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–and down soldiers. You know, American soldiers or Israeli soldiers.
Reminds me of Michelle Bachman.
I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting. You know, war is hell. And if you’re gonna sit there and say, “Well look at this atrocity,” well you don’t know the whole story behind it half the time, so I think the media should have no business in it.
Did you know that Joe the Plumber made the Beast’s list of the 50 most loathsome people in America? He’s number 20:
Charges: The Che Guevara of bald, pissed off white men. In a lot of ways, Samuel Wurzelbacher really does represent the average American—basing economic opinions on unrealistic expectations of personal future success, blaming his failure to meet those expectations on minorities and old people, complaining about deadbeats getting his taxes when he isn’t actually paying his taxes, and advertising his own rudimentary historical and mathematical ignorance by warning of creeping socialism in a country whose highest income tax rate has dropped by half in thirty years. “Joe” indeed symbolizes the true American dream—to become undeservedly rich and famous through a dizzyingly improbable stroke of luck. As American folk heroes go, Wurzelbacher ranks somewhere between Hulk Hogan and Bernie Goetz.
Exhibit A: “Social Security is a joke…social security I’ve never believed in, don’t like it. I hate that it’s forced on me.”
Sentence: After blowing his fifteen minutes and all his money on coke and Thai hookers, an infirm, elderly Joe finds that social security actually is a joke, and is finally forced to snake toilets for a living.
As Atrios points out - Joe doesn’t piss liberals off. On the contrary, we just like to laugh at him.
Joe the Plumber is McCain's revenge. He's the Kato Kaelin of the 2008 campaign, minus the whore bingeing with Charlie Sheen.
Posted by: Grace Nearing | January 13, 2009 at 01:50 AM
Yeah, 'cos if journalists aren't allowed to cover a war zone then the Americans and Israelis could get away with war crimes. That's the spirit, Joe!
Posted by: Agi | January 13, 2009 at 06:32 AM
'Down the soldiers?" Joe the Asshole! why doesn't some Israeli tank run over the SOB!
Posted by: mandt | January 13, 2009 at 07:39 AM
I'm a liberal, and Joe pisses me off. Why? Because he makes plumbers everywhere look like borderline-retarded, angry bigot assholes. My husband is a plumber (yes, it's personal) and he would never be stupid enough to believe the dumb shit Joe shoots his mouth off about. He's an intelligent person with an amazing grasp of physics (which *liscensed* plumbers have to have in order to do their jobs), astrophysics and mechanics, and he's currently building a biplane. Joe can go die in a fire.
Posted by: Magical Shrimp | January 13, 2009 at 07:55 AM
can we leave him there? don't they need shitty plumbers ? damn he is a moron...
Posted by: enigma4ever | January 13, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Some one should ask the plumber if he is a man of principle why he hasn't resigned as a war correspondent.
I bet Hannity is proud of his little "plumber" turned "journalist."
Posted by: JMacdonald | January 15, 2009 at 02:50 AM