Jay Bookman

By Davo

January 7, 2009 3:35 PM | Link to this

I guess being a media w******* is easier work than replacing toilets. Not nearly as productive though.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 3:46 PM | Link to this

Don’t stare into her face Joe, she’ll turn you into a stone moron.

Just tell the truth, young man, you’ll do fine.

It’ll be refreshing too.

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 7, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this

Doesn’t Joe the Plumber look kinda like Jeff the White House Correspondent/Male escort?

By Bud Wiser

January 7, 2009 3:50 PM | Link to this

Must be an easy job.

By Taxpayer

January 7, 2009 3:55 PM | Link to this

I just cannot wait to get the plumber’s interpretation of average life in Israel. Will they go easy on him? Will he get his own pair of 3D glasses? And, most importantly, will his reporting be live or Memorex? The questions..the suspense.

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

January 7, 2009 3:56 PM | Link to this

Jay, why no blog on Panera’s, sorry, Panetti’s appointment? This signals the first step in PEOTUS’ dismantling of a national security program that kept us safe on American soil. At any rate, after the root nuts tried to shift Clinton’s culpability in 911 to GWB, this makes marks a clear red line between our President’s sucessful policies and that which might happen with PEOTUS at the helm.

By getalife

January 7, 2009 4:01 PM | Link to this

Joe the loser.

Four Presidents met for lunch today and the only successful President is President Clinton.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 4:04 PM | Link to this

Bill Clinton was in charge on 9/11?

Where the h*ll have I been?

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

January 7, 2009 4:10 PM | Link to this

Midori 4:04 PM

I do not know where you have been, but I have one good guess on where you head is.

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 7, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

Midori

For some reason you and I weren’t invited on the Bush Legacy tour…..

Wonder why?

Got Revisionism?

By RealityKing

January 7, 2009 4:13 PM | Link to this

In light of today’s progressively clogged media outlets…, Joe the Plumber will make a fine journalist.

By Curious Observer

January 7, 2009 4:16 PM | Link to this

I say it’s always good to get another moron’s perspective on foreign affairs. Right now, we have only Ragnar and occasionally tcoach. Besides, Joe would have been an auditory hazard if he had scored that country music recording contract.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 4:21 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G,

that a tour I suspect only open to the brain dead.

and they’re so proud of it, too.

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

January 7, 2009 4:22 PM | Link to this

getalife 4:01 PM

“….the only successful President is President Clinton”, come on lets look at reality.

Gutted the intelligence community which opened the door for Al Qaeda and 9/11.

Planted the seeds, subsequently watered by Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, & Chris (D)odd, that grew into the Freddie/Fannie meltdown/subprime crisis/credit crisis.

His administration’s Ahab-like obession with Microsoft created a soft regulatory environment that provided the petri dish for the Worldcom and Enron scandals that created a major recession corrected by the Bush tax cuts.

I did not have sex with that women.

Blago style “pay for play” where library contributions were sold in exchange for political pardons.

History does not judge Clinton as a succesful president.

By RealityKing

January 7, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

The only thing you need to know to be a plumber is that s** runs down hill. Just like being a journalist…

By Midori

January 7, 2009 4:27 PM | Link to this

I wonder if the wingnuts would have more respect for Bill Clinton if he had sex with little boys, or with strange men in public restrooms?

By GOP is gone

January 7, 2009 4:29 PM | Link to this

You are kidding, right? Is that press release from Al Franken?

By CommunistAJC

January 7, 2009 4:30 PM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, And I’m sure you look like the 2 ton elephant at the Atlanta Zoo. I’m also sure that Joe is going to be making more money than you will ever see in your trailer park.

Jay,C Christine Amanpour is THE most boring person to watch on CNN. She makes Larry King look like Walter Kronkite with more liver spots.

By TW

January 7, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Congrats to the red states for once again dominating the teenage pregnancy ratings. Explains greatly the affection for the Palins….real shame ‘revenge of the rednecks’ ain’t in vogue no more :(

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

January 7, 2009 4:32 PM | Link to this

Midori 4:27 PM

Your post reminds me, Clinton savaged the rights of Gay Americans, and, perhaps, set civilization back 100 years with the Defense of Marriage Act and the Don’t Axes/Don’t Tell policy.

Let’s see you argue around that one.

By getalife

January 7, 2009 4:35 PM | Link to this

Yes, President Clinton was not freaky enough for the perverted gop.

Diapers, mens in airport restrooms, pages, etc…

Keep deluding yourself Byll but Obama is picking his team not yours.

By Shawny

January 7, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

So, why can’t we see the ABC special, Path to 911?

