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Pajamas Media sending Joe the Plumber to the Middle East


Now this pisses me off at Israel:

[Joe the Plumber] Wurzelbacher plans to spend 10 days in Israel reporting on the conflict for pjtv.com, a Web site run by conservative media outlet Pajamas Media.

The famous plumber will be focusing on the Israeli perspective on the situation. “It’s tragic, I mean it really is,” Wurzelbacher told CNN affiliate WNWO “I don’t say that in any little way. It’s very tragic, but at the same time what are the Israeli people supposed to do.”

Wurzelbacher told WNWO he’s not worried about the potential dangers of his new gig. “Being a Christian I’m pretty well protected by God I believe. That’s not saying he’s going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance,” he told the CNN affiliate.

“Israeli officials are very excited to have him,” [Joe's publicist, Thomas] Tabback told CNN.

I see Joe’s been taking classes from the Sarah Palin School of Conclusory Responses.

Oh! Must not forget: Hattip to Jillian C. York’s tweet.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:57 pm January 7th, 2009 in Blogging, Gaza, Israel, Media, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Writing, middle east 

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7 Responses to “Pajamas Media sending Joe the Plumber to the Middle East”

  1. 1 The Reverend on January 7th, 2009 5:04 pm

    Joe’s not the scary one here….and you should be pissed at this…

    “Israeli officials are very excited to have him,”

    Excited to have a moronic opportunist doing hacktacular reporting on a terrible crisis.

    But the kicker is this…

    “Being a Christian I’m pretty well protected by God I believe.”

    Christians, Muslims and Jews find solidarity in their belief in the God of Abraham. The One God.

    How would Joe’s Christian God know whom to protect out of all his worshippers?

    The whole thing has become a non-entertaining circus.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on January 7th, 2009 5:06 pm

    Reverend – that’s exactly the line I’m talking about – the first one you quote. The other is doofus-y too but you know, that’s what Joe the War Correspondent said. The other was from his publicist – guess that guy is really earning his keep, huh?

  3. 3 Chuck Butcher on January 7th, 2009 7:39 pm

    What happens if you stop to think about how this reflects on the US.

  4. 4 John Curry on January 7th, 2009 7:45 pm

    Jill….cheer up, there’s a golden side to this new job for Joe. When he’s over there – at least he’s not over here!

  5. 5 Madrigal Maniac on January 7th, 2009 10:35 pm

    When will this guy realize his 15 minutes are up. Does he not see that he just looks ignorant.

    “It’s tragic, I mean it really is,” Wurzelbacher told CNN affiliate WNWO “I don’t say that in any little way.”

    Really Joe! We know you don’t mean in a little way, the word tragic implies you mean that it in any big way.

  6. 6 ClintJCL on January 10th, 2009 1:39 pm

    You gotta love how the Republicans rallied behind him, whining that anyone who runs a business making $250,000 would suddenly now not be able to be rich because their taxes would increase so much (wow, even if I paid %60 percent taxes on $250,000, I’d still be making far more money than I made as a computer programmer!).

    Of course it turns out that he was (allegedly) unlicensed, which meant he was avoiding paying licensing fees and taxes on his business.

    So there you go. The Republicans rallied behind a criminal. An illegal contractor. By the way, illegal contractors do a lot more to make americans lives miserable than Iraq or Al Queda. Unlike reading about things in the newspaper, real people lose their houses and have marriages fail over bad contractors. I went through a 4 year ordeal to get a 3-month contract executed, and guess what? No lawyer or government entity is going to help you even when you’re out $15,000 extra and 2 yrs of your life.

    So they sent a criminal over there to a war zone; let’s hope a mortar falls on his sorry ass to protect the american lives he was going to screw up when coming back to america and being an (allegedly) illegal plumber.

  7. 7 Tyler on January 13th, 2009 11:59 pm

    I’m not one of those elitists who began criticizing Joe’s credentials as a reporter even before he completed his first interview.

    I think there are people out there who carry better judgments and journalistic integrity than some of these so-called mainstream journalists with a Journalism Degree.

    Unfortunately, Joe proved himself NOT to be one of those outstanding individuals. And in fact, the skeptics were right, and that Joe really doesn’t understand journalistic neutrality, and boldly claimed media had no business in wars.

    Sad.

    Joe-The-Journalist: FAIL!

    http://www.blables.com/article/?a=39

    - Tyler
    —————–
    Blables.com – Makes You Think

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