Everybody Wants their 15 minutes of fame, but some lucky stiffs get 20

Remember Joe the Plumber? Seems so long ago that he was basking in the limelight of the 2008 Presidential Election, captivating the media with his apparent relation to all things "average", and "American". What happened to him since then you ask? He seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth. I thought so, that is until I saw today a commercial that went like this:

"Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, has partnered with VelocityStore.com to help you with the transition from Analog-to-Digital television. Check back often for new videos from Joe where he'll not only show you how to set up your DTV converter, but he'll also explain the public safety benefits the transition provides to all Americans. " http://www.velocitystore.com/?lang=en&PHPSESSID=5a0f1seapevc7illv3qrpn1c17&page=media

Who better to tell who about the Analog-to-Digital conversion than a plumber, and probably a mediocre one at that? Sure, the cable-guy's got the training, but who can relate to him? All those average American's out there, five beers down on a Joe-Six-Pack, are gonna want some one they know and trust to inform them about our nation's television transformation, someone that is just like them in so many ways--a short-sighted, close-minded, imbecile who voluntarily surrendered his dignity and his humanity to the media so they could mold his image into any perverted sense of America they wanted to, and all for a measly 15 minutes of fame.

But now we have a situation which points to a failure on the part of Joe the Plumber. Joe obviously thinks he's going to ride this brief wave of stardom until it dies, then hop off of it and be completely fine, but if you ask me, I'll bet he already spent the money he's squeezed out of it and then some, probably in some back alley poker game with a table full of less-than-reputable characters. He seems like that kind of a guy, you know, average. If he has one hope, it's that one night, when the liquor is flowing and the stakes are high, he hits a straight flush with some wiseguy all in big with four kings. And the best part is, he won't have to worry about that money qualifying him to be taxed under Obama's $250,oo0 plus income plan.