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Typing Without a Clue
The New York Times - Op/Ed Guest Collumnist ^ | 12/8/08 | TIMOTHY EGAN - NY Times Op/Ed

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.

(snip)

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.

(snip)

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.

(snip)

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 ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: joetheplumber; liberalidiot; mediabias; nytimes; nytshitstinks; opnyt; plumber
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Maureen Dowd is off today...

...So we had to find somebody even more narcissistic, irrelevant and stupid to replace her, so nobody would miss her!

1 posted on 12/07/2008 2:15:28 PM PST by gridlock
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To: gridlock

We see how little the NYT respects everday Americans. I hope they all lose their jobs.


2 posted on 12/07/2008 2:17:12 PM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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To: gridlock

The liberals just can let go of the politics of personal destruction, even after they win. Opression is in the wind.


4 posted on 12/07/2008 2:20:32 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: gridlock
This particular NYT puke is remarkably shallow ~ even for the NYT.

It's pretty obvious he's suffering from that Leftwingtard 30-millisecond visual perception delay.

5 posted on 12/07/2008 2:21:33 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: gridlock
"Maureen Dowd is off today."

Maureen Dowd is more than a little off every day...

6 posted on 12/07/2008 2:21:48 PM PST by redhead (ALASKA--Step out of the bus and into the food chain.)
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To: gridlock

Ugh. Words fail me.


7 posted on 12/07/2008 2:23:33 PM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Public education is a welfare program. Do you indulge?)
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To: gridlock

MEEOOOW!!! Someone’s having a hissy fit!


8 posted on 12/07/2008 2:23:59 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: gridlock

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.


9 posted on 12/07/2008 2:24:10 PM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: gridlock

Our next president is a writer,
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As long as he has Bill Ayers to do the work for him.


10 posted on 12/07/2008 2:24:28 PM PST by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: gridlock

“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.


11 posted on 12/07/2008 2:26:20 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: gridlock

As I have said, many times since the election...even in victory, they are classless and clueless.

This one doesn’t refute that statement.


12 posted on 12/07/2008 2:26:42 PM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: gridlock
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.

13 posted on 12/07/2008 2:27:05 PM PST by freespirited (Honk to indict the MSM for treason.)
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To: gridlock

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.


15 posted on 12/07/2008 2:29:50 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Nepolean fries the idea powder)
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To: gridlock

Will the NYT print Joe The Plumber’s response on their op-ed page? Didn’t think so...


16 posted on 12/07/2008 2:33:36 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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“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


17 posted on 12/07/2008 2:35:05 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: gridlock
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.

Herbert Hoover was also a prolific writer, and Richard Nixon wrote one bestseller after another after leaving the presidency.

18 posted on 12/07/2008 2:35:13 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

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?


19 posted on 12/07/2008 2:35:44 PM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: gridlock

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.


20 posted on 12/07/2008 2:39:10 PM PST by Swiss
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