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Actor Matt Damon "Honored" by Joe the Plumber Shout-Out
Friday October 24, 2008

Matt Damon and Joe the Plumber

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Matt Damon says he was thrilled presidential campaign star "Joe the Plumber" dropped his named in an interview.

The plumber, whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, became an overnight media hit after he was referred to at least 23 times by Barack Obama and John McCain in the final presidential debate.

Speaking to the press from his Ohio home Wurzelbacher, a Republican, said he hoped he wouldn't make a fool of himself with all the attention: "I don't have a lot of pull. It's not like I'm Matt Damon."

"That was a surprise. I hadn't heard that Joe the Plumber dropped my name," Damon tells The Associated Press. "I'm honored to be in the little passion play, to be an extra."

As the election nears, Damon says he will remain committed to the Obama campaign.

"I'll do telephone interviews or whatever they'll have me do," he said. "I want to sprint to the finish with the millions of us who really have been desperate for this change."

The actor - who once called Sarah Palin a "really scary thing" - declined to comment on the Republican ticket.

Said Damon, "The Obama campaign has decided to focus on the positive, and I should be a bigger man and be able to do that with them."

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