Joe the Plumber becomes ...Joe the War Correspondent?
By Nicole Belle Wednesday Jan 07, 2009 1:30pmFor those of you who had hoped his fifteen minutes of fame were fourteen minutes too long and that Joe the Plumber would fade back into obscurity, I'm afraid that Joe had different plans. Think Progress got one of the first laugh-out-loud post election story I've seen:
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbach(er), aka “Joe the Plumber,” is taking on a new job as a war correspondent. He is heading to Israel to cover the war for the conservative site PJTV.com. Wurzelbacher said his 10-day journey will help explain why Israeli forces are mounting attacks against Hamas:
I get to go over there and let their “Average Joes” share their story, what they think, how they feel – especially with, you know, world opinion. Maybe get a real story out there.
Oh good grief, this should be hack-tackular. I may have to bookmark his site (what? There aren't enough news sources with a conservative bent that we need another one?) just to get my daily update.
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Oh for the love of Christ.
Make it stop.
It is the love of Christ that makes people like Joe so "right".
I have a close friend who, over the past 15 years, has worked as a humanitarian aid worker in many crisis zones in Africa and the Middle East. My friend has met and worked with many journalists, including some of the most experienced war correspondents in England, Canada and elsewhere.
There are layers of truth and deception in any conflict. Amateurs are not equipped to separate one from the other.
The idea of sending some blue-collar political prop to report from an active war zone is totally absurd - and an insult, both to the real, hardworking pros who put their lives on the line to tell the truth, and to the audience at home.
Joe the "Journalist" will be totally at sea, liable to be led around by the nose in the service of his boss's agenda.
We're talking about peoples' lives here, not some g*ddam reality TV show.
Hello America, this is Joe The Plumber live from the Gaza Strip, and
I haven't seen anyone kill this many towel heads since 2003.
Jesus said "make the little children suffer" and by golly this is how
to do it. To bad Palestinians aren't black!!!
'Hello America, this is Joe The Plumber live from the Gaza Strip, and ...'
{BOOOOOOOM!}
Sorry, we seem to have lost the feed.
'Hello America, this is Joe The Plumber live from the Gaza Strip, and ...'
{BOOOOOOOM!}
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What's that sucking sound?
Joe the plunger, he really sucks.
Now a Fake Journalist
Oh, you mean Jeff Gannon
like Tim Russert and Chris Matthews proved that, unlike plumbing, no license or training is required to rise to the top in the boradcast news biz.
1st a fake plumber.
Then a fake country music singer.
Now a fake correspondent.
He is not a plumber now he is a what??
Joe the Plumber is the Forest Gump of the GOP.
...Mitch McConnell is no slouch Gump wise
he never was a plumber...he sure isnt a reporter
im gonna go ask obama some absurd useless question...then maybe i can get a cushy gig too
Now he has become Joe the Joke!
to work for most cable news outlets.
Shouldn't he be in Afghanistan, fighting for his cause? With more people like this guy, Obama will not have to bring back the draft in order to keep more soldiers in Afghanistan.
This goes to show just how inane and useless the media really is. Not just for the jackasses who hired this idiot but also for the bigger fish that feed on the "story".
the mooching bastard finally got a job!!! LOL.
If he comes face toface with the face of war and attempted genocide, the dose of reality might change him. He's not going to see any suffering Israelis, only dead and terrified civilian palestinians. My bet, though, is that Israel won't let him get within a hundred miles of the atrocities they have committed.
if he goes to sderot, he most certainly will see suffering israelis
and this conflict has nothing to do with genocide
and this thread is about joe...not your twisted spin on the mideast conflict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDfXvUQXJlg
Paul
I suspect you are right considering how the Israelis have not allowed international journalists to be in Gaza. 60 [!] members of a Palestinian family were wiped out yesterday in the small town of Zeitoun as reported by The Daily Telegraph. Of course that number could not be verified since, again, no independent journalists were allowed inside that abattoir. But then no members of the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC] were allowed to help the victims who died at the hands of Israeli bombs either.
Wonder if he's gonna take Sarah Palin with him? Maybe the Johnson kid might like to go along now that he is no longer an electrician's apprentice.
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Add Joe the Plumber to the illustrious list of nobodys with their own shows:
Kato Kaelin
Greta Van Susterin
Sean Hannity
Steve Malsberg
Joe Scarborough
and
a special mention to:
Oliver North
What a country.
