Joe The Plumber? Are you fucking serious?

[Donovan]

Joe the plumber was a propaganda tool a couple elections ago, remember? Some Presidential candidate I can't be bothered to look up used him to represent some sort of "everyman " principal that candidate pretended to represent. IIRC it backfired horribly and came off as staged, phony, and self-serving. I know, shocking behavior from political candidates...now that guy's been trying to cash in on the fifteen minutes he got ever since.


EDIT: never mind, I think I'm mixing up pop culture memories. This guy started as a disgruntled questioner of Obama's tax plan, and THEN got some attention from conservatives over the following weeks.