That is because Billy Boy shiite canned it, because it implicated him and Sandy Sox Berger.

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

January 7, 2009 4:36 PM | Link to this

By Midori 4:27 PM

I am not willing to concede that WJC has not done those things.

By Road Scholar

January 7, 2009 4:37 PM | Link to this

When Joe the Correspondent airs his reports on TV, will we have to look at his backside? Sounds like he is as qualified to be a reporter as he was a plumber. Joe, put on your shades;the limelight is in your eyes.

By Shawny

January 7, 2009 4:39 PM | Link to this

I was waiting to see which knucklehead would jump on the teen pregnancy in red states crap.
Let’s go ahead and set that record straight. The report talks about birth rate, not pregnancy rate.

We know in those blue states, they kill their babies before they are born, taking their statistic off of the BIRTH rate report.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 4:45 PM | Link to this

So Shawny,

you’re saying that people in red states don’t get abortions?

Is that what you’re saying?

And somehow that counteracts the birth rates between the two?

By Taxpayer

January 7, 2009 4:49 PM | Link to this

Wyld Byll has now given us confirmation that he inhaled and held it in longer than once thought to be humanly possible.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 4:52 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

that’s what happens when you throw the lunacy back at them.

By TW

January 7, 2009 5:02 PM | Link to this

Babies? Somebodies killing babies?

Call the cops.

Back to the teenage ‘Palin promiscuity’ thing, funny how tobacco and meth use seem to flavor those church going red states as well.

WWJD?

By getalife

January 7, 2009 5:10 PM | Link to this

Hey Byll,

From NBC’s Mark Murray:

“With President Bush set to leave the White House less than two weeks from now, here’s a “Then and Now” to show what the United States looked like when Bush was entering office and what it looks like now as he’s leaving. The “Then” is the best-available figure as Bush was taking office in 2001. The “Now” is the most recent figure.

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Then: 4.2% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2001) Now: 6.7% (Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 2008)

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Then: 10,587 (close of Friday, Jan. 19, 2001) Now: 9,015 (close of Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009)

BUSH FAVORABILITY RATING Then: 50% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll) Now: 31% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CHENEY FAVORABILITY RATING Then: 49% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll) Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING Then: 48% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll) Now: 21% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

SATISFIED WITH THE NATION’S DIRECTION Then: 45% (1/01 NBC/WSJ poll) Now: 26% (12/08 NBC/WSJ poll)

CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (1985=100) Then: 115.7 (Conference Board, January 2001) Now: 38.0, which is an all-time low (Conference Board, December 2008)

FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY Then: 6.4 million (Census numbers for 2000) Now: 7.6 million (Census numbers for 2007 — most recent numbers available)

AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE Then: 39.8 million (Census numbers for 2000) Now: 45.7 million (Census numbers for 2007 — most recent available)

U.S. BUDGET Then: +236.2 billion (2000, Congressional Budget Office) Now: -$1.2 trillion (projected figure for 2009, Congressional Budget Office)

Nuff said.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 5:12 PM | Link to this

LOL -

Wingnuts can’t debate.

Wingnuts can’t discuss.

I doubt if they can even think.

All they can do is hurl insults and call names.

That’s who took the chastity belt off my mouth — common sense.

Here’s hoping you some day develop it Bruce.

LMAO!!!

By Hillbilly Deluxe

January 7, 2009 5:12 PM | Link to this

Anyone who has ever worked with plumbing knows that it’s a bit more complicated than s*t won’t run up hill. (It will if you use a lift pump.) You have to have a knowledge of hydraulics to make the DWV part of the system work properly. For instance if you put a lavatory below a commode without the sink having it’s own vent, flushing the commode will suck the lavatory trap dry. This will lead to a smelly bathroom and unhealthy fumes floating around in your living space. The water supply side of plumbing is another set of knowledge and skills. Every occupation is more involved than it looks to people on the outside.

As for Joe the Plumber becoming a journalist, it doesn’t matter to me one way or the other.

By @@

January 7, 2009 5:26 PM | Link to this

Well leave it to Joe to get the other side of the story…. what with the MSM reporting from Palestine for Hamas and all…

I’ll be looking forward to having a “Hot Cup-a-Joe” imported direct from Israel.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 5:35 PM | Link to this

I hate to break the news to you but Red States have their inner city slums too, need I break out the pregnancy rate by race, which tells the true story?

Wanna guess which minority went 97% Oblahmasan?

And al-Gitmo, an interesting exercise would be to back your 2008 dates down to 2006, you know, when the democrats took over control of spending bills and such.

Wanna bet most of it is better than Billy’s?

