Ethics

Jesus' General on Joe the Horny Plumber

By Ed Brayton

Since Joe the Plumber declared to a conservative group that he was horny, Jesus' General has responded with a letter to Brent Bozell, the founder of the group he was speaking to:

Dear Mr. Bozell,

At first, I didn't know what to think when Joe the Plumber strode up to the podium at your awards banquet and declared, "I am horny." Such a statement seemed out of place at an event run by a guy who once crusaded against Michael Jackson's "happy man loaf." But after watching it again, I noticed that Mr. the Plumber was introduced while Lee Greenwood's patriotic meal-ticket, God bless the USA blared over the loudspeakers.

And that's when it struck me. Joe the plumber is horny for America. I can understand that. Who hasn't had a purity crisis while considering Wyoming's Grand Tetons or the watermelon fields of Alabama.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).