Joe The Plumber Now Just Saying Random Things To YouTube

Wonkette has the latest video offering from used-up 2008 Campaign Celebrity Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher, and look, this is just getting very depressing. A plumber who doesn't plumb and who's famous for basically not being able to understand what a "middle-class tax cut" is and for believing that having more customers that could afford his plumbing services constituted socialism, is now just being herded from place to place to stand in front of cameras to speak random blather aloud. In this case, it's about calling a 1-900 number to "vote the IRS out of office" or anger-bang the 1040EZ or something. I don't get it. This man had a personal revelation of epic proportions staring him right in the face on October 28 of last year, when he admitted to Fox's Shepard Smith, "I know just enough to probably to be dangerous."

Opportunity lost.

There have been a couple models far parlaying tangential involvement with the McCain campaign into media stardom, and we can officially say that pointless-blithering/Pajamas Media war correspondence/Digital Teevee Conversion YouTube spokesman is not the successful one. Meghan McCain, on the other hand, played the hand she was dealt pretty brilliantly! Who knows what might have happened if Joe had been called fat by Laura Ingraham, or if he had yelled at Ann Coulter, for no good reason? Didn't John McCain wreck Wurzelbacher's dating life, also?

Anyway, Joe, you have Paid Tha Cost To Be Tha Whatever It Is You Are Now.

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Comments

[AlphabetSoup03824]

09:21 PM on 05/05/2009

I was just thinking.

JTP is very much like some guy I used to know. We'll call him 'Matt the drywaller'. They are very similar in that they both hide behind their ignorant worldview and expect no one to notice their own flawed personality and charactors.

I'll give you an example. This guy Matt was in his 30s and picked a fight with a bunch of teen agers because he felt that they weren't respecting his favorate football player. He and JTP also don't like gays.

I've noticed this trend among the GOP base. Interesting study they make when one observes them.

[javaman]

10:24 PM on 04/19/2009

the cult of stupidity.

[RiverCitySlicker]

09:47 PM on 04/19/2009

I can't believe this guy is still flapping his trap for the GOP. Ain't it great!!!!

[politicaljunkie41910]

09:39 PM on 04/19/2009

Don't they charge you for calling those 1-900 phone numbers. So is this how Joe-the-Plumber-who's-not-really-a-plumber earns his living these days.

Boy, further proof just how gullible and ignorant those tea baggers truly are.

[rockyersocksoff]

09:33 PM on 04/19/2009

It's not accurate to say he's "just saying random things."

He's saying we should pressure Congress to adopt some flat tax that we're supposed to believe will make life simple and fair.

Given what we've seen of JTP and the folks he's fronting, I doubt it isn't actually very bad for America.

But random it is not.

[BurtR]

07:12 PM on 04/19/2009

aaron schock wants inspect joe's pipe

[yukoner1]

06:29 PM on 04/19/2009

Palin/Joe or Joe/Palin 2012! Please!!

[jlab]

04:31 PM on 04/19/2009

Gee, he spoke so eloquently, and ... fast! You don't think there was a TELEPROMPTER involved, do you..?!

[keepemhonest]

04:27 PM on 04/19/2009

Joe the Puppet recites what the rightwingers tell him to say.

According to the FairTax.org website:

1. they want to abolish the 16th Amendment ... hmm ... & what do they say about the 2nd Amendment?

2. They use a MADEUP, FAKE, PHONY word, "prebate" not found in any dictionary.

3. "Prebate" allows GOVERNMENT to dictate what "we the people" can buy & how much of it "we" can buy.

From their website:
"Prebate": FairTax prebate is a rebate of taxes paid on spending up to the poverty level. It is paid, in advance, on a monthly basis and is equal to the FairTax rate times the family consumption allowance.

Key words - family consumption ALLOWANCE.

Rightwingers WANT BIGGER GOVT to monitor our consumption allowance ... and WHO is to decide what the "allowance" per family is? Will it be Joe the Puppet, Sarah the anti-CHOICE chic?

[Gidster]

01:09 AM on 04/20/2009

As it is now after Regan and the Bushes cut welfare to the bone, the average family of four on public assistance gets about $550 a month in Food Stamps, and around $200 a month in TANF.

The FDA states that a family of four in order to eat a balanced healthy diet should spend $280 a week on food. Welfare falls short by more than half!

So how does this prebate work? Who sets the "Allowance"?

Yet another GOP joke...Goes along with their budget without numbers marketing brochure!

[Tugar]

04:12 PM on 04/19/2009

JOE THE PLUMBER...

First he was an expert on issues happening in the Middle East, now he's telling America to vote out the IRS. Well, nobody likes taxes. But Joe the Plumber is no one to be telling anyone what to do. Until the Conservative, GOP decided to tott him around all over the country, Joe was actually unemployed, freelancing as an unlicensed plumber.

JOE OWED, BACK REAL ESTATE taxes on his own home, and found it necessary to collect welfare, until he stepped up to ask Barak Obama a question one fine day. Now Joe has become: JOE THE PLUMBER, the Conservative GOP's answer to America's woes.

GIVE US A BREAK JOE, ZIP IT ! - AND GO HOME AND GET YOURSELF A REAL JOB !!!

[Typo-Knig]

03:59 PM on 04/19/2009

I'm just waiting for vh-1s plumber of love where joe hopes to someday find a clue.

[keepemhonest]

03:51 PM on 04/19/2009

Rich people SHOULD pay MORE taxes

Military 20% of the budget - benefits rich more, bec they have more to defend more homes, businesses, & property value to defend.

Infrastructure, Transportation, Education, R&D, Energy, Police, Firefighters- again more useful to rich -not ghetto dwellers

Energy is used disproportionately by the rich & industry

Education, benefit the rich from well-educated public. IF U don't think that's a benefit to the rich Thne: let the rich go start an engineering firm or factory in El Salvador.

[AndThenOneDay]

03:31 PM on 04/19/2009

Wonder what the gavel to gavel coverage would be like on Fox if democrats had a fake non-tax paying plumber, twice on welfare, making up a story about clawing his way into another tax bracket by buying a business he couldn't afford, etc, etc. going from microphone to microphone to shill for party causes.

[keepemhonest]

03:43 PM on 04/19/2009

&then1day,

You left out: tax cheat ... Joe the Puppet is a tax cheat

[ConservMom]

03:26 PM on 04/19/2009

Right ON Joe the Plumber! Vote OUT the IRS! Cool!

[AndThenOneDay]

03:29 PM on 04/19/2009

This only makes sense if the IRS were 'voted in'. Otherwise it's just more pandering for s uckers.

Oh, wait. Never mind... Cool!

[keepemhonest]

04:21 PM on 04/19/2009

ConservMom,

You posted you did not vote in November ... now you want Joe the Puppet to vote out the IRS .... ooook.

[davidhilton1]

01:52 PM on 04/19/2009

i runnin out 2 vote right away!!!! lol lol