"Joe" the "Plumber" attracts 11 to book-signing. Sells 5 books.

[Bluebear]

Joe the Plumber (no longer a plumber; first name actually Samuel) popped into our town yesterday evening to sell his new book and to remind people that he's still a plain and simple guy. Mission accomplished, on at least one of his missions.

About 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement of a downtown Border's bookstore to hear Joe speak. Joe addressed them from behind a lectern and with a microphone, but that seemed unnecessarily formal...

It's fair to say Joe's appearance at Borders at 18th and L streets wasn't eagerly anticipated. People just kind of shuffled over when Joe strode in with Thomas N. Tabback, the co-author of "Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream." Annie Hickman, a young woman whom Wurzelbacher called "sweetie" during a brief Q&A, was browsing when the PA announced that Joe was in the house. "I'm missing pottery class for this," she said.

Lawyer Alana Hecht was curious. "I was upstairs reading 'Dreams From My Father,' " Obama's memoir. "It's just fate. Who could leave when this is happening?" She and Hickman laughed.....

Joe replied that he believes "our American heritage is being torn apart" by flag burners, critics of the military, and those who mock Christian values. He expressed his admiration for patriotic immigrants, and said he dislikes terms like African American and Asian American ("We're all Americans," he said). For some reason, he concluded by saying, "America has always been a kick-butt, take-names kind of country."

Wurzelbacher was scheduled to speak and sign books for three hours, but the Joe Show was over in 55 minutes. Total copies of "Joe the Plumber" sold: five.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022600005.html

[babylonsister]

1. Bwhahaha! Feel the love, Joe. nt

[monmouth]

64. The irony here is that if it weren't for President-Elect (at the time) Obama,

no one would have noticed this doofus...In the word of Tweety...HA!

[YOY]

2. "America has always been a kick-butt, take-names kind of country."

About 100 days past his 15 minutes...

[SmileyRose]

11. Yeah but he didn't expect to be on the receiving end of that proposition.

LOL

[Aristus]

41. That sounds like what the Pledge of Allegiance might sound like in "Idiocracy".

B-)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. i hope he wasn't given too much up front

i mean...what the heck does he have to write about???

sP

[YDogg]

4. pretty good sales ratio, actually.

[Junkdrawer]

5. Well, I know what Richard Mellon-Scaife will be mulching his roses...

with this spring.

[blm]

29. bags full of Joe-mentum....

.

[Junkdrawer]

32. Sales Rank: 68,479....Looks like even Dick Scaife is steering clear of this train wreck...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Joe-the-Plumber/Samuel-Wurzelbacher/e/9780976974031

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

34. And #166,449 on Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Plumber-Fighting-American-Dream/dp/0976974037/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235687492&sr=8-1

:rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

39. My favorite 5-star review (at bn.com)....

Posted February 21, 2009, 2:55 AM EST: I am so tired of these liberal terrorists who want to take my money and give it to black people. And that is why I am glad that there are people like Joe. Real Americans who don't need education at fancy schools, who don't need a license to perform their trade, who don't even need to be named Joseph to call themselves Joe. America has been taken over by socialists, and it is time to take America back. It would be a very different place if Joe were in charge. A real country with real people who don't hate America and instead just hate liberals. No one would ever need credentials. The only thing that would matter is how much you hate liberals. You could pontificate about Israel without knowing anything about the middle east, or history or politics, or all the lies that those liberal academics tell you in school, so that you can just be a patsy and blindly swallow all the nonsense that the liberal media feeds you. If you can read beyond a second grade level, you can probably handle this book, and you should. Because you will learn what being a real American is all about.

[Bluebear]

46. Poor conservatives. Always somebody who wants to take their money.

And give it to black people. "Real" Americans proud of being uneducated.

The review you found demonstrates the average GOP voter beautifully.

[Junkdrawer]

50. Read it again.....

It may have been written by Steven Colbert....

[Bluebear]

58. :nodding:

It's so hard to tell satire anymore!

