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Post by Green-Eyed Lilo on Mar 23, 2009 18:09:24 GMT -5
To put it another way. If any party offered up a Joealike as a kind of "he speaks for you!! he has your hopes and fears! He's *just like you*" avatar of "the Common man", the only debate I'd have would be how many of their offices I'd visit to shit through the letterbox for such a grievous insult before never, ever voting for them again. Exactly! I found myself wondering why Republicans, especially small-town ones, don't just howl in outrage! Then again, I became a big city elitist who doesn't know from the real America the minute I booked a one-way ticket to NYC and packed up my stuff, didn't I? Just like my Brooklyn-born and raised plumber, who is such an elitist snob that he has actually gone to plumber school, gotten a plumber certification, and started his own plumbing business! |
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Post by headache on Mar 23, 2009 18:10:03 GMT -5
During the 2008 Presidential Election there was a bald, white, pissed-off conservative schmuck named Samuel Wurzelbacher who asked some questions of Obama during a rally; the media and the McCain campaign christened him "Joe the Plumber" and from that point on he's become a quasi-celebrity among the conservative movement. He's a typical backwoods hick who despises social security, complains about taxes (even when he doesn't pay his taxes), thinks Obama wants to destroy Israel, and blames all his problems on the poor, elderly and minorities. He's the embodiment of all that is wrong with this country. Now this semi-literate stooge thinks he's a political expert because of his bullshit 15 minutes of fame and even wrote his own book following the election--what a joke...  Jesus on a pogo stick, that's pathetic. He even looks like a dumbass turd. Which is why I like to call him Joe The Dumber |
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Post by Old Viking on Mar 23, 2009 18:16:20 GMT -5
This is really all it takes to become a celebrity among conservatives.
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Post by Vene on Mar 23, 2009 18:33:01 GMT -5
Exactly! I found myself wondering why Republicans, especially small-town ones, don't just howl in outrage! Because that really is how they see themselves. I'm surrounded by the bastards. |
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Post by booley on Mar 24, 2009 12:29:28 GMT -5
Anyone else get the feeling that whilst he's not really saying anything particularly smart, he's been briefed on what to say? Frankly the Borg liek qualities of cons has become so common I am more shocked when one doesn't parrot the talkign point of the minute. Say what you will, the Right has always been great about message. I think the only reason they haven't been lately is that they lost their stride when all the shit they caused happened. Republicans aren't used to being held accountable. Even a hint of accountability throws them. Your answer is simple and depressing. There are very few actual journalists who get any significant air time. News is just the means they use to sell you stuff. Not Joe the Not Plumber gets attention because... A. He says stuff that peopel will respond too (negatively or positively is not relevant) and B. What he says doesn't stray from the narrative the media carefully constructs. He does fake controversy, it gets people riled but in no way expands the dialogue or makes people think. I believe the Romans called this "Bread and Circus", only without the bread. |
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Post by MozMode on Mar 24, 2009 15:26:01 GMT -5
Exactly! I found myself wondering why Republicans, especially small-town ones, don't just howl in outrage! Because that really is how they see themselves. I'm surrounded by the bastards. They do. They see themselves as the epitome of the "everyman", working class, dim-witted at best, against paying their taxes, against them "intellekshuals" and spouts the standard Rethug talking points by heart. AKA Joe the Non-Plumber. What sad though is most likely, that is truly all they'll ever be. They will never step outside their little redneck hole. They'll marry young, have a buncha kids and teach all of those kids how to be just like mommy or daddy. Then you have even more Joe the Non-Plumbers running around. |
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