How does that old saying go? "When you’re a complete blithering idiot, stop digging"? Anyway, something like that. Unfortunately, Joe The Plumber Author War Correspondent has apparently never heard it, something he demonstrates on a daily basis. And as much as I hate to extend his sixteenth minute of fame, The Stupid is just too burny.
Sunday, as you may remember, he explained that "I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war" (yes, those are his exact words):
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.
Fair enough, but however would we get our war news? Today, Joe The Neocon offered this clarification of his prior remarks:
I think the military should decide what information to give the media and then the media can release it to the public. I don’t believe they need to be in the front lines with soldiers, I don’t believe they need to, uh, you know, be bothering the military for information or for access to certain areas.
And there you have it. The media should simply act as the military’s PR firm. Not only will they no longer have to make pests of themselves by getting all up in the military’s business, but they’ll be a lot safer too. Better yet, if we simply trust in the DoD’s editorial judgment, no-one need ever get upset by unpleasant stories about Pat Tillman or Gitmo or Abu Ghraib ever again. We’ll all be much happier, which will make us want to shop more, which will help the economy. Everybody wins!
It’s just this kind of bold, outside-the-box thinking and commitment to freedom that makes Joe The Whatever-He-Is-This-Week such a great American.
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Er, the media should be abolished from reporting? Well, there goes the first amendment.
eli, leave it to you to come up with just the right take on the minds of these fools
The First Amendment is totally holding us back.
Eli, I think he only wants to abolish media who are in the reality-based world. Repiglicans don’t count.
Joe can start with himself. Quit Now Joe! You are part of the problem Joe!
Anybody know what level of education Joe received? By any chance was he a third grade dropout at age 22?
What is wrong with this guy??? Lack of brain cells it seems.
TB, you have my sympathy – the Shrub is coming back to you in a week.
Samuel Wurzelbacher is the best right-wing journalist since James Dale Guckert.
If you watch the video at the first link, it’s pretty obvious that he really is just a random idiot with a microphone. He might actually make Jeff Gannon look like a credible journalist by comparison.
Heh.
Isn’t that pretty much what the result of the embedded media was?
Well, that used to be called – Stupid!!
Except for a few instances, the American Mainstream Media has performed exactly according to JTP’s brilliant suggestion.
Not good enough, obviously.
I think they were separated at birth…or else..Guckert is his mentor.
The few instances are what he has a problem with.
Joe would probably say we shouldn’t disrespect Gannon. The man was a soldier, he knows how to operate in the trenches…
IMHO the media has abolished themselves in the last 8 years…… so either it is embedded reporters who end up with stockholm syndrome
Yea, but Joe the P hasn’t been invited for a stay over at the white house yet. He better hurry.
i’m gonna go with amira hass: “What journalism is really about – it’s to monitor power and the centers of power.”
Tonight, President-elect Barack Obama had dinner with some prominent conservatives at columnist George Will’s house.
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder reports:
He motorcaded to a house in Maryland this evening, and if the press pool report is accurate, he is breaking bread with William Kristol and David Brooks.
Are we going to discover that he’s an escort and has a website too???
The U.S. mainstream media made themselves irrelevant long before that, which is why we have to rely on foreign news sources to tell us anything about all the “collateral damage.”
I love change.
There goes the neighborhood.
Probably having wiener wraps.
This is an industry where the likes of O’Really and Hannity can make a successful multimillion dollar career out of the right combination of lies, half-truths, blatent contradictions, non-sequiters, character assassination, and bile. I’m sure Joe will do just fine.
Eli !
Brilliant title … nice to have a male with Britney Spears’ mindset in such a position …
JTP is a whore. We already knew that. His “suggestion” comes from orders from high command – the billionaire fascists who paid for him. Neither Israel nor the US want uncensored reports. Reporting is bad for business.
Talk about bottom feeders. He’s scraping the bottom of the cesspool now.
Breaking news story: Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
I think so too. I’ll be the whole original meeting was a set-up.
Sure reminds me of Jeff…
Into the Hornet’s Nest so soon ?
Dubya meets with right-wing pundits, Obama meets with right-wing pundits.
*Before* he meets with progressive pundits. Nice to know where we stand.
minus the “I think” part I’m sure those lines came out of the IDF briefing card he was handed in exchange for his press pass… the Glen Beck school of reporting.
Petro!
Tonight’s blog madam moment. Snarkassandra’s latest: How much is your virginity worth?
Finally change we can believe in!
Isn’t whore net the preferred network of Beltway pundits?
I’m still amazed that anyone could say shit like that with a straight face, and no qualms or second thoughts at all.
Methinks that the Drāno went to his brain.
Blurring the lines…it feels like newly-poured jello…
He is actually dumber than your average wingnut and that is saying something.
sad, isn’t it?
LMAO
ain’t that the truth?
Have we been had?…or Are they being had?
That is the question.
Digg it.
Wait. What happened to the country music career?
I listened to his stuff. He’s trying to repeat Limbaugh, Hannity and Billo, problem is that he never really understood what they were saying…
Nah, that’s what all the Very Serious Bobbleheads say. Joe just hasn’t learned to only say it out of ear shot of the riff-raff.
Do we have to answer that question?
Any port in a storm.
I’m ashamed to admit there were no bidders present at my auction.
Bon Soir mon ami !
He’s trying to head to the right of ‘em.
Apparently Joe is too stupid to know what a fool he is making of himself. He must be related to Sarah, even if he doesn’t know it.
When was that … after the 40 day flood ? *g*
I would have been perfectly happy to give it away. Repeatedly.
Yeah well, he’s getting his frakkin’ Book published before mine … I should ditch all you troublemakers and hang out with real patriots like Joe & Sarah ! *G*
LOL! My problem too.
