Samuel Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, is in Israel. (Getty Images/Israeli GPO)
(CNN) – ‘Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher told a group of journalists covering the conflict in Israel and Gaza that he didn’t think the media should be allowed to report on war.
“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.”
Wurzelbacher arrived in Israel on Sunday to start a 10-day assignment for pjtv.com, a Web site run by the conservative media outlet Pajamas Media. The plumber-turned-foreign correspondent said he wanted to cover Israel’s side of the conflict, because he thought the media was slanting the story to make it look like “Israel’s being bad.”
In his first day as a reporter, Wurzelbacher described the hardships of daily life in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.
“I’m sure they’re taking quick showers, I know I would,” Wurzelbacher said. “So you can’t plan your day, you can’t take a picnic.“
Wurzelbacher said he thought Israel should have attacked Gaza sooner. He told a group of reporters that he was a “peace-loving man,” but that "when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
He got a first-hand taste of reality in Sderot, when his group heard sirens warning of a rocket attack. With cameras rolling, Wurzelbacher and his group ran into a shelter.
“I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do because they’re firing missiles,” Wurzelbacher said. “It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution. I’m not a person that runs from things, but when it’s a missile, you run.”
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And we are listening to this Bozo, Why?
But it's ok for HIM to be there to cover the war?
This lying unemployed, unlicensed plumber wanna bee, that was not registered to vote in the last election and has never had the credit nor the knowledge or even ability to purchase a business worth $250,000 that didn't exsist is providing a republican web site with unbiased news. Get the funk out my face. It stinks.
IDIOT ! Pure3 and simple....
“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.”
What. You're kidding, right?
Are you.. oh... oh man, ... I think this guy is serious!
"I'm not a journalist, in fact I'm not much of anything, but I think journalists have no reason to write about accounts of war – why? – because I got scared from an armed conflict IN A WAR."
Comments such as his make me physically sick. The nerve of this man is just astronomical.
One more reason to hate this guy.
What is this moron doing over there in the first place. He has no experience in any public office or official capacity. I've seen enough of this idiot trying to capitalize on a 5 minute chat with a presidential candidate. Who is funding these trips for him? He needs to stay home, get licensed as a so-called plumber and start a real job like all the rest of us out here!
sounds like he needs to pay a visit to North Korea too. He and Kim Jung Ill seem to have a lot in common.
more to the point: ban this plumber jerk from the media
What is this guy doing? He is a nobody starving for fame.
Israel shills on both sides of the aisle.
So what else is new?
Someone needs to tell "Joe the Plumber" that freedom of the press is a part of that pesky US constitution that the Republicans haven't managed to shred to date.
8 days till the end of the Bush administration.
What an idiot. Just like Bush wanting photos of U.S. soldiers' coffins censored. People who like engaging in the business of war do not want their citizens to see the true atrocities and realities of war. Perhaps a little doe of the truth is better than censoring the media and violating the rights of journalists to free speech?
Who cares?
stay in your fox hole joe.
..... I cannot express my hatred of this man. Humankind as a whole does not have a word capable of describing it. "Ban media from war" – My god. Just, wow.
Holy god,
It's official. The GOP swine are not even trying to hide it anymore: they prefer people ignorant, uninformed and unable to make decisions.
Hey Joe: do you think maybe the Palestinians are launching missiles precisely because they too are sick of "sitting there angry, outright furious" that there is an oppressive government "dictating" what they're going to do?
“It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution."
Yeah, sounds like the evolution of the Palestinian movement to me.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” Wurzelbacher said.
So, given that 'logic', since he's working for a media group he should also be abolished from, you know, reporting.
What a bozo.
You GO, boy.....as in GO AWAY. PLEASE. Your 15 minutes is up. Didn't you get the memo?
He knows he is part of the media now, right?
Think you're mad now Joe?
Go sign the paper, get some training, put a rifle in your hands- -
You'll get reeaaallll mad. But mad don't do it.
By the way, if you are a war correspndent how come your not where the smokes at?
This has to be a bad joke!
Amazing. He states how journalists shouldn't be allowed to report on war while he's reporting on war. He decries how journalism doesn't get the whole story in war as he is unabashedly covering only one side of the conflict. Amazing.
I wonder how the world could change if he could get out of his own head for a second and realize that when US or Israeli bombs land on others they probably feel exactly the same way he does.
Don't you dare check out thereligionofpeace.com.
How care what this liar think. Aren't his 15 minute past. Go away Joe or whatever your real name is . Just Go Away
Ban Joe What's he there for?
Wurzelbacher should've studied up or at least read the Cliff Notes on the conflict before he landed...
Bet he wouldn't like living as a Palestinian under occupation either – constant checkpoints – can't move... His wife getting felt up by Israeli soldiers if she dares to grocery shop...
Completely simplistic and one sided – like Wurzelbacher himself!
The moron that won't shut up!
OMG this fraud is trying to tell us what to do? We need reporting so that Israel isnt the only side that is heard. They are the ones destroying family and family homes of people they have no reason to bomb. Israel needs to stop and America needs to stop providing weapons to them until they come to their senses and stop the bloodshed.
The moron that won't shut up!
Who exactly is this guy supposed to represent and why is he still in the news?
Maybe "Joe" has found his niche!
A reporter – which he says we don't need and should not be allowed.
He's furious...well Joe join the club – there are a lot of furious people "on both sides" – doesn't seem to help the innocent does it!
I don't understand. If the media should not cover war, why is Joe there? Does this man hear himself talk?
How care what this liar thinks. Aren't his 15 minute way past. Go away Joe or whatever your real name is. Just Go Away! We don't care what you think. Loser!
What a moron.
Sounds like he's taking his ques from that blowhard Bill O'Reilly.
Seriously, this guy is now a journalist? So if I show up at the Mayo Clinic you think they'll let me operate on someone?
This guy is past his pull date.
This guy is such a moron. People are dying on both sides of the fence and particularly palestinians and all he can think about is how to plan his day or take a shower? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
Go away! You have no idea what you're talking about and you don't know what danger some journalists put themselves in just to show the world what is going on in these turbulent countries.
Maybe the media should be banned from covering Joe the Plumber.
The only sane response to this guy's comments is hysterical laughter. I think nut cases should be abolished from, you know, reporting.
I do not condone war, and can't take sides on this issue. If Mr. Wurzelbacher is going to be a foreign correspondent, maybe he should first recognize that Hamas is a democratically elected party. You know, like republican and democrat here in the US. If he's calling the Gaza government "terrorists", he's calling the Gaza people terrorists. Right?
Joe is really cashing in on his 15 minutes of fame huh? I wish Obama walked down my street, maybe I can quit my job and be a reporter.
I totally agree, reporters should stop reporting and.... plumbers should stop plumbing... its a brilliant logic. Joe the Plumber for Congress
The first casualty of war is the truth. I suppose Joe the Plumber wants to keep it that way.
what a deuche
Looks like the Gay Old Party (GOP) put John McCain's front man to use, since it became patently clear he isn't a plumber, owes back taxes, doesn't make the money he told Obama he made, and is related to the Mr. Keating (from the Keating Five) who started the S&L scandal from the 80s and tried to bribe John McCain to get them off the hook. He's probably over there to dodge his taxes again–not to mention put the Reich-Wing "spin" on everything Israel does. Down with the GOP.
This guy represents so much of what is wrong with Neo-Conservatism. I think idiots like him should be banned from the media.
Q: What do Joe the Plumber and Alexander the Great have in common?
A: They have the same middle name!
Wurzelbacher said he thought Israel should have attacked Gaza sooner. He told a group of reporters that he was a “peace-loving man,” but that "when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
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Yes, Joe, that's what we want. On behalf of the Conservative media outlet that sent you there, disregard the historical and religious context of the conflict, but instead marginalize the current situation to the intellectual equivalence of a college football game so 'Country First' bigots, who hate all Arabs and Muslims anyway, can best comprehend the present state of affairs.
Bravo!!
OMG this fraud is trying to tell us what to do? We need reporting so that Israel isnt the only side that is heard. They are the ones destroying family and family homes of people they have no reason to bomb. Israel needs to stop and America needs to stop providing weapons to them until they come to their senses and stop the bloodshed.
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
Someone please explain to me why this idiot is being covered by the press? This is not news and his opinions are ill-informed and irrelevant.
Joe the Plumber has finally put the nail on his own coffin!!!!!
What a moron!
This guy is such a moron. People are dying on both sides of the fence and all he thinks about is planning his day, having a picnic or taking a shower? If he believes that the media has no business covering the war, what's is he doing there? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
Wurzelbacher should've studied up or at least read the Cliff Notes on the conflict before he landed...
Bet he wouldn't like living as a Palestinian under occupation either – constant checkpoints – can't move... His wife getting felt up by Israeli soldiers if she dares to grocery shop... Water and electricity turned off at whim. Medicine, food, NOTHING gets in... Oh yeah – and the WHOLE world seems to side with the ones doing this... Yep! It's great to be a Palestinian!
Completely simplistic and one sided – like Wurzelbacher himself!
Media should have no business in reporting war but "Joe the Plumber" should!!!!
We think Joe should focus on his plumbing business and try to get that plumbing license. We also think CNN should stop giving this fellow publicity. We think he is not representing millions of smart and enlightened Americans. This is an insult to us; please stop covering "Joe the Plumber".
What, Sarah Palin is on vacation or something so you had to find some other brainless twit to interview?
Someone please explain to me why this idiot is being covered by the press. This is not news and his opinions are ill-informed and irrelevant.
Joe the fake plumber/ reporter- Ban yourself from reporting. We don't want to hear from you ever again!
JOE I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR FINAL RITES FROM HERE -–R I P.
What a racist idiot?? Ban him CNN.. I do not understand why CNN is giving him the time of day. He is a sham and a shame.
Someone should take on the so called reporters. All they do is yes yes yes, and followed obama around and heap on the bull. The way things are going now with obama, we see where he was the worst type of political liar we have seen in years. If he outbeat bush we know he can stretch the truth, and he did and does.
Media should have no business in reporting war but "Joe the Plumber" should!!!!
We think Joe should focus on his plumbing business and try to get that plumbing license. We also think CNN should stop giving this fellow publicity. We think he is not representing millions of smart and enlightened Americans. This is an insult to us; please stop covering "Joe the Plumber".
WHAT AN IDIOT!!!! THANK YOU REPUBLICANS FOR THIS IDIOT!!!!
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
“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.”
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Good reporting Joe, very good reporting, you know.
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
JOE I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR FINAL RITES FROM HERE -–R I P.
CNN finds this credible enough to report on?
This is truly the case of our sad American stupidity. "Not to report on war"??? War IS something we should UNDERSTAND, because if we don't, then IT SHOULD NOT BE GOING ON IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Joe-Dumb-Dumb seems to be happiest if he were to be living in a dictatorship, where people can be taken from anyone's home without telling you why, nor where they are taking them, nor for what reason.
So Joe has, in the process of acting as a war correspondent, decided that war correspondents should not exist.
This man is an idiot from head to toe.
This guy is rather dumb, why is he even there?
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
I think we should take it one step further. We should ban all media period.
This guy is such a moron. People are dying on both sides of the fence and all he thinks about is planning his day, having a picnic or taking a shower? If he believes that the media has no business covering the war, what's is he doing there? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
Joe the Plumber has finally put the nail on his own coffin!!!!!
What a moron!
Unreal. Who is this guy? Here he claims the MSM should be barred, and yet, he wants us to believe his account of what is going on? Thanks a lot McCain/Palin for foisting this buffoon on the American people. I think 'Good Ole Joe the Plumbers' fifteen minutes of fame are up.
JOE I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR FINAL RITES FROM HERE-R-I-P.
What, Sarah Palin is on vacation or something so you had to find some other brainless twit to interview?
Joe the fake plumber/ reporter- Ban yourself from reporting. We don't want to hear from you ever again!
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
Wurzelbacher should've studied up or at least read the Cliff Notes on the conflict before he landed...
Bet he wouldn't like living as a Palestinian under occupation either – constant checkpoints – can't move... His wife getting felt up by Israeli soldiers if she dares to grocery shop... Water and electricity turned off at whim. Medicine, food, NOTHING gets in... Oh yeah – and the WHOLE world seems to side with the ones doing this... Yep! It's great to be a Palestinian!
Completely simplistic and one sided – like Wurzelbacher himself!
WHAT AN IDIOT!!!! THANK YOU REPUBLICANS FOR THIS IDIOT!!!!
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
"Joe the Plumber" is a plumber, I'll consider his opinions on plumbing and the like, its becoming clear that the rest of what he says is just nonsense.
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
So the war reporter thinks no reporters should report on the war. Why is he there? Hmmmmm, publicity? this guy is a hack.
So, he doesn't believe that people should report on war. But, he's making this comment from a war-torn region of the world as he's reporting on the war. This seems consistent with his biography. A plumber who's not a plumber. A guy named Joe who's name isn't Joe. A tax payer who doesn't pay all of his taxes. And now, a war reporter who doesn't believe people should report war. To paraphrase George Costanza, this man's whole life is a lie.
What the h*ll is this loser doin' there...?
This is truly the case of our sad American stupidity. "Not to report on war"??? War IS something we should UNDERSTAND, because if we don't, then IT SHOULD NOT BE GOING ON IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Joe-Dumb-Dumb seems to be happiest if he were to be living in a dictatorship, where people can be taken from anyone's home without telling you why, nor where they are taking them, nor for what reason.
“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.”
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Good reporting Joe, very good reporting, you know.
Hey Joe (not your real name), turn around and start walking towards that colum of smoke. Don't stop, just keep going. If you can, take the entire Pajama Media staff with you.
Just keep going, don't stop.
JOE I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR FINAL RITES FROM HERE--R–I–P.
CNN finds this credible enough to report on!??!
We have only McCain to blame for bringing this guy to us. Does he even make any sense? He doesn't want reporters covering wars and he is there as a foreign correspondent? Please CNN don't report on these clowns.
This guy is such a moron. People are dying on both sides of the fence and all he thinks about is planning his day, having a picnic or taking a shower? If he believes that the media has no business covering the war, what's is he doing there? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
Ok, so CNN has just disapointed me with this one...
What qualifies this guy to make the news????? What does he know about anything???? Does he have any type of education ?
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
Who cares! He should go back to Ohio.
What, Sarah Palin is on vacation or something so you had to find some other brainless twit to interview?
JOE I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR FINAL RITES FROM HERE--R–I–P.
Wow, there really should be a law that could have him arrested for being stupid. Where to begin? Wow!! Pajama Media? Does that mean they will go back to sleep soon?
What a racist idiot?? Ban him CNN.. I do not understand why CNN is giving him the time of day. He is a sham and a shame.
This guy is an idiot. He's entitled to his opinion, but he clearly doesn't understand . . . No, that's not right . . . He doesn't care about or respect the First Amendment. To anyone who argues that this is not our war and that the First Amendment doesn't apply: Smarten up: our bombs, our technology, and our permission–even our encouragement–supply the Israeli civilian-killers. More than 900 Palestinians have been killed, 40% of them women and children. That blood is on our hands, and we need to know that through the free press.
Before "Plumb and Plumber" shoots off his mouth about war correspondents, he should familiarize himself with their distinguished service in past conflicts, and their invaluable role in letting people know what's going on. It was thanks to reporters that we knew how much the U.S. government was lieing to us about Vietnam. People who don't want reporters around are afraid of the power of facts. Go back to fixing leaky toilets, Joe.
Dear Joe the Plumber,
Go away.
Sincerely,
America
Did this guy even graduate from high school? I love that the Republican party continues to embrace dumb people (e.g., Sara Palin). The party just loves anti-intellectualsim. It's as if they learned nothing from their recent defeat in the White House. Obama can't get in soon enough.
Wurzelbacher should've studied up or at least read the Cliff Notes on the conflict before he landed...
Bet he wouldn't like living as a Palestinian under occupation either – constant checkpoints – can't move... His wife getting felt up by Israeli soldiers if she dares to grocery shop... Water and electricity turned off at whim. Medicine, food, NOTHING gets in... Oh yeah – and the WHOLE world seems to side with the ones doing this... Yep! It's great to be a Palestinian!
Completely simplistic and one sided – like Wurzelbacher himself!
Media should have no business in reporting war but "Joe the Plumber" should!!!!
We think Joe should focus on his plumbing business and try to get that plumbing license. We also think CNN should stop giving this fellow publicity. We think he is not representing millions of smart and enlightened Americans. This is an insult to us; please stop covering "Joe the Plumber".
What an absolute moron!
And why do we care what this lying non-plumber has to say?
His 15 seconds was over along time ago!
Interesting that such a man of morality and conviction is doing exactly what he said shouldn't be done ... reporting on a war. Filthy hipocrite.
This is never a shortage of morons willing to give their opinions.
Why in the world do you persist in covering this guy?
As someone covering this story for the media, shouldn't Joe's argument be for the media to cover the situation in a more balanced way from his point of view, rather than having "no business in it."?
Why dont Joe put the microphone down and put on a military uniform. Has he paid his back taxes yet?
So Joe the Plummer is now Joe the Reporter covering a war zone and saying at the same time that reporters shouldn't be covering the war zone........does sanity no longer exist in the world? Joe apparently has the intelligence of a dipstick.......and to think that McCain was trotting this guy around with him during the campaign. It seems the clowns have taken over the circus.
from plumber to reporter !!!!!!!!!!
does the guy know anything about the middle east?
you better go fix your pipes
Yea Joe, they should be banned. Only you, with your extensive foreign policy knoledge should be able to cover any war. Like you said, your a christian and your god protects you. Too bad what he protects you from is intelligence. Dont you have a bunch of back taxes to pay?
Why is this guy still talking and more importantly, why is the media still listening? I say report on the war and stop reporting on Joe the Plummer
He's angry that he's got missles launched at him, however the missles are the only reason he is there?
So he goes there to "report" and all he comes back with is that no REAL reporters should be allowed to report? Seriously?
Is there a Guiness book category for "biggest joke of the planet"?
And this guy has the arogance to call other people socialists???
Oh, this is all we need – this illiterate idiot making the US look even more stupid.
