After Kathy Griffin made such an, achem, splash on CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper, we started imagining other possible straight-laced-host-meets-wacky-celebrity pairings, all of which would surely spike ratings. Because as the saying goes: opposites attract audiences. CONTINUED »
Some genius over at an online publication called Pajamas TV has figured out a way to get Joe the Plumber out of the nation's hair for a couple weeks, and give him a little world perspective. Congratulations Joe, you're going to sunny, beautiful Israel! CONTINUED »
As my father says, "Some people just got it." While the rest of us are thrashing violently to keep our heads above water heading into '09, others are strutting and whistling across this year's finish line.
Here are the winners of 2008, in no particular order.
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(Interview starts :50) So while Joe the Plumber was making his post 15-minute rounds on Glenn Beck's radio program today, professor/former radical/Republican Trojan horse Bill Ayers (remember him?!), made his second major television appearance last night on Hardball to discuss the accusations made against him during the McCain campaign.
What did the former Weatherman think about years his years of genuine, if misguided, activism being used as ammunition by the Right?
He was sort of "meh" about it actually. Maybe because the old guy doesn't watch a lot of TV in his compound totally normal home.
"I don't tend to watch television news…I have three grown sons who kind of filter those things and they sent it to me."
Oh, and then he says he found Palin's statements to be "profoundly dishonest," and goes off in a 10 minute talk with Chris about Vietnam. So what's more interesting/boring to watch? A professor talk intelligently about politics or a would-be plumber talk about God and Hillary Clinton?
Right: and that's exactly why Joe Wurzelbacher keeps getting work after Nov. 5th and Bill Ayers will be happy to fade back into obscurity.
Ugh, Glenn Beck. More like Glenn Blech, am I right you guys? The CNN/soon to be Fox News host had a little guy named Joe the Plumber on his radio show today (which makes way more money than he'd ever ink at Fox, btw, and which he might be forced to give up like Bill O'Reilly did once he takes his rightful position amongst Roger Ailes minions). What was the topic of conversation? Hillary Clinton, naturally. And God. And how Hillary Clinton is playing God by trying to hold two offices in two different branches of government, what with her being Senator and Secretary of State.
Except, whoops, that's not what Hillary Clinton is doing at all. But don't let a pesky detail like that get in the way of Beck's bloated rage and the yes-manning of a guy who wasn't even qualified to get his plumbing license. Blech, indeed.
Transcript, after the jump.
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It's sad that at a time when Senator John McCain is doing the admirable thing and going back to his public duties, the tattered remnants of his campaign just can't seem to fade away.
Last week it was the whole Sarah Palin/Martin Eisendstadt hoax, then it was whether or not GOP apologist Joe Lieberman would be able to keep his place in the senate, and now we're into the real meat of the issue: what's going to happen to Joe the Plumber??
Don't worry guys, he's got it covered. Just like we originally guesstimated, Joe is getting his own book deal.
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So the same guy who sold us on the old "Joe the Plumber making out with Kristin Wiig scam" apparently got Fox News and the rest of the country believing his story about Sarah Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent and not a country. Paging Harry Shearer. CONTINUED »
It's been making the rounds today that Joe Wurzelbacher a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, was seen "canoodling" with Kristin Wiig at the SNL afterparty this weekend. (Gosh aren't you sad you weren't invited? What a party that must have been.) But! The guy who started this whole snowball was "McCain strategist" Martin Eisenstadt, also known as Mike Eisenstadt, also known as a prankster and hoax-perpetrator who was the first guy who purportedly linked Wurzelbacher to the Keating Five scandal.
But even Slate picked up the story about Joe and Kristin! You would think that someone on the Internet would check out this guy's credentials before repeating the story. But apparently there is a real Mike Eisenstadt, who works for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and has nothing to do with the trickster who has been posing as him online.
Either way, lets hold off our eulogies of Wiig's dignity until there is further evidence that this isn't just some big (weird) joke.
So a funny thing happened on the way to the SNL afterparty this weekend: Martin Eisenstadt, founder of the Eisenstadt Group political consulting firm and fanboy of Joe the Plumber, provided a detailed account of what went on after John McCain's cameo on NBC Saturday. On his blog. Because CONTINUED »
Joe the Plumber (ugh) is not signing on to do a country record deal, meaning the world will have to be bereft of his beautiful voice echoing off the walls of the Met and that chrome head of his.
Whatever, he has something better for you, America. Just because Sam "Joe" Wurzelbacher can't sing, doesn't mean he is totally without artistic merit. Just ask the guy who is going to end up ghostwriting his memoirs!
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Threatening to box Barack Obama wasn't enough to prove Stephen Baldwin the craziest in his nut-job family, so now he's coming after the other team.
After Palin's comments on SNL this week that Stephen was her favorite Baldwin, the bass-mouthed brother took to the TV circuit, claiming he would beat down Joe the Plumber for a chance to become the next GOP mascot, "After Joe the Plumber and all the hype he’s getting, it’s making me think that to be the number one Republican kind of poster boy, I have to challenge Joe the Plumber to a UFC Smackdown.”
Stephen also gushed to Extra his love for the VP candidate. He "thinks she’s [Palin] fantastic and more qualified to potentially be V.P. than another individual; maybe to be president.”
Let's repeat that: Stephen Baldwin thinks Sarah Palin would be a good president. Good job Alec, you just got replaced for the top fanatical Kool-Aid sippin' Baldwin brother.
Roto-Rooter is no longer just that number your mom has on speed-dial: the plumbing and drain-cleaning service was "in talks" to get Joe Wurzelbacher a.k.a. Joe the Plumber as a spokesperson by offering to pay for whatever school or training he needed to get his plumber's certificate.
But now that it's almost a week after the last debate, Roto-Rooter rescinded their offer, not because of a money issue, but because "it was already piling up the media impressions without even trying." Read as: Without having to pay Joe a dime, the plumbing company was making good off of his name by the mere association of Wurzelbacher's occupation and their company:
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Haha, this debate. This debate was so out of left field. Like, who knew to put Joe the Plumber down in their debate bingo square instead of maverick? If you for some reason had decided to take a drink every time Obama and McCain referenced their imaginary friend, you'd be dead. Dead of alcohol poisoning.
Who saw Bob Scheiffer being so in the bag for Obama? It was all over with the VP question, right? Look at McCain's reaction when he had to talk about why Sarah Palin would be a better president than Joe Biden:
