Joe the PlumberWar Reporter, checking in from Israel, says reporters shouldn’t be reporting on war:
“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-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. 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.“
What do you expect from a guy whose real name is Samuel Wurzelbacher, and doesn’t even have a plumbing license?
Next he’ll be saying that science reporters shouldn’t report on global climate change because, you know, they make a big deal out of it. The media should be abolished from covering it because they want to “downer” the oil and coal companies for making the planet a little more comfy for the rest of us. Energy production is hell, you know. You don’t know half the story behind it, it’s all just so asine, and…
i wonder if joe the plumber is going to have to duke it out with jeff gannon for a national press award.
But it’s so much more comforting for some to wallow in propaganda – To feel that, in spite of their whole lives being inconsequential and steeped in mediocrity, that they are important – because they have aligned their thinking and actions ‘correctly’ with authority.
And here is this little man, a vestige of ignorance’s domain over the 20th century, proudly catapulting his self-contradictions in a grasping attempt to become something other than a pallid footnote to a failed ideology’s terminal political miscalculation.
Dance, puppet, dance. Amuse us a while longer. Soon, the public’s hunger will want much more than you can offer.
Did I miss it? Is there a quota America has to fill requiring us to have a particular number of ignorant assholes holding microphones pretending to be reporters??
There’s a reason Curly doesn’t have a plumbing license.