When Barack the Socialist Met Joe the Plumber
Mark Steyn examines the MSM and finds them ridiculous.
Evidently the O-Mighty One was not happy after his encounter with Joe. He’s still willing to talk to Ahmadinejad without preconditions. But never again will he talk to Joe the Plumber without preconditions. Outraged at the way the right-wing whackos were talking up Joe the Plumber as if he were an authentic regular Joe like Joe Biden, the O-Bots of the media swung into action. Vast regiments of investigate reporters were redeployed from the Wasilla Holiday Inn back to the Lower 48.
“We need you down here checking out this Joe the Plumber,” editors barked to journalists.
“But I’m this close to wrapping up the Wasilla Town Library banned-book investigation!”
“Forget it! The Atlantic Monthly is claiming Joe the Plumber is Trig’s real father. We can’t get behind on this. Get to Minneapolis Airport. Joe the Plumber was seen in the bathroom with Senator Larry Craig.”
“Yes, but he was installing a stopcock…”
“Look, you went to Columbia School of Journalism. This is what we bold courageous journalists do. We’re the conscience of the nation. We speak truth to plumber.”
“Er, shouldn’t that be ‘Speak truth to power’?”
“That’s the old edition of the handbook. Now we speak truth to power-tool operators. Joe the Carpenter, Joe the Plasterer, Joe the Electrician… When you’re building utopia, you don’t want any builders getting in the way.”
Read it all. Steyn grips it and rips it today.
Other Posts of Interest:
- McCain Defends Plumber Joe. Barack Obama Still Hasn’t.
- Keeping the Priorities Straight at the New York Times
- Digging Dirt on Joe the Plumber (Updated..And Bumped, for Maximum Joementum)
Category: Cool Columnists and Wicked Writers, The Obamessiah
You're not too bright are you? Since when is being smarter, and not pleibian and common a bad thing for a political leader? JTP is your typical redneck, clueless American. He won't take over his boss' operation, and yet he thinks he will, and for that silly thought he doesn't want to be taxed when he makes over 250 grand, which by the way, is a lot of money and he should be taxed heavily, if in fact he reaches that income bracket which he won't!
Why shouldn't this idiot get taxed, if he can make that kind of money, and by the way, for every 1 JTP there are 100 people taking over there parents successful businesses, and reeking the rewards of, not so much hard work.
If you really think that taking the wealthy and owners of the means of production will kill the american dream, you're just a terrible person. People who argue against raising the minimum wage because it will hurt business, and people against raising corporate taxes are the same people who were against freeing the slaves. You're promoting the idea that unnecessary poverty is okay.
Your logic astounds me. Truly you have a dizzying intellect.