Joe the Fucking Plumber was on WELFARE ... and he rails against Socialism?

[TheCoxwain]

He surely must have cojones the size of BASKETBALLS


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPzW2XELAfw

[spanone]

1. they insulted voters with palin, they insulted voters with jtp.....and they lost

[loyalkydem]

2. WTF

Someone shut this guy up

[butterfly77]

28. Pass it on!

I am so tired of this hypocrite bastard! He keeps showing up on every tv show talking out of both sides of his mouth like the majority of republiCONS...

[Window]

64. He is so obviously full of shit it's not funny.

[treestar]

3. What a loser hypocrite

[Justyce]

4. K&R. What an idiot he is. nt

[progressivebydesign]

5. the idiot actually believes that you "pay into welfare" and use it when you need it.

Umm. too stupid to understand that UNEMPLOYMENT you pay into -- welfare, comes from taxes. He is a stupid and nasty man that is way in over his head.

[CitizenLeft]

6. I knew it!

I knew it I knew it I knew it.

What a hypocritical POS. Did you hear him being interviewed by Rick Sanchez? (paraphrasing) "Why should my hard-earned money, that I worked so hard for, be taken away and given to someone else who doesn't want to work?" What a stupid scumbag.

[TransitJohn]

7. A Republican hypocrite?

Who saw that coming? Completely out of the blue.

[mikekohr]

48. Isn't That Redundant?

Just wondering.

mike kohr

[gmoney]

8. wasn't Rush on welfare for a while before he pulled his Jed Clampett act?

[NewJeffCT]

21. Yes, I believe he was either on welfare, or at least

collecting unemployment. He blamed his ex-wife (#1 or #2) for forcing him to collect... real manly of him, eh?

[SuperTrouper]

9. So now he goes home unscratched after all the things he said about Obama?

JTP needs to pay for his hypocrisy :mad:

[Morning Dew]

10. Bravo Colmes - never said that before.

JTP exposed as the idiot he is.

[SurfingAtWork]

11. I guess we have to call him Joe the Self Loathing Plumber now.

[me b zola]

65. Self loathing

I notice that among many rwingers. Authoritarianism & self-loathing are the two most dominant characteristics I see in social conservatives/rwingers.

[gmoney]

12. Nice t-shirt, Joe

So when Obama cuts taxes, it's stealing, but McCain and Bush cut taxes, that's American?

Why is it that people confuse an economic system with a political system?

capitalism does NOT equal democracy

[City Lights]

13. Don't know about his "basketballs," but he definitely has a brain the size of a pea.

[Ozma]

37. WOW.. that's a great one! n/t

[SweetieD]

14. Joe the Welfare King!

[mtnsnake]

15. Un-Fucking-Believable. Thanks for posting this.

[bluestateguy]

16. Pathetic. He got pwn3d by Alan fucking Colmes

:rofl:

[rniel]

17. Rush was on

welfare at one point too I heard.

[SalviaBlue]

18. What an idiot. Talk about DUMBING DOWN.

Bush, Palin, and Joe the Plumber... can they get any dumber?

Good Bye assholes. See ya.

[frylock]

19. i guess colmes finally found his balls now that obama won..

does that mean he won't be hammity's whipping boy anymore?

[KathieG]

20. Lol...nothing surprises me anymore. I am just stunned that people...

still buy into republican BS...they heard about him not being licensed, they heard about him lying when he questioned Obama about his tax situation, they heard about him owing back taxes, and he was still their hero...they will hear all of this and still make excuses for JTP. Sad...you just can't fix that kind of stupid.

[nomaco-10]

22. Another little tidbit that would have been helpful before ...

the election. oh well, it's all water under the bridge to nowhere now. lol

[knixphan]

23. spread this to all your wingnut friends.

Nail this coffin SHUT!

