[lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American?

[B.]

A list member sent me this concise demolition of Joe the Plumber that covers it all:

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/hbc-90003694

Not *quite* a James Frey, this Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, but not all he's cracked up to be, either.

-B.