Joe the Plumber advised not to quit his day job

Seattle Post Intelligencer by Timothy Egan | Dec. 10, 2008 (Opinion)

The unlicensed pipe fitter known as Joe the Plumber is out with a book this month, just as the last seconds on his 15 minutes are slipping away. I have a question for Joe: Do you want me to fix your leaky toilet?

I didn't think so. And I don't want you writing books. Not when too many good novelists remain unpublished. Not when too many extraordinary histories remain unread. Not when too many riveting memoirs are kicked back at authors after 10 ... Full Story »

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by Gregory Kruse - Dec. 12, 2008

I'm not too confident about the journalistic merits of this column, but I agree to the point that I want to add to it. Something has been lost in our society over the past 50 years which I railed against when I was young. There were sober and opinionated people who by virtue of peer consensus where deferred to when decisions had to be made about the quality and merit of individuals who sought promotion. Sure, some deserving talents were quashed, and the process wasn't fair, but you didn't have audacious idiots rising to the top like Joe, Sarah, Rod, and Rush either, did you? Its a free-for-all now with all this publicity. Nobody is in charge.

Little guys in the Southern states who can't get over the Civil War now have the power to destroy millions of jobs. This is despite the fact that at least one of them has been outed for hiring prostitutes.