Joe the Plumber...er, scribe(?!)

Uhuh...

Yeah, be suspicious of anything out of Flowery Branch, GA. It's a real place. It's NOT what it sounds like.

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by: Stratonike @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:15:36 PM CDT

I hope Thomas N. Tabback,

Joe's ghost, got a nice advance, because if he's counting on future royalties to pay the bills he'll be very disappointed.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:15:54 PM CDT

I don't know,

Sam the Scab's brand of smug anti-intellectual anti-anyone-but-"us" reactionary politics is what gets GOP candidates elected.

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by: M @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:21:26 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

But how many of them read?

Read anything?  Most of them can't even be bothered to open their Bibles (which is why they're so ignorant of what it says).

Besides, in the last few years all but a few right-wing agitprop books have tanked (remember Mary Cheney's?).  The ones that sell are the ones by superstars like Rush and O'Reilly.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:37:59 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

they may not read,

but all they have to do is buy them to give to each other for their coffee tables, much like they do with bibles.  you know, for show and thumping, not for consumption. ;)

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:44:42 PM CDT

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Look at the sales figures

for the "Left Behind" books.  That's a whole series devoted to the fun of watching all the nonbelievers tortured in increasingly gruesome and graphic ways (after the early phase, where the heroic fundamentalist Christians are contrasted with the universally scheming, misanthropic non-believers).  Yeah, those books are fiction, but most of the readers don't read the series as fiction.

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by: M @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 21:01:23 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Now I need a new keyboard

Where was my warning?

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by: shaz4005 @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:24:51 PM CDT

I'm sorry

what's the American Dream he's allegedly fighting for?

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by: ol cranky @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:41:44 PM CDT

Between this book and Palin's,

I don't know which one end up being a bigger waste of a perfectly good forest.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:44:20 PM CDT

Just out of curiosity,

If he just does the usual echo chambering of what Rush, Hannity, et al are saying, isn't that a form of plagiarism? ;^)
(and insipidity...)

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:44:21 PM CDT

Ken Hutcherson

keep an eye our for a similar volume by ken "god will get all the glory!" hutcherson.

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Please pray for Pastor Hutch today and tomorrow, as he will be spending time with the writer who has been assigned to help him write the book "Hope is Contagious."

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 17:47:01 PM CDT

This book

will end up at outlet mall bookstores around the country.  Just like Ann Coulter and all of the other wing nuts that decide to write a book.  Believe me, I have seen them there myself.

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by: Deelishn07 @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 18:37:23 PM CDT

God...

I pray that you instruct more people like this knucklehead to refrain from running for public office...Amen

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by: Will St. James @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 19:36:14 PM CDT

Joe the Plumber wrote a book?

So, now he wants to go on a book signing tour instead of his regular schtick; you know, that ridiculous SciFi channel reality show - "Ghost Hunters."  

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by: LaoTongZhi @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 19:45:35 PM CDT

Trouble?

I could not call myself 'Kat the Lawyer' if I did not have a law license.  I wouldn't get in trouble if, through no actions of my own, people called me that and I happened not to have said license - even though I might have a law degree.  I do have both however, so I am indeed 'Kat the Lawyer.'  I also have an architecture degree, but if I represented myself as 'Kat the Architect,' I'd be in a bit of of trouble because I do not have an architecture license.

Even assuming that Joe the Wurz got informally tagged as 'Joe the Plumber' through no fault of his own (I know...but humor me), this book is purposeful representation of him as 'Joe the Plumber.'  Can he be prosecuted anywhere?  As in - are there any states where adding 'the Plumber' to a purposeful reprsentation of yourself when you don't have a plumbing license is a criminal offense?

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 19:55:10 PM CDT

Trouble?

G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt would beg to differ.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

Dr. Jillian T. Weiss

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by: DrJillianTWeiss @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 20:36:51 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

Well...

Advantage Dr. Weiss :)

Their operation was slightly more successful.

As Chevy Chase noted in the National Lampoon bit, "Mission: Impeachable":

This administration will self-destruct in sixteen months.

That at least bought Nixon enough time to sabotage the 1972 McGovern campaign.

Joe the Wurz and the John & Sarah Show?

Not so much.

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 22:15:51 PM CDT

[ Parent ]

They got the title wrong.

They inserted the word "For" accidently.

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by: fq5757 @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 20:35:11 PM CDT

Rec up Gen. JC Christian's review on Amazon

Just click on the "I found this helpful" button.  It's already the 1st review listed.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R...

As his last paragraph says:

This is a great book, one every true conservative should buy, and more importantly, read. Yes, I know that sounds like a tall order, but it's an easy read. Joe uses one and two syllable words (many of them, written forms of various grunts) almost exclusively. If I have one complaint, it's that the publisher, Pearlgate, printed it in ink rather than crayon like the original manuscript. Other than that, I think it truly is the perfect book for the average conservative.

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by: Technowitch @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 20:44:12 PM CDT

Crayon?

LOL!!

I wonder if Palin's will be done with scented markers and smiley/ frownie faces... as well as little hearts over the i's.  

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 08:47:20 AM CDT

[ Parent ]

A book? Really?

Marketing a book, to Joe the Plumber's followers?!

I think that's called "drastically misreading your audience."

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by: popebuck1 @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 20:47:49 PM CDT

What a waste of skin Joe is

This bottom feeder "wrote" a book? Ergh. BRB barfing...

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by: hardcorps80204 @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 21:24:22 PM CDT

how sad trees had to be sacrificed for Sam the not plumber's ghost written book

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 21:30:23 PM CDT

that's funny, God told me the EXACT SAME THING about Sam the nonPlumber running for office... n/t

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by: chiefscribe @ Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 22:42:09 PM CDT

The 5-star reviews...

...are almost as fabulously delicious as the 1-star reviews. One out of the 20-whatever wasn't sarcastic.

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by: xerxes @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 00:13:07 AM CDT

does the book come with a box of crayons?

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 00:41:53 AM CDT

Perfect toilet paper material in a pinch.

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by: Jon Michaels @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 02:22:23 AM CDT

God talks like a Valley Girl?

Like, wow!

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.

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by: Snooky Ookums @ Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 05:14:48 AM CDT