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Joe the Plumber Touches Down in Israel
The Moderate Voice —
... .” I invite you to read and comment. For an opposing perspective, you are also encouraged to read the companion, contrasting piece by Bob Owens, “Pro-Joe: Plumber’s Trip to Israel Scares the Establishment Media.” ...
The Red Badge Of Plumbage
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... Bob Owens compares Joe to Stephen Crane, dynamo war correspondent and author of The Red Badge of Courage. Because as we all know, The Red Badge of Courage was written after a highly publicized week-long publicity junket where Crane stood around and asked bizarre, pointless questions with his mouth gaping open, and then filed a dispatch declaring that he shouldn’t be allowed to do the job he was being paid to do. ...
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
N/A —
... If the last eight years in the wilderness of ignorance teach us anything, anybody can be a reporter when any idiot can be president. ...
Plumbing In Sderot
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Bob Owens defends Joe The Plumber: I don’t know
if he can craft a coherent sentence or conduct an revealing interview.
And perhaps he’ll be an absolute disaster as a journalist, even as he’s
created a PR explosion for PJTV. Owens is surely right to express a healthy skepticism toward journalists who create some kind of priestly, professional caste for themselves and believe amateurs should be deterred. As an early passionate believer in citizen-journalism, I couldn't agree more with him. But what that really means is that we shouldn't ...
Joe the Plumber Exposes Blatantly Pro-Hamas Israeli Reporter
Firedoglake —
... Busted! Joe really showed that fancy-pants guy from Reuters, didn't he? No wonder the establishment media's scared. I mean, how dare this so-called "journalist" not clearly state his personal thoughts and beliefs on the air. Isn't that his job? ...
Joe the Plumber in Israel
Confederate Yankee —
Joe the Plumber in Israel Pajamas Media published a pair of articles today about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (a.k.a. "Joe the Plumber") going to Israel for ten days to talk to Israelis and provide commentary for PJTV . I wrote the pro-Joe article three days ago; Jazz Shaw wrote the anti-Joe article since then. In my post, I don't think I made any unreasonable demands of the man whom admirers like to refer to as "JTP." Im not expecting Pyle's humanizing folksiness, nor Yon's gritty incisiveness, nor Crane's vivid imagery from Wurzelbacher. I don't ...
Sarah The Governor
Balloon Juice —
... It’s really kind of amazing. Even after Republicans decided that the media, edumificated ‘experts’ and wide majorities of the American people all hate them (they do), the GOP still thinks it can win by childishly spiting everyone on its enemies list. Maybe they’re the allegorical scorpion who knows that stabbing the frog won’t win any national elections; but, on the other hand…frog. ...
BREAKING: Tito the Builder to Volunteer in the Israeli Defense Forces
Whiskey Fire —
... Michelle Malkin, who has so far raised $60.34 toward Builder's trip through her website, said, "Apparently the media think a common man can't leave his country to wash dishes and empty bedpans in another one. Well sucks to their ass-mar, because it's actually a noble calling. And I say that without any irony at all." Meanwhile, Bob Owens says Builder "strikes fear in the heart of the IDF establishment, which doesn't realize how helpful Tito could be to its cause." ...
Disclosure.
INSTAPUTZ —
... JOE THE PLUMBER IN ISRAEL: Views both pro and con. I’d just say that the professionals who have been covering the mideast have set the bar for journalism pretty low . . . . ...
Brandon Friedman: Distraught Conservatives Retreating into the Realm of Fantasy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... around Israel with a microphone, conservatives are witnessing the reincarnation of Ernie Pyle before their very eyes. Of course, if you've heard the guy open his mouth, you know this is, ...
