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.
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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 ...
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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.***
Or failed thinkers who write rubbish!!!!
This crap was actually in a newspaper? It’s a joke,right?
Yep, the New York Times.
That's the answer to both questions....
There is.
Again, it's the NY Times....
Timmy’s afraid it might get out: anyone can be a writer.
Books by Ronald Reagan:
Where's the Rest of Me? The Ronald Reagan Story (1965, memoir, with Richard G. Hubler)
Sincerely, Ronald Reagan (1980, memoir, edited by Helene von Damm)
Rendezvous with Destiny (1981, memoir)
A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan (1983, speeches, edited by Alfred Baltizar)
Ronald Reagan: In God I Trust (1984)
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1984, nonfiction)
Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches with Personal Reflections (1989, speeches)
An American Life: The Autobiography (1990, memoir)
Wow so I guess unless you write for a failing paper you have to right to share your views in print? Looks like with stories like his they want to be out of buisness ASAP?
Morons...the more attention they give it the more it will sale.
ML/NJ
Prediction: Joe’s book sells more than Tomothy’s.
This guy assumes that Barack Obama wrote his own books, so he assumes Joe The Plumber will write his own, as well.
I will give long, long odds that JTP will use a ghost writer on his book. I would give similarly long odds that Wacky Baracky did the same, though he will never admit it.
The reason JTP’s book is important is because Joe can tell the story of how he was attacked by the Barack Obama slime machine and how government power was abused by Obama to persecute him. It is a pattern we should learn to recognize early on, because we are going to see it over and over again.
I trust Mr. Egan vociferously opposed the candidacy of one Al Franken for the same reason.
I would bet you dollars to donuts that Barack Obama has not paid taxes on the value of favors he has received from Tony Rezko, amongst others. The sweetheart deal on his Chicago mansion was worth at least $300,000. Did Obama pay the taxes on the fair market value of this gift? That's more taxes evaded than JtP will pay in a decade.
It's listed at Amazon as "Out of Print - Limited Availability," with no publisher named. But there are three snotty reviews.
Hmm. Never heard of this assclown Egan. Is that his real name, ya think?
Of course you’re right. The whole thrust of the article is to marginalize JTP so that the sheeple will ignore his story of government abuse.
Typing without a clue? He obviously was.
Of course not, because he denies that it was a gift.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of what Egan calls “failing as a citizen,” do you think he’d say the same of Obama, who felt entitled to ignore lots of parking tickets from his years at Harvard ... until he decided to run for president.
He finally paid them last year, after being a scofflaw for almost two decades.
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