[Junkdrawer]

61. I missed the first scan too. You have to get to the middle of the third sentence....

before the author's intent becomes clear...

:hi:

[MrCoffee]

55. Brilliant.

[Aristus]

71. Tell you what I want: to visit a "doctor" with no credentials, to be pulled over by a "cop"

with no credentials, to have my children "taught" by teachers with no credentials, to have my house designed by an architect with no credentials.

Pesky qualifications...




:sarcasm:

[PA Democrat]

99. LOL. "Fess up DU. Who wrote this gem?

[Dollface]

111. You made that up, right?

[54anickel]

109. Rapidly climbing - now at 86,904. 192 pages of ignorance and bigotry...unbelievable.

Loved this 5 star review by Patriotic American...

51 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

I was startled and deeply impressed by the honesty and forthrightness with which Mr. Wurzelbacher dealt with his personal, human foibles: his failure to pay taxes, his dependence on welfare, the breakup of his marriage, and why he lied to Barack Obama about his income and his intention to buy a business. What a brave, selfless man.

Hahahahaha, just kidding! Not-Joe the not-a-Plumber is the perfect symbol of today's Republican party -- attention-starved, intellectually bankrupt, pathologically dishonest, blatantly hypocritical, inexplicably proud of his ignorance and bigotry, and utterly unconcerned with the well-being of his fellow Americans and the welfare of his country.

I predict this book will become a camp classic.

[rvablue]

38. Yep....it'll be on the NYT list with a little cross after it. I think the Times

needs to change the annotation of that symbol.

Right now it indicates bulk sales, as I'm sure you already know.

But I think it should be changed to: boxes upon boxes of these books were delivered to Richard Mellon-Scaiffe's house.

[Bluebear]

81. Perfect.

Should be a new category!

[malaise]

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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[AlCzervik]

6. That's the free market at work.

[tanyev]

7. And he's one of the party's top draws right now.

:rofl:

[tblue37]

117. Sarah Palin; Joe the Plumber; Bobby Jindal; Michael Steele.

THESE are the fresh new faces of today's Republican Party.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!

[Happyhippychick]

8. "Shiny bullet head"

:rofl:

[marmar]

9. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:


Look at the idiot sitting there, looking pathetic. I wonder how the dumbass signed his name. How about "BIG LOSER" ?

[WI_DEM]

10. Why is this buffoon still in the news?

[Bluebear]

12. Because he is one of the GOP's top attractions!

And if that ain't pathetic!

[nichomachus]

18. Oh yeah

You got your Joe the Plumber

You got your Sarah the Witch Hunter who can see Russia from her house

You got Bobby the Exorcist who doesn't care if people die from volcanos

You've got an old man -- who came awfully close to being president -- wandering around shouting at pigeons.

You've a drug-addicted lard-arse buffoon who is the head of the party.

Damn -- with a gang like this, we don't even need dope. You couldn't create a hallucination like the GOP no matter what drug you took.

[bulloney]

96. Jindal doesn't like competition from volcanoes. Takes away clients from his exorcising doncha know?

[politicasista]

25. Yep. They are that desperate

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

79. .

[Left Coast2020]

88. Because he's a realitive of Sarah Palin.

[nichomachus]

13. So, it took him 55 minutes to sign his name five times? Figures.

Not really at the head of the class.

[Jamastiene]

66. I know. How long does it take for that guy to write an "X?"

I wonder.

[Mz Pip]

14. Flag burners???

When was the last time there was a rash of flag burning in our country? :wtf: Even around here in the radical communist loving SF Bay Area. :sarcasm:

I wish someone would have asked him when the last time he saw or heard of any flag burning going on anywhere in this country.

[nichomachus]

21. A rash of flag burners?

When was the last time there was even one? Unless the librul media is keeping it from us.

[Journeyman]

51. "if you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it." . . .

- Norman Thomas

[nichomachus]

75. The funny thing is that

most people who burn the flag don't really burn a flag. They burn something that is made to vaguely resemble a flag.

