Joe Wurzelbacher

From The Room: Joe the War Correspondent Won't Be Going it Alone

January 9, 2009 - In the proud tradition of carriage mechanic William Howard Russell, gas lamp repairman Stephen Crane, and pipe-fitter David Halberstam, Pajamas Media* is sending unlicensed plumber Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher to Gaza as a war correspondent. As the Pajama party notes, Joe the Plumber "shook up America...

Open Plea to Hamas: Do not accept a ceasefire before Joe the Plumber arrives in Israel

January 7, 2009 - Dear Hamas, Allow us to restate that we deplore your actions, which have harmed both Palestinians and Israelis. However, it has come to our attention that Joe the Plumber is headed to the Middle East, to cover the war for WNWO-TV in Toledo. And while we are not technically...

From The Feed: Joe the Plumber continues his meteoric rise

December 15, 2008 - Since his first star turn another video has been released from the darling of the New York and Hollywood culturati...

From The Feed: Joe the Plumber in the revival of Max Headroom

November 25, 2008 - Here's yer boy Joe the (former?) Plumber, who has since added "political tool," "author," and now "digital television conversion spokesman" to his list of epithets...

From The Room: Shepard Smith Redeems Fox News for Five Minutes

November 1, 2008 - For liberals who want to wake up in the morning without caffeine, Fox News provides the adrenaline they need. Writing copy for Fox News during the election campaign means copying the Republican playbook and pasting it verbatim on the teleprompter. No baseless charge against Obama is too baseless for...

From The Room: Leaked: McCain's Original Joe The Plumber Brainstorm Memo

October 30, 2008 - ...

From The Room: Smearing the Plumber Not Just a Great Shit-Porn Title

October 17, 2008 - "McCain Accuses Obama Of 'Smearing' Joe The Plumber...

From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Three Joes and the Big O

October 17, 2008 - There is nothing like spending 15 hours driving to Northern Michigan to give you a chance to do some thinking. I don't know if you believe in God but I have noticed that no matter how far from civilization you get his radio stations always come in clearly. I...

From The Room: Apparently, I've Been Getting Raped By My Plumber

October 16, 2008 - So you go to college, med school, complete your residency, work sixty-hour weeks and try to pay down your six-figure student loans only to turn on the presidential debate and find out that your fucking plumber is making 100K a year more than you. Screw "Joe the Plumber...

From The Room: Why Is Everyone Named Joe?

October 16, 2008 - Last night's debate confirmed that everyone in America is named Joe. As far as I can tell, there's Joe Biden of course, Joe Six Pack, the dude that Joe Biden hung out with in Home Depot named Joe and now Joe the Plumber. What were people thinking when...

From The Room: Bitter Words from Tom the Electrician

October 16, 2008 - What's up America? It's me, Tom the Electrician. I've got a joke for you. How many Presidential candidates does it take to screw in an energy efficient light bulb? Oh boy, I love this punchline! Wait for it...Who the fuck knows when both of these guys...

From The Room: Joe the Plumber's Forgotten Comrades

October 16, 2008 - Eerily reminiscent of Swing Vote, which was about two presidential candidates trying to win the vote of Kevin Costner, the final debate was about McCain and Obama trying to win the vote of new blue collar icon Joe the Plumber. Yet there were no similar appeals to JTP's less...

From The Room: Joe the Plumber: The TV Series

October 15, 2008 - Anchor: We now return to Joe the Plumber, already in progress. [Joe, his wife Lisa and his two children, Timmy and Plunge, are all sitting around the television, smiling an...