No, journalists should keep reporting on the war, they just shouldn't give this goon a moment's attention.
This report is fied under 'Uncategorized'
Joe is truly 'Uncategorized'
Join them and fight and plumb away the terrorists...
Why oh why do Republicans keep making fools of themselves. This man sounds like an idiot. On the one hand he says the media coverage is biased, then he states that he wants to cover Israel's side of the story. He's making a fool of himself.
in every miserable situation there are always good people willing to step forward and tell the truth. joe is one of these few. as in germany there were some christians who saved jews at the risk to their own life.
This poor fool. Hasn't anyone taken him aside and explained to him how really stupid he is. Go away.
Why do the news media keep reporting on this moron?
I wish he would go to Gaza to tell Israel’s side of the story from there too... Does one have the right to schools, hospitals, food, clean water, basic necessities, etc, etc, etc? Does one have the right to live in peace with freedom?
It is all perspective. Palestinians believe Israelis are the terrorists since they took their land away from them, have not adhered to any UN resolution, treat humans like animals. It is funny and disappointing to hear how people in America are so biased towards Israel. This is getting old. Wake up to reality. Read up on some history. When America was fighting against the British to gain freedom, I think Britain would have considered us terrorists and we considered ourselves freedom fighters. If you take an objective stance on this ME conflict one would clearly see who are the real terrorists.
a: Israel should continue beating down on Gaza's Militants 'till they stop firing rockets in to Israel. That's a no-brainer.
b: Joe the plumber should stick to unclogging toilets.
c: If we prevent the media from reporting on war, we'll have more war. Joe the plumber is a fool, and his opinion on what the media should to is inconsequential.
d: pjtv.com needs to change itself to a website where pajamas are sold.
Not interested in this kind of persona whatsoever. Full of non-sense.
With barely a high school diploma, no professional licence, can anyone become a war reporter in a professional manner?! What a farce!
If media should not cover war, then go home, you idiot media wannabe.
He's a plumber.......a plumber not a corrispondent!
This guy is such a moron. Since when does the media try to make Israel look bad??? If anything, they don't tell us nearly anything on the atrocities that Israel commits. I'm outraged that we send billions to Israel, when we need that money here in the US!!!
The hardships of daily life in Sderot?? How about life in a refugee camp in Gaza, with no electricity, running water, etc etc etc????
IDIOTS!
OMG
Ban Joe the Plumber
i would love to see this man run for governer, he is a smart fellow not to fall for the bs media stories thats are given
How many "you know" does this fool say in a minute? Get a life.
You must be joking – giving this proven liar any platform to regurgitate more GOP talking points is pathetic.
dont report on war .says joe WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE.cnn you are stupid for even giving this guy space on this page.SURE DOES FIT WITH PALEN BUSH CHANEY.THEY ALL SHOULD BE IN HELL.
Something smells...when is America going to flush!
Ok so the plumber doesn't want the media to report on war???? He doesn't even know that that's just what he's doing or something like that...how dumb.
If he's so outright furious that he's caught in the line of fire than he shouldn't be over there...why is he over there?!
This is so funny.
"Unload on the boy?" This guy is an idiot.
What a contradiction Joe the plumber. You want media to be banned from war and you are there covering Israel side on conflicts. Is that not covering the war???? You are a so called funny correspondent the plumber!
Indeed, he will have far more foreign affairs knowledge than Palin when he return….
Joe the Plumber decries reporting on war as he arrives in Israel to report on the war.
Case in point, this is the perfect example of just how unbelievably stupid this man is.
You have along way to go before you can be thougth of as a reporter in a war zone Joe. There are many who have gone before you and even some of them are good and true to their profession. There are always some prostitutes as well, so those are the ones you will have to be better than.
If you feel so strongly about the feeling of helplessness when the sirens ring, you can always stand outside and watch the event happen to get the ful impact so to speak. Me, I would refer to go into a bunker and live to write about it for another day regardless of how that made me feel. Spent a year in VietNam dodging the rockets from the DMZ so I understand the frustration well.
Joe doesn't know squat–where's the news?
This guy is a joke and giving him time and a camera is a waste of resources. Lets not have any more dumb and (Palin) dumber stories unless in the comedy relief section.
Say what? Why the h**l are we paying any attention to this idiot? C'mon, CNN, so NOT a newsworthy story. Who cares what this non-entity thinks?????
Joe, please stay in Israel. Thank you.
-The United States
As we can see he is a member of the raqdical right and has been from the start... to paraphrase him "I think that freedom of presz is a bad thing if we can control what people hear we can control what they think. Look at faux news they made everyone on the right believe everything was all peaaches and cream in Iraq and now it has turned out that way!
and why did he run from the missle? I thought he said "God would prtect him?" I guess he equates God with Isreal...
idiot
Nice to see what Joe thinks of the 1st Amendment. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny....what a maroon!
Does this buffoon not understand the ironay of bemoaning media covering war while he acts as a "correspondent" covering a war. This guy is irrelevent.
I hope he was a better wannabe Plumber than he is a wannabe news correspondent.
If you want to ban media from the war, why are you there "reporting"?? And if you really want to report "the other side of the story," shouldn't he go to Gaza?? Because that's the opposite of the side he supports.
You see how far he is away from the reality of this war...He is on Holidays....
Joe the Plummer, YOU'RE THE PROBLEM! Take your extreme right-wing ideas back to the 20th century!
Hypocrite says what? He's in an armed conflict trying to get only one side's view. If he spent time in Gaza, perhaps then he'd gain some minor credibility. While criticizing a slanted viewpoint, his own actions are only making that slant steeper.
Is there a more stupid man in this country than Sam Wuzelwhatever? Well there is one and he's getting ready to head back to Midland for the last time in just over a week. Seriously though when is this fake plumbers 15 minutes going to be up?
God help him for he knows not what he says. It is not his fault!
When one is working for a media outlet....doesn't that make you a member of the media?
Joe- drag your sorry butt back to Ohio and clean out someone's toilet.
What an idiot!
Why is this guy famous again? I really, really, really don't care about what a part-time, unlicensed plumber who has described himself as "uneducated on foreign policy" has to say about Gaza and Israel. Can we all collectively stop paying attention to him please?
May be joe the plumber should keep his mouth shut just like his surrogate Palin. Most of the time they don't know what they are talking about.
This is so funny, they should have sent Palin with him, this could be on "Comedy Central" If anyone takes this man serious, oh crap they took Palin serious.
I'm scared!!!
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I can't wait to stop hearing about "Joe the plumber". His start was when he asked Obama if he would get tax breaks for his new business venture where he expected to make a lot of money. How does this guy become the spokesperson for the common man? The average man works a business owned by someone else. Now he's reporting on the war? You've got to be kidding!!!
So let me get this straight: Joe believes that the media should not cover war because it only provides one side of the story, yet he wants to cover it as a "journalist" and only cover one side of the story. Yup, this guy really is a representational figure.
Mr. Plumber is right. The media does not report the whole story about how Israel is basically had made the Gaza Strip an open prison for Palestinians with no jobs and little water.
The Plumber obviosuly does not understand the conflict and should get out.
Nothing like riding the coat tails of John McCain. Who is this guy? Why is he even over there. He can't pay his taxes, but can take a trip half way around the world. Gimmie a break. I guess his plumbing business didnt start out to well if now he's all of a sudden a "politician" and going to restore peace around the world. Get a life, GO HOME JOE!!!!
Uh, Joe the Idiot says he doesn't think the media should report on the war, while he's their "acting" like a journalist reporting on the war. Does his brain ever engage his mouth before he speaks?
Good grief. Just when I thought I'd reached the limit of my disdain for this douche, he raises the friggin' bar. I'm speechless.
That is frightening! It is people like him that give the rest of the world the cliché of the stupid American. It is irresponsible to let him report on anything, let alone such an important global issue that he clearly knows nothing about.
GO AWAY DUDE.
Joe Wurzelbacher is proving that he is a simpleton, and so are the morons that sent him to Israel.
Hey Joe, why not cross the border and see if you get any water at all, lets see if you ever get to leave your bunker? This guy is the poster boy for lame.
True to form, "Joe" has put his foot in it already! If the media/reporters have no business being there, covering a war, what in the heck is he doing there, to start with?
He doesn't want the media to report on the war and he decides the best way to show that is by going to Israel and reporting on the war?
I AM SO GLAD THAT WHAT JOE THE PLUMMER HAS TO SAY IS NEWS!!!!!!!!!!
I am mystified at the level of attention this guy (and Sarah Palin) continue to receive from the media they both criticize. Both are examples of the intellectual level who put Bush in the White House for 8 years, and that the country rejected in the last election. Why is it that the conservatives keep looking for a new messenger? The message itself is the problem!
This dolt should get a real job and pay his taxes on time. What a leech!
Wow... the ability to breakdown a complex situation to, "You know, war is hell" and, "when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy” it's pretty shocking that foreign correspondent wasn't his first career.
The media should absolutely be allowed to cover a war from as many angles as possible. We need to know how these conflict start and are conducted so that we can learn from them. I would agree that we shouldn't allow the media to make up our minds for us – there are no bias-free outlets today. But we cannot mistake Israel's actions as being purely justified and proportional anymore than we can view Hamas and the Palestine as complete victims. Individuals are victims. Not governments and states. No one government is innocent in this conflict, including the US. We cannot concern ourselves with painting these sides as good and bad. We need to do our best to understand them.
Ban freedom of the press...move to Russia you F-ng commie bastard.
Wait... so he wants to ban the media from covering war.. but he's acting for a media organization AS a reporter covering A WAR????? What is wrong with this guy?
Tick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tock, you know, Tick tockTick tockTick tock, you know it's hard, Tick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tock, you know I'm angry, Tick tockTick tockTick tockTick tock, those terrorists, Tick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tockTick tock. Is that fifteen minutes yet?
MORON. It's absolutely essential that objective and unbiased recording and reporting of events liek this occur. In fact, the media should stop being such pu-es, stop sheltering the public from it and start showing people more of the reality of it so they understand. If people can't handle seeing what a bombed body looks like, maybe they'll up and do or say something about the atrocities taking place around them instead of just flipping to the latest 90210-style teen angst show on prime time while flipping thru a copy of the Enquirer looking for Brangelina pics.
who is this guy????
If eh thinks that there should not be reporters there, what is he doing there?
(Okay, I know he's not-Joe, not-a-Plumber, not-a-reporter, but initially it was said he was going there to be a reporter.)
So now anybody can be a foreign correspondent, huh? I've wanted to break into journalism for my entire life and here's Joe The Plumber reporting live from Israel...too bad no one cares what he has to say.
would somebody pleaaaaaaaaaase give this guy a job (as a plumber) already!!!!!!!???? go away! this is like Tonya Harding, all over again!
this is horrific!!!!!! study journalisim and you will find out why the MEDIA is needed. Unless you want more SLAYINGS just you like them JOE? freakin retard.
He could flush out militants.
Hopefully Hamas gets one accurate rocket, then Joe the Plumber can become Joe the Tombstone, and we can all forget about him.
If Joe the Plumber goes to Israel and no one reports it, does he really make a sound? Why is this guy in the news?
Is you mad!
You think the "Terrorists" just do this stuff for fun?
They are doing this because they used to live in this land in peace..
then some zionists decided they will make it their country and they come and and take over the land KICK out the people living there..
the remainder they force into small parts of land which is given no rights and expect the "terrorists" to just shut up and be quiet and live normally.
Joe.. I know you don't like the media covering war.. they should be covering plumbers instead right.
CNN,
wouldn't Joe the no-longer plumper be better off selling deodorant ,
or hair loss gel then reporting his limited understanding of the world ?
Could you please give him a one way ticket too the DR of Congo ,
without a security crew .
Let him smell and taste death before he sanitizes it !
Or maybe just put him on Dancing with the Stars.
So no one should be allowed to report on the war besides this clown? Give me a break. Attention grabbing seems to be his new way of life.
Aren't his 15 minutes of fame over yet? He is a plumber and just because he talked to Obama he is not a foreign corespondent. Come on people give us a break. The guy is an idiot.
So, he's reporting from Israel and he thinks the media should be banned? Because they don't know the whole story.... so they should just stop their information gathering? That makes sense.
Look away. Just look away.
"Pajamas Media" ..........????
Please.
Good lord! Is this what news reporting has come to?
It boggles the mind that there is an audience for this joker!
"Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher told a group of journalists covering the conflict in Israel and Gaza that he didn’t think the media should be allowed to report on war."
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Israel has already banned independent media from reporting on the present Israeli – Palestinian conflict. Hence, why you are there 'Country First" Joe.
Oh, please can't this guy go back to something he might be qualifed for, like drains and toilets, on the other hand perhaps he is getting qualifed to run with Sarah as her VP in 2012-"a dream ticket"
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting”
other Joe thoughts...
"doctors should not be allowed to prescribe, you know, medicine"
"librarys should not, you know, have books"
"science should not, you know, be taught in schools"
this person needs to go back to fixing toilets, he sounds about just smart enough for that job, you know.....
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting (the war)”
– Joe Wurzelbacher, paid member of media reporting the war.
No wonder he supported McCain, Palin, and Bush.
@Make Joe The First To Go January 12th, 2009 1:26 pm ET
Mr. Plumber is right. The media does not report the whole story about how Israel is basically had made the Gaza Strip an open prison for Palestinians with no jobs and little water.
The Plumber obviosuly does not understand the conflict and should get out.
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Better yet, have Joe 'report' from Gaza, and see if he would like to live the treatment the Palestinians are receiving.
this guy is an idiot. no media coverage of war? really? how would we know anything, then? wait on word of mouth? wouldn't he want to know about 9/11? he looks just as baffled as he did when obama spoke to him on the campaign trail. btw, why doesnt he leave and quit reporting, since he is against it? idiot.
So the fact that he is acting as a reporter to report on a war...I bet the irony escapes him...
Reporters MUST cover wars. It is the only way we the people for whom the wars are being fought know what is going on in those wars, because if we left our perceptions of any war up to the millitary information officers, and just trusted that the government was doing what was best, we would till believe that nothing went wrong in Vietnam, and that there WMD in Iraq all along, and that there is no chance of civil war there either.
Joe needs to go back to preparing for his country music career – if he can just get done writing that book...or learning how to read one
Finally a reporter that goes after the unbiased truth. If a governement (i.e. Israel) can't protect it's citizens it loses it's reason to exist. How come thousands of Belgians protest against Israel but not one marches when terroritst blow up a bus with children or a cafe or a wedding? This is the same country that raped the Congo for 100 years. Joe is correct: if someone hits you; you hit back. The solution is simple for peace....Hamas needs to refrain from launching missles; especially from schools and mosques.
Why are you even reporting on this guy? His 5 minutes of fame were up a long time ago. Joe The Plumber's opinion is not news. Stop giving these "tangential" characters more media time than they deserve.
Everytime this dolt opens his mouth it's a further balck eye for REAL journalists!
Aren't there any drains that need snaked in Sderot?
This guy needs to go do something he knows about, because International affairs and journalism aren't one of them!
This is an absolute joke!!!
This guy's idiocy hardly reflects well on America. He should be gagged!!!
Since this twit is anti-media,,,,,,,,,why don't the media follow his advice and quit covering him then maybe at long last he will GO AWAY!!
Next time Joe, DON'T RUN! & take Ann Coulter with you!
Why this idiot is still talking??????? Please shut up and leave us alone!!!!!! I can not believe that media gives him any time. We have enough problems to deal compliments of the current administration we do not need to hear what you say!!!!!
Here is an idea... lets ban the media from reporting stories, presented as "news", that are not important. There used to be shows dedicated to news and then separate programs dedicated to gossip. Now the gossip comes first and if there is any time left they fill it with real news headlines. Only headlines not stories. So "Joe the Plumber" was a man used by the Republican Party to identify with the public as "average people", an average guy representing a group of average people. Now, once again, he should just be an average, guy so why is his opinion still being represented in the media? The government represents the people and the government decide the foreign policy. If the people do not want to know what is going on in war that is one thing, but eliminating the availability to observe it also eliminates the people from deciding if a foreign policy is right or wrong. If the people do not understand, how can the government represent them? Do the representatives also not understand? Current events would lead one to think so.
That's the stupidest thing I've hear. If there is no one to report on horrors or the wars they will never end.
Are we all so slow that we're stooping to Joe's level? Enough of Joe the Plumber! He really is a joke and I, for one, will neither read nor listen to another word about him!
Please stop reporting about this guy. The reason why you would put up a story from somebody with no media credentials, especially when he is basically bashing your foreign reporting, is beyond me. His story makes you look bad, putting his story on your site makes you look bad, and it makes your readers look like uneducated gossip mongers would rather get their info from some fad then and experienced news team.
IDIOT!
idiot
IDIOT!
Kinda makes you want to hear from Palin instead. Who'da thunk it???
STUPID FAKE PLUMBER, you don't know anything about journalism nor reporting. What an Illiterate fool you thick-headed moron.
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And he's there enlightening us on what?
So sick of Joe the " fake plumber, singer, author, reporter, media expert"
If anything we need MORE reporting on the wars going on in the world. Unfortunately the media would rather spend their time covering Joe and Palin. I'd rather see Britney slinging her umbrella and shaving her head than those too jokers.
and he thought he was under a kitchen sink? good grief!!. its war territory.
No media allowed? Why is he over there? He is outraged and wants to "unload on the boy"? Wonder what the civilians on the other side are thinking when they are bombarded with more forceful bombs and tanks trampling through their towns?
It's a sad world when someone like Wurzelbacher gets to report about a conflict that is so horrendous and yet so delicate. He is "peace-lvoing man" who wants to get the "terrorists". Someone should let him wander over to the other side to see the dead on the streets and let him decide who is a terrorist and who isn't. Shame...
Yet more proof that our school system has failed us...
joe...it's not right that you accuse the leftist reporters that they tell lies, you are going to hurt their feelings.
CNN GO HELL FOR GIVING THIS GUY CHANCES TO MAKE BIG LIE
Like Palin, this guy is not a very bright from what I have observed.
