I wish I could, dear Lucy, but it appears that Joe the Plumber, AKA Sam Wurzelbacher, is going to hang around like a nasty rash. He's got a new gig: correspondent for some outfit called PJTV, reporting from Israel about the recent conflict. Here he is talking to an Israeli reporter. The video is followed by a transcript of part of his comments. (Please be patient with the video--it took a few moments for it to load for me.)
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I'll be honest with you. I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war (sic). 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 them. 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.
AH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAHHHHHH!
Joe, not only do you have but a tenuous grasp of grammar and of public speaking, you are talking about yourself. You're there as part of the media, you dumbass! At one point, standing in front of a pile of spent rockets, he had this to say:
I have thousands of questions but I can't think of the right one.
Great googly-moogly! This guy is traveling the world as a representative of the American media! For any of my readers outside the U.S., I implore you to not judge us based on Joe the Plumber. Please forgive us this trespass. I am mortified that this ignoramus is styling himself as some kind of actual reporter. "Media should be abolished from reporting." What?!
Isn't that kind of...you know...what they do?
Oh my God, I am caught in a strange state of combined hilarity, disgust, and embarrassment. With a dollop of horror thrown in there. I don't know whether to laugh or vomit! Okay, I'll stick with laughter. I kind of want to hear more from him, because this is downright entertaining! In a train wreck sort of way.
