I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Joe exemplifies how one person speaking up can really make a difference. He is truly a great American. Sean Hannity, Fox News Hannity s America , Syndicated Talk Radio Joe's story is the iconic American tale. He's a patriot who became instantly famous for simply asking a question that millions of us wanted asked. As my friend Sean Hannity would say, Joe is a great American! Mike Gallagher, Syndicated Talk Radio Joe The Plumber - Fighting for the American Dream is the Inspiration Guide for the New Conservatism. Get ready to get Angry, Laugh out loud, Cry, Shout, and Get Involved in the Future of the United States of America!
Reviews I had some major goosebumps several times. Read this book! You will be truly inspired. --Margaret, Jenkins, KY
I just finished reading Joe s book and all I can say is WOW! I love how he thinks and expresses himself. I laughed during every chapter - it was so entertaining! --Glynis, Biddeford, ME
The book is fantastic and I read it in two days. Keep working for our country Joe! --C. W., Flowery Branch, GA
You know some conservative think tank will buy a buttload of copies to give away to pump up the sales, but I seriously doubt the teabaggers are going to line up to read this ghostwritten POS. WingNutDaily's fawning coverage reads like a parody, however we did get an idea of Joe's relationship with the Man Upstairs and politics.
Asked if he has plans to run for public office, he replied, "I hope not. You know, I talked to God about that and he was like, 'No.'"
UPDATE: I forgot Jesus' General's amazing 5-star review:
Lock and load up the stupidity, folks. The Colorado Independent covered Sam Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the HornyKnow-Nothing Plumber when he parachuted in to the Independence Institute's annual Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Party this past weekend, where the icon of the McCain campaign lodged his complaints about "the nanny state" and was asked about who he's supporting in 2012.
Answering questions from the well-lubricated crowd, Wurzelbacher revealed that he hasn't made any money from the book he wrote, "Joe the Plumber - Fighting for the American Dream," issued by the tiny PearlGate Publishing imprint, but suggested there could be "Joe the Plumber" Christmas ornaments in his merchandising future.
Asked who might win his support among potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, Wurzelbacher dismissed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich ("No ... no"), before sounding like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin might be his choice.
"Sarah Palin? Maybe," he said. "She's a nice lady and I like her. She doesn't have that gleam of power in her eyes."
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won some praise from Wurzelbacher, who ultimately said he worried the candidate was giving in to his handlers.
When it comes down to it, Wurzelbacher said, he didn't prefer a Republican or a Democrat. "I want an American leader," he said to cheers.
Flashback from his appearance in March at a wingnut fest put on by the Media Research Center:
"God, all this love and everything in the room and everything -- I'm horny."
From our friends at Media Matters, a real knee-slapper:
LIMBAUGH: Why are they still kneecapping Sarah Palin? Hmm? I mean, I know I'm fair game. I'm out there. But why are they still kneecapping Sarah Palin? They're out there kneecapping Bobby Jindal. They're still kneecapping -- the drive-bys, the Democrats -- Rick Santorum. They're still jumping on Joe the Plumber -- a private citizen, for heaven's sake. All he did was ask Obama a question. Why are they continuing to try to destroy virtually anyone and everyone who can articulate conservatism? It's 'cause they are afraid of us.
More from the gift that keeps on giving. The fifteen minutes are long over, and yet Joe the Plumber soldiers on, opening his unqualified piehole before thousands, this time in Lansing, MI to a bunch of Teabaggers, to say this. (Michigan Messenger):
"I'm here for one reason and one reason only: It's I love America," Wurzelbacher told the crowd. "Mainstream media wants to paint us as a bunch of extremists, right? We're in search of liberty and our freedoms. What's so extreme about that?"
"I'm just regurgitating," Wurzelbacher said. "I believe in common sense."
Wurzelbacher went on to lambaste what he said was a rising tide of "socialism" across the country and laid the blame on the U.S. government.
"Let me give you another extremist view, 'In God We Trust,'" he said to wild applause. "Say that too loud in some parts of America and you will be shot. It's terrible."
Hoisting signs with slogans like "Hitler gave good speeches too," "I am only 4 and I am in debt," and "Revolution or death," the crowd filled the lawn of the Capitol and listened to other speakers like Scott Hagerstrom of Americans for Prosperity of Michigan; Leon Drolet of the Michigan Taxpayers' Alliance; and Wendy Day of the Howell school board.
