Joe The Plumber Secures Book Deal

One of the hilarious -- and sad! -- parts of Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher's recent interview with CNN's Rick Sanchez was that moment where an exasperated J.T. Plumber whined at Sanchez, "Well, ask good questions then! Why don't you ask what I'm going to do now?" Awww! See, Joe The Plumber wasn't interested in being asked to account for whatever pseudo-intellectual swill was worming its way through his brain when he went out on the stump, with all of his opinions. No, no! Joe The Plumber just wanted to use the forum as a way of plugging all of his upcoming projects, like any good little fame-whore!

Well, one of those upcoming projects, as we first reported, was touted in the pages of today's New York Times. It seems that Wurzelbacher has secured a book deal with PearlGate Publishing. Is this for the book that he's been touting in advance of this deal on his website? Yes, apparently! (That website has a spiffy-new early 2000's redesign by the way, but buyer beware! The cost of a "Freedom Membership" has just gone up by a dollar!)

From the Times:

In an interview with Fox News Mr. Wurzelbacher said he could have signed a deal with a larger publisher. "But they don't need the help," Mr. Wurzelbacher said. "They are already rich. So that's spreading the wealth to me."

The book is going to be published on December 1, which, as Daily Intel puts it, is "an amazingly quick turnaround time." So much so that one can anticipate the book being either a compendium of Joe's typical hastily constructed "thoughtlettes" or a pop-up book about Bristol Palin's courtship and subsequent RNC-mandated shotgun wedding, for sad children.

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Joe the Plumber Lands Book Deal [New York Times]
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Comments

[2351]

This is sad. Who in the heck is going to buy and read the book? What a crazy world.

[progressivepam]

You don't want to wish anybody bad economic news in the time of hardship, but I hope the publisher loses their shirts so we don't have to constantly be inundated with this crap.

[sippewissett]

If this is the same publisher courting Palin, you can count on their "going out of business" specials.

[Brian187]

FU JTP!

[MrBwood]

What dunderhead is going to publish it. That's one company that should go belly up.

[NoSillyName]

Please, no more pictures of JTP!

[weekilter]

This guy is going for 20 minutes of fame which is about 5 minutes past what he's due.

[rkstarbuck]

more like 21 minutes past his due.

[totaleclipse]

i pity the poor, lovely trees that had to be felled in order to have this nonsense printed on them.

[sfden50]

"Everyone Poops" part 2

[JoeQuimby]

Interesting deal given his fans can't read

[Cybesq]

This may be a worse marketing idea than Jewish ham sandwiches. How do you sell a reading product to illiterates?

[MoeJava]

might heavily depend upon using picto-graphs.
kinda like universal remote instructions.

[PimpOmega]

A quick turnaround on making the book + Joe's lackluster intellect = coloring book for hicks/rednecks/hillbillies.

[independent32955]

is this REALLY going to be a book? or just a pamphlet...I mean if its November 20th today and the book is going to be published on Dec 1, it seems like either there isn't much to say about joe the out of work, tax evading plumber's assistant or the right wing already had a down on his luck book in the can that they were ready to print...maybe it was bush's biography and they just changed the names. joe is about as successful as GWB has been.

[Cybesq]

With a foreword by Sarah Palin about how to snake bad moose meat from a clogged toilet. At least we know the Bush library will have ONE book in it.

[GeoLee]

Maybe it is going to be one of those joke gifts..like a story written on a roll of toilet paper. Juat make it very thick toilet paper so it will clog up the toilet and then he can go to work again.

[WestCoastWoman]

He's CREEPY looking!!!

[MIVOTE]

WTF! What is happening to this country. A bad investment. I'd rather read toilet installation than a plumber's book.

[thegreatgiginthesky]

The book on toilet installation would probably come in handy down the road.