Vyan @ DailyKos tackles this one straight-on:
Like far too many Republicans, it seems that Joe has a habit of lying about as much as the rest of us breathe.
The facts - as even the reluctant to bother actually doing reporting Corporate Media have revealed - are that: Joe The Plumber only makes $40,000 a year, doesn't have a valid plumbers license in the state of Ohio, has only been a "plumber" for 6 years - not 15, has never finished his plumber courses, has never apprenticed as a plumber, can't afford to buy his bosses business - which only generates $100,000 a year in income Profit, not $250,000 - is a registered republican who owes over a $1,000 in back taxes, and under any version of Obama's plan would get a tax cut that would be larger than McCain's.
His (first) Name isn't even Joe - It's SAM!
It get's better.
More here.
Here, like so many other times this political season, we have bloggers and the media doing the vetting of people that the Republicans are holding up as shining examples of their movement.
While some will claim that there has to be something "wrong" with a person that would be skeptical of the "Joes" within the opposition party, the remainder of us that have the ability to operate within the real-world see these "Joes" for who they really are - opportunists and fakes.
Hope you enjoyed your time in the spotlight "Joe", it was surely interesting.
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