Posted on 12/07/2008 2:15:28 PM PST by gridlock
The unlicensed pipe fitter known as Joe the Plumber is out with a book this month, just as the last seconds on his 15 minutes are slipping away. I have a question for Joe: Do you want me to fix your leaky toilet?
I didn’t think so.
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With a résumé full of failure, he now thinks he can join the profession of Mark Twain, George Orwell and Joan Didion.
Next up may be Sarah Palin, who is said to be worth nearly $7 million if she can place her thoughts between covers. Publishers: with all the grim news of layoffs and staff cuts at the venerable houses of American letters, can we set some ground rules for these hard times? Anyone who abuses the English language on such a regular basis should not be paid to put words in print.
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Our next president is a writer, which may do something to elevate standards in the book industry. The last time a true writer occupied the White House was a hundred years ago, with Teddy Roosevelt, who wrote 13 books before his 40th birthday.
Barack Obama’s first book, the memoir of a mixed-race man, is terrific. Outside of a few speeches, he will probably not write anything memorable until he’s out office, but I look forward to that presidential memoir.
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There was a time when I wanted to be like Sting, the singer, belting out, “Roxanne ...” I guess that’s why we have karaoke, for fantasy night. If only there was such a thing for failed plumbers, politicians or celebrities who think they can write.
Maureen Dowd is off today.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
...So we had to find somebody even more narcissistic, irrelevant and stupid to replace her, so nobody would miss her!
We see how little the NYT respects everday Americans. I hope they all lose their jobs.
The liberals just can let go of the politics of personal destruction, even after they win. Opression is in the wind.
It's pretty obvious he's suffering from that Leftwingtard 30-millisecond visual perception delay.
Maureen Dowd is more than a little off every day...
Ugh. Words fail me.
MEEOOOW!!! Someone’s having a hissy fit!
Maureen is “always off.” Off in her own psychotic universe that is. I have never understood the attraction to her work. I find her writing quite boring; never funny. I can laugh at many people who poke fun at our side if it’s really funny.
What I have noted, in general, is that libs aren’t really very funny at all.
Our next president is a writer,
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As long as he has Bill Ayers to do the work for him.
“Our next president is a writer, which may do something to elevate standards in the book industry.”
Did you type this one handed? Jeez, what the hell!?!
Hitler was a “writer” too, about the same subject as your Dear Leader, HIMSELF.
As I have said, many times since the election...even in victory, they are classless and clueless.
This one doesn’t refute that statement.
I trust Mr. Egan vociferously opposed the candidacy of one Al Franken for the same reason.
Journalists can tell us how to stop global warming, how best to runs wars, how to save the auto industry, how to manage the economy, how best to deliver health care, what laws should be passed, who should be elected, what we should eat, who we should associate with, etc, etc, etc.
BUT, *we* must *never* venture to write a book.
Will the NYT print Joe The Plumber’s response on their op-ed page? Didn’t think so...
“Joe, a k a Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, was no good as a citizen, having failed to pay his full share of taxes,
I trust Mr. Egan vociferously opposed the candidacy of one Al Franken for the same reason.”
....or Charlie Rangel, etc. ;-P
Herbert Hoover was also a prolific writer, and Richard Nixon wrote one bestseller after another after leaving the presidency.
That someone would think this
That someone would a actually write this
That a newspaper other than The Globe, would publish this
Do we have any rights that these America hating leftists don’t want to destroy?
It is very interesting that Marx and Lenin believed that the masses was going to overthrow the elites who sneered and looked down at them in violent revolution.
Now we have the followers of Marxism as the elites who sneer at the masses. If you don’t go to the proper schools or hang with the proper people at the proper parties you are lower than low.
This so called writer and the elitist snobs he represent at the New York Times is as clueless about what is going to happen to them as the perfumed wig wearing nobles before the French Revolution.
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