[Breeze54]

24. Typical Rethug Hypocrite ...

:puke:

Joe the BUMMER!! :P

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. He's an incoherent imbecile

He spouts talking points about "robbing people to pay others" and calls it "principle," but then quickly justifies himself as having had "paid into" the system before receiving welfare. What a douche that guy is.

[progressoid]

26. No cajones. Just a garden variety right wing hypocrite.

[chill_wind]

27. Ahhahaaa! Oh what a campaign it's been......... n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. What a jerk. Why did this take so long to come out?

[Blu Dahlia]

30. You can't make that type of ignorant assclownery up!

:rofl:

[Liberal Mommy]

31. His "principles"?! LMFAO

That is a good one. He is NOT working right now and surviving on HANDOUTS from people that are mailing him checks. Isn't that "spreading the wealth"? I would say that is taking someone else's HARD EARNED money. What a freaking moron!

[hootinholler]

32. Have to have a look tonight.

Sadly the tube is blocked at the work.

-Hoot

[Vinca]

33. He paid into welfare? Huh? What a complete and total idiot. nt

[mtnsnake]

38. No, he was ON welfare according to Colmes.

I think he said that "you" pay into welfare.

[Ganja Ninja]

34. "He surely must have cojones the size of BASKETBALLS"

No just a brain the size of a walnut.

[nini]

35. BUT.. that's different

It's OK when it's one of them - it's just a personal situation where they needed help.

Same when their women sneak off for an abortion - it's a personal issue.
:sarcasm:

But, fuck anyone else. Typical hypocritical assholes. I am so sick of them.

[nini]

36. Too bad Palin didn't buy him a decent shirt while he makes the rounds

LOL what a loser

[Ozma]

39. Maybe Todd has a suit he can give him from his new $20,000 threads~!

[Orsino]

40. Wake me when he offers to repay those benefits.

:eyes:

[BeyondGeography]

41. More like brains the size of cojones

[MrScorpio]

42. According to his own logic, he's guilty of receiving stolen property

What fucking dumb ass


...And a thief too!

[nxylas]

43. Republicans always think they're a special case

When THEY need welfare, it's different - they're rugged, self-reliant individualists who just happen to have fallen upon hard times, unlike all those OTHER people on welfare, who are just a bunch of lazy-ass n****rs always looking for handouts.

[Blue Diadem]

44. I'd heard it before, I think when he did the Oregon radio interview and accepted the donations.

I am soooo glad that Colmes got the word out on Fox.

By the way, I wouldn't call anything of "Joe's" the size of basketballs. He's just dumber than a box of rocks and very typical of the repukes I know from this area. He's so ignorant that he doesn't realize he's ignorant, like Palin.

[Lucy Goosey]

45. Why, why, why do people like him have so much self confidence?

Why does he have the balls to go on TV? Does he have any self awareness at all? Why does he think that he, Joe the Plumber, is right about American tax policy? I just don't get it. I'm an informed, intelligent (IQ is 96th percentile, test administered by a psychologist), engaged person, and I work in government fiscal policy analysis, and I wouldn't go on TV to answer questions like he does. I certainly wouldn't think I had gotten the better of Obama on the original Joe to Barack question - Obama answered that question perfectly! And with lots of detail! And Joe's been parading around like he stumped Obama!

I think Palin falls into that category as well - dumber than a sack of hair, but makes up for it with totally undeserved self confidence, and massive self-centeredness.

[TheCoxwain]

46. Ignorance truly is bliss ...

[dreamnightwind]

47. Third eye blind

Excellent points! lack of self-awareness, a closed "third eye", allows for self-righteousness, not knowing what they don't know, so these kinda people exude a brilliant and unclouded self-confidence.

Very seductive, and many people buy into ideas put forth by such people, just because they see that self-confidence and confuse it for clarity of reasoning. This needs to be taught in schools, people have to be able to recognize this and distrust it. Also people need to be taught that self-awareness and advancing your world-view through constructive self-criticism is the way for positive growth, not a sign of weakness as our society seems to believe.

