Rick Sanchez obliterates Joe the Plumber
Born in communist Cuba, Rick Sanchez knows a thing or two about media censorship. So when Joe the Plumber Middle East War Correspondent starts babbling on about how the media shouldn't be permitted to cover war, Rick goes off. Listen to Sanchez read Joe's gibberish as if he were a 2nd grader. Too funny.
Meanwhile, something else to take note of today. I want to share with you the thoughts of Samuel Wurzelbacher -- you know, "Joe the Plumber" -- now Joe the war correspondent. Yes, he's been in Israel filing reports.
And here's his analysis, as reported by the Associated Press. You're going to love this: "I don't think journalists should be anywhere around war. I mean you guys report where our troops are at. You report what's happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I think it's asinine. I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting, war is hell."
There you have it.
Samuel, let me talk to you directly....
This isn't the first time Sanchez has squared off against Joe. See here for their first encounter.
Full transcript below the fold:
Meanwhile, something else to take note of today. I want to share with you the thoughts of Samuel Wurzelbacher -- you know, "Joe the Plumber" -- now Joe the war correspondent. Yes, he's been in Israel filing reports.
And here's his analysis, as reported by the Associated Press. You're going to love this: "I don't think journalists should be anywhere around war. I mean you guys report where our troops are at. You report what's happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I think it's asinine. I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting, war is hell."
There you have it.
Samuel, let me talk to you directly....
First, I was born in a communist country, so I'm familiar with people like you -- and Fidel Castro, by the way -- not to name drop -- who also think "that media should be abolished."
Number two, I've covered wars. And while I can't speak for war correspondents who put their lives on the line every day, I can tell you, what they do is requisite -- essential to our democracy.
Whether you've insulted them is up to them to tell you.
But I will tell you who you have insulted. Forty-one journalists were killed last year -- two already killed this year -- while trying to practice their craft. They can't speak for themselves, because they're no longer with us, Samuel.
And their children, their wives and husbands, their fathers and mothers -- they don't have a TV show.
So on behalf of them, Sam, let's see, you're not really a licensed plumber. You're not really a war correspondent. And your name isn't even really Joe. I think we all do know, though, who you are.
You know that guy who lives down the street -- the guy who shows up at the backyard barbecue when there's free food?
You know that guy?
He knows everything about everything, but really knows nothing, hates everything and everybody. He can't understand why anybody would find any fault with him. You know, the obnoxious guy -- there's always one at every party or every gathering on every block. You know that guy. We all know that guy.
Well, that guy wasn't made famous by John McCain and Sarah Palin. You were, Sam. So we're stuck with you. But it doesn't mean that we can't call you out.
In fact, I just did.
Joe the Plumber's report sounds like some kid's begrudging Christmas thank you letter to Grandma.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
LMAO I love it. Can't wait for Joe -er- Samuel's response!
I took the plunge and registered with pjtv (short videos are free on the site -- longer videos require a "$ubscription" - I'm curious but not a masochist -- I'm OK with the free videos)- I had to see these videos myself. There is a response posted to Rick Sanchez' comments. In parts, Joe sounds like he's been slapped soundly and, in the rest, still as single-track minded and led around by his boss and those in Israel who are taking him around the neighborhoods.
Joe is still well in need of humbling and needs to 'fess up as to how "independent" his "reporting" really is.
Ohmigosh! Rick Sanchez has been known to get on my last two nerves, but this was Good. I couldn't stop giggling....too funny.
Good job pointing out the ACTUAL journalists who have lost their lives reporting, ya know, NEWS.
Rick Sanchez can be a bit pompous for my taste, but in this instance he was spot on to give "Joe the Whoevah" a good swift kick in his stupid ass!
Man can we have MORE of this PLEASE? I wish there was a little more calling out of BS during the past 8 years, but I guess you have to start somewhere!
we had jon stewart and stephen colbert...and they did a bang-up job. in fact, i don't think i could have made it through without them. and stephen's calling bush out to his face at the press corps dinner what nothing less than brilliant :)
chillingly, I hope--just how inclined towards submission to fascism have grown the great mooing masses of the people.
It has been demonstrated over and over and over again that the original bill of ights would fail in a plebiscite today.
Freedom is damn unpleasant. Murkins don't want freedom. They want cheap consumables.
And enemies.
Goood to go...
I dont know who is more of an idiot Ann(Coulter) the hate monger or Joe the plummer?
on your definition of idiot.
Mann Coulter is an idiot in terms of ideology, but quite smart in drawing attention to herself and selling books.
Joe the plummer is an idiot in terms of ideology too, but doesn't sell many books or get large fees.
She's an entertainer. She probably doesn't even believe a third of what she says. Instead, she's developed a strategy to make a lot of money from speaking engagements, columns and books, no matter what damage her statements cause.
Somebody actually had the balls to call Joe/Sam out and tell him it's time to STFU!
Oh! Snap! HAhahahahahahahahaha
Maybe Sam/Joe and his fellow America haters would feel better in one of those countries with no freedom of the press. Naturally he'd be given a job as a figurehead where he just parrots the ideas of the dictator as if it were news. I'd bet he'd even be given his own toilet paper made out of the American flag so he can express just how much he loves the freedoms he takes for granted.
Rick Sanchez is such a brave, brave "journalist". No doubt, in the coming months and years, as more and more details of illegal Bush/Cheney actions are revealed, there will be pushback by Republicans against the reporters who break the stories. We have seen it before and we will see it again. The Michelle Malkins, Rush Limbaughs, and Michele Bachmanns will clutch their pearls and call for the NYT to be tried for treason.
I have utter confidence that Rick Sanchez will have the cojones to call them out as he does Joe the Nobody. After all, he is on a first name basis with Fidel.
Joe the Plumber is the Forest Gump of the GOP.
Forest was sweet and honest. Challenged a tad in the gray matter but not threatening at all.
Joe/Sam is obnoxious,threatening,stupid,and just plain mean.
Forest Gump meant well and had a good heart. This guy is just a mess.
insult Forest. At least Gump was a guy you could empathize with, feel compassion for. Joe? Not so much.
Would have been one of the kids throwing rocks at poor Forrest.
but I would have preferred a little less vitriol.
When the emotion (albeit deserved) becomes the story, the truth that he spoke is diminished, in my opinion.
given the weight of the journalist mortality figures Sanchez presented, and the glaring idiocy of what Wurzelbacher "reported," I think the vitriol was totally deserved, and Sanchez's message was on the mark.
Here, here!
covering wars for us. We have an idiot in the White House telling us that we're wrong, he really did do a good job. Is there no end to the rewards in this country for mediocrity and stupidity?
Why reward the elite who I can't connect with? I don't even know half the big words that they use. I think all our leaders should be people I can have a beer with.
the country is in a wreck.
You got PUNK'D Werzelbauker, you bitch. I wish that every day someone would humiliate "Joe the Asswipe" on national news. Hell, then I might actually start watching it again.
Joe is what we call a boner with ears. Not to mention an ultra opportunistic bullshit artist of the highest degree.
I thought I heard that Pajamas Media went out of business some time ago, what up wit dat?
Generally speaking I don't trust anyone making over 150K a year.
He is an opportunistic a*hole, but it's the "real" media's fault that he won't go away. They haven't stopped reporting his shenanigans since the election.
He came into the clinic where I worked today. His wife needed a finger splint and wanted it without an appointment. Self diagnosing. "Joe the plumber" types are great at self diagnosing and diagnosing the wife. And then....when you tell them I don't think you're going to be able to get the splint without a diagnosis "Joe" said, "What is this world coming to when you can't get a splint?" When it's not the right size or does damage "Joe" will say, the doctor screwed up.
Yeah...those guys are everywhere.
Jeanne
That's exactly what that little asshole is: he never learned that he can be wrong. He's a fake macho-man knows better than everyone swaggering little jackass. goodgod he has a wife? wtf must be wrong with her?
unemployed, back taxes, unpaid bills...a useless twit. And too fuckin' stupid to stay the fuck away from the camera. damn. watta pathetic idiot.
Rick Sanchez agrees with Joe the pinhead retard that a "flat tax" is a "remarkable" idea?
Please tell me how a flat tax is fair - I don't know much about it...but if Dickhead Hannity and Neil Boortz is for it something tells me it's a scam that favors the rich.
This was frgn' great! Someone in the news media needed to call this Joe the Jerk out, and Sanchez did just that!
Let's see more and more of this! My opinion of Rick Sanchez now has changed for the better!!!!!!!
I had passed off Sanchez as a right wing toadie not worth watching but i did enjoy that. Perhaps he can be redeemed. I cant handle John "JD"
Roberts anymore. I think he has to be the dumbest fucking Canadian alive anymore. The way he sold out to the frightwingers and how he gladly propels the crap for the GOP. You guys can keep him.
Oh, Lord, how I love this. The RNC should be banging its head against walls pretty soon.
Palin -Wurzelbacher 2012
It just keeps getting better!
pwnd!
...but the last few sentences might have been a bit much. He may be stupid when he runs his mouth off, but he's gotta have just an ounce of intelligence.
Other than that, Rick was spot on. Obama may have introduced us to him, as the conservatives will argue, but it was McCain/Palin that drilled him into our vernacular.
Sam's just a Reporter-Idol wannabe.
By the way, considering she hate fake journalism like anonymous bloggers, I wonder what Palin would say about Joe now!
No Obama didn't introduce Joe to us. Remember he showed up at Obama's rally to debate him on his proposed tax cuts. The MEDIA labelled him as an "Obama supporter" but I really think that he was McCain's plant. Notice how quickly he jumped on his bandwagon?
No, Joe is sadly becoming the punch line to the decimation that McCain and Palin properly deserved on Nov 4th.
Joe thinks that it's best that the people look the other way when it's government wants to wage war, or, I suspect, commit other horrors.
But Joe missed the talking point. It's only when REPUBLICAN governments want to wage war. In fact, when Republican governments want to do anything, it's best for the media and the people to be blind to what happens.
But the opposite is true when it's a Democratic government!!!
Joe missed the memo!!! Joe's head is going to explode next week when he finds out the rules have changed.
Joe the Plumber is reporting for Associated Press? You just can't make this stuff up.
What would Sam here know about war being hell? Probably the same as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michelle Malkin, Mike Weiner, etc.
Actually they all have a lot in common: They know nothing about plumbing, war, journalism, political discourse, functions of government and public policy, law, or human decency.
He fits the right-wing like a glove
...since Michelle Malkin is defending this guy.
Is not Forrest Gump is more like Slingblade, retarded and dangerous.
Ricky boy had a Keith Olbermann moment.
Can you imagine what the rest of the world thinks of us when "Joe the Plumber" is foisted upon them? Is this an American thing, or could another country produce a "Joe the Plumber?"
Did you see that fucking retard the other day lecturing journalists and reporters??? "I'm not the story - promise you'll be fair and write your stories putting Israel in the best light possible and making them look like the good guys...even if that isn't necessarily true"
I think the media is trying to turn him into another Hunter S. Thompson. A more evil, more ignorant version..
France is filled with Joe the Plumbers, along with Sweden, Russian, Japan, etc.. No, not really.
While there are many stupid people in the world, someone has embarrassingly stupid as "Joe" the "Plumber" could really have only come Bush's America.
Samuel needs a new name. His name is not Joe, and he is not a plumber.
For starters, how 'bout Samuel the Sod?
...GO AWAY!
We all produce assclowns. But the U.S. makes them President... twice.
They could be the same person. Have we seen them together at the same time?
Coulter is Batman, and Joe is Robin. Or wait, is Coulter Mr. Freeze, and is Joe the Penguin? No, wait - Cheney's the penguin; oh, what the hell, they're all interchangeable.
whoa.
add my name to the list... thank you, rick sanchez...
Bravo!
Yes Bravo!
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
So you concur then.
Amen.
Rick Sanchez was BORN in 1958 (i.e. USA-owned) Cuba.
Less than two years later, his parents took him to Hialeah and he grew up there.
There was no media censorship at the time Rick lived in Cuba, nor would he have had any experience whatsoever of it, had there been any.
Why can’t you just say, “Rick Sanchez, RAISED in the USA AND employed by CNN (or ANY other major media platform there) for some time now, KNOWS EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT MEDIA CENSORSHIP.
Its pathetic, you know, the sense of delusion that oozes from anywhere an “Amurican” behaves as such.
So, now Rick is a hero because he's taking on some poor piece of ignorant reporter wannabe republic right wing homunculus? Give me a break!
"So, now Rick is a hero because he's taking on some poor piece of ignorant reporter wannabe republic right wing homunculus?"
Yes, because he's the only one who DID!
Who put Joe the plumber's helper in Israel? At least Sanchez called him out. we'll see how well Sanchez does in the future but he got bonus points today.
On another note, Tweety called out Bush tonight pretty well. Unfortunately it was too little too late. Tweety carried a lot of water for Bush in the past. It was nice to hear though.
Its that rabble.
Bushco's bunch of rabid bloggers and amateur propagandists/liars.
Plumbers in the true sense of Howard E. Hunt.
Nowadays he would be just as good as any of the other so called journalists that kept us in the f!@#ing dark the last eight years.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield,Hannity, Limbaugh,Coulter,O'Reilly, Beck,Levine, Savage, Palin, and now..may we hear the drumroll, We now have,
"JOE THE PLUMBER"
Their hands having to go down deeper into the barrel, have they hit bottom?
They are the face of the Republican party that our younger generations identify as Republicanism. The more absurd and delusional they are the more the Right is marginalized. I love it every time something ignorant and hateful comes out of their mouths. Keep it coming blowhards and the neocreeps will be relegated to the shadows and dark places for years to come.
don't know what to call you. Sam/Joe, you've given me the opportunity to say something I have never said in earnest always in jest. But today I say it in earnest.
Sam/Joe, it is better to thought an a$$hole, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Words to live by from now on.
Rick experienced when having himself tazed obviously remind him he has balls every rare once in a while. He was sure rooting around like they were acorns during the election.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I don't know anything about Rick Sanchez because I live in Canada, but he really knocked this one out of the park.
but you know,its Joe the Plumber.
Kinda like beating Cloris Leachman in a Boxing match.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
or in her Miss America prime? I'm not sure Rick would have the guts for the latter.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
he would have smacked down others who practiced journalism without credentials. Russert and Matthews come to mind. Oh, they were network anchors. Doesn't count.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Geraldo lite. Tasty and tazered.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Wikipedia says Rick Sanchez was born in 1958 and that his parents emigrated to the US in the 50's.
So no, he doesn't really know any more about media censorship for being Cuban.
LMAO
That was beautiful. Thank you, Mr. Sanchez!
Joe the poseur.
Joe the amateur.
Let's make every move he makes seem like the amateur he is. His comments on war correspondents are laughable.
Put him in the trash bin of history.
Joe The Joke and Jeff Gannon must have been separated at birth. Two ugly, bald 'know it all' dick heads who just can't STFU!
And neither is nor ever was a journalist.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
Im geniunely surprised it took this long before a real journalist told Puff the Magic Plumber to suck it.
Anyone else getting a bit sick of all the Olberman-esque rants happening recently? I mean, with Campbell Brown and now Rick Sanchez starting having their own "special comments", I would prefer that they took Rachael Maddow's lead and have more informed reporting rather than outrage. Although, after 8 years of Dubya, It makes me wish they had found their anger earlier.
+1
I appreciate Rick's anger but it would be much better aimed at rethugs and the terrible damage they've done to this country and the world.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
edit: Oops, this was supposed to be in reply to: Thu, 01/15/2009 - 17:28 — sqr1
ugh... Sanchez? lol
I'll give you that this was hilarious and right. "Joe" is making an ass of himself... I mean complete buffoonery
Sanchez though? He's a bit pompous, I don't really expect much out of him.
there was nothing caustic or abusive in sanchez' remarks... and compared to the crap that joe schmoe and the rethugs have been spewing which even then can be considered mild compared to the downright rude and ignorant commentary by coulter or limbaugh or hannity or oreilly or much of the religious reich, he was practically behaving like a brit with effusive but firm politeness...
he stayed on point and stuck to the facts... if you think his remarks constitute vitriol, how do you regard the examples i cited....?... are you a shrinking violet and suffer a quivering numbness when they speak or are you setting up a double-standard...?... because, if his comments are vitriol, i'd be quite pleased to see more of it and particularly if the reichtards could stick to such a standard of "vitriol"...
We can thank John McCain for giving Joe the Idiot a launching platform, and of course whatever conservative idiots are continuing his 15 minutes of fame. After all, who's paying this guy's bills? I couldn't afford to quite my job and buy a ticket to Israel. This is just another example of right wing lunacy at its best, or maybe I should say worst. Obviously, whoever is funding Joe must be doing so because there's something in it for them. Right wingers are just too stupid to be embarrassed, just like they're too stupid to be embarrassed by Sarah Palin.
Obliterated!
NOBODY 2012
Joe the Idiot is one seriously nasty democracy-hating anti-American douchebag!
war is hell, huh, Samuel? Have you ever been in uniform and been in war yourself? You dip.
According to Bush we were "in a recession" when he took office...'course from what I remember he started with a balanced budget and $30 million surplus.
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Rick is obviously relishing being the smartest guy in the room. Does not happen too often with Rick...
"you guys report where our troops are at"
hey sam , uh , i mean joe... correspondents for the most part have a pedigree in journalism, right? that intails having a grasp of proper grammar. never, and i mean never end a sentence in a preposition.
Well, at least he WAS...in large part, for the last 8 years.
If you had a BBQ on your block every year and this guy showed up without fail the last 8 times, and the other neighbors stopped showing up at your BBQs, how would you try to win those neighbors back?
Fingers crossed for better days ahead.
i applaud him for putting "Joe" in his place, but starting out with statistics of dead journalists is a terrible argument. If I were "Joe", the first thing I'd be thinking is "See! Another good reason for journalists to stay home!" There are many better arguments Sanchez could make without bringing that up. Too bad.
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