(Who the hell cares about approval ratings, most democrats don’t even know their state has a governor but they “approve” of Oblahmi. Whoop dee do.)

By Taxpayer

January 7, 2009 5:38 PM | Link to this

Leave it to Andy to make a race issue out of the RED state teen pregnancy rate.

By getalife

January 7, 2009 5:44 PM | Link to this

No Andy,

The intersting numbers will be the recovery from the bush disaster.

Obama’s team is a Clinton third term so I will compare it to President Clinton numbers.

Raise the bar, if you know what I mean.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 5:48 PM | Link to this

It is race issue.

Georgia is a red state, you’re welcome, and we got dimwit democrat Atlanta smack in the middle of all that, don’t we?

But that’s alright, toady, you just keep on babbling about the “red states” and have the feds direct more money towards our teen pregnancy programs, so we get better while the real problem…………..just gets worse.

Bravo, champion.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 5:52 PM | Link to this

Hear your hero, zero-

“Teen pregnancy can derail the plans of students with dreams of achieving professional success, and it’s hitting minority communities particularly hard,” said Senator Obama. “While the country’s overall teen birth rate continues to decline, pregnancies in African American and Latino communities remain inexcusably high. We must develop innovative approaches to strengthen our community support networks and services to educate our teens about pregnancy and provide them with every chance to succeed in school and beyond.”

According to the Forum study, communities of color continue to be at significantly higher risk for teen pregnancies. The birth rate among 15-17 year old African American and Latina adolescents is 3 times and 4 times higher, respectively, than the rate for white teens. According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, over half of Latina teens and African American girls will get pregnant at least once before age 20.-Oblahma.com

By TW

January 7, 2009 6:03 PM | Link to this

DNC - I find your willingness to lump Palin white trash in with a challenged minority group rather refreshing.

Oh, and thanks for visiting the website :)

By Tom

January 7, 2009 6:05 PM | Link to this

Good! That’s what we need - yet another right-wing American hillbilly dimwit hanging out in Iraq. Bringing us the “truth” through the eyes of an IQ of 50.

By Taxpayer

January 7, 2009 6:05 PM | Link to this

Toady? Really, Andy. Anyway. Try sorting the data into the Christians versus non-religious or those taught sex ed versus those taught creationism, etc. There are lots of ways to analyze data. Quit constraining your thought process so severely. Everything really is not about race.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 6:11 PM | Link to this

By Taxpayer January 7, 2009 6:05 PM Try sorting the data into the Christians versus non-religious or those taught sex ed versus those taught creationism, etc.

Yes, do.

You won’t like the results though.

By AJC/DNC Management

January 7, 2009 6:15 PM | Link to this

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing with concern to “red ink as far as the eye can see,” President-elect Barack Obama pledged Wednesday to tackle out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending

al-Gitmo: This is the third term of Bushie, without all of the media whining and moaning.

100 years in Iraq?

By Glenn

January 7, 2009 6:18 PM | Link to this

On your knees, Hog Worshippers! The Bushdrunks have just bought $485K of China for the White House at your expense. From Wal-Mart. Another final class act from those who brought the world to its current edge. Speaking of things that should have been…aborted.

By Taxpayer

January 7, 2009 6:43 PM | Link to this

Andy,

I don’t know why you would think that I might not like results from an analysis of data. I like data and data analysis. What I don’t like are people making claims without any supporting evidence or people improperly interpreting data or people extrapolating from a set of data, etc.

By BREAKING NEWS

January 7, 2009 6:47 PM | Link to this

BOOKMAN WENT OUT FOR ICE CREAM!

Ice cream? Yes we can!

By sunshine and thunder

January 7, 2009 6:50 PM | Link to this

It’s been a long day. From what I can gather just reading the headlines:

Obama will continue Bush’s foreign policy for the foreseeable future.

All living presidents met in the White House today. I wonder how Bush felt hosting a scumbag that caused 9-11 and hosting another scumbag that second guessed Bush even though the scumbag was a failed president.

Jay Bookman recommends Joe the Plumber meet Christiane Amanpour. I assume it is so Amanpour can instruct the fledgling journalist how to bribe corrupt foreign officials for access to their leaders. CNN is a pioneer in that arena.

By Midori

January 7, 2009 8:35 PM | Link to this

Mississippi, A Hotbed of Abstinence Education, Now Boasts Highest Teen Pregnancy Rate In America

hmmmmmmmmmm………

By david wayne osedach, san diego/ U.S.A.

January 7, 2009 9:14 PM | Link to this

They need to put him right in the center of the action. That way he can do a little plumbing while reporting.

