One of the few at Joe "the Plumber's" book signing quizzed him about racism....too funny

[marmar]

:rofl: I would have paid big $$$ to see that....



via AlterNet's PEEK:




Poor Joe the Plumber Looks Lonely at His Own Book Signing

Posted by Melissa McEwan, Shakesville at 10:15 AM on February 27, 2009.

Never have I longed to be in DC so much as reading about this splendid event.



Joe the Multi-Faceted Hat-Wearer puts on his "Writin' Hat" to sign autographs last night at a Borders in DC, where "about 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement" who he addressed "from behind a lectern and with a microphone … that seemed unnecessarily formal."

Never have I longed to be in DC so much as reading about this splendid event:

The only heat generated by Joe's appearance last night came when a young man named Jabari Zakiya recounted great moments in American racism (slavery, annihilation of Native Americans, segregation, etc.) and asked Wurzelbacher if the "hegemony" of the white man in America is "doomed" now that five states and the District of Columbia have majority minority populations.

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."

Wow.

The event was scheduled to last three hours, but ended after 55 minutes, with Joe having sold a total of five books.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/129297/poor_joe_the_plumber_looks_lonely_at_his_own_book_signing/

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Buck-A-Book won't even be able to unload his masterpiece.

Five were sold?

Guess there was no one-per-customer limit.

:rofl:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Isn't it about time for World-Nut Daily to step in and offer this book.....

......(and a Penis Enlargement cream) for free with the purchase of a subscription?....so they can claim his book is a winner in the free market of ideas.

[Ferret Annica]

2. Pity the poor trees cut down that would up...

... being made into paper only to be printed up with a book about a legend in his and McCain's own minds. **shudder***

[tanyev]

4. Joe had to go to the dictionary section and look up hegemony before he could answer.

[Johnyawl]

5. Flag burners? FLAG BURNERS??!!

Who's been burning flags recently? Have the fucking conservatives abandoned all pretense of living in the present?

[scarletwoman]

7. It's amazing isn't it? I get the feeling that conservatives are all suffering from PTSD

brought on by the 60s. They've all got tape loops of resentment running through their heads over and over and over and over...

:hippie:
sw

[Ioo]

6. The time, 14 Mins 58 Secs... Joe, want to use this last 2 secs of fame to say something?

Ummm...

[Berry Cool]

8. Joe wants to go back to those halcyon days of America,

where if anyone said anything he disagreed with, they were shot.

There WERE those halcyon days in America, weren't there? I mean, we've always been a kick-butt-and-take-names country, right? A country of jackbooted thugs?

I mean, that's why the Founding Fathers came here, right? They wanted to escape the peaceful, live-and-let-live societies they lived in that had become an annoyance to them because they were required to "tolerate" and "accommodate" everyone else, and they wanted to live in a place where it was their way or the highway, right? :shrug:

Well, gee. That's what it said in the textbook Joe got in his history class. You're gonna tell him it's wrong?