So this plumber that has no credentials to be a plumber is now a journalist without any journalism experience?
Hasn't his fifteen minutes of fame expired yet?
Bored now.
OMG! This guy is an idiot! Good thing he's on Fox, he sounds like the other idiots on there.
Joe is absolutely correct. The last substantively successful war in which the U.S. was involved was World War II. The Roosevelt and Churchill Administrations, among the most brilliant in world history, kept the press in the dark. Only when it became a selling point to use the atomic bomb did Truman inform the press.
In an emergent situation, the dictates of the situation, especially war, can outweigh Constitutionally the precepts of the First Amendment. Thus, in the current conflict, it is properly in the hands of a Democracy as to what it would like to do.
Joe the Plumber's utter lack of anything resembling knowledge in foreign policy, foreign affairs, etc., makes his presence there UNHELPFUL. CNN, your coverage of him is even MORE UNHELPFUL.
To paraphrase Jon Stewart when he roasted the hosts of Crossfire, CNN: your circus coverage of this bozo and other totally trivial things like this is hurting America. Stop hurting America.
Seriously, you do a disservice to those whose footsteps you followed. In the past, the press and the media has served as a courageous and useful check on power and corruption. And look at yourselves now. Your younger, more idealistic selves would be so disappointed in you.
From a so called plumber to an imbedded journalist---maybe Sarah Palin has a job for this guy--this dude is capitalizing on his quasi-born political fame. Watch out Wolf!
This guy has about as much business being a reporter as Palin has being president. So far, he tells us that Israelis have to take quick showers, can't take picnics, and can't plan their days.....That's grade-A reporting, Wanna-Be-Plumber-Boy. Oh, yeah, and he wants to ban himself from reporting the war. This guy is utterly pointless.
What does Joe the Plumber have that the world wants: talent-NO, looks-NO, unique political insight-NO. Can someone take this guy out for lunch and tell him that he is making a fool out of himself?
Wow Joe stands with some smoke behind him and gets national attention. Anyone remember 'Josephine the Lady Plumber'??
1st day on the job and he wants to bad media from reporting......AH the good ol' Bush days when reporters could be stonewalled are ending soon thank GOODNESS!!
Perhaps his next gig should have been 'Joe the Plumber Gets a Wife (or..a LIFE)'...on Fox!!
Wow.
Idiot.
But, we knew that already
Joe should fix some pipes while he's there. Oh wait, he's not really a Plumber!
Get the media out....that is except for me, Joe the, can I say "mentally challenged" sure seems to fit better!!
Please Hamas, hit him with a rocket
Go get them Joe. This country is turining into a bunch of idiots. Seems to me that all the comments so far are from our left wing media nuts!
who financed this idiot's trip!
Would somebody please wake up Joe and tell him this particular conflict has been going on for over 40 years and it's a little late to not report on it? Also, I don't think too many picnics are going on in Gaza right now either.
Guess whos funding this neocon plant.I guess anyone can become a reporter now.Lets all become pro Israeli reporters,you dont even need a degree,just become an idiot.
Reporters should stop reporting?
Now I've heard everything.
With supporters like him, I'm SOOOOO glad McCain lost. This guy's logic is downright loopy!
Maybe he'll get himself shot or blown up, and then we can ask that no one cover it cuz that's what he would have wanted!
CNN, YOU should be banned from reporting on THIS guy. Get real CNN, or do you want to as much of a laughingstock as FOX?
What an idiot.
Palin/Plumber 2012!
Wow...every word of CNN's story on Joe the Plumber is carefully crafted to belittle and humiliate this guy. He may not be the most eloquent of speakers, but I think we all get the gist of what he is trying to accomplish.
CNN...next time, don't bother quoting him...just make something up that helps you to tow the line for your Democrat party. It will save you time and effort.
This guy is more of a man than the epicene New Yorkers we're forced to ilisten to every night with their effete poliltical pronouncements. Yes, that's you Matthews, Maddow, especially the boorish Olberman, Williams, the really epicene Madow, and the eternally pert, continuous loser of viewers–Couric. This woman should be a weather person in a Mid Westernmarket.
WOW, only america.
THIS GUY IS A MORON. He DOES not know anything about journalism. He is self centered and talking about himself.
Here are some info you aka moron joe plumber. I do not like hamas firing rockets, nor do i like seeing Israel killing INNOCENT CHILDREN N women. Its like Monster vs little ants. But you seem to like that. Over the last 3 years, hamas fired 8000 rockets, killed, non. Last 15 days Israel killed over 800, 50% of them are women and children.
DO you know what happen in Jenin? Exactly whats taking place right now.
One thing for sure is WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND....anyone remember 14th century? It will return soon or later...the cause is Israel. The cause is Hamas..
I think if we get rid off terrorist group such has Hamas, Israel, Hezbollah, iran, korea, this would be a better place....
The only reason Joe the Plummer should be in the news is if he discovers a rodent in a toilet drain. This moran shouldn't even be in the news. Stop talking about Joe the Brain dead plumber!
Excuse me, Joe, but are you reporting on the war? Does that make you part of the media? Should you be banned? Or only those individuals who have a degree in journalism and have made a career decision to commit to the honest distribution of ideas and events. Maybe we should only listen to unbiased voices of those seeking to capitalize on their 15 minutes of fame so that they might return home to get their plummer's license and buy that business that they have long dreamed of only to have they nasty ol' government snatch it from their grasp.
hahaahahaha! awesome joke guys!
Joe you should of taken Sarah with you so she would learn something. Of course then you would have her whole family with you. Oh well you liked Sarah anyway.
I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would place someone who knows nothing of the political or historical currents of this conflict, much less how to speak intelligently or eloquently, as a "foreign correspondent" in a region already horribly misunderstood and misconstrued by this country.
I suppose Sarah Palin will soon replace Christiane Amanpour.
Come on America when is this sham going to end?? This guy is no more qualified to go over and cover a conflict doing journalisim work than I am and I have a Masters Degree. It's an insult to all the young men and women attending journalism schools and PAYING for it that he even gets all this attention. Maybe somebody should ask him how he felt about throwing John McCain, the guy that got him in the spotlight, under the bus and stepping on him just to get where he's gotten to.. But I guess those who see him as a hero don't mind that he did that. Seems the far right has no problem using people and tossing them aside, just ask Gov Palin.
Well Joe, if you think the media should not be reporting on the war, can you explain why you are there?
Joe the Dumber is really streching it. If he thinks he has any future in politics, well, he just blew it!! All the media will do is keep eating at him, just like they did Palin!! He needs to go somewhere and sit down before he get killed over there and get him a real job!!
This guy obviously has no understanding of the Constitution.
I hope they launch him at a school.
Wow! I think "Joe's" employer could have hired someone more ignorant than him by hiring "W."!
What do you get when you allow ignorance to espouse ignorance? IGNORANCE!
this guy I thought already had his 15 min. when hes over there im sure he can work as a contractor with no Lic so he doesn't have to worry about that., and if hes lucky and stay there. im sure they will welcome a white American with George bush views.
If people just ignoed the guy, he would slink back into obscurity.
What a total moron. Does he really believe that people will buy his garbage after lying on national television?
So the media has no business reporting this story, but an idiotic plumber from Ohio does?
Say it ain't so, Joe! I think you understand as much about journalism as you do about small business (e.g nothing. ) Please go back to your plunger.
Joe the Moron. That's who this guy is.
people with a brains should be in charge January 12th, 2009 1:30 pm ET
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting”
other Joe thoughts…
"doctors should not be allowed to prescribe, you know, medicine"
"librarys should not, you know, have books"
"science should not, you know, be taught in schools"
this person needs to go back to fixing toilets, he sounds about just smart enough for that job, you know…..
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No. He really doesn't sound smart enough to be allowed to fix toilets.
Oh lordy dumocrats, the man just asked a simple question of the messiah, which was the most real moment of the entire election. George Soros, the unions and ACORN lost control for a minute. He does not need to be crucified like Palin and her family everytime the MSM decides they want to bash someone.
Palin with a plunger!
He will become Joe The Surgeon next, after he gets tired of this easy reporting thingy.
Joe the dumber .... not again!! Please Please Please stay in Israel...
From Sara P ( the other person who needs to go away) "Oh no Joe say it ain't so". This guy is the biggest JOE BLOW in the world. He needs to stop trying to be what he clearly is not qualified to be. The media needs to stop giving him any time in the spotlight. CNN and others needs to just STOP. He is not news worthy of their reporting. There are far greater issues to report. Stop putting him and Sara in the spotlight and report on issues that have meaning.
Read the hate in these replies. This says a lot about you people as a group. Someone else making it and you guys can't stand it, then you call him names like little children, and then you wonder why his name is still in the media? Sad day when the man you make fun of for being stupid has more common sense then the majority of you guys.
What a freaking moron. Here's hoping joe steps on a land mine and blows himself to Alaska, where he lands in a million pieces all over Sarah's front porch. IDIOT!
Just one more question, is "Joe" a combat veteran? Does he really understand what war if all about?
What an IDIOT!!!!!!!!
Are you serious? This loser is telling the media to stop reporting on the war, but he's there is cover the same thing? This man is a joke why are we wasting time on him?
Israel wants to keep out the reporters so they can cover up their crimes against humanity.
Coming from a man that is now a "reporter".....typical republican whats good for me is not good for you!
Hello CNN, and others, time for this jerk and PALIN to go back to their drug towns and live their trailer trash lives!
I guess I'm not the only one going, "Huh?" at this news article?
So... reporters shouldn't report on the war, yet he's been hired to be a reporter to report on, you know, the war?
?????
What I hear him saying......I don't like this job in the media.......someone please get me home, I'm scared!
One day on the job and he’s ready to quit. What a model citizen
Joe, you really are a loser...Why dont u leave Israel and report from Gaza. The media especially the CNN, should cover stupid stories like this. We got much more important things to cover...Joe can expect himself to get fame on Fox News and even have himself knighted on the stupid Bill O'reilly show. We should send both Joe and Bill O'reilly to Gaza...Stupid Idiots...
Joe is definitely Vice-Presidential material. Such profound insights. However, I don't think the media should be reporting on reporters in war zones: you never know what the whole story is......
Good Job Joe! Take care out there. We know what kind of reports the liberal media is making news of and where they get it from: (Hamas and pro-Hamas reporters inside Gaza). Just they care out there.
If I wanted to listen to some random, unqualified, wanna-be report the news, I would listen to Pres. Bush.
If today was April 1st, I would think this story was a joke. I'm just speechless...
Ban media from presidential election too.
This is Hilarious!
And... underneath that jacket... is that a Hooter's T-shirt?!?!?!
I hope you get a shell in the and take the quick trip to hell...you're the ANTI CHRIST !!!!
Hey Joe maybe some pipes in them there shelters need fixing while your down there
Wiil someone please tell "Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher" to go back and do what he do best and fix a kitchen sink. Who in their right mind told this guy he have skills to be a report god bless his little soul. And CNN please stop reporting on mess you guys at CNN will become a BIG JOKE if you keep this kind of mess up. Joe go home and read a book and get back to your job.YOU ARE NOT THE NEXT ANDERSON COOPER
Clearly Joe the Plumber is a true American who puts America first and embodies American ideals....like a free press....
Maybe Joe ought to abolish himself!
Hey joe, maybe you could ask one of those I s real i soldiers why they are dropping white phosphorus on the Palestians for us, k?
Stop covering this paid shill of the Republican party.
Wow, Joe, who is there to report, doesn't think reporters should be there. Methinks Joe should go home then.
This man has no shame. Doesn't he know what a moron he sounds like? I'll bet his two favorite movies are "Dumb and Dumber" and "Dumb and Dumberer".
Wow. Let me get this straight. This guy who rose to fame as a plumber who wasn't really a plumber and whose "famouse" question to Obama didn't pertain to him is now reporting from Israel insisting that he and others *shouldn't* be reporting. I guess since Bush is leaving we need more unintelligent confused American's to continue to erode the little respect the world has for us. Reports of the atrocities of war are one of the main mitigating forces against secretive and unjust military action in the first place. If reporters were to turn their backs on reporting all wars, the world would plunge further into violence. If I could address Mr. Wurzelbacher directly I would say, "Sir, please stop contributing to the poor image the world has of America. You seem uneducated and confused. Please step aside for someone who has well thought out opinions and who is qualified to offer them on the world stage. We do not need unlicensed plumbers giving us facts or opinions. Thanks so much."
I never thought it could happen, but this guy make Jesse Ventura look like a foreign affairs expert. It is sad, however, that anyone would care what he has to say about anything other than clogged sinks.
I thought the election this past November would have shown the country's media that right wing topics are in the minority.
I believe this is what is called "a slow news day".
This article is so worthless, I can't even believe I am commenting on it! Yikes!
Why is this guy over there, he is a joke and your dicision to send him to represent ant form of media from this great country is a bigger joke. First we got him as plumber, now a reporter, what next, is he going be next a Senator . Put to work on a job, is qualified to do, we are sick of him
Hey Joe – Be a hero – become a martyr.
Then we'll call you Joe the Collateral damage.
PS – Sarah sends her love, and says when she divorces Todd you're the one, baby.................
Who gives a crap what this idiot has to say about anything? Christ, please go the hell away.
This guy is the most vile piece of trash to come out of the last election.
Unfortunately he is right about Israel. If we had let Israel take care of the militant muslim filth that has been trying to destroy that nation for generations there would be no Middle East conflict today. Israel needs our help and deserves that help. Joe needs and deserves a one way trip to Alaska. He and that ditz Palin are made for each other.
Hmm.. can somebody explain what journalism school he went to?
Why is he news?
So if a conservative says media shouldn't report on war, it's against 1st Amendment rights, but when commie liberals try to ban conservative talk radio, it's patriotic? You liberals drive me crazy. The media elected Obama since they refused to challenge anything he says. What will the media say when Obama drives the economy further south by trying to get the government to take over every aspect of our lives? We feasted for many years. What goes up must come down. Let the economy balance out, and we won't have wasted trillions of dollars. And somebody please tell CNN of all people, to quit being so biased. Then idiots like Joe wouldn't have to go to Israel to report both sides.
What a joke Joe is turning out to be. He was initially going over to COVER the war. That presumes BOTH sides, but he actually NOW states that he is over there to cover Israel 's side only. Like that isn't already covered. He can't get into Gaza, so his position now , as a war coorespondent ,is that coorespondents shouldn't be in a war zone.
When does this guys15 minutes end?
This guy's 15 minutes of fame are WAY over. time for him to sink into the obscurity that he deserves. What a stupid, stupid GOPer.
why is the press giving this liar a platform, exactly?
Freedom of information is the lifeblood of a democracy. No one who has any respect for freedom OR democracy would be able to hold such an opinion. This person wants all opinions to be controlled by the government, as long as that government is run by Republicans. It's obvious that he is a Republican first and an American second, if even that.
I know one thing: Pj tv, or whatever their name is just increased their viewership. I can imagine all sorts of people are going to jump on and see what moronic thing Joe has to say if at least on an intermittent schedule. It's sadistic, or maybe self-loathing, but I just have to see what the train wreck looks like.
HE is STUCK on STUPID!! Joe and Sarah keep up the good work over the next 2 years so the republicans can be proud of their next candidates for President and VP.
You've gotta be kidding!! JOE, YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES WAS UP MONTHS AGO!
Come on CNN and all other mainstream media! Obviously it's a slow day for you guys . . . but please . . . don't give Joe anymore print or air time!!!
This guy had McCain pay his taxes for him and now he gets a free trip to Isreal at taxpayers expense. Life in the good ole US of A. Can't beat it.
This guy is dumber than a box of rocks. Isn't he over there to "report" on the war? No wonder is plumbing business was a failure ... he's better at talking himself out of jobs than keeping them!
It is pathetic that this guy is even in the news. He is nothing less than an idiot.
Dont ever come back Joe the bleep.Stay in your country,we should have known you were an undercover traitor.
Way to go Joe! I'd much rather have some average Joe make some money than some "Know it all political Pundit" Hey wasn't it CNN that was taking reports from a Pro Palistinian Doctor from Norway as though he were speaking Gospel? CNN and MSNBC were the only two news agencies that did not report this news. This same doctor stated that the terrorist had every right to kill Americans. mmmm. If you want my vote for the IDIOT of the year it would be to CNN
Joe the Plumber now Joe the Reporter.
I guess you CAN do whatever you can dream.
Perhaps I should try and follow my dream of becoming the dictator of the universe.
This guy is dumber than a box of rocks. Isn't he over there to "report" on the war? No wonder is plumbing business was a failure ... he's better at talking himself out of jobs than keeping them!
It is pathetic that this guy is even in the news. He is nothing less than an idiot.
Really, is this guy still around?
No one needs to bother trying to make this guy sound stupid, he does a good job by himself.
And what I find truly laughable about this is that he is speaking out against the same "media" that continues to extend his 15 minutes on stage!
Isn't there some scummy reality show that will take him?
Oh, no .... Joe. Please go home and settle into the trade you were trained for. Leave the reporting to Anderson Cooper!
Great picture – Are those the burning remains GOP smoldering in the background?
Joe has a point. Everytime you see those reporters with bombs going off around them, flares to the left of them, chaos to the right of them, you have to wonder if it's all for the backdrop. I don't get it. What's the point? Just give us the facts, not the theatrics.
I'm all for free speech, but ....
I'm also at a loss at what many people use as a source for their information. Part of an open government is the fact that items of interest are allowed to be reported by the media. Certainly we will never get the whole story. And, as a 20-year member of the military I know the whole story will never be reported and many times what is reported is doctored. Much of that is a security issue and to some great extent I agree with that.
Joe: You went, you saw; now just use it as your opinion and quit judging the press the same way you think they have judged you.
LOSER. I know my own comment is irrelevant, but good God, what a joke he is.
Please Just go away already!
William. Not to be argumentative, but hasn't Israel already blown up numerous civilian occupied buildings in Gaza? Israel's attacks in Gaza are deplorable and Joe (I don't even know what to call him) is not going after the truth. If we had it the way he wanted it, the truth of war would be hidden because no media would be allowed. This guy has no knowledge of international issues, Muslim vs. Jewish issues in Gaza, or a clue about America's involvement in the conflict. Giving him a voice in the media is disgusting.
