Video: “Plumbers Cracking the Case for Truth” launches attack ad on Joe the Plumber
posted at 1:25 pm on October 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
Via Ben Smith. My reaction after one viewing: Overweening horror that our politics has come to this. After a second viewing, having now noticed the graphic that accompanies the group’s name: Wonderment at who might be responsible for this subversive little parody. Truth be told, I can’t decide if it’s a right-wing goof on the media’s coverage or some lefty kidding on the square and unable to resist tossing in a gratuitous plumber/buttcrack joke. You make the call!
If nothing else good comes of this, at least it’s forced people to take a second look at licensing laws.
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Ryan Gandy on October 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM
It’s some lefty… if it were someone on the right doing it as a parody it would have worked spreading the wealth in somehow.
Laura on October 17, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Typical leftist hit-piece on Joe six pack.
Richard Romano on October 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Whoever made this video is 1) ignorant of reality 2) scared to the point of wearing depends everywhere it goes, and 3) pathetic and probably a member of the House Democrats.
AubieJon on October 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
That was funny as crap. Total parody.
spmat on October 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Is PCtCFT like 9/11 Truth, or slightly more nuanced?
Ridiculous. An Attack Ad against a guy who questioned The One in a rope line.
Joe isn’t running for office, dip*&%s.
BKennedy on October 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Wager 100-to-1 the Union’s funding this.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 17, 2008 at 1:29 PM
you won’t find a place in the country where unlicensed plumbers are not doing work with licensed plumbers or without… and you never will…
Kaptain Amerika on October 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Although after watching it, I can’t help think it’s a parody. Seriously, the plumber crack at the end is pretty much the giveaway they aren’t serious.
BKennedy on October 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
As far as licensing laws, his employer said he didn’t need one. If my employer told me that, I probably would not have gotten one. But now he shall be punished. Makes me so proud.
Glynn on October 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
It’s a parody. You really like there’s a Plumbers Cracking the Case PAC?
lodge on October 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Plus, if it were done by someone on the right, it would have actually been funny.
4shoes on October 17, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Parody, and a damn good one, too.
Pavel on October 17, 2008 at 1:32 PM
not quite OT, but read the comments after the CNN story noted above about “Hecklers wave Plungers at Obama?
That’s what we’re up against: sick, rabid, deranged Leftards who will do anything to get B Hussien into office
If he wins, these people will try to round up opponents and put them–US–in detention / re-education camps. Sound familiar?
Janos Hunyadi on October 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Parody.
Let’s run it on TV for the backlash factor.
TexasDan on October 17, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Yep. They placed in a humorous way, but used it to point out Joe’s tax and license issue.
amerpundit on October 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM
If we werent dealing with Liberal Unions, Liberal Democrats and well, just Liberals in general; I would have to say that this is shameful.
OSUBuciz1 on October 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM
Way too funny.
mycowardice on October 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM
i thought we were suppose to say “NO” to Crack
theguardianii on October 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM
It’s not about Joe, it’s about Senator Government.
All this is just a distraction from the point Senator Government made to Joe.
Amazing that the media (and many bloggers) aren’t as fascinated by that.
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
hahahaha
FiveWays on October 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
hahaha
How precious.
csdeven on October 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Rush just said that McCain is coming out in defense of Joe today. Speech is embargoed until he gives it.
Enoxo on October 17, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Police take home city’s biggest paychecks
Detail work, overtime put 25 over $200,000
Maybe I should have been a Boston Cop…
TheBigOldDog on October 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM
It’s got to be right wing parody. His name isn’t really Joe! Shocking!
fwiw, Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee weren’t the real names of Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers either.
Buy Danish on October 17, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Its a double barreled shot of satire akin to the New Yorker comic. In the New Yorker front page it was them making fun of themselves, pretending to be us. Now, its them, making fun of us, pretending to be us.
BohicaTwentyTwo on October 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Oh, by the way, the purpose of showing how much cops make in Boston is to show people who think a Plumber who owns his own business can’t make $250K are badly wrong.
