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The Immortal Stupidity of Joe the Plumber

By Ed Brayton

Jesus Christ, when will this guy just slink away to a lifetime of humiliation? Maybe when conservative groups like Americans for Tax Reform stop inviting him to speak at their conferences, I imagine. He spoke to that group recently and invoked the (mythical) good ole days when anyone in Congress said anything about the troops he didn't like would be shot. No, seriously. After saying that if he was in Congress he'd be in jail for "slapping" his fellow legislators, he was asked who he was talking about specifically. He replied:

"Pretty much anybody that's stood there and said anything bad about our troops, pretty much anybody who sat there and talked treasonous talk about America. Back in the day, really, when people would talk about our military in a poor way, somebody would shoot 'em. And there'd be nothing said about that, because they knew it was wrong. You don't talk about our troops. You support our troops. Especially when our congressmen and senators sit there and say bad things in an ongoing conflict. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 01, 2009 (boomark / email).