@ william adams January 12th, 2009 1:30 pm ET
Finally a reporter that goes after the unbiased truth. If a governement (i.e. Israel) can't protect it's citizens it loses it's reason to exist.
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So are you saying we should remove Isreal as a country or are you saying (and this is what I would gather from the rest of your rant) that isreal should protect itself from attack? If it is the first you are an IDIOT of Joe the plumber proportions if it is the latter I simply ask you this shouldn't a country protect itself from another country taking its residents and locking them away without charges? Preventing food from being delivered? Preventing people from going to their jobs? Building settlements (you know houses, industry, stores etc) on their land? These are a few of the things Isreal is doing to the Palestinians. You see there are two sides to this story. Isreal evicted Palestinians from their own houses, have prevented them from working, have closed the borders into and out of Palestine, have built and ARE buikding settlements on Palestina lands (as determined by treaties and the UN), arrested Palestinains under suspicion of being terrorist but have not given them trial to convict them of that crime.
I know Joe the idiot Plumber doesn't understand these complexities but I had hoped the average American might
idiots
You know, I actually have a degree in Journalism and this loser gets a job with CNN? What's wrong with this picture?
it's only a matter of time before Fox news hires him as a "pundit"
What are this man's qualifications to report on a war? Is he suggesting that a democratic society should not be informed about a war in which its sons, daughters, husbands and wives are fighting? That we should take as gospel the statements of government officials whose political fortunes depend on the war's success?
This truly is an ignorant man, whose lack of expertise is matched only by his arrogance. While I believe in free speech, it's time for major news organizations to show some judgment and let these footnotes in history return to the obscurity they so richly deserve.
I believe Joe the plumber is one of the fathers in America that President-elect Obama was talking about.. He should be home raising his son. So much was made by the McCain campaign he was a single father , when is he going to act like one.My son raised his son on his own , that kid was his whole life and now is a proud father of a teacher. Joe go home, shut up , work hard and wait for your tax cut.
Joe the plumber! Why do people pay attention to anything this guy says?he is supposedly a Christian? Yet he owes money to the IRS, does not have a college degree or a plumbers license. He has never experience spending time with minorities so how can he be the average American?. Why does CNN fell they have to follow this guy around? CNN should use their resources on real issue in America and not some uneducated guy who is not qualified to be making comments on Israel. I fell he is getting his 15 mins. of fame off of CNN's expense. Shame on you CNN !!!! I would love to debate Joe the plumber anytime of the day and make him look like a fool that he truly is.Check his bank account, I bet hes not the "average American"
When is CNN and the rest of the media going to leave"Joe The Plumber" out of the news. The Plumbers Union renounces him. there is some question as to whether he is a licensed Plumber at all
His attitude that the media shouldn't cover wars is against the constitutional right of free speech.
This guy is either Fascist or a Communist, whichever you prefer.He is probably a card carrying member of the NRA and attends a right wing fundementalist church.
man is this guy a moron.. so he thinks the press should be regulated and told what they can report on....just the same old republican nazi movment, dont tell the truth dont say iarael is dead wrong on this dont say it.
Great idea. Let's ban reporters from covering our wars so that the world's great military powers can do whatever they want on the ground without fear of public outcry or hard evidence of war crimes. Let's turn our backs to the battlefield and imagine that everything is happening in a just and honorable way. After all, the ends justify the means, right? So let's start pulling reporters out, starting with this brilliant Joe the "Plumber."
is this guy for reaL give me a break dude get a job. oh wait he does as a reporter for fox news. i guess u don't really need a degree over at fox news
Oh my...what a cringe-worthy life this man is stumbling along in...I can hardly bare to look anymore.
LONG LIVE HAMAS!!
Here's a headline I really like to see:
Joe the Nimrod banned from CNN.
Seriously, everytime I see anything about this bozo I just want to laugh and cry. Laugh because what joke he is. Cry because there's a portion of our country who's eating him up. The best thing he ever did was not show up for McSame. Now, if we could just convince him to keep on doing that in the other things he's asked to do.
I am convinced that Joe the Plumber is a made up character to make George W. Bush and Sarah Palin seem smarter in comparison. There is no way this guy is for real. It's not possible.
Where are the Rockets when you need them.
Unbelievable!!!
Ban Joe the Plumber and anything on Palin. We have had enough of the moron time. We need the real news!
I agree with Jay, but how did it slip past the moderators? Most of the questions asked on the blogs and comments made are absolutely anti conservatives. If they would just report in an unbiased way, we would all be better off. I guess that and a couple of bucks will get you a coffee.
Pajama TV and Joe The Plumber. Both are complete empty vessels. Think about it Joe: if your position is there should be no reporting on the war then what in the Sam Hill are you doing there?!?!?!!! Idiot Boy.
Joe the Plumber is nothing more than Joe "The Joke" Plumber.
This guy is so ignorant....................................
The CNN story was good for a laugh, but I do feel sorry for close minded, ignorant, stupid people like Joe.........
what a total score for whatever pajamas media is... GoldenPalace must be kicking themselves for not hiring this idiot for pennies to get a cheap spike in traffic.
S-H-U-T U-P!!
You go Joe. I don't have a problem with media reporting because we know how biased they are so we really just watch and figure it out ourselves. Keep em straight Joe. It'll be hard for them to stand there and report their vew when you stand beside them and report the truth.
The fact that this idiot has any audience at all should be frightening to every rational, responsible American.
Is this guy for real?????
Plese tell me that he is a very bad dream......
Joe the NOT A PLUMBER belittles and humiliates himself every time he opens his mouth. He doesn't need any help from CNN.
LOLOLOLOL...can someone please inform this tragic hillbilly that nobody gives a goshdarn about his take on the war in Gaza...why is there so much ignorance in this country? how do millions of people get so brainwashed that they really lived by what this guy was saying calling him a" hero of the everyday people"??Americans we need to wake up and leave this ignorant thinking behind us...this is why other countyies think we're a joke because of people like him getting airtime and fame!
Is'nt is facinating that Joe even has a following.
I hope he keeps up the work he is doing at destroying what the conservatives have built over the last 28 year. Someday, even the most narrow mined of the conservatives are going to wake up and "get it".
This guy is a self marketing genius, way to milk it pal. I may not agree with a word he says but I respect his game.
Why did the author put quotes around '"Israel's being bad"?'
That is twisted on so many levels. Like we can't see what you're doing?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, poser.
Sad.
He says the media should stay out... while there as a reporter. Go away and take Sarah Palin with you, you irrelevant egotistical fool.
I am glad his favorite word is I know versus you betcha.... when does a non educated reporter becomes the top reporter on these issues.... neo cons need to give me a break. You know.... you betcha!
Wow... I guess Forrest Gump was right. Stupid is as stupid does.
But I missed the part about him changing carreers. How/When did he decide to put down his pipe wrench for a microphone?
OMG....this idiot ranks right up there with sarah palin in ignorance of our democracy!!! MCCAIN WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO AMERICA!!!!
PLEEEEESE CNN, PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS LOON A MINUTE OF OUR TIME !!!
REBUBLICANS SHOULD HAVE HIM SHOT WHILE HE IS THERE. HAVE HIM TAKE HIS PICNIC TO GASA.......STUPID JOE YOUR A FOOL!!!!
hmmmmm
liberals/progressives are the advocates of the average american
liberals/progressives are tolerant. conservatives are racist, intolerant bigots.
joe= average. very, very average.
libs hate joe= ????????
ohh, i get it. You progressive lunatics only like people who line up with your political ideology.
Nasty, venomous hypocrites.
If he doesn't think there should be any media coverage of the war, what's HE doing there??
Joe the communist?!
Quite honestly, I get tired of the reports on civilian casualties. It's not a football game where the opponents are readily identifiable, and located in one area.
War is ugly at every level, but at the end of the day, you're fighting the country, not just the military. Hamas has made it clear they want Israel destroyed. When conditions become bad enough, for everyone, they'll pressure the government to surrender.
I'm not advocating targeting civilians, but if the opponent is fighting out of school where children are present, then the children become an implement of war. If Hamas doesn't have the means to defend itself then they probably shouldn't be attacking other countries. If they choose to, then that country has the right to defend itself with any and all methods at its disposal. No one has the right to tell them, "They're throwing rocks, so you have to throw rocks....even though you have bombers."
One of the reasons the Israelis don't have a problem with hijackings and other issues is they don't negotiate. They say, "Go ahead and kill them. If you do, we're coming after you and everyone you're related to."
Besides...Who is the US to criticize anyone. It's not like we haven't dropped a few rather large bombs that took out a lot of civilians to end a conflict. eh?
It's war. It's ugly. It's real, and people die.
Being able to report on things like horrible wars, even on the atrocities, is kind of the whole point of the First Amendment. I suppose if you don't want media reporting on all the things they can, then I suppose you don't really want America to be America anymore.
However, it would be nice if the media covered all aspects of the war, instead of just the stuff the government says it's okay too. That's just as bad.
He's about as articulate as his benefactor the Lipstick Fido from Alaska.
Who is this person? What gives? I still say he was a plant!!!!! What a PLUMBER!!!!
This man is an idiot!
There should be unbiased reporting like al Jazeera...
lets see, he is now a reporter in israel saying there should be no war reporting?
Joe Wurzelbacher: the comedy gift that keeps on giving. Please, please...keep covering this guy!
This is the kind of common sense wisdom John McCain and the Republican party touted a "real' American during the election campaign. Something we should all be proud of and someone Barrack Obama should listen to...Right!! A dimwit wannabe plumber and a dimwit governor. The really scary thing is that judging by many comments here 'some' people actually take Joe and Sarah seriously and the brains amongs the Republicans aren't brave enough to tell these dimwits to shut up!!!
The media should be banned from reporting on wars?! I have an idea: plumbers should be banned from reporting on the media.
Joe would be outraged if a reporter tried to tell him how to be a plumber.
“I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do..."
so wait, you go into a war as a war correspondent to cover the war, and then you get angry that you have to move into a bunker because a missile is coming.
hahah, hey joe- we're laughing at you.
Spoken like a true Fascist......
LOL what an ignoramus.
When someone hits you, you hit back? Great "peaceful" strategy. Same one that's keeping the conflict alive in the first place.
The news media shouldn't be covering any wars? Then why is he there reporting on war? I guess he means the media shouldn't be covering war unless it's telling us what he wants us think about it.
WHO???Honestly why does anyone care what this man has to say, CNN please stop reporting on this fool, you are better than this!!!
CNN if you want to stay a credible news service than stop reporting anything this moron has to say. Pretending that this guy is viable news is insulting. He's an absolute joke. He's not even a plumber.
Has he paid his back taxes yet?
Reporters should be banned from reporting, hmm, why not have the government should control all the media? Old Joe would probably be much more comfortable under a dictatorship. He's not just stupid, he's evil;)
Look in the Dictionary for "Hypocrite" and you will see a picture of Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin.
They both blame the media for their own stupidity. Absolute Morons!!
The media simply reported their words and actions.
I wonder if "Joe the Plumber" had of been a "Jane the Plumber",or "Jose' the Plumber", or "DeWayne the Plumber" if he would still be in the spotlight and getting all this attention. I doubt if he would. Yet there are some peole that want to call this guy a hero. Isn't he supposed to be a single father? I guess doing this is much more important than raising his kid. How ironic it would be if Obama, the man he has so much disdain for, has to be the one who would have to get him out of there alive!
what a hypocrite!
I used to like CNN when it actually reported on news. They may get a ton of posts everytime they talk about Sarah and Joe but they don't realize it's because no one can stand the fact they're reporting on them. I'm going to start a trend of boycotting CNN for a week everytime I hear mention of these two twits. Feel free to join me on the BBC website folks!
This guy isnt smart enough to figure out that he is being used in a silly game. He's going to wake up one day and say "What the heck was I thinking?"
Poor guy.
If he doesn't think the media should report on war, why is he reporting on war?
Palin went to Germany to visit the wounded troops.
Obama went to Germany to give a speech for adoring fans.
Go figure.
This guy is the absolute poster boy for the Republican party. Total ignorance and a lot of tough talk.
Speechless..... Joe maybe best way for you to be useful is to stay quiet. Little Joe could not take a shower... People are dying and he wants no one to cover the conflict. Maybe Joe the plumber is nostalgic of Putin. He, also, does not like media, either.
Interesting reporting Joe. Now take a trip into Gaza or the West Bank and see what you would do if you had to live under occupation or a blockade. Would you get just as "angry" and wanting to "hit back" from there too or is it OK for some people to live under constant attack, control and humiliation and not others? Injustice is injustice no matter who it is against Palestinian or Israeli. Rockets aimed at civilians is wrong but so is the blockade and collective punishment on the residents of Gaza. You can't justify either one morally. They both use anger and self-defense as a justification but in the end they both kill and injure civilians. This conflict will never be solved militarily because an occupied people will never stop resisting and the occupier cannot succeed in maintaining control without using force. A political solution based on justice is the only possible way to end the conflict...and the United States is the only country capable of facilitating such a political solution...Godspeed president elect Obama!
Joe, stay in Israel, and get Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin to move next door to you.
JOE! WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE IS JOE THE PLUMBER? MAYBE JOE IS NOT HERE TODAY? BUT JOE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY.WHEREIS JOE THE PLUMBER??????/
What a way to show you have a license to be an idiot.
Can anybody reasonably answer why he's reporting? For crying out loud its sad that somebody like Joe The Plumber has a publicist as well.
"War is hell". That is why we need more reporting from it, not less. So when our governants try to draw us into one, we know what we are getiing into.
What about the company that gave him the job and sent him over there
what is the matter with them ?
I think people who are really pro Israel should go and look at the map of the Palestine territory, it's pot marked with settlements. It's like saying, we are the United States, but sure Canada and Mexico can start making towns in our borders, with their own roadways to these gated communities. If Israel can't even stick to their borders, what do they expect from the Palestine people, but for them to fight back for their land? I feel people in general don't know enough about what's really going on and only think that anyone from the Middle East is a terrorist. Sorry, but when you don't have food, water, shelter, and a way to make a decent life for yourself, it's very likely that you will pick up that gun.
To comments concerned with CNN's apparent colored coverage of 'Joe the Plumber" I'd just say consider what he had to say about the media's right to cover a war. That's pretty difficult to take any differently than exactly how it reads, it isn't out of context or something.
Clearly Joe is interested in the greater good, "the story of the common man" some might say...which would have nothing to do with journalism. Maybe we aren't giving Joe enough credit because he apparently is ahead of the curve in his ability to be the only human being able to cover international conflict devoid of a drop of bias. Joe the Plumber: 15 minutes of fame is not equivalent to a professional degree.
Please save your "homespun wisdom" for toasts back stage with "The Nuge" so we can stop pretending like anything you have to say matters.
Palestinians can't picnic much either these days. But if the media were banned from warzones; I wouldn't know that would I? Perhaps that is what he's really asking for.
Can we pay them to keep him there?
So, According to Mr. Joe, The Israelis can kill, but the world shouldn't know about it.
Isn't that against all the Journalisms ethics? I am wondering who is coaching this guy.
The Media brought out what is happening in Gaza. They didn't take sides. At this moment, we have Palestinians who are dying from Israelies weapons. The Israelie are using Illegal weapons and that is why Joe "The Plumber" doesn't want the world to know about it.
Joe, Please go get your License in Plumbing and leave the reporting to the Professionals.
Why do we even care what perspective this guy has? What journalism school did he come from?
Ban media from war? Hmmmm......I think that the images coming from the concentration camps helped during the Nuremberg trials.
I think the images from Hiroshima and Nagasaki has minimized the use of nuclear weapons.
Having never been in war, how can this knucklehead even have the perspective that war is hell? Hmmmm, maybe he got that from a journalist.
Think about it. He goes there ... as a journalist supposedly ... to exactly what he's accusing the mainstream media of doing: biased
reporting. This guy's 15 minutes is up. Go back to plumbing, Joe.
This guy is truly unbelievable... I personally loved the piece Jon Stewart did on him... please Joe the Idiot: GO AWAY!!!
I would like to hear Richard Engel or Bob Simon comment on "Joe" and his skill as a War Correspondent. Everytime his guy opens his mouth he proves how little he knows.
I can see it now...Palin/Plumber 2012. How on earth either of these two morons became part of the US political scene is beyond me. The plumber from Ohio is a foreign correspondent and the hockey mom from Alaska is a VP candidate? Somebody please inform these two hillbillies that their 15 minutes of fame is over. Please CNN, stop giving these two more exposure.
The media originally started covering WWII as a way to motivate the American people and amp them up for war. It was not used to criticize the war effort. It was purely propaganda.
We've had about enough of this far-right attention seeking big baby. We don't care what he says or does, so let's stop covering his every move, ok? He's boring and not relevant in the least.
This is news?
Look at your face and be proud, America. Be proud.
"redflagz January 12th, 2009 1:48 pm ET
Why did the author put quotes around '"Israel's being bad"?'"
It's a direct quotation, that's how journalism works.
Okay, this guy has no business reporting, expecially for CNN.
Not reporting on war is ridiculous but I agree that the war is reported one-sided. A lot of civilians are getting hurt on the GAZA side because of Israeli attacks. But Hamas has been attacking innocent citizens in Israel for years. Where are those reports and pictures?
Israel wants to live side by side, even with people regardless of who they are. As Golda Meir said, "there will not be peace until terrorists learn to love their children more than they hate "us".
It needs to be pointed out that Hamas attacks happen from public places not from military zones, that is why Israel must attack these areas from which they are attacking Israel. Israel is not attacking citizens of Hamas it is just that the Hamas fighters choose to fight from where their citizens and families are. It was Hamas's choice.
Israel will stop attacking for the promise of no more attacks ever and no more arming and we all live and can focus on our children, our families our well being and our economies.
Hmmm.... suppress the human right of freedom of speech so the people can't see world affairs because they're too dumb to fully grasp the entire story.
