Joey Buttafuoco.
John Bobbitt.
The Runaway Bride.
Darva Conger.
Joe the Plumber.
I swear to God -- the South Park guys couldn't have come up with something this good:
The Huffington Post: Joe the Plumber Eyes Book Deal, Hires Eddie Money and Grand Funk Railroad's Publicity Team/11.1.08
(By the way, how much does that picture just scream that it's only a matter of time before Joe's doing guest matches on WWE Raw growling "Lemme get a HELL YEAH!" at the top of his lungs?)
Sunday, November 02, 2008
The Biggest Loser
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Heres another word I use quite often, especially fitting for "Joe the Plumber": Douchebag.
Why are we giving Joe so much grief? He's the only person who asked Obama a tough question this entire campaign. Folks may not like it, but that's brave stuff. If it wasn't for the plumber, we wouldn't know of Obama's desire to REDistribute the wealth. I'm not sure if I'd like Joe personally, but any person with talent/initiative/ambition of ANY color should be aware of Obama's tax plan and how it'll penalize small businesses moving forward. I'm not the statistics man (feel free to correct), but I've heard that 56% of the jobs in the U.S. are in small businesses -- That's a big deal. Has anybody noticed that the floor number for Obama's higher taxes keep dropping? It started at $250k (couldn't tell if that's for an individual or a couple) and has now dropped to $120K (with the same vaguery as above)-- According to Gov. Richardson.
Sorry, Chez. This is your blog, but I feel compelled to stick my neck out on this. //c
This is like the zenith (or maybe nadir) of the "reality" programming binge we've been on for the past 15 years. We are literally rewarding this guy for living. At least on reality shows, people are either out of the ordinary or asked to do something out of the ordinary; that's why they're interesting to watch, as much as we pretend it's because they're just real people. This dude's been plucked out of nowhere solely because he's the point on the grid where all those demographic lines intersect. I would say good for him for milking an opportunity that was not only handed to him but practically stapled to his chest, except for the fact that he has no discernible talents or abilities outside the realm of drains. Much like the woman who gave him his fame, he doesn't seem to recognize this, either, so yeah: douchebag.
Wow, "//c"(Ahem).
We're giving Joe grief because he's a tool -- in more ways than one.
And you're shockingly off-base about the Obama tax plan. I'm really surprised you bought into that crap.
Anon, let's be realistic: Joe didn't ask Obama a tough question, and it only seems no one else has asked Obama a tough question because he is able to answer the questions easily. Joe asked a very easy question, and it was the word choice in Obama's answer that was the big story, according to the Republicans. And if that is all that happened, if by no choice of his own Joe became famous because of the spastic repetition of his name during the third debate, I'd agree with you. But Joe is doing interviews, Joe is agreeing with people saying crazy things when he knows he is on camera, then defending his statements by saying no one has to listen to him, and then standing on the podium and giving speeches at McCain/Palin rallies, and basking in the mob mentality glory.
You're not the first one I've heard try to defend Joe by this argument. But he was not just "swept up", he gleefully and gladly jumped on the boogie board of his fifteen minutes of fame and is skittering to the oblivion of post-election flotsam. The moment he answered the phone and agreed to talk to reporters he painted a target on his simple bald head.
I, for one, would pay good money to see The Undertaker chokeslam the fuck out of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo, or whatever the fuck his real name is. Bonus points if he does it through a flaming table.
OK, Joe is already nearing a book deal and you have to pimp yourself out on a trip to L.A. for your book, which is already written, to have chance at publication...and this is, why?
Because the system is fucked up or because we as a society are increasingly celebrating mediocrity?
Shit, where's my book deal? I'm at least on chapter 5 of my novel, even if there are probably only 5 or 10 people following it on my blog...even I'm way ahead of Joe the Plumber.
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