Joe the Plumber's on the road in blue collar territory, paid for by the anti-labor group Americans for Prosperity, ostensibly to represent opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) (H.R. 1409, S. 560) . Perhaps Americans for Prosperity meant for him to be comic relief -- The Horny One was asked why he was against the EFCA and, well, he was a tad unprepared. (Think Progress):
The fake plumber was stumped, admitting that he only knows "a little" on most issues. "I don't know everything about everything," he added. Watch it:
Joe the Plumber -- real name Samuel Wurzelbacher -- told a crowd of conservatives Thursday night that their love was getting him all hot and bothered.
"God, all this love and everything in the room -- I'm horny."
Wurzelbacher had taken the stage to a standing ovation at the annual "DisHonors" Awards, presented by the Media Research Center, to poke fun liberal media groups.
"Did Joe the Plumber really just say he's horny?" "Did you hear Joe say 'horny'?" "Why is he horny and why is he telling us?"
...Joe was all hot and bothered over the standing ovation he received as he walked on stage to accept accolades from the top liberal media watchdog. Lee Greenwood's GOP country classic "God Bless the USA" boomed overhead as Joe, wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt and a flannel shirt unbuttoned to his navel, strolled on stage.
After declaring he was horny, Joe mumbled a few other things about being the "token redneck" and the media loving him, and then sat back down in a sea of conservative luminaries that included G. Gordon Liddy, former Attorney General Ed Meese, radio talk show host Mark Levin, Fox News' Brit Hume and former House speaker (for half a minute) Bob Livingston.
Don't you feel quite a bit nauseous after reading that?
And the Republicans wonder why they are out of power when they invite goons like "patriot" Joe the Plumber as featured speakers representing the best and brightest conservative minds. (Think Progress, getting their hands dirty at CPAC so you don't have to):
ThinkProgress asked Joe at CPAC yesterday which members he would most like to slap. "Pretty much anybody that's stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America," Joe said. He then implied that some members of Congress should be shot:
Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot 'em. And there'd be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don't talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict.
When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher - more commonly known as Joe the Plumber - will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.
Wurzelbacher, who became a household name during the presidential election, will be focusing his talk on the proposed stimulus package. He's apparently not a fan of the economic rescue package, according to members of the group.
..."In case you weren't planning to attend CWG tomorrow morning, you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us!" Kimberly Wallner, an aide to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, wrote in a message to her e-mail list this afternoon.
I didn't want to write about this boob any more, but this item shows you all we need to know about the fraud without a plumbing license; he's just like the rest of the GOP backstabbers.
In a delicious bit of schadenfreude, after John McCain made Joe the Plumber his mantra in the waning days of his failed campaign for the White House, the turd drop-kicks him in public. The first bit of outlandish news is that he's writing a book (surely ghost written), "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream," and now this (Think Progress):
WURZELBACHER: When I was on the bus with him, I asked him a lot of questions about the bailout because most Americans did not want that to happen. Yet he voted for it. ... And I asked him some pretty direct questions. Some of the answers you guys are gonna receive - they appalled me, absolutely. I was angry. In fact I wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.
BECK: Really? Now why didn't you get off the bus?
WURZELBACHER: Um, you know, honestly, because the thought of Barack Obama as president scares me even more.
While he holds disdain for the Arizona senator, Joe shows his political savvy, saying "Sarah Palin is absolutely the real deal."
McCain was being interviewed by a Norfolk, VA station about his prospects there when he had an interesting slip of the tongue...
Q: [W]ith Virginia a reliably red state dating all the way back to 1964, how come you're not doing better in the polls in Virginia?
MCCAIN: We're doing much better actually, there's a poll out today that shows we're within about three so we're moving up and moving up fast. And look, Joe the Bomb - uh - Joe the Plumber turned the whole thing around.
In other Joe news -- he was stopped for speeding ticket and let go. Why? You won't believe this asshattery:
Police stopped "Joe the Plumber" for speeding last week but didn't issue a ticket out of concern it would reflect negatively on the Toledo department, an officer's report said.
Officers tracked Samuel J. Wurzelbacher driving about 50 mph in a 35 mph zone in his Dodge Durango SUV on Wednesday, the police report said.
...Wurzelbacher was given a verbal warning because of that ongoing investigation and because a citation could have "negative repercussions to the department and city as a whole," according to the report, which lists "Patrolman Bailey" as its author.
I'm sick of this *ssclown taking up time on the airwaves. Since McCain and Palin have cleaved to the Ohio faux plumber-with-PR-firm as a mascot, will they take responsibility to this crap? Via TPM:
He has become a part of McCain's campaign, like any other surrogate. So here "Joe" is on TV just about an hour ago saying that people shouldn't vote for Obama because he doubts Obama's "loyalty to America".
