The following is a verbatim transcription spoken by Robert Paulson; written by professional stenographer, Jules Winnfield:
My dear friends,
I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart for my two and a half week absence. It was not my idea to leave my avid readers in such difficult economic times. Now that I have returned I have gone over the recent national, economic, and market news and I am angry and truly baffled by the recent events. However, I understand that some may have ill feelings towards me because I was not here to guide them during such a distressing crisis. Maybe if I explain the circumstances that caused my absence it will help you better understand.
On November 5, 2008, the day after the celebrated Obama win over what’s-his-name, I woke up with my head throbbing in excruciating pain. I awoke sitting in a chair, in an extremely cold, pitch dark room. My hands were tied behind my back and my feet tied together. I will not lie to you, I was scared shitless. I didn’t know where I was or what had happened to me. The last thing I remembered was being at an Obama party the night before, making out with my neighbor’s 17 year old daughter in her room. I still can’t remember a thing after that, until I awoke tied up.
I started to scream, “HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!” But no one came. I was sitting there for hours in urine/shit soaked pants. Then finally the door to the room opened and a large man walked in. The room was too dark so I could not make out his face, but I could see that he was holding a wrench in one hand, and a long metal pipe in the other. I tried to explain to him, “What do you want? I haven’t done anything! You must have the wrong guy!” The man gave a grunt and hit me in the stomach with the pipe. I fell to my knees gasping for air, “Please…I didn’t…wrong…guy.” He grabbed me by the shirt and sat me back down in the chair. He started beating me with his wrench, as if I was a frozen steak that needed tenderizing. Blood was pouring out of my mouth and tears were running down my face. I cried like a child that Michael Jackson had won custody over. He finally stopped and took a few steps back towards the door.
The door opened and another person walked in and looked over at the man and said, “Good job Joseph, you will be rewarded for your loyalty.” I started to scream and cry louder than ever before. I fell over and started to bang my head against the floor.
The large man picked me up and said, “What do you think you are doing? If you die, it’ll be by our hands.”
I responded, “But…But…that noise. What was that? That horrific, vile, deafening noise! Please beat me as much as you want, but please do not let her speak again! No one can take that annoying, small-town, Martha Generic-like voice!”
The large man bent over and whispered into my ear, “I know…Just take these, they will help block out the accent.” He pulled out some cotton balls and stuffed them into my ears. I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman’s condemning glare. She walked over the wall and tried to flip on the light switch, but nothing turned on.
She flipped it on and off and then said “Why the hell isn’t this light working?! Joseph, I thought I told you to fix this!”
The large man (Joseph) replied, “I did, but I accidently hit the bulb when I was working on him. But don’t worry, I can fix this.”
He reached into his tool belt and pulled out a flashlight. He turned it on and shinned it onto his head. The whole room was instantly lit up by the reflection from his hairless head. I was truly stunned by the two people standing in front of me. One was the infamous Joe the Plumber and the other was the Alaskan hockey mom, Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin walked over to me and whispered into my ear, “So you think you can write blogs about me and just get away with it? Hah, we will see…”
She grabbed the wrench from Joe and hit me across the head which left me unconscious.
I awoke again with a familiar throbbing headache. Joe was standing on a step ladder replacing the broken bulb, while Palin was standing in a corner practicing throwing a spear at a baby seal.
Palin looked over at me, seeing that I was awake, and smiled, then looked back at the seal. She threw the spear and hit the seal in the neck. She then went over and cupped the seal’s blood into her hand and brought it to her mouth and drank. I looked away in disgust. She rubbed the blood all around her mouth and face; even Joe looked like he wanted to gag.
She laughed and said, “Baby seal’s blood has secret anti-aging powers that us Alaskan’s have known for years. It works wonders.”
I responded, “Whatever you say, just let me go. I haven’t done anything! People will know I’m gone!”
She laughed again, “They may know you are gone, but they will never find you here. This icy land has been forgotten and deserted by outsiders. No one will ever know you are here.”
“North Dakota?”
“No you moron! Alaska!”
Not knowing where she was talking about I said, “Umm…Alaska? Right…That’s what I meant to say.” I looked over at Joe the Plumber with a confused look. However he shrugged his shoulders as if to say ‘No idea where the hell she is talking about.’
“ALASKA, YOU IDIOTS! THE 49TH STATE! THE BIGGEST STATE IN THE U.S.!”
Joe replied, “I thought Canada was our biggest state…?”
I nodded my head in agreement. Sarah Palin walked over to Joe and slapped him across the face. She punched me hard in the gut.
She walked around the room in a circle trying to calm down and gather her thoughts. “Robert, you may be wondering why you are here. Well, I’m going to ask you nicely to stop your little blog… I do not appreciate the negative remarks you are making about Joe and myself. If you delete every post about me, I promise I will let you go.” Joe put a TV stand in front of me and a laptop on top. “Go ahead and type in your username and password and delete the posts.”
“OK, fine, you win. I’ll do what you want,” I said as I coughed up blood.
