joe the plumber

Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher was a late addition to the speaker lineup at the How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St. Louis, but I don’t know what the attendees would have done without him. After his short Friday night dinner speech, Wurzelbacher was given a golden wrench and a golden plunger [...]

Hulk Hogan, who’s become a spokesman for the decidedly too-good-to-be-true sounding GuaranteedLowerPropertyTax.com, appeared at the Aug. 22 Orlando Tea Party to tell protesters that he was “in the same boat” as them, and that they could fight the government by signing up at his Website. His pitch from the site:
My whole life I have been [...]

More than 600 conservatives attended the second annual Americans for Prosperity weekend conference, bringing activists together and supplying them with tools and talking points.

PITTSBURGH – Somebody got to Joe Wurzelbacher. In a short speech to the RightOnline conference, the man formerly and forever known as “Joe the Plumber” (whose famous confrontation with Barack Obama is coming up on its one-year anniversary) dodged the angry or homophobic gaffes that have dominated coverage of some of his political speeches. “I [...]

Joe Wurzelbacher, who lives in northwestern Ohio, is the marquee talent for the 16th annual “Funniest Celebrity in Washington” contest. From the press release:

Show producer Richard Siegel today updated the sure-to-be-hilarious lineup, featuring some of the biggest names to ever participate in the show.  Political commentator Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, veteran contestant Grover Norquist (President, [...]

Jamie Kirchick interviews the incredibly resilient Republican pundit/daughter of the 2008 presidential candidate, who takes a swing at Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher.
Shortly before McCain sat for this interview, Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, gave an interview to Christianity Today in which he complained about “queers” and declared, “I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my [...]

Remember when Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher reported on the stimulus package for the semi-obscure Web video site PajamasTV and was denied access to parts of the Capitol? He wasn’t happy about that:
Unfortunately I was explained to that (sic) right now PJTV.com is considered more opinionated than hard news. And that kind of put me [...]

I’m pretty sure he’s hinted at this before, but Time magazine gets the, uh, scoop:
Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, tells TIME he’s so outraged by GOP overspending, he’s quitting the party — and he’s the bull’s-eye of its target audience.
Wurzelbacher has become a spokesman for a pro-Fair Tax (replacing the income tax [...]

Roger L. Simon of Pajamas Media and PJTV reacts to Samuel Wurzelbacher’s Christianity Today interview:
It should go without saying that this view in no way reflects the views of Pajamas Media or Pajamas TV. Speaking personally, as a very public supporter of gay marriage, I couldn’t disagree more with Mr. Wurzelbacher’s position on this matter.
But [...]

John Hawkins wins the Internet:
When I was in college, I studied Southern Long Fist Kung Fu for more than a year and my teacher told me something that I never forgot.
I’d like to think that the F. Scott Fitzgerald rip is intentional. Sadly, the rest of the column is a call for conservative bloggers to [...]