{"id":1783,"date":"2010-06-17T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2010-07-04T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T20:07:28","slug":"joe-the-plumber-living-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Joe The Plumber: Living In The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would take something uncommonly funny to resurrect any interest in the sublimely irrelevant Joe “The Plumber”<\/i> Wurzelbacher. And wouldn’t you know it, Joe obliges<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity because I never want to be accused to stealing their material.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does he think he is, a stand-up comic? Is he really worried that he might hear one of his ideological allies pop out an anti-liberal gem and then he’d absentmindedly pass it off as one of his own (as if he’s ever had an original thought)? Someone needs to explain to him how the vast [fill-in-the-blank]<\/i>-wing conspiracy works. You’re supposed to promote shared ideas and commonly held views.<\/p>\n

It’s probably for the best that he isn’t listening to Limbaugh, Beck, and Hannity. That would be a healthy prescription for anyone, even a delusional moron who has far exceeded his allotted fifteen minutes. But you have to admire Joey the P’s persistence in grasping for a shred of limelight. Especially his work ethic. He doesn’t just show up at a Tea Party and start shouting at imaginary socialists.<\/p>\n

“I come up with my own facts. Usually, they\u2019re from 40-year-old encyclopedias. I don\u2019t look at the new stuff because the new stuff\u2019s been rewritten. But you take an encyclopedia written 40 years ago and you take a new one today, and you\u2019ll find a world of difference.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly! That’s why old Joe still thinks we have to defend ourselves against the Soviet Union. It’s why he refuses to fall for that nonsense about a moon landing. And he can’t wait to buy the next ABBA 8-track. Although he remains confused about why so many people are talking about the B-movie actor who became governor of California.<\/p>\n

I would go Joe one better and refuse to read any encyclopedia printed after Gutenberg. Everyone knows that by turning the press into a mass medium it fundamentally transformed it into a progressive propaganda machine. News and information should only be available to the wealthy and powerful, as God intended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would take something uncommonly funny to resurrect any interest in the sublimely irrelevant Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher. And wouldn’t you know it, Joe obliges: “I don\u2019t listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity because I never want to be accused to stealing their material.” What does he think he is, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-joe-the-plumber"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-sL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1557,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1557","url_meta":{"origin":1783,"position":0},"title":"The Right’s Top 25 Journalists?","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/11\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Tunku Varadarajan, national affairs correspondent for The Daily Beast, has compiled a list of what he and 50 academics, politicians, and journalists, consider to be the top 25 right-wing journalists in America. 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