This is why anti flag-burning laws are so stupid. All you have to do is create a replica that looks something like a flag, but has only 11 stripes and 35 stars. That's enough to make your point and piss off the fascists, but wouldn't sustain any kind of a conviction, since you didn't actually burn a flag.

It's like burning en effigy of a flag -- and like burning an effigy of a person. If you burn an effigy of a person, you can't really be charged with murder.

[tblue37]

118. We can't have people dissing the flag now, can we?

[Hello_Kitty]

15. 18th and L St? DC??!?

I'm surprised he wasn't tossed out on his unlicensed tax evading keister.

[mod mom]

16. Keith and Rachel are going to have a field day with this!

[TWiley]

17. go home joe, go hooome

[MADem]

24. Yep, that's pretty much my reaction, too!

Don't go away mad, Joe, just go away.

[Z_I_Peevey]

19. You'd think a gen-yoo-wine war correspondent would have

done a little better. Pity.

[SmileyRose]

20. Republican strategists must REALLY suck these days.

How freakin hard is it to roust up a room full of people to kick off a book tour? Geesh the GOP is getting more pathetic by the day.

[Roy]

84. They just write the drivel....

and sit back and wait for the Scaifes and other RW promoters to do the bulk buying to create the illusion that the book is a serious work.

They just forgot that the economic mess Bush created, is causing the RW fat cats to hold on to those millions.

After all their access to the public trough has been severely limited.

They won't risk putting themselves in a position to have to actually EARN a living.

[SmileyRose]

87. Your sig line

Wasn't it Abe Lincoln who said he didn't lie because he was too stupid to remember everything he said?

[Happyhippychick]

22. Total in audience: 11 Total books sold: 5 Total minutes of fame left: 0

[DavidDvorkin]

23. That happens to very successful writers, too

Or even worse. Book signings are a crap shoot.

[Bluebear]

26. OK then!

:hi:

[Initech]

27. Hey Joe... I heard you shot your lady down...

:nopity:

[hamsterjill]

28. Most were probably his relatives!

This guy is pathetic. Please, Joe - stop making a fool of yourself.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

30. Reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5FwzRBc_Y

[Starry Messenger]

31. I can't believe that 5 people who read showed up.

Maybe there are funny pictures in there.

[Vinca]

33. They were probably faking it - the books are probably on ebay by now. nt

[bulloney]

97. Coulter was signing books in a motel bathroom. I thought I saw Joe's books in the TP dispenser.

[newtothegame]

35. What exactly did this guy do? I know he asked a question. Is that why people are all riled up? n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

36. Hahahaha

Hahahahahahah

hahahahahahaha



haaaaaaaahahahahahaha




ha hahah .... hahahahahaaaaaaaa

[City Lights]

37. That's 11 too many.

Was Sammy Joe ever *really* a plumber? Ever since he questioned then Senator Obama on the street he's been billed as a plumber, however, he never seemed to do any plumbing. He was always on the campaign trail, or appearing on some television or radio show.

[MUAD_DIB]

56. He was an unlicensed plumber.

I have no Idea if he ever went to trade school for it.

[bertman]

73. He wasn't even an "unlicensed" plumber. He was a plumber in training. A wannabe plumber.

[City Lights]

80. Ah...just as I suspected...Sammy Joe was an unemployed liar. nt

[TwilightGardener]

40. How could you not want to read more of Joe's wisdom after hearing

the "kick-butt, take-names" comment? It's clear the man is an oracle.

[Kahuna]

42. Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,449 in Books

:rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

47. This book is so bad and is selling so few copies that signed copies could be collectors items....

Probably not, but....

[ColbertWatcher]

43. Did CSPAN cover this? Will it air on Book TV? (Can't wait to see it) n/t

[tjwash]

44. The most important thing...were there enough porta-potties?

nt

[Johonny]

45. I wonder if he's read his own book yet?

[underpants]

85. My own what?

oh book ..yeah I heard about that once

[Brother Buzz]

115. DUzy material

:thumbsup:

[Withywindle]

48. Wow.

I've seen teenage poets selling Xeroxed chapbooks that did WAY better than that. At least they have friends, I guess.