Wow, Joe... I thought you were against socialism. Well, now you're definitely going to be invited by your comrade Vladimir to go on that hunting trip to Siberia, where you can drink some Vodka, shoot some tigers, and threaten dissidents with imprisonment and torture.
This is like calling Limbaugh an American.We know who pays Rushs salary, and its the republicans and big business.
I think we just skipped ludicrous speed and went straight to plaid...
I guess you can't blame a middle-aged, backtax-owing, previously-anonymous, single-father for wanting to be someone else. I wish him well in his quest for identity. It would be interesting to know if his celebrity has turned him into a chick-magnet (no offense to the feminists out there but we all know how it goes a lot of times).
Does anyone really care what this guy has to say? He is capitalizing on his 15 minutes of fame.
I wish they would not even give this moron the time of day. Who cares what he thinks?
I get really tired of people dumping on CNN. As far as I'm concerned CNN is the most reliable in news. During discussions they always have representives on both sides of the story, you can't be more fair than that.
As far as the Joe the Plumber story, yeah it's not hard news and the guy's a joke. CNN is only reorting it the way it is.........
Send a plumber to do a journalist's job and this is what you get, overly simplified responses to complex political problems. This Joe-the-plumber is one "worldly" character!
Please STOP devoting valuable internet bandwidth on this dolt!
Didn't you know there was reporting on war from at least WWII to the present? How else would you have been able to create your right wing hawkish point of view and upholding the Constitution. I guess you forgot about that piece of paper that means nothing, you know the Constitution, free speach and all that cr@p? Seems our leaving president forgot about that too. At least you're in good company.
I dub thee, "Joe the Moron"
Oh, wait...since that would offend even most morons, he should be called, "Joe the Insignificant"
joe the plumber needs to go away...Not report the war?!?! Give me a break! Hey Joe, like everyone else says, "your 15 minutes is UP". Get back to work please.
Another American ignorant spipid Joke.What the hell is wrong with you people?Give him a wrench and let him fix a toilet.
hey joe...where ya goin with that gun in your hand?
"...when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
But, Joe, what if you hit him first? Which is exactly what Israel did, and has done repeatedly for over 50 years. Israel started this mess, mostly by being arrogant bullies, and has been able to keep it up only by hiding behind the U.S. and by spending huge amounts of American money.
It's time to cut Israel loose and let them sink or swim on their own.
That's what over ambition brings. From waxing his way into Obama campain to becoming over night political star with the failing Mcain campain to pallying with the half educated Alaska Governor. Today he is moduling his way into a war reporter.
Any way I like him reporting in favor of Israel because it makes me angry when Hamas a terrorist group fires rocket into Israel and when Israel retaliates to protect it's citizens, the whole press will cover the whole exercise just to favor Hamas the terrorist
To those that say Joe's 15 minutes are up – His reporting is equal in importance as CNN's "iReporters". Reviewing their "reporting" mostly shows a lack of education and understanding of the economy and the facts.
For those that ridicule him – A lesson you should learn is that you should hear BOTH sides of the story. All he is doing is giving the other half. If you don't listen to it then how do you make a decision with only half the story – is that how you communicate in everyday life? If so, I can see whay your offspring will act like 6 year olds in Toys'r'us when they are supposed to be mature adults
– If you are going to make a comment – make it count for some intelligence and not child like behavior.
I have noticed that ever since the movie "Forrest Gump" Americans seem to have the idea that if a person has training and experience, it means they are somehow suspect, or they have some problematic agenda, and a person who is a complete blank slate would be better. We saw that with Newt Gingrich and his group of bullyboys, we saw it with Palin, and now we are seeing it again. Joe is an example of this. I hope for his sake he is saving his money so when the Ridiculous Right dumps him, he will have something to fall back on and not have to go on welfare again. By the way, my siblings and I (five of us) are all extremely liberal, we all work and have never been on welfare, even when times were tough. Be glad the government was there when you needed it, Joe.
OMG did he REALLY just find out that war is NO PICNIC? Worth sending him there just for that insight, I feel. Did anyone think to paint a target on his back?
This goes to show why Joe the Plumber should NOT be a journalist – and why his selction has been irresponsible by Pajamas Media. An independent press not just a "nice to have" as Joe seems to imply. It is essential to maintaining democracy and an informed electorate.
The first step in creating a dictatorship is to actively restrict vital information about important issues – duh, like the status of a war – to the country. We are NOT Nazi Gernamy and we are NOT the Societ Union. We DON'T need, nor want, nor prosper from, the government dictating what we can see, hear, and read.
Freedom of the Press is protected by the Constitution. Thank God it isn't protected by the likes of Joe.
Is THIS the image America will keep projecting?
A typical German war-monger.
and he's the type of "American" that the rest of the world sees...
so clueless...
If there is one person to point the finger for creating this Joe the Joker and Stupid Sarah it's the so-called Maverick John McCain.
Why is this guy still relevant? And perhaps he should try to go to Gaza as "press" and see if he is still defending Isreal after they begin shooting up his caravan like they did with the UN and Red Cross one?
Could it be that Joe being sent over there is an attempt to prove to the world that the US is NOT too much of a friend to Israel?
After all would you send Joe the Plumber to a friend?
Now here's the reason why a birth control pill exists!! This guy is an idiot. Why is he getting any coverage???
Joe the TOOL needs to disappear of the face of the Earth!
Actually the media has reported on the thousands of rockets that Hamas has sent over into Isreal. BTW Joe, President Elect Obama supports Isreal. The only issue I think people have with Isreal is the killing of children. Most people know in an offensive, that there will be some civilian casualities. But Isreal hit two schools with children in them. I'm not defending either side. But all of Palestine is NOT behind Hamas. Why doesn't someone help Fatah get back in charge when the peace process was actually moving along?
I agree the people of Isreal need to be heard, but not from this guy. He has no, not one single ounce of journalism in him. He states that ALL media should be banned, but he's hired by a media outlet to report on the war. I wish no harm on him, but this guy needs to go. I understand why this guy was used by the McCain camp, but it was a mistake. I think he hurt the campaign, especially when he didn't show up at an event.
I think everybody is being very unfair to Joe. This is probably as good as life will get for him. I don't blame him for trying to milk it for all that it's worth. I mean he went from a guy with bad credit and struggling financially to getting a paid trip to Israel to poorly write on the war. Of course it does seem highly obsurd, but he got a much better break than most of us will ever see.
Proud to be a Republican January 12th, 2009 1:42 pm ET
So if a conservative says media shouldn't report on war, it's against 1st Amendment rights, but when commie liberals try to ban conservative talk radio, it's patriotic?
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actually what we say is honest non-libelious news is acceptable but libel and slander should not be acceptable. So that is why rush, the druggie, and his ilk should not be allowed they are lying outright and calling it facts. they are entitlted to their point of view, no matter how hate filled and racist it is, but for them to be allowed to go on, unchecked and call their distortions and outright lies "truth" is unacceptable. I also would note that no matter how much the "liberals' (ie anyone with an idea that was not formed before 1901) dislike and whine about the facist members of the radical religious right we have not taken them off the airwaves. So get over yourselves, unlike the radical religious right who ahve killed those they disagree with, bombed out public buildings, and had the protestors at the republican convention jailed for no reason (see Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!) the Liberals ahve yet to imprison ANYONE for voicing their opinion.
idiots
I find the level of condescension from the comments so amusing, but then again it shouldn't be surprising coming from all the liberals here who obviously are so much smarter and more enlightened (HAHA) than the average "joe."
Why don't ya'll just get over yourselves already, because it's plain to see that the only reason you despise Joe is because he made Obama look so vulnerable and typical of Democrats with his "spread the wealth" outlook on life!
Joe what a good job but how do we know you are telling the truth. You are just their so get you a??? back or better yet go to Alaska and cover the story on Palin daughter Mother-In-Law.
This man is douche bag just like most of his other right winged Republican friends. What in God's name does he know about war? Did he ever serve in the military? This poor sloth, I am afraid the media has given him WAY too much attention and as a result has lead him to think that he can do anything, anywhere, at anytime or at any place. Is this what we want representing this country??? I don't think so! To all the media outlets: TURN THIS GUY'S CAMERA AND MIC OFF IMMEDIATELY! I am sick of hearing about and seeing this goof ball!
JOEY: Go find something that you are good at, if that's possible, besides mouthing off about things that you don't have clue about. Obviously, everything that you've tried doesn't work for you. You are not as popular as you think or have been told.
This guy is a joke! He has somehow managed to extend his 15 minutes of fame for far too long... I think that John McCain and Sarah Palin should take turns babysitting this idiot in their respective homes. After all, they created him. To say that the news media should not be allowed to cover war is absurd. It is unbelievable that any media is giving this empty headed loon any coverage whatsoever. Does he think this will raise his visibility level even further with the American public? What next? A talk show on cable or radio? Perhaps a run for political office? Well, dogcatchers are needed everywhere...even in Ohio. Is he qualified? I know I would not trust him with my pipes...especially if he knows as much about plumbing as he does journalism or politics. Go away Joe...or whatever your name really is!
He's fun, in a bumpkin sort of way.
Wow, I still can't believe you democrats still unload on this boy. Do you have anything better to say than "idiot". I scanned these comments and hardly saw a word on what he is talking about, just attacks on him and whether he should be saying it. The party of tolerance, give me a break!
Proud to be a Republican January 12th, 2009 1:42 pm ET
who is trying to ban right-wing radio? What does that have to do with "Joe the c-sucker" reporting on war (with no journalism background)? Repubs sure like their red-herrings.
Can somebody PLEASE pay him to disappear?!?
I am reading the other comments and thinking that this country has really sunken to an all time low! People's brains must have the first to go with this regression!!! When America was attacked, all citizens demanded justice and to go after the terrorists. No one sat quietly and just waited peacefully for the next attack. WHY IS THIS SITUATION ANY DIFFERENT?
There have been numerous rocket attacks against innocent citizens, not to mention all of the suicide and bus bombings. ISRAEL HAS FULL RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF!!! This is not an offensive war but rather a DEFENSIVE war!
Remember this: if Israel lays down their weapons, the Arabs will continue their terrorism (and don't think that people in this country won't see it eventually...). If the Arabs put down their weapons, THERE WILL BE PEACE!
You have to be kidding me.
And we wonder why the world thinks we're arrogant, ignorant idiots?! It's because Dubya and this guy are out there representing us.
Obama, can your first order of business be to drag this a55hat home and make him go away?!
Eight more days, people, eight. More. Days.
This is perfect.
It is in line with what Bush has done with the bringing home of the fallen soldiers. It is a CRIME to not let a free society see what WAR really is.
There should be a constitutional amendment that forbids the hiding of fallen heros coffines from the eyes of the nation.
Joes does not even have journalists degree anymore than Palin did!!!
i mean... i'm glad joe's over there...
i mean... like... christin amanpour... and the like... they just don't get "it"...
thanks joe... btw... can ya send over someone... my toilet's backed up... oh... i'm sorry... your already so full of it... you don't make house calls anymore...
maybe i can get gig in burma... or kashmir... or... if joe can do it... we all can.. we are all joe the plumber now... wait... he's no a plumber... wait he was... well said he sort of was... no... someone else said he was... ho what the hay... who needs facts... he's a reporte now... i'm so confused...
help me joe...
Whoever heard of "Pajamas-Media" before this story? What a way to get attention. Joe-the-moron reporting!
You had your 2 minutes of fame thanks to a couple of idiots.You probably should stay there with this clown reporter with you.You are a disgrace to hard working americans.flushhhhhhhhhhhh along.
Another person that needs to move. I'm actually thinking about taking up plumbing, if you have this much time for your private life and make so much money you can afford trips like this. I wish I was a regular old joe.
LEAVE POOR OL JOE ALONE!
Wow...this man is so irrelevant now! Why is he even doing what he's doing?!
Late night comedians, you betta watch your back! Between Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin, you all will be out of a job real fast!! Don't say I didn't warn you! lol
Shut the *&%@ up you turd. And CNN, stop wasting air time and news space with this garbage.
One can only hope his insensitivity to the hardships and suffering of the people caught up in the conflict will catch his lack of conscious in the crossfire.
Not the sharpest pencil in the pack...methinks he does not recognize his own hypocrisy.
And why do we care what Joe the Plumber thinks?
...at least the guy's got a job, and not looking for a handout from the Obama administration...which is more than I can say for most of you posters.
Isreal not allowing independent journalist in, Joe does'nt think the war should be covered by the media. Hmmmmmmmm sounds like the communist parties bag of tricks to me............
He's doing what it takes to survive in this crazy world.
Ban Joe the Plumber from the war (and other things the require some shred of intelligence to analyze). Oh, but wait, he can cover the economic meltdown being the shining example he is. And I'm not referring to his bald head.
He talks of retribution and unloading on the boy, but he is nothing but a tough guy wanna-be just like most of the war cheerleaders on the right. All talk, while others do the dirty work. I enlisted in the infantry after 9-11 to fight for my country-Where was Joe? War IS hell-10 days in Israel is a joke.
how is this guy still relevant?!
Joe needs to be placed in a big toilet and flushed.IT'S GOT TO BE A BIG ONE TO HANDLE ALL THAT S-H-I-T WOULDN'T WANT IT TO GET CLOGGED AND NOT GO DOWN
This is not news. Joe should be allowed to do his thing as he likes. That does NOT mean that CNN or anyone else needs to report on it. This is a great example of the the dumbing down of America.
Obama is coming into office in a few short days. Let's try to find solutions to the problems we are facing rather than waste our time pointing fingers and blaming others and acting like 4 year olds. If you want to make a difference get to work. If you want to pout – then go away.
It's sad that the media thinks this man has any credibility at all. I put him right up there with Palin. I'm just not sure which one is more pathetic. The only reason we keep hearing about these two morons is that is what the media wants us to hear. America will be dumbed down so much in the next 20 years at this rate that all we will be able to do is sit and drool.
God God man, this is too much. Joe the Friggin' Plumber. Jeez. Where is Tito the Builder these days? Is he the camaraman?
So is Joe going to lead by example by quitting his job and going back home? It's a little ironic for a 'war reporter' to be there reporting on a war and then claiming people should not be reporting on war.
Also, thanks Joe, for summing up the horrors of war into "taking quick showers and foregoing picnics". Thanks, but that doesn't sound like war, that sounds like an average winter day here in Kentucky when the hot water is gone.
I hope the GOP picks him as their new poster-boy.
Did his watch stop...Has this guy's 15 minutes of fame not run out yet!
haha...what's really a hoot is he's actually qualifed to be a reporter about as much as OBama's qualified to be a president.
I blame the highly estimed John Biggie McCain.
Then why are you there Joe? That's rhetorical, not that you have an (intelligent) answer.
Gung Ho GI Joe. Full of suggestions....
Join the service, and then talk...
Thanks GOP for introducing us to this moron...
Do you know the difference between Joe the plumber and Sarah Palin?
Lipstick and it is not Sarah wearing it, that was the pit bull
Somewhere EDWARD R. MURROW is turning over in his grave.
Simple-minded Joe: would you even know who that guy was???
I'm hoping a Hamas rocket makes a direct hit on this obnoxious SOB!
I hope Joe the Plummer (aka War Correspondent) does not srisk going out with the American kids on patrol and "takes one" for the President.
I think Joe is absolutely right: media must have facts before reporting to general public.
This whole thing with this clown is just beyond surreal.
LOL. This guy is making Palin look smart (and we all know just how hard that is). I think CNN should keep reporting on this idiot's escapades. Expose his stupidity for all the world to see.
Joe the Plumber is utmost the definition of American Idiot.
Will this idiot low life crawl back underneath that rock of mediocrity from which he came!? His name is SAM not JOE. He's not a licensed plumber. And the right wing enjoys using this clown to further their pitiful attempt to convince us all that they, including this moron, represent America. STOP, ENOUGH ALREADY with this idiot. I could care less if this guy was reporting on sun spots from the moon! Stop giving trash like this idiot an audience.
Just like the politicans who used him in the election Joe shows he wants only the news that makes the US look good and not the truth to be reported. What a moron. Little wonder he has been without a job for so long. Gil
everyone give joe and sarah a break they are just trying to milk their 15mins of fame. you all would probably do the same. The real tragedy is cnn wont stop reporting on them.
Our lives are enlightened by knowing that the people in Israel can't go on a picnic, thanks to Joe, The Reporter.
Take that CNN, you shouldn't be allowed to report on War or anything of that nature... because, Joe the Plummer said so.
Hey Joe – put on a uniform – be a "real man" – and then take care of business....you are a phoney baloney!
ana January 12th, 2009 1:31 pm ET
Since this twit is anti-media,,,,,,,,,why don't the media follow his advice and quit covering him then maybe at long last he will GO AWAY!!
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I agree 100%!
he is right about "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," other wise he is a moron.... who paiod to fly this guy out to israel... isnt he a plumber?
“I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do because they’re firing missiles,” Wurzelbacher said. “It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution. I’m not a person that runs from things, but when it’s a missile, you run.”
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You don't think wars should be covered by the media? So you go to cover a war and are then pissed that you are in a bunker dodging incoming missiles.
Joe, you are an absolute moron. There couldn't be a better poster child for the current GOP. You and Sarah are two pea's in a pod. You deserve each other. Please go have babies with her and send them out to give birth to a druggies baby! Then lecture us on your family values and how we should bring up our children.
So, uh, Joe what precisely are YOU doing? And what, besides being Jewish, makes YOU an expert on the situation.
Good lord. And THIS was the cornerstone of John McCain's campaign? America, things are really bad for us now but THIS is a glimpse of just how much WORSE they could have been had Mccain won.
What the heck is pjtv? And who watches this stuff? Who actually cares what this moron thinks, his 15 minutes were up a couple months ago. This fool is a joke, just like Dubya, MacKaine and Sarah Pilon. Is this the best pjtv can do? lol.... Sweet! Hopefully they got him a one-way ticket.
So...pretty much everything wrong in the world is the media's fault?
He's an idiot...and so are McCain and Palin for bringing this nitwit into the spotlight.
I HOPE THIS JOE THE PLUMMER GETS HIT IN THE HEAD FROM ONE OF THOSE PALESTINAIN ROCKETS. THIS GUY NEEDS TO GO AWAY AND DISAPPEAR FOREVER !!
