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Joe's Big Night

Now-infamous Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher skyrocketed to fame during last night's debate, garnering more than two dozen mentions from the candidates (by about the 10th invocation of Joe and his pipe-snaking, tax-hike fearing ways there were titters in the press filing center). John McCain had by far the worse case of mentionitis...though he mistakenly referred to America's Plumber as Joe WertzelBERGER.

To the montage! (via Politico)

By 11:00 there were three TV trucks in front of Wurzelbacher's house and he was doing a live interview in Katie Couric's cbs.com webcast...during which he may have diminished some of his newfound cachet by saying Obama tap-dances around questions "almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr."

-- Evie Stone

1:52 AM ET | 10-16-2008 | permalink

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