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J.D. JOHANNES: Underwhelmed with Joe the Reporter. Two words: Ashleigh Banfield….
Instapundit — J.D. JOHANNES: Underwhelmed with Joe the Reporter. Two words: Ashleigh Banfield.

"By making a 15-minute-of-fame political media celebrity its point man in Israel, PJTV took a risk and they've now been bitten by it."
Althouse — "Joe is now the face of PJTV. His saying that reporters should not be with front line soldiers undercuts any effort by PJTV to put reporters on the front lines of a war." J.D. Johannes is — rightly — taking this personally. Via Instapundit – and I appreciate seeing the Pajamas Media bloggers deviate from the promoting the project. ...

Plumby F. Baby
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... That’s Joseph T. Plumber on the proper role of the military in what he seems to think is some sort of military dictatorship.  Conservative warbloggers are, predictably, incensed. ...

Natural Sciences (and Un-)
The Democratic Daily — ... in Bob’s nature to make these sorts of impassioned and ultimately irrational arguments, and he just can’t help himself. Still, SOMEBODY’S sure insistent on pushing that MSM is illegitimate meme, and that any dumb rube can do anything. (Joe the Plumb-bob seems to be sticking his foot in his mouth more than wearing out the shoe leather in his Hemingwayesque War Correspondenting… ) An actual war correspondent writes on Outside the Wire: Joe the Plumber–Out of His ...

PJM Goes Hollywood On Israel?
Riehl World View — Via Hot Air headlines from JD Johannes: Joe the Plumber--Out of His Depth I hadn't been following this. So with several ex-military bloggers potentially available, even assuming a Yon, Roggio, Johannes, or whomever weren't, PJM put up dough to send a plumber who is this year's personality fad to Israel in an effort to cover the fighting? I don't think opting for name recognition over substance best serves PJM in this case, or new media as a whole. But balancing credibility against traffic is often going to ...

He just keeps talking
Political Animal — ... keep drilling it into your head, newscast after newscast after newscast. "I think the military should decide what information to give the media and then the media can release it to the public. I don't believe they need to be in the front lines with soldiers, I don't believe they need to, uh, you know, be bothering the military for information or for access to certain areas." Over at Outside The Wire, conservative blogger JD Johannes, who has reported from the front lines, has seen just about enough of Wurzelbacher. By making a 15-minute-of-fame political media celebrity its ...

Joe the Bummer: Fifteen minutes never felt so long
Pundit Review — ... We can’t roll back the mass access to print, television, the Internet, cell phones, etc. and push the news on grainy films at the theater. The real irony here is that PJTV, a 21st Century, Internet-based news organization is sending a reporter–who doesn’t want reporters to report on war–to report on a war. And apparently Joe would love to return to the days when the news was influenced by the government and seen at the theater. Another outstanding milblogger and embedded reporter, JD Johannes , had this to say, PJTV, the first majorly funded new media venture of its kind, ...

JOE THE PLUMBER UPDATE: J.D. JOHANNES UPDATES his criticism from yesterday — it seems that Joe’s r…
Instapundit — ... JOE THE PLUMBER UPDATE: J.D. JOHANNES UPDATES his criticism from yesterday — it seems that Joe’s remarks on war embeds were misreported. Go figure. I suspect that Joe will have more to say about this on the show tomorrow. I guess ...

alicublog — ... . This calls for some first class spin. So The Plumber's handler, Roger L. Simon, reached out to JD Johannes, the normally reliable operative at Outside the Wire, who had expressed some annoyance at The Plumber's statement. "Evidently I've stirred a few things up," Johannes began his apology, and graciously updated his post. ...