Joe untied the rope that had my hands tied. My hands started to tremble as I reached over to the keyboard. I typed in my username (MarkyMarkandtheFunkyBunch08) and my password (zeldaishot) and made sure to unclick ‘remember me’ and tabbed over to my comments. Being a ‘master-elite wordpresser’ I was able to quickly type a new comment faster than they could stop me, saying “SARAH PALIN KIDNAPPED ME! HELP!” I then quickly hit ‘alt f4’ which closed the screen and logged me out. Joe punched me across the face and Palin quickly grabbed the laptop to see if she could still log in. She looked up at me with rage.
“Fine…if that is the way you want to play it, we will just have to make you do it! You will be begging me to let you write a 13 page apology! I will not allow there to be a blog, THIS popular, have harmful comments about me! I am the Governor of Alaska, you will respect me! Joe, take care of him!”
Joe reached over and tied my hands to the chair’s arms. He looked at me and said, “Delete the posts!” However, I just looked up and shook my head. He took his metal pipe and smashed my fingers. I yelped in pain. Tears started to stroll down my face again. He just looked at me and said “Delete the posts!” I closed my eyes tight and shook my head again. He smashed the pipe down on the other hand. I could hear the bones breaking in my hand, and the blood poured down. The pain was too much for me to handle. Everything became blurry as Joe said again, “Delete the posts!” I tried to shake my head but everything went black and I passed out again.
I woke up to Palin and Joe talking in the corner. I could hear Joe ask, “He knows who kidnapped him, how can we just let him go after he deletes the posts on his blog?”
Palin whispered, “Who said anything about letting him go? Once he does what we want, you are going to shut him up once and for all.”
“Wait, you never said anything about killing him! I can’t; I don’t have it in me.”
To this Palin responded, “Well you better man-up Joseph. If you want that reality TV show and movie deal, you better act like you have a pair.”
Joe tried to plead, “But…I…” Seeing that Palin was not going to change her mind about this subject he responded, “Fine, I’ll do it. Just make sure you get Michael Chiklis to play me in the movie.”
I quickly put my head back down as I saw Palin looking my way, “Go wake his ass up.”
Joe walked over to me and grabbed me by the shoulders and started to shake me, “WAKE UP!”
“Why are you waking me? I was having a nice dream about raising taxes on small businesses making over $250k,” I said with a big grin.
Joe hit me repeatedly across the face. My eyes were almost completely swollen shut, and could feel that my nose was bent to the left. Sarah Palin finally stepped in, “Joe that’s enough. We don’t want him completely incoherent and not be able to delete the posts.”
I spit out some teeth and blood and said, “You can do whatever you want to me! I will never delete them! The world will know that you are a stupid-small town-Russia watching-hockey playing-sled riding-no experience-red jacket wearing-Wayne Gretzky banging ESKIMO that blew McCain to the top! And Joe…you are nothing more than a plumber; that’s insult enough.”
Sarah Palin grabbed the spear that was lodged into the baby seal and jumped across the room to stab me. Joe quickly intercepted her and held her back. Sarah was truly mad with fury. Joe whispered to her, “Remember, we need him alive for now. We can’t allow a popular blog to desecrate us like that.”
Palin threw the spear to the ground and walked over the other side of the room with her back turned away from me, shaking her head. She turned back around and said, “Fine Robert, if you don’t want to delete the posts then we will just have to make sure you don’t write anymore. You’ve seen how bad things can get and how quick they can get that way. Well, they can get a whole lot worse! So we’re NOT GONNA FIGHT ANY MORE! FIRST……”
BOOM!
One of the walls blew away and smashed Sarah Palin into the opposite wall. Joe and I were left with our jaws dropped. A cloud of dust filled the room. I saw a dark shadowy figure enter the room from the massive hole in the wall.
I half expected an ‘OHH YEAHH!’ to come from him. I spoke up, “Kool-Aid Man? Is that you?”
I heard a manly chuckle come from the shadowy figure, “Haha, no Robert, not the Kool-Aid Man. It is me; I’ve come to save you.”
The dust cleared and my jaw dropped lower than before. Standing before me was no other than Presidential Elect Barack Obama. He stood there with one leg propped up on some rubble, pointing his M16 at Joe the Plumber with one hand and holding a Rambo knife in his other. He had a bandana tied across his forehead and war paint smeared on his face.
“How did you find me?” I asked.
“Well that was easy. I saw the post on your blog saying that Sarah Palin had kidnapped you. From there, I triangulated the IP address that posted the comment and used satellite cover to look at the area. I was able to see Sarah Palin outside of this complex, near the water, beating a baby seal over the head repeatedly. I jumped in my X-35 Joint Strike Fighter and flew over here as fast as I could.”
“Wait, you read my blog?” I asked confused.
“Of course I do. Where else would I get my news from? Everyone in Washington reads it. I often read your posts to my two daughters for their bedtime story.”
I looked at him with awe, “Sweet…”
Obama untied me and took Joe into custody. He flew me back to the U.S. (Alaska doesn’t count) and I spent the next couple weeks in a hospital.
It will take me a couple more weeks for me to be able to type myself, so for the time being I have Jules Winnfield writing down all my posts. I hope you now understand why I have been gone for the past few weeks. I will be at full capacity when my hands are heal.