Saw the headline at Huffpo, TexB, but couldn’t bring myself to read it.
He has been in over his head since he first oozed onto the scene, but he doesn’t seem to be aware of it.
His other real name is “Toe the Plumber”.
Just one of the many perks of being a hermit.
OMFG !!!
I’ve lost 3 glasses of Shiraz cuz of you guys …
Someone at the local dog warden’s office said just about the same words to me when I told them I’d read online about a worker who had quit, and who was concerned about conditions at the animal shelter.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to write stuff and put it where people can see it!”
I told them it was like..a right.
And I had just been worried about the animals and wondered if they needed extra help.
Rotten. The world is changing in your favor, though.
sad that virginity is your condition.
LOL
707 … et tu Elliott ?
Joe’s certainly got the journamalism model down right. Must have learned something in plumbing school. Oh, I forgot, he didn’t actually to plumbing school, just like hne didn’t go to journamalism school, though if he had he probably would be spouting the same line.
Still, it’s nice to see the mirror of wingnut thinking. Daddy State.
I might just be getting forgetful.
Touche !
Obama shut JTP down handily. JTP lied about his income, lied about buying the plumbing shop, and lied about his ability to pay for the plumbing shop.
It is not known whether JTP got picked up by the Palin/McCain camp before or after the Obama exchange. We do know that the MSMedia helped to catapult the propaganda, even as we knew the facts had been ignored and a false narrative was created. Now, Media Frankenstein JTP has been picked up by undisclosed right-wing Sugar Daddies thru Pajamas Media. JTP is a whore paid to say whatever they want him to say.
You’re implying there is something to understand. I think he’s got the patter down pat.
by the way, if you are in montreal, we should get together.
Anybody know if Joe has sired offspring? One would
expecthope the product of so much inbreeding would be sterile.Wasn’t there also something about his “relative” GOP guy..I don’t remember the details.
Jeebus … lost my 4th glass of Shiraz … well worth it, though …
Oh yes, and their names are:
Jock
Joke
Joe Jr.
Joe I
Joe
II2Joe
III3Joe
MVII5I hope the dinner party is going well, by which I mean I hope Will’s toupee fell in the soup.
I think that might have been a hoax, actually. There’s some bizarre right-wing blogger (or prankster) who was claiming to be a former McCain strategist, and he said all kinds of weird shit.
What did he name the boys?
Hell, THEY never really understood what they were saying so how could Joe the P?
Probably. I think all of it is a hoax! Heh, heh.
Max Blumenthal, who stayed with Ms ET and me this fall, covering people who think Sarah Palin is a reincarnation of Queen Esther from the Bible, made a video Sunday of a pro-Israel Rally in NYC.
Best. Max. Yet!
Gad, that is painful to watch. “They are forcing us to kill their children to defend our children.”
Good Evening Sir !
Well done Max !
The old “Look what you made me do!” argument.
I’m back. Two things.
First, did you know that they have a new one? F*sters Premium Ale. Dark kind.
Secondly, I swear, I started to grab two. One for me one for you.
Like, virtual reality and hard reality merged.
How weird am I?
Max combines a dry wit (used against the witless – that was really easy to do in Wasilla), deep research on his subject matter, brutal honesty in his comeback questions, and a fearless approach.
wow. wow. wow.
It is an incredible video. So many irrational, indefensible statements by fine upstanding Americans.
It is very impressive. Kudos to Max.
We do not need Joe anyway. The technology of UAV’s, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles allows coverage of war in real time. We want our wars live and in color on the teevee!
I hope a lot of people watch that video. Phil Weiss posted it today, commenting:
But Max doesn’t ask the same kind of penetrating questions as JTP!
“Blumenthal has fully exposed the craziness behind the Jewish response to Gaza”….
and then some.
Dare I ask if your friend is getting anything resemblilng MSM coverage?
ET, wow. Love Blumenthal. Thanks.
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Not unlike Joe The Scarborough.
True. Absolutely.
He’s been on Democracy Now, and I think he’s been on Maddow or Olbermann. I predict he will be on more important venues.
Max works really, really hard. When he was staying with us, I got up a couple mornings for work and he was still writing and pre-editing from the night before.
The comparisons to the Holocaust are, like, Ultimate Perspective Fail.
Jebus.
LOL … doG willing, we’ll toast for real, shortly !
When it happens, it will be a wonderful event. Maybe we can get Loo Hoo to join us.
Definitely !
Wow. What a video. I see a mentality that says “never again” based on real memories of fear…actually similar to the reaction of the far right in this country to 9/11…which is really alarming in itself…
The fear is not irrational. The fear has been funneled into the evolution of policies that are actually destructive to those that have been traumatized…then the response becomes irrational. It is like a cycle of violence…they killed us…so we have to kill them more…they kill us more…so we have to overkill them…eradicate them. They are becoming the very mindset that killed them during WWII… Well, I knew that already…the thing is…how to stop the cycle of fear and revenge.
Seriously, I keep saying…we need a psychological commission on people suffering from war crimes…all war crimes. People are just people trying to survive. Their reaction is understandable, considering the history. The reaction and actions of the Palestinians is every bit as valid…that is the missing link…the world seems to place the Israeli actions somehow more valid because of the magnitude of their losses in WWII, but consider this….6 million were Jewish…5-6 million that were killed during WWII were not..they were political dissidents, gypsies, gay, etc. Where is their voice? Violence against humanity is a crime against humanity, no matter what ethnicity you are…not to mention what has happened in Africa and the Balkans…Murder is murder. We are humanity…not segmented beings…No one person is “more” precious than any other. Period.
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Great comment. I call this multi-generational PTSD
Joe The Pinhead is no Joe Pyne
Moron.
Joe the Celebrity will be around for as long as people enjoy mocking him.