<videovortex> Joe the Plumber on YouTube

[Geert Lovink]

> From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner,	as average
> 	American?
> To: LBO Talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>
> About this new "Joe the Plumber" crap:
>
> I'm very interested in the specific details of a) whether Joe the  
> Plumber works "10 to 12 hours per day [sic]," b) as "a plumber," and  
> c) because of this, in the current economy, can buy a business worth  
> OVER a quarter of a million dollars.
> I mean, stranger things have happened. Palin has a shot at being VP,  
> for ex. McCain congratulated the man on TV during the debate for  
> being rich. If he is rich, and is a plumber, then he is not "Joe  
> Sixpack," but a rich guy, and not your typical American, and in an  
> odd occupation to be that wealthy, at that.
> Joe was tracked down by Katie Couric here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umw_4sGMrr0
> Seems basically like a Freeper or someone who already has decided  
> for McCain, facts be damned, lots of willful ignorance, insisting he  
> can't tell where Obama stands even on things Obama has clearly  
> delineated.
>
> -B.