Has anyone ever seen that movie 'Idiocracy?' Tell me Joe doesn't have such a scary similarity to just about everyone in that movie...
I'm sure glad Joe isn't running things! One of my complaints about Iraq is the sanitization of war. News rep[orting agencies should have as much access as their courage allows!
Joe the Reporter thinks the media should be banned from reporting on the war? WHILE he is representing the media AND reporting on the war? Good Lord! Have either of his brain cells ever collided and sustained damage? Joe...take the oxy out of oxymoron and what do you have left?
Joe "the plumber's crack"
Please Hamas do the world a favor and kidnapp Joe the Plumber.
“I’m sure they’re taking quick showers, I know I would,”
If your plumbing skills are as bad as your reporting skills, your plumbing customers should count themselves lucky to take a shower at all. What a moron.
Ban Joe the Plumber from the media............
everytime this man speaks it validates every person who voted for Obama.
What's sad about Joe is that he's too stupid to realize just how stupid he really is. He's standing in front of a smoke plume from a rocket attack, saying that reporting on war shouldn't be allowed. And he doesn't even realize the irony of what he's doing. I'm sure CNN just puts his statements up for the entertainment value, just like they do for Palin, but can we just find something that's not so incredibly sad? We're laughing at the villiage idiot here.
Heah Joe the Plumber – go unplug a toilet!
Eejit
Hang on to your seats. He said he LOVED John McCain, who is a true American Hero and highly intelligent man!!!!!! Then, he said John McCain made Joe the non-plumber feel dirty. But, that he felt Sarah Palin was real. That says it all.
So next, Joe will be Paling around with Terrorists.
**Joe needs to research what occupation does to humans. This story goes both ways.
Your next RNC chair.
Since when are professional plumbers experts on politics, foriegn affairs, and media? Give me a break. If media on wars shouldn't be released because it doesn't represent the whole story, why wouldn't that theory apply to whatever Joe puts out in the media!
I guess the 1st 15 minutes weren't enough for Joe.
Joe the Plumber should go back to Ohio and fix toilets or whatever the hell he does for a living, and stay out of world affairs. He's a little demagogue who doesn't know what he's talking about. Boy, the dumbing down of America is sure evident with this guy.
Why on earth is any media outlet, let along a generally reputable one like CNN, giving one second of time or one inch of column space to this guy?? Is this all part of the ongoing program we enjoy here in this country called, "the dumbing down of America??
to chris m I hope he runs in your state!
The only reason this stooge says ban the media from reporting is because it makes it easier to pretend that Israel is completely justified no matter how many Palestinian civillians are killed. Joe the plumber is a fool and a disgrace.
You go Joe!
Palin/Joe the Plumber 2012, yeah baby!
OMG!
This is all John McCain's fault, but at least he has enough sense to stay out of the media.
Hey Joe the Plumber.......your 15 minutes of fame is up. It has been up. Please go away.
You aren't really a Plumber and you really aren't a reporter.
If you want to do some good for your Country......enlist in the Armed Forces (take your pick in which Branch) .
jason: can't you see he's his quote is about how he feels having to live like the people in Sderot every day? This is a quote representing how it FEELS to be threatened by terrorist attacks; he's not saying he shouldn't have to actually be in a bomb shelter, or implying as YOU thought that he's somehow unaware of the situation he is in. OMG, No wonder the USA thought Palin was stupid; because folks dumber than her didn't get her meaning either.
Okay, the media SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED to report on a war:
First, then what are you doing there, Joe? Getting another 15 minutes and a few more bucks in your pocket?
Second, they shouldn't report on the war because the media doesn't get the entire story. Well, so instead no one should get ANY story whatsoever, right? Keep everyone in the dark and without ANY understanding of ANY side of it. Sure, that's much better.
And the "war is hell" line: did he make that up himself? Never heard it before.
Joe the Plumber gets dumber by the minute...
I hope he stays there!
Don't come back.
Ugh...I can't stand it!!! Is this actually what our country has evolved into...where we get our war news from a non-licensed, non-tax paying, glorified toilet plunger? If I was a plumber, I would be insulted that this idiot was representing my profession. He gives plumbers a bad name!
IDIOT
If Joe the Plumber really was a man of his word, he wouldn't be in Gaza pretending to be a journalist – because he thinks the media should be banned from war. Put your money where your mouth is, Joe, and get the heck out of there!
On second thought, maybe you should just paint a bullseye on your chest, stand on a hill and do us all a favor ...
The media should not be allowed to report on war? Joe the Phony is a typical right-winger. I have suspected for some time that his conversation with Barack Obama was a setup by the McCain campaign in order to try to paint Obama as a "Socialist."
The more this guy opens his mouth, the more I'm convinced he is a right-wing extreemist.
Oh Man ! I say ban joe the plumber from the media. Period. End of Paragraph. What a fool he makes of himself.
Joe the plumber is about as intelligent as a pea. I cannot believe that he is reporting from Isreal! Even more idiotic is that CNN is reporting on him! I think, ah, you know, that uh, the media shouldn't, huh, report on stuff, huh, because like, they don't know what they are doing, but I like think I do, so send me over and make me a star. ONLY IN AMERICA! Hypocrite and unintelligent = Joe the Plumber
He does not want them to report. What is he doing? Oh the lighter side of war. Did not know there was one. CNN must we continue to be subjected to nonsense?
Everything that is wrong with the world is surfacing in this idiot's actions.
Wow, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.....hasn't it been 15 minutes yet???
I thought this guy's 15 minutes of fame were up a long time ago. Please stop beating this dead horse and let him fade into the dark of the internet, along with fox news.
Not only does Joe the Plumber get a free all expense trip there but he's getting paid for being a dumb head too. No wonder this country is in financial touble, companies waste money on stupid people like Joe.
what is better way to inform the public about that Gaza attrocities than send an American Bubba to zionist state. I am sure he will be easy to indoctrine with hatred toward my Palestinian cousins. If there anything wrong with American, it is the like Joe who elected Bush.
I hope they pull him, what were they thinking, oh thats right it was Republicans that hired him, totally makes sense now.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”... I am at a loss for words...
I can't believe this man thinks he can dictate any policies of what anyone should do. This is a good example of why America has leaders to make policy and not dictate policy.
“I’m sure they’re taking quick showers, I know I would,”
Um, why doesn't Joe go talk to the people on the other side of the fence who had no running water before this started....
Wow, the dumb leading the dumber...
If something happens to Joe over there, the pjtv will get sued for sending a non professional to do a job he is not trained for, and by Joe's own admission a job he doesn't think anyone should be doing.
Joe, go back to Ohio and read some history books about War Propaganda, if that is too much for you then just read the book 1984.
Then maybe you will see why your comments are sooooo stupid.
At any rate, just go home!!!
Wait so...he's over there as a "journalist", but he thinks the media should be banned from reporting on wars? I see his hypocrisy is still in full bloom.
Btw, a completely stupid idea. We have a right to see what's going on over there.
This guy did nothing more, nothing less than..... ask a presidential candidate a question. That there was so much comment about WHO asks a question says more about Obama, to whom the question was directed, than it ever did about this former normal citizen.
Hi All, I dont think that you should be commenting on Joe the Plumber. I think he represents the view of the majority. Joe the Plumber rocks!!!!
Just kidding. Joe the plumber should be put where he belongs, a mental facility..
Joe is CRAZYY!!!!
I guest the media love to cover liars and hypocrites. This guy lied on the campaign trail, run around with a person( Sarah Palin) who palls around with drug dealers (levi's mother) and a guy who doesn't pay taxes or has child support and now he has a news job, please, only in (white America)
Can Joe read a news paper or spell the word rocket. It seems conservatives like people who will not challenge authority or look beyond the moment.
Joe, 'The Plumber' ,has more common sense than most so-called journalists and his comments are a breath of fresh air that counter the hordes of hand-wringers that never expressed one iota of concern over the many years that Southern Israeli residents were on the recieving end.
Keep up the good work Joe!
I look forward to your next piece
Be safe.
Mr Joe the plumer, get a life.
Has anyone ever seen that movie "Idiocracy?" Joe the Plumber has some scary similarities to just about everyone in that movie, right?? LOL!
This has got to be a joke! Someone must have been sitting in the outhouse when this decision was made!
Hey now, Joe Wurzelbacher is a decent guy who seems to have some really good insights about this. Maybe he can help bring peace to the middle east. Let's give him a chance.
Or not. Bahahahahahahaha!
Go away Joe! Go away!
What? The media should be banned from reporting on war? Are you kidding me? The rest of the world NEEDS to be informed on these issues, and the impacts it has us all. We need to learn about these conflicts, not hide them, or be ignorant of them. This will be written in history books for frickin sakes, and Joe the idiot plumber thinks the media has no right to be there? Joe the non-plumber, you're an a$$. What the hell are you doing there reporting on the war if the media shouldn't be there? Hypocrite loser.
One would expect much more professionalism from a news service giant like, you know, Pajama Media. Ha ha... Even hard core conservatives must cringe when this guy opens his mouth.
Why is a man who is not really even a plumber......now pretending to be a war correspondent? What the hell!
Proud to be a Republican January 12th, 2009 1:42 pm ET
who is trying to ban right-wing radio? What does that have to do with Joe the plumber reporting on war (with no journalism background)? Repubs sure like their red-herrings.
joe the plumber is hot
Why attack Joe? Isn't he allowed to have an opinion? Is everyone who disagrees with you an idiot? Call for Joe's death? Are you serious? Why would you want a terrorist to kill him or anyone else? I disagree with that viewpoint but I certainly don't want anyone to kill you just because I disagree with you. He's an American who is allowed to think freely and voice his opinion just like you whether you agree or not. He's no better, no worse than you. I never understood why some folks need to attack someone who holds a different view. Stifling freedom of opinion is not good for anyone.
"I’m sure they’re taking quick showers, I know I would,” Wurzelbacher said. “So you can’t plan your day, you can’t take a picnic.“ The Palestinians dont have water to take a shower with nor do they have electricity. Taking a shower is a luxuary at this point in Gaza....
Who the hell is this guy! What is he doing and why should we care.
Oh wait! I bet he's looking for plumbing jobs that don't require the propers papers and licenses that they require here in the U.S..
Why is anyone taking "Joe" I am not even a real Plumber seriously?
He was a bad plant that the McCain campaign tried to use to discredit Obama's economic plans since it was clear that McCain had no economic plan himself.
This clown is irrelevent!
As for him trying to show Israels side of the war this is another joke.
Poor Israelis can't take a long shower or a picnic?
Give me a break.
How about poor palestinians have to attend the funeral of their entire family of civilians.
Yes Hamas should stop launching rockets into Israel.
But Israel sjhould be called to task for their completely out of proportion response to the rocket fire.
Yea, this will improve our image overseas. NOT!
Huh.
Since when does being a plumber make you qualified to be a foreign correspondent? And since when does that make you qualified to say what the media should and should not cover? If we didn't have reporters risking their lives in the line of fire in Iraq, Bush and his people could have told us whatever they wanted for the last six years. PLEASE, CNN, let this clown fade into obscurity like he deserves...his fifteen seconds are over.
this guy proves my theory, that is anything sells in America, Joe get a job, in your specialty
Why are you all so threatened by this guy, it's funny, but that's what you did to him, made him famous by continually attacking him and I don't think you're smart enough to see it. You keep doing it to Palin as well. LMAO
Why is the media even still covering this bumbling idiot??? He's a republican who voted for the republican. Does he want a medal?
Joe, do us a favor, and take your non- union, conservative self out of public life. NO ONE CARES!!!!
I agree with Vik!
Hes has been a Israeli spy and plant the whole time.Dont come back Joe the Joker.
“So you can’t plan your day, you can’t take a picnic.“
With such indepth coverage, he certainly will win the Palin Journalism Award for 2009.
Now, about those "you knows"...
Isn't this bozo's 15 minutes of fame up yet? Has he paid his back taxes yet? I don't understand the medias fascination with this clown. His story should have been over and done with 4 months ago.
Next thing ya know, Steve Duecy (FOX) will be out of a job!
Joe the Plummer 2012!!!!!
Palin/Plumber 2112!!
Think about it? He and Palin are a perfect pair....seems even on their best days neither one can make a coherent sentence. Can you imagien the debates? The hilarity would be enough to make us all forget our woes!
I think everyone is missing the point – this gig will give him foregin policy experience for his run for Senate.
Just having this ya-hoo representing a form of media is an insult to all professional journalists. It surely doesn't say much for the site that is sending him there. This guys 15 minutes were up 3 months ago. You have to be some kind of stupid to put any stock into anything this lying opportunist has to say.
"The media should be abolished from, you know, reporting..."
Someone get this man a) a copy of the Bill of Rights, and b) a dictionary. I don't think "abolished" means what he thinks it means. When people try to sound smarter than they really are, they usually end up sounding more stupid.
Joe still thinks the world is flat so who cares what his thoughts on journalism are?
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” is the dumbest thing I think I will hear all year.
"You can't plan a picnic." Such a shame. I'm sure the people of Gaza are having plenty of picnics, aren't they?
There is pause and cause to wonder if CNN actually believes that this man is newsworthy. Joe...THE IDIOT!!!!!
Are Palin and this jack-off related. He doesn't think media should report on the war so he went to Isreal to "report on the war". These people get more stupid by the day. No excuse me: minute!
Is this guy related by blood to Sarah palin or what? If he doesn't think media should be able to report on war, the what the heck is he doing there?! He's contradicting himself so clearly. He knows as much about foreign correspondence as Sarah palin knows about foreign diplomacy. You betcha!
Joe says that he does not think the media should be allowed to report on the war, but yet he goes there as a news correspondent. I am sure Fox News will be sending an offer to the worldly plumber following his pulitzer prize level reporting.
Guiding Principle Lesson that Joe and pjtv is teaching us....People unqualified to do the job should not be placed in the position; Joe the Plumber should not be a reporter, and Panetta should not be the head of the CIA.
Hey Joe, Get a job that includes the use of a plunger!
Wasn't this guy's 15 minutes up 30 minutes ago?
I'm not sure if I should laugh at him or lament the state of what journalism has become if this vapid monster is allowed to give reports on anything.
Hey Joe!
The Israeli Prime Minister just called. The toilets are plugged at the Knesset!
Seriously I though this was a joke!
BEN
Why are you even covering this idiot! Who cares what he thinks? Next he will be running for VP - give me a break. He lied in his very first public appearance and now he is a celebrity. What is this Country and our media coming to?
Here's a question to all you freaks that are saying Israel is wrong. Say the KKK set up shop in a village just outside of the south side of Chicago. Every morning they wake up and declare their desire to eliminate the African American race. Every so often they send some missles into the south side, or send a suicide bomber to blow up a park where kids are playing basketball. Maybe drive a car bomb into Trinity United Church. So then, the people on the south side retaliate. They start picking out KKK targets. One problem, the KKK, being spineless, hide out amongst non-combatants, as a result, there are heavy casualties of innocent people. How many of you would be standing up decrying the south side? Saying that the KKK people had every right to be there, and in fact saying they are justified for doing what they're doing? Bet I know what Obams would do.
Sound unreasonable? Consider that Hamas is an organization that has as one of its main goals, the destruction of Israel. Yet you sit there and say it's all Israel's fault.
So please, show your hypocrasy. Show how you are two faced. Because you know dang well that if the above situation happened, you'd be calling for the elimination of the KKK. Hmmm, maybe it's because the Jewish people are just a couple shades too light?
So CNN, ya gonna have the guts to post this?????
Joe, you are in Israel covering the war but sayng that reporters should not cover the war. Do you realize how stupid that makes you sound? Are you in competition with Sarah Palin to see who is the most stupid person in America?
Shut up and go away. Don't you have any toilets to unclog? Leave reporting to people who have an education.
I think media should be abolished from reporting too, at least crap like this... back at ya joe
Yes, this comes from an individual who publicly made a fool of himself. A plumber – not really. Sorry, if American media didn't report on war, then we'd be nothing more than a bunch of machines rooting on a ruthless warmongering administration. Oh wait!
Oh my god. This man is an absolute moron.
LOL I'm with you Fritz- I was just shaking my head in disgust/disbelief as I read those words. This is the biggest joke of the century. I wonder how Anderson Cooper felt when he heard about this moron going over there....
The GOP sure know how to pick their heroes! First a governor who couldn't name all 7 continents in the world, then a Plumber who thought that the rich shouldn't get taxed more. No wonder why so many GOP senators are dropping like flies!
1) His name is NOT Joe! 2) He is NOT a plumber! 3) He does NOT pay his taxes! And last but not least, he is NOT relevant and/or newsworthy by any stretch of the imagination! So let you're obvious man-crush for this guy go already CNN! How about some actual news for a change! Pathetic!!!!!!!
send joe to the showers,NOW!!!!!!
Joe the plumber turn news reporter and Sarah Palin the hockey mom can run for VP.
Only in "THE GOOD OLD USA" ya woder why your in the toilet
To "The Man" That's right, just sit there and believe that there is no slant or manipulation in the news media. Do not question anything and be a good little robot.
okay, enough is enough. just because joe the plumber is in Israel reporting doesnt mean cnn has to pick it up. Let's leave joe and sarah palin where they belong, in obscurity. and tell me joe, you dont think reporters should report about the war? what are you doing there? what an idiot this guy is, what an idiot John McCain is for unleashing joe and sarah on the rest of us. he opened the lid to their boxes and now we cant get them back in. i blame McCain for this!
How does "Joe the Plumber" have the qualifications to be a war correspondent? Additionally, why does anyone give any care what his opinions/ view points are? This is not news please stop wasting our time with this frivolous drivel.
Why? Why????? Why is this guy that is described by his former profession given any airtime at all? He is not a journalist, novelist, road scholar or leader of any sorts. He has no pedigree to his name other then a desperate politician’s throw away tag-line during a debate. He was to live in anonymity and to used by the GOP as a concept of the average Americans feeling of disconnection. The media is wrong for not making a simply choice and forgetting his 15 minutes of fame.
