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Joe the Plumber Moves to a Higher Tax Bracket Doing Ads for DTV Converters

newVideoPlayer("/Joe_Plumber_DTV.flv", 506, 423,"");Hey America! Remember Sam Joe the Unlicensed Plumber, the bald idiot that the McCain campaign ineffectively used as a prop during the waning days of the election? Sure you do. Well, he’s milking is unearned public exposure by schilling for some company selling DTV converter boxes to the elderly and uninformed. It’s both sad and funny at the same time, like a dog falling down the stairs. [Gawker]


October 23, 2008
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Your Tax Dollars at Work: iPhones for Congress

Right now, the dudes responsible for bailout bills, freedom fries and like, laws I think, carry the standard corporate drone equipment: BlackBerrys. To be precise, House of Representatives members and their staffs have about 8200 BlackBerrys between them. But for a few of the fancier ones, that’s not good enough. They want iPhones.