CNN Anchor Clashes With ‘Joe The Plumber’ On Live TV Over Gay Comments
March 8 2012, Published 7:30 a.m. ET
By Neil Woulfe - Breaking Celebrity News Senior News Director
If you’re going to run for Congress Joe, you have to be prepared to explain your views.
Samuel Wurzelbacher -- dubbed "Joe the Plumber" after he famously confronted then-candidate Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign -- clashed with anchor Zoraida Sambolin on Thursday’s Early Start on CNN over derogatory comments he previously made about gays.
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The interview was awkward from the get-go. Sambolin began it by asking Wurzelbacher what he had been up to in the four years since he shot to fame after pressing Obama about taxes at a campaign stop.