Rick Sanchez Compares Joe the Plumber to Castro

The McCain campaign gave us two gifts that keep on giving (and I mean that in the same way I would if I were talking about herpes): Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. For whatever reason, these two won't go away. Sure, Sarah Palin is a governor, but Joe the...

By Kyle Munzenrieder

January 16, 2009

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The McCain campaign gave us two gifts that keep on giving (and I mean that in the same way I would if I were talking about herpes): Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. For whatever reason, these two won't go away. Sure, Sarah Palin is a governor, but Joe the Plumber is... What in hell is he again?

Well, this week he's playing war correspondent for Pajamas Media, and he's over in Israel saying asinine crap like, "I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting."

Love him or hate him, Rick Sanchez, CNN's Twitter superstar, is here to lay the smackdown on ol' Joe. Sanchez doens't pull any punches. He starts off comparing Joe to Fidel Castro, and it only gets worse from there.

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