By The Attorney/Surgeon Corporal

January 7, 2009 9:27 PM | Link to this

Sounds fitting to me!

Plumber: Slang …. an undercover operative or spy hired to detect or stop leaks of news or secret information, often using questionable or illegal methods, as illegal entry or wiretapping.

By bj

January 7, 2009 10:13 PM | Link to this

Judging from the drivel on the pages and CNN, he’s probably way over qualified…. BN

By bj

January 7, 2009 10:14 PM | Link to this

Judging from the drivel on these pages and CNN, he’s probably way over qualified…. BN

By Redneck

January 7, 2009 10:47 PM | Link to this

Midori @ 8:35PM

Mississippi has a high AA population. Almost 50% I believe.

You are whipping a dead horse. Planned Parenthood has spent billions of taxpayers dollars teaching sex education and paying for abortions and there hasn’t been much of a drop in the pregnancy rate.

If PP really wanted to slow down the number of illigitimate births why don’t they put their offices in the ghettos???

By Tom

January 8, 2009 12:16 AM | Link to this

Joe is a perfect example of all that is Republican Americana today. Ugly face. Hideous shaved head. Drives a truck. Is uneducated, untutored, unintelligent. Cannot speak proper English (dude, bro, etc.). Searching in vain for his scrotumless masculinity. The U.S. has at last come to this low level - and not bottomed out yet. 50% of American “men” are Joe and hungrily embrace Joe. Stand proud!

By rtw

January 8, 2009 2:06 AM | Link to this

Tom: Gloat not! You have Rosie!

By rtw

January 8, 2009 2:10 AM | Link to this

She too searches for her masculinity.

By Tom

January 8, 2009 3:52 AM | Link to this

Aw, Tom does not gloat. True that Rosie has actually already honed in on HER masculinity. Why can you not locate yours. Shaved heads don’t get it. Driving trucks won’t get it. Talking tough will get you hurt. If you insist on staying on this bent, you may end uo emulating AC-DC Homo-Hating AJC Man, and thus be completely empty of all things and totally unrepairable. Collecting beer & soda bottles along the roadsides. You’re surely better than that. Sorry if I tend to get a lil uppity when I feel some guy’s makin a move on my Rosie. Well, it’s 4 Viagras and 5 coatings of Niagara - and off to bed w dreams of…Rosie. It was not nice of you to bring her to my deep solace this late at night. Now my little naughty parts are all engorged and pulsating. All because of…of…YOU! Bad Boy!

By DB, Gwinnettian

January 8, 2009 7:12 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer @ 6.43, Andy’s right. If you count Those People as 3/5 of a person, them Southern/Red State stats don’t look so bad.

It’s all part of the “Original Intent”/”Strict Constructionalist” legal ideology. Neat, huh?

By Dan

January 8, 2009 8:49 AM | Link to this

It is a perfect job for him, after all he is the only person who asked obama a tough question the entire campaign, and without the telepromted script he actually showed his real agenda (wealth redistribution from those who work to those who don’t) Ok Ok when lauer asked him what was on his Ipod that was tough albeit a tad less important

By Algonquin J. Calhoun

January 8, 2009 10:25 AM | Link to this

Well, what’s next for this living embodiment of the Walter Mittty tale? He’s been a pretend plumber, a political figure of sorts, a singer and now he’s a pretend Edward R. Murrowesque reporter. Will Joe soon be an astronaut? How about private detective Joe or General Weezlebacher? Doctor Plumber? Stuporman? this guy is a joke, just like the rest of his Republinazi ilk!

By AlG

January 8, 2009 10:31 AM | Link to this

Joe will be a lot classier as a journalist than Jay B would be as a plumber.

By vuduchld

January 8, 2009 9:51 PM | Link to this

JTP needs to shake Obama’s hand and thank him for extending his 15 minutes to 20. It is laughable that this clown still contends that Obama is not good for his pocketbook. I wonder when was the last time he picked up a wrench or had a case of “plumbers pants”. Heck for all the steak, lobster and quiche he’s been consuming as of late, you would think he’s the new face of the GOP instead of Palin.

Which brings me to my point, JTP is just another smuck, a tool for the GOP to lead them back from the wilderness. He really has no ideas and frankly doesn’t have a clue, just like the GOP. It’s funnny how they keep trying to find people to try and fool us, but in reality JTP and the GOP are frauds. So Joe, thank Barak Obama will you because he’s done more for you than your sorry party ever will!

By Michael

January 14, 2009 1:24 AM | Link to this

It’s any wonder the GOP is going down in flames, it’s bc of idiots like Joe the Plumber. A man on welfare talking about socialism. Idiots.