He's not planning to speak with any Palestinians, apparently. His assumption is that all the US media coverage has been *anti* Israel, and this is his chance to 'let the Israelis tell their side'.
What a laugh.
G. Gordon Liddy to that list.
Oh wait. He is a criminal. I suppose that is something.
explain why his credentials are not equal to those of Tim Russert or Chris Matthews?
Add those pinheads to the list.
I would prefer a show featuring Henry Hill or John Gotti Jr.
Joe the non plumber is now Joe the war correspondent whom reports on Joe the Palestinian being blown to S by Joe the Israeli?
and do us a favor....
On the other hand .. they wouldn't want him either...
Good Grief as a slowly bang my head on the desk rendering myself unconsciou.........
I get this picture of Joe the Bummer....crouched down...using a stick to draw out exactly where all the military are located....and then...a magic Geraldo moment!
finding Al Capone's treasure?
Joe the fucking douchebag.
right wing TOOL (MORON!)!
at least he's got the required credentials to be a talking head. I assume he'll also be doing some written reports. I know he'll have spell check and grammar check but is there anything like dumbass check available?
You think he knows how to operate a computer?
Check.
that software that's been in development for so long that reviews what you written and tells you whether or not you're a dumbass. So far it is only capable of saying: "I wouldn't post that if I were you."
*I* need that now and again. :-D
Talk about dumbing down America. I guess Joe has been sufficiently dumbed down until now he qualifies as a media reporter. This is embarrassing for our whole fu*king country.
Where do I sign up? Seriously.
Oh hell no! You are way too smart. Forget it.
a plumber keep sand out of his crack?
That is hilarious. Will he be bunking with "Bulldog" Gannon ? CNN was running this too. Comments were about 98% LMFAO .... Couple of concern retards as usual.
Good luck with that.
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Since there's very little running water in Gaza, I doubt he'll be making many housecalls there.
Joe, you are using the wrong end of the microphone...hahahaha...I cannot imagine this one in action.
No, you can't report from your ass Joe.
Let me guess...he's working for FOX?
Why doesn't he go over and talk to average people in Afghanistan? How about Iraq?
Who pays for security when he's in Gaza?
Worse yet. What happens when a soldier gets killed because of this schmuck's mugging for the camera?
Thanks!
I doubt if Joe the Plumber is truly intellectually capable of understanding what the 'Average Joe' in Israel really thinks about world politics. Oy gevalt.
The man has become a Barbie Doll.
I'm waiting on his book and new CD. What do I do now?
Here ya go!
Jeez, PoP!
heheh..
God, that first review was great
At the bottom they suggest you add Glen Beck's book and one by Bill-O to your order.
Talk about a head-exploding trifecta.
How about Joe joins the military and sees what an average soldier does on an average day in one of our ongoing wars?
Clannity must have shoveled them all into C-130s to drop on the troops. Poor guys/gals...
He couldn't handle what a real soldier does.
Joe just wants to be a war hero like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rush, O'Reilly and the other chicken hawks
shits.
but that's $16 more than I planned to spend.
Just hang on, it'll probably be in the dollar pile before you know it. There is a funny as hell review of the book on that page. It's the first one and I think the person gave it five stars.
read by Sarah Palin!
No, no! They will need a manly masculine voice for the book. Let Fred Thompson do the voice, if he can stay awake long enough.
I seriously doubt that I could stay awake long enough if I had to listen to Fred.
to gwb
I read the reviews and yeah, they are comical. Some idiots still believe this dum-dum is still some kind of hero.
"Temporarily out of stock" Ha!!
BWAAAA HA HA HA HA! HAW HAW HAW HAW!
*gasp* AAA HA HA HA HA HA! Heh heh.
I've ejaculated better qualified organisms.
Hey, go round those little rascals up and you can start your own tv network.
ROTFLMFAOO!
How is Joe ever going to get that dream of a plumbing business off the ground if he is running his fool ass all over hell's half acre? The average Joe doesn't want to go to Palestine and couldn't really give a rat's backside about what Jewish Average Joe thinks.
So Sad.
pajamas media has a video web site???
bwahahaha, of course pajamas media would be the knuckledraggers to glam on to the faded "celebrity" of
samjoe thehandimanplumbercountry music star authoranother "expert" working for pajamas media, he'll fit right in
I turn to my heart-throb, Steve Benen:
another reason that the right is having a tuff time putting together a solid right-leaning news source is, wait for it, 'truth has a liberal bias'
and benen is right, it is easy to mock pajamas media. extremely easy.
yet, i do disagree with one aspect of benen's argument: i don't think the right really wants to do "real work"/reporting.
On their desire to do real work when making up shit works better than actually expending any intellectual energy...assuming they have a modicum of such between the lot of them.
So, we've officially reached the point in society where qualifications don't matter.
/probably happened a long time ago.
we officially reached that point approximately 8 years ago with the "election" being handed to W.
A war correspondant who isnt bogged down by 'experience' or 'education' or 'objectivity'!
Hey, he's going to a leader to the OTHER correspondants who have those things. And I'll guarantee you, they'll welcome him with open arms as though he was one of their own.
Oops, sorry. There will be no broadcasting or cameras allowed in the "war zone." Joe, you can report all you want from Israel though. Fair and balanced.
http://www.ronnierayjenkins.com/topics/deathi...
Joe the self-important attention whore.
The second monster created by John McCain after the Mooselady (what was her name again?).
I guess the government quit sending the welfare king his welfare checks so he had to do something.
He is Samuel the non-Plumber, please call him by his real name.
This whole thing just goes beyond bizarre. In more sensible times, a liar like Wurzelbacher would have been pilloried in the town square. It starts to look like the Great Experiment is a failure when clowns like this are given a platform to spew their mindless drivel.One step closer to the edge for the USA.
Shouldn't he be doing commercials for Mr. Clean?
Oh no. That guy is so happy and smells so good. The live plumber stinks.
It will never stop I guess. The guy is such a tool, such a fool, and such a complete hypocritical ass. He makes a great mascot for the right wing nut cakes.
This is just laughable.
You betcha....Palin/Plumber 2012. Just think of the fun will all have.
Just think of the landslide we'll have in 2012 if they were the GOP ticket.
What a scrote, maybe he'll be featured on Hot Chicks with Douchebags some day.
...he might be more bearable to listen to than that human chamber David Gregory.
I still think "MTP" should open each Sunday morning with video of Gregory and Rove 'bustin a move'. Perhaps they'd re-think his promotion/position.
/nahhh...it won't happen.
and go fight the Islamofacists in Iraq or Afghanistan?
Besides, he's a pussy.
Ya'll stop pickin on the plumber.. We gota have some entertainment. I want to see him on the front line pissin in his pants. Afterall ya'll he is all talk and no show.
Don't you mean prick?
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I don't seem to mind when some male asshole is called a prick.
But it doesn't seem fair that a woman's genitalia should be the label of choice to describe a cocksucker like Joe.
way, simply as a slang term for a male loser. I know that further explaining will only dig myself deeper.
I will try to use other words to describe JTP in the future, if I must see his name again.
Joe the Plumber is getting all the attention now. It's not fair.
I think they should give Sarah Palin the gig as m.c. of a variety hour featuring comics, acrobats, trained horses and jugglers.
I think I had more respect for him way back when he was a political commentator. What was that, December?
Please spare us. Someone is paying for that jerk, "you know", to go to "you know" Israel and report, "you know" news. Who is the bigger jerk, "you know", the payer or the payee?
that Joe the Plumber and all Rethuglicants WORLD WIDE are no longer allowed to express opinions. Ever.
Guess that claim he was going to buy a plumbing business was all BULLSHIT! Joe. Bullshitter.
Given that Isreali snipers apparently have a penchant for bagging reporters, you go, Joe!
Gee Joe, why wouldn't God stop a mortar round from landing on you - his beloved?!
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
You are going to hell Joe, not the mythical one, the real one. I hope you learn something before some radicalized piteous creature snuffs you out live from the gaza strip.
God created evil to test his people. Thus "he" is sadistic, and not worthy of worship.
. . . one particular cable news outlet . . .
I mean Joe the plumber, doesn't know just what he's getting himself into.
I mean...what if the poor plumber gets kidnapped? *rolls eyes*
Imagine the media frenzy!
heritage, and political leanings...I'm mystified at the real reasoning behind him wanting to interview "average Israeli Joe's"...you'd think he wouldn't give a damn about Israelis...
Ya know what I'm saying...he strikes me as someone who doesn't particularly care about anyone that's different from him.
Just sayin.
kids into prostitution in Cameroon if there was enough cash involved...
probably, lol!
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No wonder nobody watches or can believe news reporting on TV anymore.
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