And just think..there are actually idiots that supported this clown and Palin
I hope they're not paying him over $250,000 to be a circus monkey. Imagine all of the highly qualified, intellegent people from both political stripes who have dreamed of one day being an international correspondent and suddenly this idiot comes out of nowhere to offer such learned and insightful commentary. Imagine all of those brilliant "average guys" you know who truly deserve the opportunities given to this schmuck. This is a perfect example of what is wrong in this nation.
And now the kicker for all the liberal minded posters, this guy writes what a lot of Americans actually think. And I know, you say that the average American is an idiot too, but that's your right to think so.
America didn't get into WWII until the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. Prior to that many Americans believed that the US was better off staying out of the war and out of European and Asian messes. But then the war came to us, so we struck back.
That's what this guy is saying. Hey, the terrorists struck America, we strike back. Now he's in Israel and gets to experience his first bona fide rocket attack. Like most Americans, he won't take it and just "turn the other cheek". You strike at America, America strikes back.
Does that perpetuate the violence - not if you end the fight conclusively. And that's been how America REALLY plays its foreign policy. When the country doesn't end the fight conclusively, it "loses the peace."
As for the comment about the media not being allowed to cover the war, I think everyone here should show a lot more intelligence and demonstrate that they can read what the guy really means - which is that the media bias is everywhere, invasive and corrupt. The facts are no longer the focus of media reporting - the goal of media reporting today is often little more than attempting to influence policy and creating coalitions.
Again, most Americans don't trust the media anymore - for exactly those reasons. Joe the Plumber is speaking to that view, plain and simple.
So keep it up with your "OMG" and "idiot" statements if you like, or spend a moment, whether you agree with the guy or not, and think about what he's saying and what he means. A lot of America identifies with what he's saying, so figure it out and quit making fools of yourselves by supporting each others biased viewpoints.
Anyone here a little open-minded or not?
As for me, what I believe on this topic is not included in this post, so don't ban me unless you really want to sound foolish.
Why in the Hell is anyone reporting what this moron says. He has every right to say it, but there are a lot of crackpots out there that don't get this kind of ink.
Okay.. this guy thinks that we there should not be any reporting of a war..
TALK to yourself dude!
You have to be an idiot to say stupid things like that. I can't imagine how any "JOE" public would be laughed to oblivion if they uttered such nonsense.
Pulitzer prize for Joe?
Life is a complex thing, so its always good to try and look at conflicts from differing points of view. With Joe the Not-A-Real-Plumber on the case, this way we have the MORON'S side of the story along with everything else.
Hey Joe, get back to work and fix my toilet.
Moron!
Well joe should give up the plunger and the mike and take up a rifle. He should join the military for some real experience. Oh I forgot , he is a republican and they don't go to war unless he or she is an officer
This moron doesn't even get it does he? He thinks the media should be abolished from reporting on the war and he's doing what in Israel? Is he NOT reporting on the war?
I saw this guy on Fox News last week and then today this...Jeez, go away already. Stop making more of a fool of yourself than previously!
Joe, Joe listen. This may be difficult to hear but you need to know that we are over you and Ms.Palin. It is a done deal – we won
You really need to go away now
don't go away mad – just go away
Samuel J Wurzelbacher is neither a plumber nor a reporter. He should find something he can actually do competently. I hear a village in Ohio is missing it's idiot. Perhaps he can apply.
I used to think this guy was getting unfairly pilloried. I mean, all he did was ask a candidate a question about his tax plan. That's what we're supposed to do in a democracy. But, the more "Joe" talks, the more he makes us look like a nation of morons.
Wow, nice idea Joe! And we thought Sarah was challenged! The public is knocking on the door of the building that contains all the smart [R]s, and no one is answering.
i would take a shower with him wouldn't you
I thought this guy already had his 15 minutes. Why is CNN even covering this non news?
Joe should go to Alaska and cover Sara, the two of them make a great pair. Might be the next ticket for the GOP.
Why won't this lying SOB go away?
Jared, you seem to be misinformed, a mayor of a city and a Governor of a state carries a bit more weight than a "hockey mom".
No media covering war? Wouldn't the Republicans all love that! Can you guys just let this guy fade away please?
What an idiot. Hope he gets what he deserves out there.
This is the kind of right wing, "pro American" fool who would be all for interment camps for Muslims in the US.
What a piece of work and a piece of something else.
Hey Joe, here's a little helpful hint for you: when reporting on anything, a good reporter should be UNBIASED.
Way to swallow the nice pill the Israel propaganda machine gave you.
Joe should keep his mouth shut for "HE" knows nothing about war and try to cash in his 15 mins. again! He is such a media whxxe. Joe, go home, get a real job.
you are doing what exactly? sit down your 15 minutes is done.
What is Joe's location exactly...I mean the coordinates!
He's so ignorant it's funny! At least his employer could hire an editor so that his statements sound more English-like.
S.O.S PLEASE HELP!!! WE NEED A CERTIFIED PLUMBER TO RUN A SNAKE UP "JOE THE PLUMBER" REAR EXIT. HE'S ALL BACKED UP AND OVERFLOWING WITH STUPITIDY. COST IS NOT A PROBLEM, BUT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
Joe doesn't need a helmet. If he suffer's a brain injury nobody will be able to tell the difference when he gets back.
This is great reporting:
"So you can’t plan your day, you can’t take a picnic.“
Excellent....
Good gracious Vik, they have food, water, etc and are still shooting missiles into Isreal. What are you missing? They are not fighting for essentials, nor land. They don't like Israel, plain and simple. Why blame Israel? The rocket fire increased once the 8,000 settlers were removed, hmmm, I guess appeasement is the solution....
I'm confused. He's there reporting for a media outlet, but is insisting that journalists shouldn't be allowed to report on the situation? Um . . . is it too obvious to ask why he's there, then?
It's important for the media to be able to cover wars, because it helps hold governments in check. The media brought prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib to the public eye, and the US government had to answer for it.
As far as Joe the Plumber reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he should report about both countries in a balanced way, and not with a goal of absolving Israel. Neither country is the "good guy" or the "bad guy."
And finally, what qualifies Joe the Plumber to be a foreign correspondent anyway? I'll listen to Christane Amanpour over him any day.
Then why doesn't Joe kick himself out of the country for being a reporter?? Wait...because he's not a real reporter just like he's not a real plumber!!!
Hey Joe, if you are so concerned about Israel, why don't you just stay there and provide Israel your plumming skills. We don't want you here.
Are you kidding me? What a waste of time to have read this article and for cnn to actually put on this online is horrible. Obviously it shows how much America really cares about the situation in Palestine.
Okay here lies the joke, he is in Israel reporting but he thinks reportings should not be allowed to report on the war. Sorry but what is he reporting, how to get the best travel deals in Israel? Someone stop the idiot before he actually holds office.
So the Republicans put a couple of nutjobs on pedastals during the campaign and now these two nutjobs (Joe and Sarah) continue to make the entire party look like bozos. This whole thing is a hoot and will continue to get worse until 2012. Could it be that the entire party is really suffering from dementia?
Oh, TCM, really...what would it take to convince you that Barack's qualified? What makes him UNqualifed, in your opinion.
PLEASE STOP TELLING US WHAT JOE THE PLUMBER IS DOING. PERIOD.
Fake plumber becomes fake journalist.
Can we stop giving this guy attention now?
Why is this even being reported. Who cares.
And you liberals wonder why there are wars in the world? Seriously, I've never seen so much hate directed at someone. If you don't like the guy, just ignore him. Why all the nasty comments?
You express this kind of hate towards someone just because they are different from you, yet your party is the supposed 'tolerant' party, the party of the 'regular-Joe'? How ironic...
I think the main reason that Joe is still around is due to the fact that he drives you liberals crazy. As evidenced by this blog. So keep playing the role you tools.
When you're done reading all these lovely rants here's a little exercise for you liberals, and conservatives for that matter. STOP LABELING PEOPLE.
Whatever happened to just being HUMAN.
Sad.
The Allied response was out of proportion to the Nazi threat.
Maybe he can see Russia from there!!!
Sderot was an Arab village until the early 50's.
I wonder if the long showers and picnics in Gaza have been interrupted by the recent Israeli operation.
CNN, I am disappointed in you. You are suppose to be a leading news network in this Country!
This is definitely making me think twice.
Enough of the plumber!
I think Joe is smarter than Limbaugh and should get his job, and a new home in Alabama.
Isn't it funny how somebody can say or do one little thing and become famous? He was unlicensed plummer for heaven sake, probably bouncing checks because he is not working, beating his wife and/or kids. Now cnn is paying him to fly all expense paid trip to Israel! With his own entourage!! And who to guess how much he is paid.
Who is this phoney character, really? Ban the free press?! And he calls himself an American? Why does the press give this fraud any coverage whatsoever?
What a moron.
More proof that the conservative movement has failed and is on its last legs. Maybe they could send Jeff Gannon over there too.
Banning media correspondents from war??? in this case, he should be banned too... dumbo!
He could be the dumbest man in America. Ban the media(yet he's working for the media out there!) What a piece of garbage.
Joe is an idiot.
Anyone who supports war as a legitimate way of settling disagreements needs to see the reality of his or her choice. The world needs to be reminded that war kills children, breaks hearts, and damages minds.
Great!
First "Joe the Plumber" is an economics expert, then a journalist for a day and now he wants to end the freedom of speech. Is it any wonder the Republicans lost the election?
I can't wait to see what's next?
It's not the war that the media should stop covering, it's Joe the Plumber.
Rob, please get some edumacation
ATTENTION NEWS MEDIA: PLEASE stop reporting, following, paying attention to this idiot. Thank-you.
Saints preserve us from the Republicans of this era
I agree with him. I've been saying that, too, for years! It hampers our military and needlessly prolongs war and death. Get it done, get out. If the media hadn't been on the ground for an extended time in the Middle East all these issues would have been resolved by now. Yes, many innocent people would had died, too, but their dying today anyway and there is no end in sight. It's war, it's tragic and politically incorrect things happen..........that's why liberals don't fight wars. They just turn the other cheek and become subservient.
Why do you think Hamas stages so many Israeli 'attrocities' on their own people, to manipulate the press. Those innocent people wouldn't have died if the press wasn't on the ground.
Think about it............................
Dear Joe,
Your fame had run its course months ago and it's almost shocking that CNN would continue to keep your name and activities relevant. I can see Fox News doing it, but come on... You have made a fool of yourself, your family and your party affiliation. Of course Palin, Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh had a hand in making the republicans so gosh darn successful as well. Keep up the good work, Joe... You're in good company with those folks. Intelligence is obviously not a requirement to be a right wing spokesman.
I agree with Bill.
@ Shawn
"Why attack Joe? Isn't he allowed to have an opinion?"
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What about our oppinions to disagree with Joe the Plumber? Freedom of speech goes both ways
Does Joe not know? The First Amendment gives the press the right to be there. So is he saying that the public should not be informed and ONLY trust the government to tell us what's going on?....and this guy wants to run for office...nice
So now Joe "nor really a plumber" Wurlzbacher is pretending to be a journalist too, eh? What a surprise. He has a point though, if we banned the media completely, I wouldn't be so depressed to hear how stupid the majority of we Americans really are. Ignorance truly is bliss...
I am rolling my eyes right now. I think that Joe the Plumber is grandstanding for some political agenda he has down the road. Somebody told him that he has a shoe in in the political world with his whole "Joe the Plumber" thing. He thinks he now has the key to change the world by attacking the media. He is mad at the media because a lot of the media made a mockery out of him. I am curious to see how far he goes. I will more than likely judge this as plastic and fake and not really meaty.
alan
Joe is correct. The media overlooks that written in Hamas' chrter is the "obliteration of Israel". Now how can anyone make peace with another when they don't believe you should even be allowed to live. Israel is correct in killing the terrorists be them, little ones, big ones, male or female.
Whats next.......Harry the Butcher will be testing the new NASA shielding systems, Suzzana the Hairstylist will be displaying her mathematical proof of string theory, and George the president will be made a multi-millionaire many times over for book deals on what I like to call the "8 Year Debacle". ONLY IN AMERICA!!
He's not a "Joe", he's not a licensed plumber, and giving someone a mike does not a journalist make. I'd say he should engage brain before using his right of freedom of speech, but that would seem to be a Mission Impossible for the Great Impostor.
What a nut. Arrogant, idiot, nut, I'm sure he'll get a schooling
What an idiot!
This is what happens when idiots overstay their 15 minutes of fame.
This is the future of the GOP. Joe the nut job. This is amazing how a plumber can become a journalist by just asking a question. When it takes real journilist four years college plus experience to be a journalist.
Is the conservative movement so broken and devoid of intellect that this guy is the best they can come up with? The only other explanation is that Joe the Plumber (or whatever) is a liberal Democratic mole working to make Republicans look as ridiculous as possible. For that matter, Pajamas Media is probably run by Keith Olbermann...
Never mind that high-pitched whirring sound - it's just William F. Buckley spinning in his grave.
HIS 15 minutes are UP already! I vote we ban this so-called "plumber" from all media. Seriously, can we stop the nonsense already? Please?
LOOOOOOOOOOSER a plumber working as a reporter>????????
who listens to this moron!!!!!
To Rob, get a grip....
"Joe" is the embodiedment of hypocracy. Joe goes no to say, "I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting...”, but forgot that he is in Isreal as a member of the media and IS reporting what he is seeing. Next, he says that he's a peaceful guy, but talking about him "wanting some kind of retribution" for being in the middle of the rocket attacks.
Joe needs to understand that being a member of the media, he is supposed to fair and as unbiased as humanly possible. He already is operating on behalf of an agenda/a preconcived notion that one side is in the right and the other being completely in the wrong.
Has it ever occured to him that BOTH sides are right AND wrong?
What's next....Joe Hazelwood opening a school teaching inland waterway skills?!?!
The most ironic thing about the Joe the Plumber phenom, is that Barack Obama (the guy he can't stand) made him famous....... If Barack had not spoke w/ Joe, McCain would not have had the oppurtunity to speak joe's name 10 to 20 to 100 times, during the last presidential debate...... So Joe, thank your incoming president for making you famous...... Oh yeah, isn't what he's talking about banning media,, dictatorish, communish?
Isn't he now part of the "elite media" he complains about?
"we have seen the enemy and they are us"
Joe !! Just in TIme to Fix the Plumbing in Gaza!
thats what you do right? oh wait your just a token now for Conservitive Out of Touch Republican Media,, this is pethetic
Send Joe the Nitwit to cover the war and Dog the Bounty Hunter to catch Bin Laden.
reading your thoughts leads me to believe that israel should respond equivalently to hamas. israel should launch 7,000 missles into gaza.
now that would be balanced. launch them all at once. perhaps on a holy day.
Why do you Media people keep putting this guy in the news, who the freak is he?, what does he do? He pops his head in front of the camera and his stupity comes out. Between him, Sarah Plain, Paris Hilton I don't know whose worse.
What bothers me more is that there are people in this country who listen to morons like this .... there are people who are willing to pay this moron ....
Hey CNN, are you guys really covering JTP??? For real?
To CNN: Stop Giving This Ignorant Jerk A Soapbox.
You're beginning to have about as much credibility as "Joe" does.
He's not a journalist. He's not even a plumber. He decided what to "report" on based on his extreme political views. He thinks war should be waged in secret. And yet you, CNN, continue to give him a forum.
Your bias has become clear for all to see.
I no longer watch your network.
I would just like to know what this guys credentials are, to be able to become a "War Correspondant" overnight? I want to be a rocket scientist, but I dont know the first thing about rockets! Who paid for his trip over to Isreal? Who is employing this buffoon who is everything from a plumber to a political commentator to a war correspondant? Does this mean I can apply to NASA now?
When will this idot go away? And why would anyone give him another second of fame? I repeat, "When will the idiot go away"?
No, we should just be reading the BBC coverage of the war instead...
Finally – some hard-hitting news from Joe The Plunger, a seasoned reporter.
You media people should be ashamed of yourselves for reporting on this war! What? A free trip to Israel? All I have to do is report on the war? When can I leave?
Doesn't this JOKER ever Quit?
I'm tired of him. – What a insult to our intelligence.
Ladies and Gentlemen; here is the future of the Republican Party! A total and complete moron who believes the "media" should shut up...even while he is "ostensibly" reporting himself. Hey Joe, take your own advice...
This guy gives a bad name to plumbers everywhere!
Anyone who listens to this moron would probably vote for Bush...twice....
....and perhaps we shouldn't allow the media to criticize our government officials....
What a wack-job...maybe Joe the Plumber could get citizenship somewhere else...
With all due respect to CNN:
WHAT DA H-E-L-L WHERE U THINKING WHEN U POSTED THIS???
Where did the serious news reporting go??? JOE THE IDIOT???
Please pleaseeeeeee give me my 3 minutes back!!!!
To Joe "The Idiot":
Go to Palestine and die of hunger or get killed by an IDF! MORON!!!
The only thing that Mr. Plumber-Butt has unloaded is that tiny brain of his. Don't you just want to puke in your soup every time this idiot opens his mouth?
Note to Joe – Reporting means there is more than one side to a story. Also, when you get paid for this media gig, please be sure to pay your stinkin' taxes!
Joe the Plumber would have fit right in with Sarah Palin. Between his opinion that journalists shouldn't cover wars and her wanting to ban books without reading them first, they are a perfect fit. Wars need to be covered so people can see right up front the cost of wars in misery and human lives lost. Also, Hamas should have known if you are going to throw rocks at a giant, that the giant may have bigger rocks to throw back.
They just need to ban Idiots from reporting is all
This guy is an absolute idiot! I'm sure that he'll do an outstanding job, much like his contribution to the RNC.
Oh Yeah. A real reporter. He's doing an awful lot of editorializing for a real reporter. That's a no-no Joe
This guy and his t-shirts and dumb remarks. LMAO! Does he have no shame?
Apparently, not.
Complete Idiot, he should be banned from life.
Irony. Joe the non-plumber, non-business owner, no-show, now unqualified reporter blasts the profession that he is now totally a tool of. Could he be any more stupid? Way to go GOP.
