Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbercher’s finally decided to give an interview to Fox News and he talks about how “a vote for Obama is a vote for the Death of Israel” and no doubt millions of Jews. When questioned why, he says you don’t wanna hear it from him (because the facts are scary) and that he encourages everyone to ‘go out there and look for the information.’ Repeatedly. In a display of good journalistic behaviour typically alien to Fox News, Shep Smith takes none of his shit and grills him on exactly what the hell he means by that.
Cue righteous indignation from every idiot Republican who watched the video.
Good question. At the Palin rally in Northern VA on Monday, they had “Sam the Builder” or some such - so you can see they are expanding the metaphor!
(I saw a guy in a yellow hard hat and orange construction vest right by the stage in a photo a co-worker showed me. When I asked what was going on, that’s what he told me).
Why would “Joe the Plumber” care about the Jews or Israel? Israel has a history of taking care of itself against its aggressive neighbours (it helps to have a large arsenal of nukes).
He only cares because the McCain campaign told him to care. It’s to get all those old Floridian Jews to come out and vote for the Republicans. They wanna get their numbers up so what better way to do it than to scare the shit out of old people?
“We did not write this letter to scare you,” the Republican Party of Pennsylvania assures 75,000 in-state Jewish voters in an e-mail sent out Oct. 23. But “in the 5,769 years of our people, there has never been a more important time for us to take pro-active measures in order to stop a second Holocaust.”
Does Joe the Plumber mention that 2 of the 3 signatories have disavowed the letter? or that the GOP strategist who created it has been fired?
Also, why the fuck would anyone care what Joe the Plumber says about foreign policy? Isn’t he the symbol of how Obama’s tax policy would keep him from making more that $250,000/year? This is some bad messaging.
On behalf of the West Coast liberal Jews, let me just say:
Joe The Plumber, shut the fuck up, you meshugenah putz. We will take care of ourselves, after raising our Manischewitz wine in salute to President Obama.
Joe the Plumber is probably one of the 20% or so of Americans who believe the end times are at hand, and Revelation says that the Jews must have their own nation for the end times to commence. Of course evangelical Christians don’t care about the Jews: they support Israel in the hopes that Jesus will return in their lifetimes, whisk them away to Heaven, and brutally torture and slaughter the unbelievers.
He’s not a dumbass, he’s an oppurtunist. The odds of outdoing his income owning his own plumbing business by being an icon of the right are pretty high. Who cares about a tax hike for the folks making over 250K if you’re now making a few mil? He’s doing no more and no less damage than all the other folks who will say whatever it takes to make a buck.
