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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-03-09 11:37 PM
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TYT: Joe the Plumber Represents All That is Wrong with Celebrity Culture
 
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ejbr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-03-09 11:58 PM
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1. k & r n/t
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uberllama42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 12:09 AM
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2. My best friend's dad owned JTP
Very cool. I'm honored to know that guy.
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20score Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 12:18 AM
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3. K&R. What a douche, by that I mean JTP and the press.
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 12:59 AM
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4. K&R
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 01:08 AM
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5. LOL - the ending is priceless!
making fun of Joe for not knowing a damn thing, then having the lowly blogger have a good question to which he gets no answer because this moran has no answers just says it all! He IS what's wrong with celeb culture - because he's supposedly a political celeb - but for WHAT - getting snippy with Senator Obama on the trail because he wasn't able to have everything his way? What a jerk!
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olegramps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:19 AM
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6. He is indicative of the intellectual acumen of the typical working class Republican.
Daily I hear working class people who berate the Democratic Party as a socialist conspiracy that is going to confiscate their hard earned wealth and give it to lazy undeserving people. It is just another take on Reagan's mythical "welfare queen" that was living the life of luxury while "real Americans" were being taxed to support her life style.

The Republicans are masters of propaganda. They convinced the majority of even Democrats that unions were bad for them and that they would take good care of them. They took good care of them all right. They outsourced their jobs, cut their pensions and canceled their health insurance. I meet a person yesterday that is a prime example of these blockheads. His employer cutting his salary by 20% and guess who he is blaming for his predicament. I hate to say it but,I don't feel one bit sorry for some of these people.

I used to argue with these people but it just wasn't worth it. They will only get it when they are destitute and even then many won't be able to grasp the situation.
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Richd506 Donating Member (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 10:26 AM
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7. Unfortunately this is the truth. This is what our nation has become
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pam4water Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 11:08 AM
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8. If we made Joe his own video game where he's a plumber and gets to rescue
Edited on Sat Apr-04-09 11:10 AM by pam4water
Palin dressed as a princes would he go away?
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 11:32 AM
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9. K&R
:kick:
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Seldona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 12:17 PM
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10. Sorry, but I don't see him as a celebrity.
Sure there are some similarities between true celebrity and what has happened to Joe.

But he is just a shill repubs used for their own ends. Namely to try to convince people that the repubs stand for the 'little guy,' when nothing could be further from the truth. He has done NOTHING to deserve his 'celebrity.'
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 05:29 PM
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11. He's another Republican flop k*r
They're desperate.

Mike Huckabee, "cool" guy, plays guitar but - oops - he let a rapist out of jail who then proceeded
to kill his rape victim. Becomes "The Minister of Death" instead of Mr. Fun.

Mitt Romney, more than another crash test dummy, this guy won the Mass Gov's race. He's handsome,
spoke well -- and a real goof ball.

McCain & Palin - nuff said

Bobby Jhindal - oh, please have him run - the guy is not only goofy, he tells tall tales, quite callously.

What will they do now, re-animate McKinley?
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 12:51 AM
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12. Aren't Joe's 15 minutes of fame about up?
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