15Feb/103
Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher Whines [UPDATED]
To some public radio guy from Detroit:
"McCain was trying to use me," Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy.”
"I don’t owe him s—," Wurzelbacher continued. "He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it.”
Look, dude, I'm not a fan of McCain, either, but back in the day, when you decided to go to Israel as a war correspondent for Pajamas Media, you didn't seem to feel that you were being used too badly.
Mind you, Pajamas TV has been better than I expected, with Whittle, Klavan, Green, Insty and the rest, so it's not as though I'm dredging this up just to embarrass them. I still can't afford to pay for it, but if I made another $20k per year, I probably would.
UPDATE: Julie Mason feels similarly.
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February 15th, 2010 - 11:30
When did “McCain = Pajamas Media” happen? Not getting the connection here.
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February 15th, 2010 - 11:44
I’m just saying that he wasn’t complaining so much when he felt he was benefitting by the notoriety, as when he was sent to Israel by PJM.
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February 15th, 2010 - 20:24
Well, you blockquoted the McCain business, so I wondered how the two squared. I read a similar article over the weekend, and I didn’t get the sense that he was bitching about notoriety so much as he was bitching about McCain specifically. And his bitches about McCain pretty much match up with the facts as we know them. Julie’s post says much the same thing.
Here’s what I read. I think it gives a different feel from what has been excerpted.
He only gained any notoriety from his answer to one question in his front yard to a presidential candidate. And he got smeared to high, holy hell because of that. Here, I see the same dynamic cropping up from a different vector, and I wonder about that.
Anyway, I think the guy’s genuine. It doesn’t matter, he’s not a Big Wheel.
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