TheBigOldDog on October 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Anything to deflect from Obama’s answer to Joe’s question.
a capella on October 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Unless DKos is also a right wing parody…
Laura on October 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM
More plumber buttcrack jokes, please.
whitetop on October 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM
It’s gotta be a joke.
If it isn’t, then whoever’s responsible has waaayyy too much time on their hands and very thin skin.
tru2tx on October 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Doesn’t matter, Obama still said he wanted to “spread the wealth around.” Obama’s philosophy was on display, and that’s really the point.
jeffersonschild on October 17, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Massive disinformation/smear campaign to take the focus off Obama calling for redistribution of wealth.
freedomplow on October 17, 2008 at 1:44 PM
I don’t get the point of that post?
Should I recognize the guy at 12 seconds?
lorien1973 on October 17, 2008 at 1:44 PM
This is why I can’t be friends with liberals. I know who they really are, and it makes me sick.
JustTruth101 on October 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Exactly. In the words of Charlie Gibson, they want people to get lost in a blizzard of information so they forget the entire point they’re talking about Joe the Plumber.
Enoxo on October 17, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Sure it’s a parody, but from the Left. It’s designed to take focus off of Fauxbama’s marxist redistribution answer to JTP and put focus on to JTP himself, someone who actually WORKS for a living, something I don’t believe Barry Osnotball and his jock supporters are familiar with. No wonder they jeer JTP. What a dumb sucker. Acutally working!! Har har, that’s for people too dumb to game the system.
The impulse to produce the most vitriol in any general election ever is now an unbridled force of its own, and it cant be stopped. McCain had better be read to get down in the dirt with Hobama, who will sell whatever is left of his cold cheesy soul to the lowest bidder. Otherwise, a very clean McCain will be sitting with Cindy on a deck chair in Sedona in January.
Western_Civ on October 17, 2008 at 1:46 PM
People don’t care if he’s a Martian. He put the focus on Obama’s taxing ways. IT’S ON!
marklmail on October 17, 2008 at 1:47 PM
OMG! Why would they do such a thing to an ordinary citizen?! Gosh, no one can ask a question to Obama without getting your life history exposed. Leave Joe Alone!
jencab on October 17, 2008 at 1:48 PM
No, he wasn’t.
He was playing catch in his own god damned yard when The One decided to connect with a clinger.
Mr. Bingley on October 17, 2008 at 1:49 PM
This is SURREAL!!!!!!
America has entered a new Liberal Paradigm Shift!
Joe the Plumber is your average typical middle class
American!
Who on the planet doesn’t owe taxes like Rangel,or
liens,as in a certain member of Team Obama!
THIS IS UN-AMERICAN!
canopfor on October 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM
I don’t know who that guy is either, or what the point is – I just wanted to point out that lefties, in fact, are posting and shrieking like poo flinging monkeys things pretty much straight out of the “parody” ad:
I really don’t think it’s a parody.
Laura on October 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM
Now being named Sam is bad – I just love it when the intellectuals come unraveled
EricPWJohnson on October 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM
He doesn’t wish he had killed more Americans
He doesn’t bomb federal buildings
He doesn’t hate the middle class
He doesn’t want God to damn America
He trample on the US flag
He must be a loser, right Obama?
Workers and skilled labor is a big joke when you are a Democrat (take note union folks that vote Democrat no matter what).
Hening on October 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Corrected……sorry
He doesn’t wish he had killed more Americans
He doesn’t bomb federal buildings
He doesn’t hate the middle class
He doesn’t want God to damn America
He doesn’t trample on the US flag
He must be a loser, right Obama?
Workers and skilled labor is a big joke when you are a Democrat (take note union folks that vote Democrat no matter what).
Hening on October 17, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Hening on October 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM
You know, I don’t care if this is a frigging joke or not.
