joe the plumber: "almost as good as sammy davis jr"

[Black Landlord]

GGD wrote:
[quote=Black Landlord]
[quote=Don Kiyoti]
Sammy Davis Jr. was a very good tap dancer. Joe Plumber felt Obama "tap danced" around his question about small business taxes. Hence the analogy. Davis was seen by some people as something of a "token" (which I think was unfair to him). It might be fair to say that at one time Davis was the only black man many whites were familiar with. That's why Joe Plumber's reference to Davis may seem vaguely racist. But I immediately understood it to mean that he felt Obama had not adequately answered the question. Much ado about nothing.

What's more interesting is that, as luck would have it, Joe Wurzelbacher turns out to be an unfortunate hero for the Republicans: he's unlicensed in violation of Ohio law, and he has a lien against him for unpayed taxes.

I thought I watched that whole clip but I didn't catch any reference to Sammy Davis Jr.
I must say, however, I think it's genius the way Rob Films packed all of the above into one cryptic analogy.
Did you happen to read the linked article and see this near the end?

He went on, “You know, I’ve always wanted to ask one of these guys a question and really corner them and get them to answer a question,” he said, “for once instead of tap dancing around it, and unfortunately I asked the question, but I still got a tap dance.”

He added, “Almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.”

Oh, thanks. I guess I'm used to looking at TV news websites, where the text is redundant to the film.
I confess I could only stomach about 3/4 of the film-- I couldn't take the bullshlt.