Joe The Plumber Gets A Teevee Show

There's good news for all you fans of Samuel J. "Joe the 'Plumber'" Wurzelbacher today. Dave Weigel reports that the folks over at the Right Network have created and/or saved him a job as the host of a new show called "Whaddya Know Joe?" As the Right Network can be thought of as the conservative version of Current TV, "Whaddya Know Joe?" can basically be considered the conservative version of "InfoMania." It appears to be shot on the same set that they shot all of those "Rick Barber Talks To Zombie Presidents" campaign ads.

Prior to this, Wurzelbacher was some sort of foreign correspondent for Pajamas Media. They sent him to Israel, and years later, Ricky Gervais would steal that idea to build a show for Karl Pilkington. Later, Wurzelbacher cut commercials for some flat-tax/1-900 number scam/scheme, that we saw on YouTube.

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Laugh if you want, but I'd wager this show would be more than capable of beating The Daily to some of the scoops they're apparently after. Find the richest man in South Dakota? He's probably underwriting this show!

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Comments

[champions1]

02:09 PM on 02/24/2011

HAHAHAHAHAHEHEHHEEHEHAHHAHA.....Never watch FAUX ..........

[stagebandman]

01:02 AM on 02/20/2011

Typical Foxican phony.

[Amy Grant]

09:28 PM on 02/19/2011

"Idiocracy" satire or prophecy?

[jdrourke]

03:10 PM on 02/19/2011

Way to go, Samuel. Nice job NOT being a hard-working American...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/memo-to-the-grand-old-phonies/

[ramsha]

02:15 PM on 02/19/2011

May be when I am in a mood for a comedy show, I will watch this show of 'Joe the Blunder'.

[mstock57]

01:13 PM on 02/19/2011

Hopefully they gave him a pair of suspenders.

[StarGazr5992]

12:27 PM on 02/19/2011

Stranger things have happen..but really he should thank John McCain for all his 5 minutes of fame..that just keeps going on..on..on..on..got to be rally hard up for this

[bellabeach]

11:44 AM on 02/19/2011

Maybe Joe can ask Sarah and John to come on his show...they took him from obscurity to insecurity!!

[IgnatiusJ]

11:06 AM on 02/19/2011

If the show's title poses a serious question, the answer is obvious: little to nothing.

[dickandrusharecowards]

07:23 AM on 02/19/2011

The answer to his new show...Not a damn thing

[limbo]

03:25 AM on 02/19/2011

Joe is the human avatar of Homer... except Homer is smarter!

[SA Texas]

08:26 AM on 02/20/2011

FANNED!

[limbo]

03:20 AM on 02/19/2011

Joe should thank and vote for Obama....look what he did for him.
A nobody thinks he's a somebody and really is a nobody.

[85Percent]

12:17 AM on 02/19/2011

“The fact that J the P is not, in fact, a plumber, or the fact that his name was not really Joe, or the fact that he owed back taxes, are not the issues that should most concern us about this man. Samuel J. Wurzelbach­er, from Ohio, was a plant. That, too, is not the biggest concern. He belongs to the family of Robert Wurzelbach­er, son-in-law to Charles Keating, of the Keating Five, which you all may remember from the Savings and Loan scandal. Robert did time for his part, 40 months. McCain was one of the five senators involved, but he was the only one who had a close and profitable personal friendship with McCain. McCain got off very lightly because of a technicali­ty. When his campaign needed a plant, to whom would John turn but an old partner in crime who he could trust with secrets? And, so, the family of Keating produced J the P. There are other Wurzelbach­ers in the US, but they only immigrated here so recently that they are all fairly closely related. There is, or was back during the pres campaign, if he is still not there, a Wurzelbach­er who is a dogsled racer and lives in the Wasilla area. What are the chances a dogsled racer in that small town did not already know the Palins, and Todd the snowmobile racer? I don't understand why this is not more widely known, but is is what should concern us.”

[Eldergothfather]

11:34 PM on 02/18/2011

"When television is good, nothing — not the theater, not the magazines or newspapers — nothing is better.

But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air and stay there, for a day, without a book, without a magazine, without a newspaper, without a profit and loss sheet or a rating book to distract you. Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And endlessly commercials — many screaming, cajoling, and offending. And most of all, boredom. True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy. But they will be very, very few. And if you think I exaggerate, I only ask you to try it."
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow, May 9, 1961

[elbeas]

09:14 PM on 02/18/2011

Is this where the new jobs are supposed to come from Mr Boehner?