Wingnut Welfare King: Joe (or Melvin, or Jimbo or whatever his name is) The Plumber

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



'Joe the Plumber' Becomes 'Joe the Fame Lover'

Posted by Digby, Hullabaloo at 10:41 AM on November 17, 2008.

Joe is slated to release a book December 1st. Yes, of this year.



Damn, wingnut welfare is awesome:

Joe the Plumber’s latest small business? Apparently: himself. JTP’s deeply researched, carefully edited, thoughtful, and not at all hastily-put-together-to-capitalize-on-his-media-celebrity-before-it-expires treatise on The American Dream—written “with” spiritual novelist Thomas N. Tabback—is slated to be released December 1. Yes, of this year.

Oh, and it will be titled, humbly and rather delightfully, Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream.

To celebrate—and to ensure that copies of the book are sold!—YOU THE PEOPLE can now obtain a Freedom Membership from Joe’s hastily-put-together-to-capitalize-on-his-media-celebrity-before-it-expires Web site, SecureOurDream.com. The Membership, like Freedom itself, ain’t free…but the $14.95 yearly fee practically pays for itself! With it, you’ll get:



1) Total Access to “Joe The Forum” where you may chat directly with Joe


2) Subscription to the “Joe The Blog” monthly newsletter

3) Free Shipping on all “Joe The Plumber” merchandise

4) Free Signed Copy of Joe’s forthcoming book “Joe The Plumber” - Fighting for the American Dream

5) Become an integral part of an American movement to restore our government to the people

And don't forget that he's working on a country music record contract too. I think his first album is going to be called "There's A Sucker Born Every Minute: Songs by Sam The Con Man."


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/107405/%27joe_the_plumber%27_becomes_%27joe_the_fame_lover%27/

[Rambis]

1. Joe not quite a plumber or a business buyer or an earner of 250,000

phony prick used by a phony campaign.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

2. I disagree.

You wrote, "phony prick used by a phony campaign." I respectfully disagree: he's a *real* prick.

[Rambis]

3. point taken (nm)

x

[notadmblnd]

4. Comming soon. Look for it in a dollar store near you.

[Lorien]

5. Hmmm...what has Samual done to "fight" for the "American Dream"?

apparently "fighting" in Sam's book means clawing for more media exposure on subjects he knows nothing about. And the "American Dream" he is fighting for is ensuring that the rich continue to pay a smaller percent of their income in taxes than do the poor and middle class who keep the economy humming.

Joe the douchbag SO needs to be taken back to school!

[Ioo]

6. Joe the Plumber sounds like nothing more than a McCain knock-off

what a looser.

[Javaman]

7. his "book" will die a slow death on the shelf...

much like all the other right wing info-tomes. it will be on the 99 cent pile a week after the 1st and will be used as either bird cage paper, fish wrap or kindling for the fire soon after.