[Bjorn Against]

49. Those five people will return their books once they discover there are no pictures.

[KansDem]

Yeah, but the joke's on them!

The bookstore won't take them back because Joe's already scribbled in them!

[H2O Man]

52. Wow.

Doubled the book's total sales in one sitting. Very impressive.

[damntexdem]

53. Hey, Joe, give up your pipedream.

Ah, forget it. He'll likely continue plumbing the depths.

[HooptieWagon]

54. There's 5 republicans who can read?

Wow, I'm impressed....

[struggle4progress]

59. Probably a drunk Penn State alum who thought "Joe duh" was "Joe puh,"

a confused would-be home handy-man seeking plumbing advice, and several people who thought they should buy his book, whoever he was, because he was nice enough to come talk to them

[bulloney]

98. What's the title of his book? War Corresponding by Dummies?

[struggle4progress]

57. Joe the Plumber at CPAC (MSNBC)

... Wurzelbacher .. was critical of current GOP leadership. "Personally, I don't see anybody as far as a leader in the Republican Party right now. They're afraid to say anything, they are more worried about being politically correct and their special interest groups. They are not worried about the American people. No way, no shape do I ever hear anything about that. They talk a good game, but I see no action." http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/02/26/1812082.aspx


WONKETTE ON THE BEAT
Live From CPAC: Not Even Conservatives Want To See Joe the Plumber
... Joe-the-Plumber spoke to 1/4 full room. It was pathetic. I got video of how fucking empty the room was. I tried to make an echo off the walls but I got yelled at. Video to come ... Joe-the-Plumber spoke to 1/4 full room. It was pathetic. I got video of how fucking empty the room was. I tried to make an echo off the walls but I got yelled at. Video to come.

[mitchum]

60. What a fucking redneck

[Dollface]

112. That is an insult to rednecks

[Warren DeMontague]

62. It is a measure of how tone-deaf the Republican Party has become- they continue pushing this guy.

It's like insisting that Carrot Top is funny.

[catgirl]

63. This is as funny as the Chick-Fil-A Mascot attack

I was still laughing over that video when I saw this post!!! He he he he he he he he!!!!

[progressoid]

65. Funniest thing I've seen all day!

Error: You've already recommended that thread.

[noiretextatique]

67. hey samuel: kiss my african-american

backside. your 15 minutes were over a while back...now git :dunce:

[Mr. Sparkle]

68. I thought he was supposed to be in touch with the common man! lol

[nichomachus]

74. He is -- he just forgot that the "common man" he's in touch with can't read

[EraOfResponsibility]

89. ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TankLV]

107. But you can be arrested for "touching" down there in public...

that's what repukes used Airport Toilets for I thought...

[underseasurveyor]

69. The only thing I could think of to add

:spray:

:rofl:

[Urban Prairie]

70. Tags for his book on Amazon:

american idiot (33)
go away (29)
waste of time (27)
white trash tax cheat (25)
no (12)
omg (10)
epic fail (6)
fourteen minutes fifty nine seconds (2)
fraud (2)
loser (2)
anti welfare welfare recipients (1)
attacked by the media (1)
bald head empty skull (1)
camp classic (1)
capitalism (1)
cheetohaus five (1)
conservative failure (1)
conservative gasbag (1)
conservative thought (1)
discredited phony (1)
does not play well with facts (1)
dog vomit (1)
embarrassing (1)
faith (1)
fake plumber (1)
hack (1)
has difficulty with facts (1)
he is a bad person (1)
how stupid does he think we are (1)
i pitty the foo (1)
illogical (1)
jeff gannon stunt double (1)
joe the plunger (1)
joke (1)
just asking a question (1)
keeping america stupid (1)
liar (1)
me lyke boosh (1)
mister clean (1)
moron (1)
morons (1)
neocon garbage (1)
not joe the not plumber (1)
phonics for white trash (1)
pig vomit (1)
plant (1)
pretend business owner (1)
reading for idiots (1)
republican faux pas (1)
republicans last ditch effort after sara... (1)
reuse as toilet paper (1)
stupidity for dummies (1)
tax cheat (1)
tax lien (1)
total retard (1)
uneducated (1)
wingnut welfare (1)
worst plant ever (1)
you're not serious are you (1)