I guess saying Obama reminded him of Sammy Davis, Jr. wasn't bad enough. But isn't it time someone ask McCain whether he's really willing to associate with this extremist?
McCain/Palin campaign mascot Joe the Plumber is blowing the "Other" dog whistle at these stump appearances - he's fooling no one when he makes statements like this:
"Get out there and vote; it's very important," Joe said, after extolling the virtues of being well informed. "You get out here and get the American people back in charge of our government. Hold politicians' feet to the fire when they mess up. That's what we're out here to do. All right? Smaller government, you know? As far as everyone else here, well, that's the question and go ask them to vote for a real American, John McCain."
And what, exactly does that make Barack Obama -- an alien, a non-citizen, or is the litmus test for the presidency that one has to be a Republican? It's the old saw with a bigot twist for extra flavor coming from an unlicensed, tax-dodging celeb wannabe.
His 15 minutes are up. JTP has no brand worth selling. Besides, what happened to his plumbing business ambitions?
If he gets his way, Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber," plans to enjoy a lot more than just 15 minutes of fame. Two weeks after emerging as the Republican Party's favorite proxy for the American working man, Mr. Wurzelbacher has signed a management deal meant to keep him in the public eye past next week's election and earn him some money at the same time, preferably as a show business personality.
"Joe the Plumber is fast becoming a brand," said Jim Della Croce, president of the Nashville-based Pathfinder Management group, who is part of the trio that will be representing Mr. Wurzelbacher from now on. "He is a dynamic speaker and an everyman who has become an overnight celebrity. It's going to be our job to find Joe's strengths and give him some options."
It never gets old with the McCain campaign, does it? First, John McCain undermines his Obama is inexperienced and lacking in foreign relations meme by picking Sarah "my expertise in foreign relations comes from being able to see Russia from my house" Palin now, it seems, JoeSam the unlicensed plumber's role in the campaign has been expanded beyond domestic issues.
The all-out effort from John McCain's presidential campaign to scare voters into backing the Republican candidate continued apace on Tuesday as McCain surrogate Joe the Plumber agreed that a Barack Obama presidency would mean the "death of Israel" and end democracy in America.
The Ohio plumber, who has no license and is actually named Samuel Wurzelbacher, spoke at a McCain campaign event in Columbus Monday. A McCain supporter asked if "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel." JTP hardly batted an eye.
"I'll go ahead and agree with you on that," Wurzelbacher said. RAW Story
JoeSam's foray outside his expertise in economics is seen as a way to not only reinforce the foreign relations sentiments McCain surrogates have already rolled out to Jewish voters but also serves to prime the market for the campaign's upcoming ads. While the McCain campaign hesitates to distance itself from the future member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, even Shepard Smith of FOX NEWS felt compelled to push back:
Joe Wurzelbacher, the most famous plumber in America thanks to John McCain and Sarah Palin, told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Friday he's considering a run for Congress in 2010.
That would pit Wurzelbacher against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio's 9th district on the state's northern border, which includes Toledo and Sandusky. "I'll tell you what, we'd definitely be in one heck of a fight, Marcy Kaptur definitely has a following in this area," he said of the possibility. "But, you know, I'd be up for it."
Joe the Plumber all but came out of the water closet for Sen. John McCain on Friday, saying his famous exchange with Sen. Barack Obama made him "scared for America" and that he doesn't trust the Democratic presidential candidate on taxes.
... "When I was face to face with him, my honest first impression was that I expected something more. I had heard so much about 'his presence' in the media that I was surprised to find that he seemed very average," Mr. Wurzelbacher wrote in a live online chat on WashingtonTimes.com (read the transcript with Mr. Wurzelbacher here).
"My gut feeling as he answered my questions? I was scared for America," he wrote in response to a reader who asked "When you were face to face with Obama, what were you thinking and how did it feel?"
JOHN MCCAIN: I'm John McCain and I approve this message.
ANNCR: Americans are catching...
JOE WURZELBACHER: Your new tax plan is going to tax me more.
BARACK OBAMA: It's not that I want to punish your success. ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.
ANNCR: Everybody?
Leading papers call Obama's taxes "welfare" ... "government handouts".
Obama raises taxes on seniors, hard working families to give "welfare" to those who pay none.
Just as you suspected, Obama's not truthful on taxes.
Neighbors were outside asking them questions and I didn't think they were asking tough enough questions so I thought I'll go over there. I've always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them to answer a question for once instead of tap dancing around it. Unfortunately I asked the question and still got a tap dance. He was almost as good as Sammy Davis, Jr. [Couric and others laugh.]
Honest to god, how soon will "
