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Joe the Plumber Hits at Media

According to the AP, Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher is not a happy camper. The Holland, Ohio, pipesmith, was thrust into the national spotlight by GOP Presidential nominee John McCain during Wednesday's final presidential debate, and has been at the center of a media forest fire ever since.

From the AP report:
"The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes, they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America," Wurzelbacher told the former Republican presidential hopeful on his show, "Huckabee."

Wurzelbacher said he felt terrible after reading some of the criticism of himself posted online.

"I felt about that small," he said. "I mean I really did."

..."You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary," he said.
Here's what I have to say to that: Boo frickin' hoo. Joe the Plumber is a whiner. Sure, he didn't ask for the spotlight, but he's happy to use it when it suits him. When it doesn't, he blames "the media," instead of John McCain, the candidate who is exploiting Joe for all he's worth.

He isn't complaining about getting the chance to call Barack Obama a "socialist" whenever he gets the chance, or to bitch about taxes he doesn't even have to pay, but when a reporter notices the very relevant fact that he doesn't pay his taxes, the waterworks start.

He says it's scary when you can't ask a question. I thought he did ask his question, and Obama graciously answered his nonsensical query about "future Joe's" taxes for about 10 minutes, and Joe compared him to Sammy Davis, Jr., for his troubles.

You can't have it both ways, Joe. You can't step in front of every camera that will have you, then complain about your privacy. You can't bitch about taxes you might be asked to pay in the future, and not pay the ones you have now.

Here's some more of Joe having his "life ripped apart."



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Let me also say this: Through no fault of his own, but rather John Sidney McCain's, Joe the Plumber has been pushed as the archetypal American working guy, and that also bugs me. My dad was a carpenter, I come from a long line of working-class people, and my family has always believed in taking responsibility, doing your fair share. When did that archetype become the whiny guy who always says, "What about me?"

My dad was no saint, and he wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in front of a TV camera without breaking their "bleep" machine, but you'd never catch him complaining about paying $1500.00 tax on $300,000.00. That's a complaint he'd have been happy to keep to himself.

So, there you go, Joe. As they say in court, "Asked and answered." Move on.

Tommy Christopher

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