What I am not laughing at is that the MSM has now gone after a PRIVATE CITIZEN over the right to express his opposition to B.O.’s idiotic share-the-wealth idea.
This is not a politician, this is not a McCain plant, this is a PRIVATE CITIZEN who is being attacked by the MSM.
THIS is the level these MSM clowns will now stoop to!
There is NO level lower than this!
pilamaye on October 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I think the left is more upset about that fact that someone without an MSM license was allowed to ask a question of The One.
Still, I think plumbers’ licenses are a good idea. I read somewhere the city said that he had done all the required work for a journeyman or some such, but he just didn’t have the certificate.
pedestrian on October 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Seems like a serious clip to me with some humor tossed in at the end. I’m betting a union financed this.
kongzilla on October 17, 2008 at 1:54 PM
The lefties don’t seem to think names matter when it comes to a politician running for President named Hussein, but thinks it’s very important that we know a plumber named Samuel Joseph goes by Joe. I think it’s time to revisit the whole Hussein thing based upon their demand for strict naming convention.
DFCtomm on October 17, 2008 at 1:55 PM
America is witnessing the most dangerous man,
that will directly affect America’s future!
Everything Obama has done so far,and going after
Joe,is no different than a THIRD WORLD THUG!
canopfor on October 17, 2008 at 1:56 PM
its not a right wing parody.
its a left wing parody.
Drunk Report on October 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Funny parody. But it also helps me to realize something.
I have decided to cease and desist from aspiring to make my financial portion of the American Dream come true.
I no longer want to be wealthy.
I’m just fine and dandy under the $250,000 income level.
I have no desire to work my @ss off and finance the lives of the professionally lazy and life-long career students, and see the sum total of 20 of my 52 money earning weeks a year stolen from me and given away to those who flat refuse to get off their @sses and earn it for themselves.
FlatFoot on October 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM
That can’t be serious.
toliver on October 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM
THAT was funny.
awake on October 17, 2008 at 1:58 PM
I sure hope McCain makes them feel like shiot for doing this. Goes to show you how many sick sheep are out there. Wanting Nobama to win. Disgusting sheep. They need to be rounded up and stuck all with each other. Think they would last?
sheebe on October 17, 2008 at 1:58 PM
The Video that could cost Obama the election:
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=68
Poll finds American reject redistribution of wealth as suggested by Barack Hussein Obama.
PRINCETON, NJ — When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today’s consumer, Americans overwhelmingly — by 84% to 13% — prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans.
Read: http://www.gallup.com/poll/108445/Americans-Oppose-Income-Redistribution-Fix-Economy.aspx
Americans Oppose Income Redistribution to Fix Economy
[Note: Elect John McCain for a free America and economic growth.]
AdrianS on October 17, 2008 at 1:59 PM
This has got to be a joke, right? Joe’s middle name is Joseph. He goes by Joe. Do you have to own a plumbing business to be a plumber, or can you do plumbing for a plumbing business and be a plumber?
I hope lots of Americans see that pathetic attempt at an ad. I’ll turn people off.
Amy Proctor on October 17, 2008 at 2:01 PM
This JTPDS is really going to backfire and it’ll be fun to watch.
tru2tx on October 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Unless one of them is a hot chick. Not the older ones – they really believe that crap and have the exterior ugliness to reinforce the inner beast.
I mean the younger ones – usually college age – of whom a great many are very hot. They are witless, incredibly stupid and ultimately gullible – as most, if not all, Obama voters are.
All you have to do is wear an Obama button, chant hopeandchange and then utter Buck Fush under your breath as you move in for the kill. Tell her you were there, that night, at Invesco Field and you heard The One speak. Tell her that you got it.
Because, when it comes to liberal chicks, if you don’t get it…you don’t get it.
The following morning you drop a $20 bill on her dresser and say “Oh, by the way, Ronald Reagan came to me in a dream last night and we had had a chat. I’ve decided to vote for McCain. it was fun, sweet thang, but now I really DO have to take a shower.”
The look on her face as you walk out the door…priceless.
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Really funny.
If it turned out that it was intended as a serious attack, that would only put it over the top into hilarious.
ClintACK on October 17, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Parody or not, reading the comments from Obama’s supporters on Smith’s blog, their attitude — and the attitude of others trying to defend the attacks on Wurzelbacher sound an awful lot like the people who attack a rape victim for how she was dressed, where she was hanging out or who she was with.
Basically,they’re saying “He deserved it” for asking Obama the question, or the more ‘thoughtful’ ones are trying to argue McCain is responsible for the raping of Wurzelbacher’s reputation because he dared use his name multiple times in the debate, as if that meant the Obama supporters had no other choice but to destroy him (and just to clarify, investigating to see if there’s a connection between Joe and McCain or any 527 or pro-Republican group is legitimate; publishing his phone number, tax liens, marital history and moving to get him fired from his apprentice plumber’s job is not).
jon1979 on October 17, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Looks like Barry is not only a socialist, but a communist too. In BO Utopia, do not speak out against the government or you will be ruined.
Be very, very afraid.
txsurveyor on October 17, 2008 at 2:09 PM
That’s a joke. Total satire.
If it isn’t, holy motherloving gawd. We’re dealing with lunatics.
MadisonConservative on October 17, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Vivendi Studios brings you the heartwarming tale of a father, a plumber…an AMERICAN. One man took on The One, exposing the socialism-lite of this year’s Democrat nominee. Starring Michael Chiklis as Joe the Plumber, and Samuel L. Jackson as Barack Obama. Rated PG.
Flyover Country on October 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM
When the Obamanots came for the Plumbers,
I remained silent;
I was not a plumber.
When they locked up the conservatives,
I remained silent;
I was not a conservatives.
When they came for the trade unionists (card check),
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the rich,
I remained silent;
I was not rich.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Califemme on October 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM
If it isn’t,holy motherloving gawd. We’re dealing with lunatics.Fixed it, Madison.
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM
Next time anyone says, “His name isn’t Joe – he’s a fraud”, remind them that JTP is PROUD of his middle name, versus Hussein the Politician (HTP).
Yes, everyone can use ‘HTP’ without royalties.
fred5678 on October 17, 2008 at 2:17 PM
I don’t think it is a parody really. I think it is a slyly presented attack on Joe the Plumber and McCain. They are trying to add some humor at the end to lessen the disgust over it.
Regardless of how you feel about Joe the Plumber, the attacks on him illustrate the storm trooper tactics of the left. This is the most egregious effort to suppress an opposing view since McCarthyism. It is over the line and it should scare the hell out of all of us.
Hawthorne on October 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM
And yet McCain is the one being called negative. So much for the party of tolerance and compassion.
cannonball on October 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Youtube took it down.
scrubjay on October 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Beat me to it.
Like I said before, Willing to bet 100-to-1 the Union’s behind this. And they already released a statement saying “Joe should remember now that he’s successful the working men behind him who will benefit from Obama’s policies.”
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 17, 2008 at 2:22 PM
Funny. Now it is back up.
scrubjay on October 17, 2008 at 2:22 PM
McCain: “You should be able to ask Senator Obama difficult questions without being smeared from every direction by the media!”
WOOT.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 17, 2008 at 2:23 PM
A year ago, I would have said parody.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 17, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Who said he doesn’t pay taxes…he pays taxes, just not all of them.
At the end of the year it is not unusual to owe taxes, after paying way too much for too little.
He owes taxes, it isn’t that he never paid them…
You have bought into the propaganda…you have been had.
right2bright on October 17, 2008 at 2:25 PM
He has liens on his taxes just as Charles Rangel does.
carbon_footprint on October 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM
There is NO level lower than this!
pilamaye on October 17, 2008
But if there is, be assured, the MSM will find it.
