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It was a good ride.
Aimless doofus with few prospects living a desultory and thankfully unexamined life stumbles into the limelight, hooks up with idol only to discover said idol has feet of clay, doesn’t like what he sees, and then watches it all fall apart.
Joe the Plumber (no longer a plumber; first name actually Samuel) popped into our town yesterday evening to sell his new book and to remind people that he’s still a plain and simple guy. Mission accomplished, on at least one of his missions.
About 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement of a downtown Border’s bookstore to hear Joe speak. Joe addressed them from behind a lectern and with a microphone, but that seemed unnecessarily formal.
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Wurzelbacher was scheduled to speak and sign books for three hours, but the Joe Show was over in 55 minutes. Total copies of "Joe the Plumber" sold: five.
Things didn’t go much better at the CPAC Loserpalooza:
Joe-the-Plumber spoke to 1/4 full room. It was pathetic. I got video of how fucking empty the room was. I tried to make an echo off the walls but I got yelled at. Video to come.
It gets worse. Overexposure killed the future plumbing empire star:
He wore a gray long-sleeve undershirt and baggy jeans, and looked as if he just walked in from a construction site. Joe says he plans to work in construction (hello, stimulus package!) once his gig doing commentary for a conservative Web site runs out at the end of March. Plumbing? Not happening. "I show up on a plumbing job and the first thing someone’s going to say is ‘Joe the Plumber didn’t do the job right,’ " he said. "The next thing you know, it’s on the national news. It would be naive to go back to it."
Well, you know what they say down at the construction sites: "Sic transit gloria— check out the tits on that one! Ahooo baby! Shake it, don’t break it! I gotcher lunch right here, mama! Yeah, you know you want it!— mundi, dude."
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time for yet another chorus of “how can we miss you if you won’t go away”
Roger Simon complains that he can’t get hired in Hollywood cause 9/11 made him a neocon.
So he starts his own media outlet. Good. Well done, that’s the way it works.
Problem is, his ideas and his employees can’t make the grade or the money.
He’s burned through his angels’ 7 million ($100,000 to name it
opensourcepajamas) and the third leg of his big media team, not joe the non plumber, is tanking so bad, he didn’t make enough for cab fare.Does Sammy Joe think the “media” won’t be all over whatever un-licensed construction gig he ends up on? He’ll either have both thumbs bandaged or a piece of rebar/nail from his nail gun stuck in that chromedome of his by the end of his first day on the “job.”
Sweet sweet schadenfreude!!
Mine gosh! He’s starting to get authentic! Joe the Plumber’s image is finally starting to show some cracks.
Next for Joe? Maybe a reality show about the house plumber for NewsCorp.
maybe he could take over Jeff Gannon’s old gig
One of those people was there to buy Obama’s book. OOH burn!!1
Ahhhhhh. The dustbin of history gets a little more full.
So sad to see conservatives eat their young.
Was he just telegraphing (quaint word, eh?) that his standards aren’t Americans’? Being an unlicensed plumber and all, I’m surprised he’d be so open about it.
Those conservatives aren’t there to help him. They’re there to help themselves. It’s all they know.
Hmmm. That’s funny, because Andy Barr runs a story at Politico titled “Plumber is king for a day at CPAC” & claims Whatzitzface is “getting the rock-star treatment at CPAC, mobbed by attendees seeking autographs, handshakes and photos.” Oh, no! Could the Politico analysis be wrong???
Joe plans to work in construction but will not in any way work on a job funded by the socialistic Obama bailout:
“I can stand on my own (counts) two feet,” Joe asserted.
I believe I saw a video where he ruminates on a possible presidential run. Can JoePac be far off?
Maybe he should consider a future in porn.
After all, he’s ‘murka’s best known “plumber.”
Cracks In Joe The Plumbers Image? Please!
Oh please God, make this the last I hear about this boring moron.
Thanks, now I have to live with that image in my head all day.
I’ll take “People Unclear on the Concept of a Faustian Bargain” for $400, Alex.
Unfortunatley that makes two of us.LOL!!!
Think of how empty the rooms would have been if those attending just to see how few people attended hadn’t attended at all…
I particularly love the new level of cynicism– “I’m not naive” said the world’s oldest toddler. What an education the right wing echo chamber has given him.
Still, it does take a certain kind of self knowledge to grasp that being notoriously incompetent might be bad for business? Apparently he was previously under the impression that he could get away with doing a bad job because the customers didn’t know his name. Was he the lone ranger of plumbing, always riding away before they could thank him or, as the case may be, curse him?
aimai
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level
sandschairs stretch far away.What a wonderful (and apt) revision of Ozymandias!
Awesome. I assume that he’ll continue in the same proud “stand on my own two feet” tradition of remaining non-union and unlicensed, so he’ll be standing outside the Home Depot looking for off-the-books day-laborer jobs. Way to go, Sammy-Joe.
an audience of ELEVEN? Ouch.
You’d think the doofus would have dumped the microphone…I mean, how socially retarded is he?
He will be bottoming in gay porn by decade’s end – I stand by this prophesy.
But the schaden is freuding for me tonight reading about Sammie Ho’s, er, Joe’s world class world tour for his Alice Ghostley political tome.
He will be bottoming in gay porn by decade’s end
“Nobody can wrench a pipe like Joe!”