Palin taps Joe the Plumber to plug WikiLeaks

Sarah Palin plunged into the WikiLeaks fiasco — slamming
President Obama as "incompetent" on Facebook
and calling on Joe the Plumber to plug the embarrassing
intelligence leak.

Palin amplified her mastery of U.S. foreign policy by
issuing the following tweet: Inexplicable: I recently
won in court to stop my book "America by Heart"
from being leaked, but US Govt can’t stop Wikileaks’ treasonous
act?

Analysts say the tweet elegantly demonstrates Palin’s
gift for combining ignorant soundbite politics with shameless
plugs for her many products — in this case pumping by
name "my book ‘America by Heart.’" (In stores
now, and jam-packed with slams of everybody from Michelle
Obama and Hillary Clinton to JFK!)

Supporters argue it also illustrates her deep understanding
of the similarities between protecting poorly guarded
government secrets and suing a website to protect profits
from a copyrighted book.

As for Joe the Plumber — a fixture on the 2008 campaign
trail as John McCain’s favorite metaphor for pandering
to the middle class — sources say he’s plugging his own
book while mulling a run for Congress and developing reality
TV projects ("America’s Next Top Plumber" and
"Flush Prince of Bill Ayers"). He’s also thinking
of actually getting his plumber’s license.

The WikiLeaks episode has resulted in at least one area
of bipartisan agreement — that America got caught with
her pants down, or at least her butt crack showing.