:rofl:

[Junkdrawer]

72. "jeff gannon stunt double" is my fav...

:rofl:

[acmavm]

114. That's a classic.

[Initech]

76. I like how "white trash tax cheat" has more tags than "youre not serious are you?".

:rofl:

[Bluebear]

77. 'jeff gannon stunt double'

:spray:

[Liberal_in_LA]

86. 'stupidity for dummies'. lol.

[Control-Z]

78. WooHoo

Go Joe, go.

[Liberal_in_LA]

82. I wandered into bookstore and stay Michael Reagan (Prez Reagan's rightwing son) sitting alone

by his pile of books.

[mindwalker_i]

83. Does it come with a free plunger?

Shit! I missed it.

[TankLV]

108. I think just "shit" would suffice for this "plumber"...

[Skip Intro]

90. Aw, say it ain't so, Joe.

[Bluebear]

91. :))

[Raine]

92. Five????

That many?!? Five idiots paid for that, they're probably too dumb to read it though. :silly:

[Norrin Radd]

93. Of course, Hoarders hosted him.

[Warren DeMontague]

94. That's barely enough book sales to pay for one jar of turtle wax

for Dude's knobby fucking head.

[barbtries]

95. the only reason i can't crow over it

is because the same sad lackluster response was dealt to an IVAW vet recently. sorry no time to find the thread, gotta git to work while i can. :(

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

100. Same old Mock-Neck t-shirt I see.

I have to admit it though, I would love to know the outcome of each and everyone of his book tour dates/locations. I love a good train wreck.

[benld74]

101. WHERE DOES HIS INCOME COME FROM? He's not a plumber, reporter, book writer,,,,

[conspirator]

116. welfare nt

[EnviroBat]

102. Joe The Helmet...

Now there's a real Amurikun... EPIC FAIL!

:rofl:

[prostock69]

103. Joe has a book? I didn't know! lol. Seriously! n/t

[Dukkha]

104. I saw stacks of the "Purpose Driven Life" for $3 at Half Price Books

They will be getting company soon next to them. A stack of $1.00 books written by and for meat head nobodies

and serves you right Borders! You are a joke of a book store!

[2feeedle2]

105. welcome to the new face of the Republican Party. They are in worse....

shape than I thought

[robinlynne]

106. na na na na na!

[montanto]

110. I can't be the only one here thinking

what a disappointment this is, and must be for Joe too. We all had such high hopes. I hope his publisher isn't kicking himself for paying for this and thinking about firing Joe or something like that. Talk about fucking up a guy's American Dream. Sheesh. I bet Joe could use a really big hug right now and a cup of cocoa. Or he might be thinking that America kicked his butt and took his name, I don't know. Well, anyway, "Mission Accomplished" Joe, I'm here for ya!

[acmavm]

113. The guy's such a mental lightweight he won't get the message

that no one cares.

[anselwb]

119. See it in theaters next summer!

I can only hope movie producers are taking a hint from this reality check. Nobody ever really cared about Shmoe the Plumber, and i don't feel sorry for him. He was nothing more than a political tool used by John McCain, and he got to thinking he was hot stuff.

[liberal1973]

120. HaHaHa

I saw the video on Countdown last night. When I watched the video, I thought of Friday the 13th's Jason Vorhees without the mask. :wow:

"The guy's such a mental lightweight-" Yeah but, in right winr circles that's a god. :fistbump: