Tag: Joe the Plumber
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Joe the Asshole
When last we heard from conservative folk hero Joe the Plumber, he was advocating the need for a white Republican president. In his latest bromide, Joe the Amateur Nihilist — mimicking what Gawker correctly identifies as the right’s move toward “antipathy for anything but the self” — sounds off on the sacrosanct Second Amendment in…
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Joe the Racist
The original tea partier shows his true colors … but don’t call him a racist. Wanting a white Republican president doesn’t make you racist, it just makes you American. In the pre-black president era, criticizing the president was simply the American thing to do. An exercise of one’s First Amendment right. Criticism had nothing to…