I thought the exact same thing when I saw Sarah Palin speak at the RNC convention, the self-confidence of the unaware. You can throw George W. in there too, although I think he's lost some of that now and he has a little awareness of what a POS he has been, thus he seems much less confident these days.

[tblue37]

58. I have always called it the arrogance of ignorance. nt

[youthere]

49. want some more irony?

check out this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=joe%20the%20plumber%20welfare

[EVDebs]

50. The guy is a 'shill' for his relatives, Chas. Keating

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7474700

[threadkillaz]

51. Joe the Dumber

14 minutes up, with only 1 to go.

[happychatter]

52. I'm sure he was one of Nixon's "Deserving poor." nt

[Dr Fate]

53. Cool- they should have him on all the time- give him his own show even.

I think he should be the new voice of the GOP, in fact.

[agentS]

57. Joe for president in 2012

It would be a political earthquake in favor of the Dems.
Can you say 500 to 38?

[TheDonkey]

54. wtf!? Why is this guy still going in front of cameras? The dumbshit was on welfare and admits it

then whines that Obama is stealing money from his pocket. Is this guy for REAL!?

[Hamlette]

55. he is just stupid, or ignorant. We should give THEM (stupid ppl) 3/5th of a vote

or less

[onager]

56. My own worthless thoughts on Joe The Asshat...

Keep in mind that I'm an American living in Egypt for the past 3 years. So I'm very grateful that I didn't have to see this bonehead every time I turned on the TV. I certainly saw him more than enough, and my major TV news sources over here are CNN-Intl. and the BBC. (Add for any lurking Freepers--and Al-Jazeera, of course!

I think the GOP saw Joe The Turdschlepper as their magic bullet. The symbolic event that would turn the whole election around. A sort of unplanned October Surprise that fell right into their laps. And years from now, PoliSci profs would be teaching about the GOP comeback in the 2008 campaign...

The staffers immediately wrote a script about JTP, Joe The Phony--"average 'murican confronts Obama's economic policies and wins, with down-to-earth reasoning" etc. etc. Now this is all BS, but these political "scripts" almost always are. As Josef Goebbels liked to note, the whole point is to create a simple story and hammer it into the dunderheads of the electorate. (And Godwin can bite me.)

And boy, did McCain hammer. In the third debate, he invoked Joe The Shitstirrer more often than James Dobson invokes Jesus. What was it, 27 times?

You could practically SEE the staffers behind the scenes earlier, writing that Big Dramatic Moment: McC. facing directly into camera: "Joe, I will help you buy that plumbing business," bla-bla-bla.

That was supposed to be IT. McCain's "Cross of Gold," his Checkers speech, the Big Moment when all of America would realize John McCain was standing up for Ordinary 'Muricans against the dangerous Socialist-Elitist Obama.

And it didn't work. Possibly because McCain didn't seem to believe it himself. That Big Moment just LOOKED completely fake and made up, at least to me.

So it fell flat on its face. Happily, much like the rest of the GOP campaign.

[LynneSin]

59. Ok answer me this - how is HIS welfare better than others

:grr:

[CTLawGuy]

60. who?

(his 15 minutes of fame are up)

[bulloney]

61. But, but Joe said it's different with him. He's paid into it more than he took.

Based on the size of the budget, more of his tax dollars have gone into the Dept. of Defense and the wars we've waged in Iraq and Afghanistan. Does Joe feel that he's gotten a good return on that investment?

Why is this idiot still getting attention in the media? The more he talks, the more you realize what a phony buffoon he is.

Has this guy been working during the past month? How's he supporting himself? He's been on TV interviews daily from all over the place.

[crazy_vanilla]

62. really? what a cheeky bastard!!!

did he really think nobody would find out?

was he also delinquent on his child-support payments? i think i heard he was investigated for that.

[1corona4u]

63. Stupid fucker.

[Douglas Carpenter]

66. typical

:eyes: