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thinkprogress.org - 1/12/2009

Joe the Plumber: ‘I think media should be abolished’ from reporting on war.

— thinkprogress.org — Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber,” is currently in Israel covering the war for the conservative... site PJTV.com . When asked what he has learned from his new experiences as a journalist , Wurzelbacher said that he believes the media ... (more) Joe the Plumber: ‘I think media should be abolished’ ...

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Roger Ailes — Is This The End of Depends Media? G.I. Joe the Plumber is out to prove that Sharia Palin isn't the dullest knife in the G.O.P. cutlery drawer: "I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting." The kind folks at Depends Media got Joe his passport and his shots, and this is how he repays them? You're giving trained monkeys a bad name, Wurzelbacher.

"Those douchebags from two months ago: Where are they now?"
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com — ... with a right-wing pundit was the inspiration for this week's comic, but the last 24 hours have put a lot of focus on Joe the Plumber, who has apparently decided to spend every second of his fifteen minutes to challenge the validity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection by existing. In the time between his quote in the comic and press time, Joe has gone over to Israel, where his first major war reportage has been to spend two minutes whining about how there shouldn't be war coverage. Meanwhile, the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer is going to go bankrupt. I ...

Joe The Plumber, Reconsidered
Oliver Willis — ... I changed my mind. Let Joe keep “reporting” and talking. We need for the average American to understand the depraved babbling that passes for intelligence on the right. Go Joe. ...

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
N/A — Joe the Plumber/Reporter goes to war to report reporters who are not plumbers should not report on war.  Let us now plumb the depths of dumb.  The dumbing down will continue. If the last eight years in the wilderness of ignorance teach us anything, anybody can be a reporter when any idiot can be president.

Glenn Reynolds Goes To War
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Well, it's Joe The Plumber, but the spirit is the same: "I'll be honest with you. I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed 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. You know, I liked back in World War I and World War II when you'd go to the theater and you'd see your troops on, you know, the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for 'em. Now everyone's got an opinion and wants to downer, ah, down soldiers. ...

Joe the Polymath
If I Ran the Zoo — He's not just an ace war correspondent; he's also an economic expert and political strategist. Is there no end to this man's accomplishments?

Joe the Varied Tradesman
Shakesville — ... One can only assume that the Conservative Working Group was dazzled by Wurzelbacher work as a pseudo-war correspondent for a right-wing website. He did, after all, insist that journalists shouldn't be allowed to cover a war, in part because reporters "make a big deal" over events on the ground. Wurzelbacher added, "I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting." ...