SKYFOX on October 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM
People beware if you ask the wrong ? to The Lord Obama you will be struck down ahd destoryed.
thmcbb on October 17, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Absolutely CORRECT!
The MSM contributes nothing to this country, and in fact, is contributing to the deconstuction of our society. All in the name of ratings. Pathetic.
KMC1 on October 17, 2008 at 2:46 PM
They had to destroy him. They tried to just let it die down and fade away, but then McCain made extensive use of his name in the debate, and that sealed his fate. However, they have only been able to find his tax lien. He must be a pretty squeaky clean guy if that’s all they could find.
DFCtomm on October 17, 2008 at 2:49 PM
The feral Left has pushed us into the twilight zone between truth and fiction where each is indistinguishable from the other.
Tantor on October 17, 2008 at 2:50 PM
is it a parody? That’s basically what I heard Howard Wolfson, I think it was, say on TV today, with Megyn Kelly interjecting things like “no, Joe is too his name, it’s his middle name!”
Gilda on October 17, 2008 at 2:53 PM
That has to be a parody. Right….?
Joe Comment on October 17, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Hell, just like his own campaign treasurer:
TheBigOldDog on October 17, 2008 at 2:57 PM
I heard that on Rush. Everyone else was trying to drown her out, she was practically shouting.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 17, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Only one word can adequately explain this – SNL
trailboss on October 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Wow, challenge the messiah and we will bury you!
Joe the Plumber FTW!
Cr4sh Dummy on October 17, 2008 at 3:23 PM
The feral left has only half the responsibility – the bizarre right has the other half. The two wings are indistinguishable from each other.
trailboss on October 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Define “the bizarre right.”
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 3:29 PM
And all over the news sites and the liberal blogs, the lefty loons are accusing ‘Joe’ of being a ‘plant’.
ROVE, you magnificent bastard. You knew five years ago that 0bama would be walking down that particular street, right at that particular time, and planted an RNC sleeper agent in that house, where 0bama would stop to take questions, to verbally ambush the man at a vulnerable moment.
LegendHasIt on October 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM
You are about 10 degrees to the left of it.
trailboss on October 17, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Telling me I’m ten degrees to the right of a term you have not defined is not a definition. You threw the term into the discourse. Now define it.
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Correction: left of a term
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Bizarre right?
Would that be a code for Christian Conservatives?
or
People that liked Goldwater?
or
People that like Buchanan?
or
Or do you expand it to include all people that think we should aspire to more than mediocrity?
Come on, enlighten us as to who you consider to be the bizarre right.
LegendHasIt on October 17, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I’m still waiting for concrete examples of the extremism of Rush Limbaugh.
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Just as I thought. When confronted on his use of language and asked to define his terms, Trailboss buggers off.
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Brave Sir Trail, He boldly ran away?
Trailboss, in honor of your great bravery; I hereby dub thee: BailTross
LegendHasIt on October 17, 2008 at 3:59 PM
LOL. When danger reared its ugly head/he bravely turned his tail and fled…
ManlyRash on October 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Hey, GroinRage, Trailboss has a life to live, unlike you wealthy ne’r do wells.
The bizarre right is the mirror image of the feral left, and due to your intermittent but recurrent bouts of logic, I certainly wouldn’t lump you in that category.
I don’t speak in code. I think Buchanan often swings into the bizarre right, as do some Christian Conservatives, like the late Mr. Falwell, and many of Rush’s dittoheads who can’t seem to think for themselves. Mostly they are those who seem susceptible to conspiracy theory overload, constantly blame the MSM and the Democratic Party for all of the ills of this country, and see the end of days approaching if a Democrat gets near the White House.
trailboss on October 17, 2008 at 4:06 PM
I guess humor is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t get it. I’ve never gotten the New Yorker cartoons, either, so I guess I’m just stoopid. Why is this funny? And so, therefore, why is it a parody–put together by a group on the right? I guess maybe the tagline at the end? Beats me.
labwriter on October 17, 2008 at 4:09 PM
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