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Joe The Plumber - In the Line of Fire (Or, First Sign of the Apocalypse, Continued)

“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” Wurzelbacher said. “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.”

*points* I'd like us all to ponder these words of wisdom. By the Not-Plumber Who Evaded Taxes. And became a reporter. In Israel. About the conflict in Gaza.

Italics aren't making this less insane.

Let's abolish the media completely, free speech is next of course *rolls eyes*. Every time I think this story cannot get more absurd, it does!

Every time I think this story cannot get more absurd, it does!

SHHH. Don't say that! OR IT WILL. SOME TRIBE WILL COME AND DECLARE HIM THE SECOND COMING. YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING.

you don’t know the whole story behind it half the time

The only reason you might know it half the time is because some reporter looked into it!

*so much facepalm*

*rocking back and forth muttering*

Media - he keeps using that word, and I don't think it means what he thinks it means^^

*fetal ball position*

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swordage - Date: 2009-01-12 11:31 pm (UTC) - expand

Yeah, I read that earlier and am still facepalming.

I just... really???

Maybe this is a complete RL troll?

Maybe he thinks he's getting back at all those reporters that staked out his house? He's not that bright, this could very well be considered valid reasoning on his part. *is scared*

You know, that is not the worst theory I have heard.

*still fetal position*

I think plumbers should be abolished from, you know, plumbing. Toilets overflowing is hell, and if you're gonna sit there and say, 'well, look at this shit,' well, you don't know the whole story behind that shit, so I think plumbers should have no business in it.

/silly

I really have no words for how disgusted I am. Does he even realize he's become a parody of himself?

*shudders* He's just--no.

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an-kayoh.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-12 09:22 pm (UTC) - expand

It's worse than you think, it's been reported here, too. (I may have laughed, just a little).

*whimpers* Where is that? I'm scared to ask.

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ms-artisan.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 09:10 am (UTC) - expand

I'm increasingly convinced that "Joe the Plumber" is indulging in some kind of weird performance art.

Oh, no, wait.

I'm increasingly hopeful that Joe the Plumber is indulging in some kind of weird performance art.

That would make me ridiculously happy.

*nods* Yes, we should deal with not knowing the whole story by not bothering to find out the whole story. Sensible.

Brilliant. It worked for Bush, after all.

Aha! I was waiting for a single moment where I could point and go look! Reality is officially MORE STUPID than comics, and I believe I have it. Right now. /cheered greatly/

Yeah, I think similar coping strategies could be applied as well. I.e. you need to fanwank reality to prevent your head from imploding, and just rewrite these statements in your head to the closest that still makes some sort of internal sense at least. Like, he could have argued that say grassroots reporting would give a better perspective on conflicts than professional mainstream mass medias detached perspective, or attempts to be objective. Or something. Some statement that at least doesn't get the meaning of "media" wrong.

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seperis.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 01:27 am (UTC) - expand

There is not enough facepalm or headdesk in the world for that. Any of it.

*sad* I tried. But then people kept talking about concussions.

Also his word usage isn't all that it could be. Media 'abolished' Abolished???!!

If what he's actually doing is making a point about sound bite journalism and the lack of unbiased, complex, detailed reporting that attempts to encapsulate both sides of any argument - that - isn't the journalists fault. Everything's editedd until it's barely the length of an eyelash. Complicated geopolitical issues don't fit onto the back of a cornflakes packet but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try and make them at all!

That is so awesome. I wish that were true.

I have so much love for the top comment. SO MUCH LOVE.

Maybe Joe can see Isreal from his front porch.

OMG THAT IS PERFECT!

*CRIES*

I lost IQ point just by reading that.

Read this:

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090112/NEWS0206/901120346/1001/RSS01

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seperis.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 01:26 am (UTC) - expand

Oh, America. *snuggles you*

I don't care. You elected Obama. All is forgiven.

But, um, that guy? He can go away now. That would be JUST FINE.

*defeated* I know. I know.

i...but...

*pets* It's easier once you accept there is no sanity.

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kudra2324.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 06:17 pm (UTC) - expand

Wait, what? I can't hear you over the sound of Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Peter Jennings whirling in their graves.

I can feel their scorn, man. They are so going to rise up and beat the hell out of the American public with number two pencils in very nice suits.

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porntestpilot.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 01:29 am (UTC) - expand

I saw that. Did you hear his comment about "because he's Christian, he's going to be protected by God." In Israel, the land of Jews and Muslims??? The man seriously has no brain cells.

Kind of trying to block that bit out, tbh. Every time I think it, it makes my head and my theology hurt.

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joesther.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 03:09 am (UTC) - expand

An extreme-right-wing outfit, Pajamas Media, is paying this guy's salary. I guess he's worth the $$ they're paying in terms of the PR he's getting. If anyone else expressed the dimwitted opinions he's up-chucking here, they'd be roundly ignored, but he's Joe-the-Plumber, so his illiterate opinions get noticed & discussed.

It's...it's like a John Ringo character got brain damage and then stepped off of the page. Because his last book's hero basically said that, just without the word misuse.

We can't have a real world like a Ringo novel! I don't want to be a hooker!

...oh my god you're right. I hope you're talking about that Ghost guy, because I hate to think he has several characters that say stuff like that (er, I'm sure he DOES, but I don't want to think about it).

I don't want to be bleached blond and screwed into submission! *covers eyes*

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tricksterquinn.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-24 04:02 am (UTC) - expand

There is nothing nonsensical or insane about this. This is a guy from a disempowered economic class who is accepting status and money from upper class power brokers in return for, they hope, lending working class/"real" American authenticity to initiatives that would serve the upper class at the expense of his own. He's a scab.

It's wrong to hope he comes home with shrapnel in his ass, isn't it?

*feels kinda bad*

*sigh* To which I retort: David Horsey on the sale of the Seattle P-I (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?ID=1887).

That said, *yes*. *headdesk headdesk* Jeebus Christ on a pogo stick.

I see that good ol' Joe's ignorance extends beyond mere reportage and into grammar and vocabulary.

Oh, Joe-the-Plumber, no!!!!

*weeps for the children*

It also extends to ignorance of exactly how effective prayer is at deflecting bullets and other forms of physical harm. People didn't become martyrs by getting lambasted in the press and audited by the IRS, Joe.

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djinanna.livejournal.com - Date: 2009-01-13 09:36 pm (UTC) - expand

I don't even know where to start. Just, what? Really? Really really?

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