it looks like somebody is skipping ahead on their word-a-day calendar...tsk tsk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I put Joe the plumber right there with that old haggy @itch who wouldn't give out candy to kids on Halloween if their families were obamba supporters...... WTF does a plumber know about politics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Frenkle Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 WTF does a plumber know about politics Nothing. Joe the Plumber is a moron and his 15 minutes are up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In-A-Gadda-Levitre Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 It shows he has more principle than any of you. He wants less taxes and less programs so he can be free to make a living and not live off of other people. The only reply liberals have is he's broke, or unlicensed. The bottom line is he asked a good question and now he's ostracized for asking it. The media, and not him, rode this. He is complicit insofar as riding it with them, but not many people wouldn't. It says more about you, than it does about him, to find this important. If the guy had been honest, maybe said it more in a hypothetical way, like "hey, I'm just a plumber, but what if I wanted to buy out my boss and later on, grow the business, then how would your plan....?" But he didn't, he lied and misrepresented himself. John McCain's campaign chose to incorporate this guy as a major component of their message. So they made a big deal about him. They didn't check him out, because if they did, major red flags would've been raised. Why wouldn't the media want to know who he was? The campaign might as well have told the media to check him out by running with his message, and when things started smelling funny, they did their job and asked more questions. It's basic investigative journalism. That's what the media does, and we want and expect them to do that. When the experts look back on this election and try to understand what went wrong with McCain's campaign, this will be a common theme - they made decisions along the way without understanding the ramifications or doing the legwork that would have prevented so many missteps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Frenkle Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 When the experts look back on this election and try to understand what went wrong with McCain's campaign, this will be a common theme - they made decisions along the way without understanding the ramifications or doing the legwork that would have prevented so many missteps. It's lazy and shows a real lack of judgment by McCain and the people he surrounds himself with. It doesn't make him a bad person, but should raise very legitimate concerns about his ability to make good decisions and lead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Race relations is one of the major themes of the book. And it looks like somebody is skipping ahead on their word-a-day calendar...tsk tsk That's fine. But by what logic do you give a significant advance to a 30 year old who has never been published - not even an academic paper, let alone as an author of a book - on a topic on which they are not a recognized researcher? If you think it's easy, try making the rounds of the publishing houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 Race relations is one of the major themes of the book. And it looks like somebody is skipping ahead on their word-a-day calendar...tsk tsk How could it not be, he's black, duh!! He wrote about himself instead of what the publisher wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finknottle Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 By what logic? It's a basic rule of the media. Don't give them something to attack you for and you won't be attacked. Have you been following this election? Where there's smoke there's fire, and where there isn't we'll make some (but only if you are McCain). Or do you think the attacks on McCain's wife (her ~1990 addiction to prescription drugs following spinal surgery) were warranted while an investigation of Obama's admitted drug use was not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 That's fine. But by what logic do you give a significant advance to a 30 year old who has never been published - not even an academic paper, let alone as an author of a book - on a topic on which they are not a recognized researcher? If you think it's easy, try making the rounds of the publishing houses. Same logic anyone gets an advance. The publisher thinks they can make money on it. Is it really that hard to understand? As for the media vetting Joe, it's their job to do that! Do you believe the Democrats or Republicans should be able to send someone out to the opponents rally's and then have them make false statements without the media looking into them? I know Joe wasn't a plant. It's a hypothetical question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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