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Joe The Genius Soldiers On
Oliver Willis —
The gold continues.
I think the military should decide what information to give the media and then the media can release it to the public.
Your right wing media, in action. ...
Dies irae, Pt. II
Sadly, No! —
... OH THE HUMANITY:
Joe the Plumber plunges deeper: ‘Military should decide what information to give the media.’
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WURZELBACHER: You don’t need to see what’s happening every day, that’s my personal opinion, you don’t have to share it. But, you know, okay, you don’t have to see, you know, 800 dead, 801 dead. It’s like they drill that in your head. … They want you to sit there saying there are so many people dying. You know these are large, these are numbers, you know I don’t want to take away from that. Let me, uh, think ...
Joe the Plumber for Senate? Palin/Plumber in 2012?
Politics Daily —
... 2012, when Sarah Palin is casting about for a running mate, the Dems can leak memo after memo about how afraid they are that she'll pick Joe. As I said before, this isn't to ensure a Democratic victory in 2012. The mere existence of life on Earth assures that. No, this is out of my own selfish desire to have my job made absurdly easy and fun. It would be a bag of perfect storms. Joe is the selfless gift that keeps on giving. Here's his latest: (from Think Progress) WURZELBACHER: you don't need to see what's happening every ...
Brandon Friedman: Distraught Conservatives Retreating into the Realm of Fantasy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . Of course, if you've heard the guy open his mouth, you know this is, indeed, fantasy. But it had to be done. When the bad news delivered by the likes of Nic Robertson, Michael Ware, and Christiane Amanpour reached a crescendo for conservatives toward the end of October, they decided to invent their own reporter. In their own minds, they pined for one who wouldn't challenge their long-held beliefs that Arabs are Muslims and Muslims are bad, that Saddam did 9/11, and that there was no way a man named Barack Hussein Obama could ever be elected as President of the United ...
Plumby F. Baby
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Jesse Taylor
What happens when a political movement that has revolved around open antipathy to any aspect of the First Amendment that results in said movement being criticized sends its folk hero to the Promised Land to report on what’s happening?
Hilariously stupid shit, that’s what.
“You don’t need to see what’s happening every day, that’s my personal opinion, you don’t have to share it. But, you know, okay, you don’t have to see, you know, 800 dead, 801 dead. It’s like they drill that in your head. … They want ...
Natural Sciences (and Un-)
The Democratic Daily —
... 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… ) ...
Going … Going …
The Mahablog —
I’m kind of swamped this morning. Here are some suggested topics for discussion among yourselves:
Is there a bigger ass in the world than Joe the Plumber?
If there is a bigger ass in the world than Joe the Plumber, might it be Sarah Palin?
Nice Harold Meyerson column on bailing out banks.
Goats burn down home, cat missing. What did the goats have against the cat?
More Media Wisdom From Joe The Plumber
Weekly Standard Blog —
... and harkened back to the days when war news was shown in theaters on grainy film. Yesterday, Joe told us that all information from a warzone should be filtered by the military, which doesn't need to be bothered by the media in the first place. ThinkProgress provides the transcript of the segment in question (PJTV requires registration to view the video; my recommendation is you don't subject yourself to watching it): ...
He just keeps talking
Political Animal —
... that journalists shouldn't be allowed to cover a war, in part because reporters "make a big deal" over events on the ground, and in part because media professionals want to "down soldiers." Wurzelbacher added, "I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting." Yesterday, he explained what he meant. "[Y]ou don't need to see what's happening every day, that's my personal opinion, you don't have to share it. But, you know, okay, you don't have to see, you know, 800 dead, 801 dead. It's like they drill that in your head.... They want you to sit there saying there ...
