How is it that pretty much the whole "liberal" side of American politics (you know, the champions of "the little guy") looks down their nose at "the masses?"

You have all the Palin-bashing, which was based pretty much on the fact that she isn't a big-time, Washington-insider, career politician. Excuse me, isn't that what most of us claim we need in politics? The citizen-legislator/president? "Of the people" and "by the people?" Mighty fine words, but you don't expect us to actually apply them, do you? No, we're for "hope and change!" Judging by Obama's Cabinet picks, that was just a slogan too. Try to introduce real change, really different viewpoints and ideas, in Washington, and they'll feed you to the sharks. Wonder how many of those "policy questions" could have been answered by the askers? Without a research team looking them up ahead of time, I mean.

Joe the Plumber made the mistake of asking the Oben One a sincere question that Obama flubbed into an admission of socialistic tendencies. So now, even in victory, he must be destroyed by this unheared-of (by me, by this yokel, anyway) journalism wanna-be? I mean, get real, there was a time when having a column in the NYT meant something, but now? Plllbbblllt.

And you have Harry Reid being so offended by the smells of the citizenry he "serves" that he admittedly goes against his staff's advice to slam them for being so stinky and dirty and sweaty and ewwww! Good thing we spent $600 million+ to keep him from having to endure any close contact with that pungent bunch! My heart goes out to him. Why not just close Congress to visitors?

And these people don't understand how they get tagged as "elitists?" I think a better term is "snobs without a clue."

"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." - The Who

Silly peasants. Book deals are reserved for more qualified people.

Like New York Times employees.

Like Jayson Blair...

  And don't forget Joe is from Ohio!  I mean c'mon... publish a book from some yokel who lives in Ohio?  It's an insult to all the 'real' authors who have a proper Ivy league education and whose judgement about America is fine tuned as they look out over Central Park from their apartments.

Joe the plumber is the same as myself, just a smelly tourist in the eyes of Reid and the likes of Egan. Wonder if Egan is toilet trained yet? Patriotism and common sense have no place in the media/government of today's America.

I yam what I yam....Popeye.

Here's the rub, far more people have heard about "Joe the Plumber" than have heard about "Little Timmy" Egan, and this upsets Timmy a lot as Timmy, like most spoiled brats (isn't that what an "elitist" really is, a spoiled brat?), needs to be the center of attention.  His rant against Joe the Plumber is just another version of "Look at ME, Daddy!  Look at ME!"

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

Why this guy can't get his own book published is beause he's boring. Then add cry-baby to that. 

Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

it is "Free Speech for me, none for thee".

Aside from the likely jealousy, Egan is afraid to let the free market "do its thing".  If no one wants to read Joe the Plumber's book, it will wind up on the bargain table at Barnes & Noble soon.

Yet another Obamabot who needs to be given a Barack Obama (Affirnmative) Action Figure and sent to bed without dinner.

What a whiney a-hole. If you're a liberal and work for the New York Times and still can't get published, you need to find a new line of work. And Please!! Don't try plumbing. You don't have the aptitude.

Perhaps Timothy Egan should consider that nobody is offering him a book deal because he has nothing interesting to say.  After all, he works for the New York Times...no one reads that anymore.

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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Joe The Plumber's story is one that millions of people want to read, therefore there is - ta-da! - a market (a hateful thing to a pinko like Egan) and people will be happy to spend money on such a book. Even wacked out leftist literary agents and book publishers know that, and they are stuck with the need to make money.

Ergo, Timmy and his swill is rejected, and Joe The Plumber and his compelling (again, to millions of people undoubtedly not on the left) story is sought and will be paid for.

More evidence that, to be a truly whack liberal, one must be immature (functioning at a pre-teen level) - the mean-spiritedness will inevitably follow...

Robert Kiyosaki wrote about an interview he had with a reporter who asked him why he was qualified to be a best-selling author:

'I am not a New York Times best-WRITING author, but I am a best-selling author.'

Write something someone wants to read and you will be published. Write something that resonates with many readers and you too will be a best-selling author, Mr. Egan.

Class dismissed.

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Hey Egan: 

Say!  You're a funny dude.  So those "esteemed" editors at that objective and transparently non-biased paper - the New York Times - had the clairvoyance to let you play "professional" writer.  And here I sit thinking you would be first in line subscribing to, and would no doubt wholeheartedly be promoting the First Amendment.  (Did I mention that you "write" for the New York Times?)  One might be lead to believe that you think you're the only one entitled to publish the written word (did I mention you "write" for the New York Times?)  Silly me!  What the HELL was I thinking???  So.... No one told you that we are each provided the opportunity to learn reading, writing, and rithmatic so that we each may engage in the exchange of public discourse - in our free (and tolerant?) society at any time of our own chosing.  What an arrogant putz you are.  

A man wants to write a book about his experiences and life. He has contracted a professional writer to help him. He has found a firm willing to publish it and an audiance willing to read it.

Am I jealous that I went to college to be a writer and this guy has a book deal? Sure, why wouldn't I be, but apparently there are people out there who want to read what this man has to say. I see no problem with that.

As for the voices of Iran and North Korea and the like, well, I'll just tune in CNN and I'll get more than an earful of what they want me to hear.

As for the quality of books, well, when I was paying an un-Godly ammount of tuition in that college I mentioned, I was forced to buy and read books, some of which weren't really worth the paper they were printed on, and most of them had nothing to do with journalism, ethics or law (I still wonder how exactly "Emma" by Jane Austin prepared me for life.)

 At least nobody is forcing people to buy this man's book.

 Freedom of the press doesn't just apply to people who write for newspapers. Anybody can write whatever they want, if someone wants to publish it they can, and if someone wants to read it, more power to them.

Sorry about the rant, but this kind of thing bothers me a bit (Just because I graduated from college doesn't mean that my OPINION is worth more than a man who didn't.)

Mike