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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...arrival of Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, at the Israeli border town of Sderot on Sunday caused a minor sensation among the members of the foreign press who were camped out there. Wurzelbacher, who got his first 15 minutes of fame as a prop for John McCain during last year's U.S. election campaign, has swapped his plunger for a reporter's notebook on a mission to cover the Gaza war for the conservative website Pajamas TV. Unable to see much of the fighting himself, Wurzelbacher - who during the election campaign warned that a vote for Barack Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Media War in Gaza | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

Wurzelbacher, Joe 'The Plumber' •new career of as war correspondent raises possibility that new nickname of should be Joe the Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...never worked after the first semester of sophomore year. Mitt Romney made a similarly brave gambit when posing with some black children on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and opening the dialogue by saying, "Who let the dogs out? Who! Who!" The nation's fastest-rising politician, Joe the Plumber, got his start with the gutsy decision to ask for a tax break that he didn't remotely qualify for. Even crazier, opponents of gay marriage in California bought ads claiming kids would be taught gayness in schools, when everyone knows kids don't get taught anything in California schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Living Stupidly | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

McCain, John •heretofore unhinted at distaste of Joe the Plumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...wanted to get off the bus after I talked to him.' SAMUEL WURZELBACHER, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, blasting John McCain, calling his experience campaigning with the Republican Senator "appalling" and "dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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