UNDERCOVER NEOCON REVEALED!
Joe is absolutely right. Every single Hamas terrorist needs to be exterminated.
yet he is "reporting". Why is the media talking about him?
"when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
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Yes, Joe, that's what we want. On behalf of the Conservative media outlet that sent you there, disregard the historical and religious context of the conflict, but instead marginalize the current situation to the intellectual equivalence of a college football game so 'Country First' bigots, who hate all Arabs and Muslims anyway, can best comprehend the present state of affairs.
They just need to ban Idiots from reporting is all. How's that plumbing thing working out Sam?
Joe is the male version of Sarah Palin...The toilet stool of America....somebody please flush it!
Hummmm Joe the plumber is now Joe the reporter...Hummmmm sounds suspicious...What is the significance of making Joe the Plumber into Joe the Reporter..... I don't know why I just don't trust this guy....
Hey Joe, go take a walk over to Gaza buddy. CNN please this is not news, well maybe for the Daily Show
when the hell did this guy become a news-worthy expert on ANYTHING?
This guy is a total moron.......Enough said!
What is his education? It is amazing to see how conservatives manipulate a naive person to their benefits. Listen dud during the cease fire truce, there was about 156 violations by both countries Israel and Palestine. Guess what only 33 violations were accounted by Palestinians, 123 violations were by Israelis. I don't think you have the educational background or the intelligence to know the context of the war. Please do not misinform the innocent and naive people like you.
Joe, the GOP nominee in 2012. Sorry, Sarah Palin.
the news media .once again has proven that the are no rules when it comes to reporting..the only exception are the ratings that are placed on the show and the reporter. THERE SHOULD BE MORE PEOPLE LIKE JOE. It is easy for people back home to say this or that however they do no know what takes place at that time and place, yet they can try to disgrace someone who honestly wants to get the correct story out to the world. the entrenched news reporters are a bunch of bogus reporters and many should have the credentials taken away.
He is right. All the media does is sell fear and mistrust. You do not get the whole story anymore. The only parts of the story that is published are the parts meant to make you angry or afraid. The more you read the more you feel that things are hopeless.
Joe,
Don't you have a toilet to plunge?
Joe the plumber is an illiterate idiot. He supports the illegitimate zionist entity and the murders that they are carrying out.
Who cares? Can we stop covering this fool and maybe report on something relevant?
you people are such jecks. give the man a chance. war is hell. ever been to one. are you willing to go to one. been there done that. i dont see any of u going there to cover the war. i hope your toliets start overflowing and you cant find a plumber, because you are so full of crap
Kelley- I saw that movie, and even though it was a comedy, it was FRIGHTENING how much these people (Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin) remind me of our horrible idiotic future!
Why is the GOP so proud of being STUPID?
Is it really any wonder the Republicans lost the election? Do they really consider this man some kind of blue collar oracle and spokesman for their cause? Very sad.
Ah come on, give the guy a break. He didn't ask to be picked as the Average American. He's taking advantage of the incredible luck he's had so far...what's wrong with that? To be honest, I don't see anything different in what he's saying about being in southern Israel than Anderson Cooper did just a week ago. I mean he's just saying what's happening, that's it.
Connecting with B.S.ers Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin were John McCains most tragic mistakes. Joe, or whatever your name is.... no one is buying your B.S., you are totally full of it, and we hate you. Now go away.
Why?
CNN I love, respect and admire you for the most part. But please and I repeat PLEASE, stop reporting on Joe. We are a nation of moderate, educated, and sensible people. But just like in any other society in the world, we have exceptions. Why report on those exceptions. Why bring the mentally less fortunate to the limelight. So PLEASE stop reporting on Mr. Wurzelbacher. It's not doing anyone any good including Mr. Wurzelbacher.
This is a trap for republicans: they have so many morons in their base, that in 2012 many will want Palin+Plumber run for presidency. Serves them right.
I think the media needs to be banned from covering this idiot. His 15 minutes are long over. ENOUGH ALREADY!
Much as I hate to admit it, I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH THIS.
Let us all be honest enough, jokes about Joe the Plumber aside, that he is actually right!
Hasn't his 15 minutes of fame expired? Sheesh.
We should leave JOE the reporter alone, can't you all see we may have another ERNIE PYLE in the making.... LOL
Palin and Joe in 2012.
Push SNL to the top of the charts.
The media has every right to report on what is being done in our name and with our tax dollars!! In fact, it is their duty!! What should NOT be reported on is this idiot running around overseas pretending to be something he is not and pretending to represent the rest of us.
At least he spoke a little bit about something he knows: showers!
Evidence enough of the conservative/GOP war on intelligence and reason. C'mon people what kind of morons put ...a moron like Joe up to this? Republicans, that's who. Theya are laughing at you by doing this kind of stuff. Sarah Palin is another example of just how little they think of America.
I'm Canadian and that's what i love American politics... ( no pun intended to our neighbours to the south ) You have one guy who makes a comment when they had the presdential race and now he thinks he's a reporter.. not for anything but who the hell is this guy and why is making any kind of noise in the U.S. next thing you know he'll be running his own talk show...You guys should seriously take this Joe " the plummber " out of the news because it's making the U.S look like a laughing stock....
What has this plumber/politician/foreign correspondent have to say that anyone would be interested in hearing?
interesting observation coming from someone who is now a member of the media........though I'm sure there are more qualified people reporting for their middle school newspapers.
unbelievable........
Who let this idiot out of his village?
I concur with his premise.
Spin doctors should not be permitted in War Zones.
Go for it Joe.
You can't be any worse than some of the ones that are out there.
Joe should go back to removing the crap from toilets than spewing it from his mouth.
I Joe spent half as much time in a school to get his plumbing license maybe, and that is a BIG maybe, he would be legit at something.
Every time he opens his mouth something stupid comes out.
Please make him go away.Stop reporting on Joe the unlicensed plumber!
You go Joe! Don't let the idiots of the mainstream press (or those that suck them off) keep you from reporting the truth.
Joe the Joke got a JOB????
OMG! What a jerk! He needs to slink off into the underbrush – never to be heard from again!
It's too bad Isreal do not know that the Joe the Plumber and now a wannabe journalist is hated by the majority of Americans. My guess we don't like closed-minded fools who believe their way of belief is the right one only and anyone who disagrees with them must be a socialist. This man is so racist and evil that he might actually be the biggest criticism Israel will recieve from America for allowing this uneducated man to interview and report their story.
Joe the plumber should go back to removing crap from toilets than spewing it from his mouth.
Joe the right wing nut job is certainly an idiot, but a couple of things remains true... Hamas loves death and Palestine = Frankenstein.
Unfortunately, Joe speaks the truth. It's unfortunate that such a large number of Americans are ignorant to the fact that they are manipulated by a biased-media.
Poor little Joe the whaterver.
He is so mad to be stuck in the bunker on the Israeli side.
He knows that in Gaza, there are no sirens, no warnings when the F18 launch the bombs. Reading his comments from Sderot, I'm sure that in Gaza his pants would be wet, or quite full. That is why he would not like to have reporters seeing the mess. Propaganda is always better than reality. Keep on plumbing! Something will come out!
...so he'd prefer that the media be banned from covering anything and the population live in ignorance, rather than thinking critically for ourselves? What are we supposed to do if we don't know what's going on in the world, fool ourselves as best as we can?
It is funny that CNN would report on something like this when they put people in front of the camera to be an anchor who have no journalism experience. It is just to get rating since they are way behind Fox. Maybe if it wasn't so biased it would be more kind to watch. Let this man have his peace. He is not disturbing y'all. If he is, don't listen or read his stuff.
Every time this nimwit opens his mouth, I get the sudden urge to shave his head with a razor with no shaving cream.
Hey!-You know, I betch ya Sarah took the picture.....maybe thats where they both belong, in a bunker, at least they'd go away...
To quote Jon Stewart,
"Joe Wurzelbacher, a.k.a. Joe the Plumber, a.k.a GO AWAY!!!!"
so the israelis can't take long relaxing baths or go on picnics? the gazans don't have food, water, and have bulldozers tearing down their houses. Joe, I hope you are allowed to go in gaza, take the opportunity and...
Maybe Joe should go spend some time in Gaza so he can see what hell is really like. Is he not angry that there's a humanitarian crisis brewing over there?
Joe the Plumber: Don't report on war; it cuts into MY airtime.
What an idiot. Why would anyone listen to this guy? He has as much journalistic credibility as my office chair.
I love reading the news for the day. Moreso, I love the comments that my fellow americans post. You people call JTP and Palin, morons, ignorant, blah blah blah. The comments that you post are so sad towards the state of American affairs. Look back at the hateful comments that most of you write. Does anybody actually know a whole lot about JTP? I doubt it. Wether or not you believe him to be a capable reporter, should he actually be targeted by Hamas because he believes what he believes, oddly enough I agree with him, as do so many others. I did not vote for Obama, nor do I think he will do all of the "changes" that you all fell for, but I do not want him or anyone in his cabinet killed because I dont believe in him. So, please repond with your hate towards me, I did vote for the evil Mccain, and the idiot Palin. I served honorable for eight years in the Marines, where I did hold a gun, I guess I am a baby killing, civilian beater, or whatever you want to make up about me. People please think about what you are going to write before writing it. To use an old cliche, "can't we all get along" Honestly people we better.
So.... Joe is saying he doesn't support the 1st Amendment and our Bill of Rights?
Good to know.
Wait a minute. I thought Joe the plumber was going to have a record deal? I can't believe CNN or any other media outlet would even give one sentence to talk about this total moron.
Come on guys. This man is a waste of news space.
Douglas Stoddard
YOU ACCEPT A MEDIA JOB, FOR WHICH YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED,
THEN YOU COMPLAIN. YOU REMIND ME OF THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THEY HAVE WORKING IN THE SENATE AND CONGRESS.
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a moron...he's obviously 50 years behind his time! He would have made the perfect nazi. How about Joe the Plumber goes out and finds a job..perhaps in Wasilla...where he'll be in perfect company!
"Joe the putz" is more like it! I hope he's a better plumber than he is a journalist!
Why don't we just ban Joe the Plumber.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”
____________________________
Words of eloquence from Joe the Dimwit.
Joe please go back to your day job. You obviously have no clue as to what you are talking about.
Another publicity stunt... Honestly, I don't wish the man harm but if he wants to act like a reporter which he is not, then OH WELL!
This should not be in a news ticker but an entertainment ticker. I'm glad change won but it's a little sad to see the throws of death from this guy and Palin.
How long before hes doing reality shows, then porn movies?
This guy is a buffoon and should have a great career on Fox news with the rest of the government puppets
Dear Tony – Sounds like your nose is so high up in the air, your brain is oxygen-deprived! I'm curious, where did you say you saw combat action? Your armchair, on television? Oh, that explains it! Brain dead!
Can we please stop putting a microphone in front of this man? He has nothing of value to say and is mindboggingly uninformed.
I think this loser should go back to unclogging toilets, what a moron!!
Hmmm ... sounds more like Joe the Communist.
It is unfortunate some people can not appreciate what Joe is doing
for humanity. He is able to make time to see for himself, what is going
on in a war torn land, and he is entitled to his opinion in saying what he feels. We are lucky enough to be able to watch 24 on television, and not have to live through it; like what Joe is seeing first hand. Amen
I am ashamed that I clicked on this link. Joe the Plumber is just some doofus who gained name recognition as an accidental byproduct of McCain's failed attempt to use him to bash Obama. Now he has selected 'conservative' as his gimmick. But I guess he's entitled to the money, if somebody is shameless enough to hire him.
This man has spent his adult life getting toilets unclogged. From " Joe the unlicensed sub-contractor" to "Joe the international affairs corespondent". Have Mercy.
two words: who cares!
Like many other posters on this article I'm confused. He says the media shouldn't be allowed to report on war but he is over there to do exactly that. Does he know the obsurdity of that? And what if the media doesn't report, are we expected to just sit back and be ok with not getting any information whatsoever on a war that is going on?
Maybe he should just say that the media shouldn't report their bias opinions on the war. And by bias opinions I mean anything, fact or fiction, that "Joe the Plumber" disagrees with.
The media has no business reporting the war? Why don't we call him "Joe the Fascist" instead? No wonder the right wing loves him!
My problem with the media is that they keep giving this yahoo a platform for his idiotic opinions. Hey CNN! Quit reporting on him and he'll go away...
JTP proves that you can see any slant you choose when it comes to a story. "Oh woe is me, the main stream media is not reporting a story the way I want them to."
The man is a moron.
Apparently, there is a group of people out there somewhere who have no understanding of qualifications and/or credentials,. I hope I don't miss the CNN coverage when this sad and sorry guy decides try his hand a brain surgery – or maybe rocket science!
Whatch out Anderson Cooper..You got a real competition now..Joe the idiot Plumber.
Please somone hold his hand there in Israel. He is a national treasure..We really raelly need him back. He is a simple of our Republican Party..God bless you Joe the Plumber..
Take care..
Get this guy out of the spotlight! He obviously has no clue or credibility. It's insulting that the media is even reporting on him and his ignorant remarks.
Why oh why is this guy given any acknowledgment at all?! First he's a plumber...then he's a country singer...then an author....now a war correspondent....all in the last 3 months. And the news media actually reports on this guy!
I hope what they are paying him is worth more than his life? Idiot!
Joe the village idiot needs to go back to his town where he lives and pay his back taxes that he owes. That way that tax money can go towards what ever the city or county needs ie for ie helping the elderly, disabled, homeless, children, or putting food on someones table or paying for their medical bill. Then he needs to get a real job where the company is licensed to do plumbing and old Joe also gets a license so he can work rather than work without a license where he is working illegal. Actually rather than stay pretty far away from whatever he is covering (not worth mentioning) he needs to get a little closer and start to do some running he could loose many a pound. I have heard of everything now Jim Hall Kansas City Missouri.
I think his point is, (however dumb, misinformed, whatever) is that most news outlets have their own agenda these days -other than- accurate news reporting.
The journalists themselves don't control the actual output from the media giants, and a lot of times (Fox, Huff) will manipulate the story to back their own opinions.
I'm not saying Joe is a god-send, but he makes a valid point in that regard. He wanted his own personal experience of what's going on over there, and didn't want to be spoon-fed whatever manipulated trash finds its way through is TV/internet.
Don't shoot the messenger, even if it IS Joe-the-plumber.
Golly. What a smart and thoughtful man.
why doesn't Disney World send Mickey Mouse to cover Joe the Plumber? it makes about as much sense as this arrogant nontaxpaying American citizen covering a war where 7,000 courageous taxpaying American men and women have given their lives for a country they loved enough to give the ultimate sacrifice - their lives. This moron does not even love America enough to pay taxes. And he thinks he can cover a war fairly? Give us a break, CNN. Enough, enough, ENOUGH about Joe, the Plumber!!!!!!! Please!!!!
Really, is he any worse than the main street press that you already have. I don't believe them and their Israeli bias, so why would I believe his piece of trash. The MSM has hidden their heads in the sand regarding the Israeli invasion just as they did the Iraq invasion – "if we don't report it – it must not be true".
Plus, how come I'm out of work and he has a job, WITH travel, no less? Life is so not fair!
Jeeze, could this guy's 15 minutes please expire?
So if the media shouldn't report on war then why are you (Joe) doing it? I means its not like some on is holding a gun to your head and making you listen to the news. You want to remain ignorant of what is going over there – simple just don't listen to it!
I don't understand where he gets off saying the media is saying 'Israel is being bad", for the most part the media in this country has been pretty pro-Israel in this conflict.
I think many posting on here are a little mistaken. Banning the media from reporting, yes that's he said, but must be taken into context. The foreign media has been overly critical of Israel and Israeli policies over the past few years. Israel does not want the media to be able to report and give Hamas their position while in combat. This happened during the initial moments of the invasion, when an IranTV reported live the invasion, warning Hamas of the imminent situation. Take the incidences in Mumbai, where the terrorists were being told of the police movements by other terrorists in Pakistan who were watching the police on their TV.
In addition, Gazans have water, they have electricity, they have the necessities needed to survive in a day to day life. Aid from non-government agencies, as well as the UN are being brought into Gaza daily, not to mention, most of the aid is already IN Gaza, but it is being distributed by these groups. The fact that it is being stolen by Hamas is shameful, but not surprising coming from a group which booby-traps schools and homes. Not to mention places missiles and weapons caches in civilian areas, hospitals, mosques, schools, and homes.
For those that believe Israel is using disproportionate force in Gaza, you must understand that Israel is being terrorized daily by missiles and other projectiles. Israeli civilian death is not high, only because Israelis are able to go into bunkers. Gazans civilians unfortunately do not have the same luxury. Fortunately for Hamas, the Hamas leadership does have this ability, as they have been in hiding in the Shifa Hospital during the invasion. Israel has been unwilling to attack this structure only because of the enormity of civilian casualties.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST, PEOPLE:
A Palin/Wurzelbacher ticket in 2012.
(apocalypse and light refreshments to follow)
Quote: Sandymouldin
How many "you know" does this fool say in a minute? Get a life.
I'm not sure how many, but I'll bet Caroline Kennedy has him beat by a mile.
You have to admit; the absolute moronic nature of his comments is good for a laugh – if you you still have the ability to laugh at the absurd. Eh. It comes and goes.
DEAR JOE,
STOP DRINKING THE DRAINO, DUMMY!!
Joe is right.
Joe, my toilet is clogged. Could you come over and clean it out? It's clogged up with excess Sarah Palin.
Since when does being an unlicensed plumber qualify for becoming a media correspondent? "Joe the Plumber" needs to crawl back underneath the sink that he was trying to fix. It is very irritating when people have no concept on what is really going on... I would qustion if "Joe the Plumber" even completed high school or a GED.. You know?
Got news for you people.......journalism died before Joe came along!!
PJs are crazy if they are paying this guy to go write the obvious, that people are taking quick showers and not planning picnics near Gaza. Really. And we shouldn't have war correspondents? He doesn't sounds very balanced, let alone competent to be a journalist of any stripe – and he is an affront to all the journalists who risk their lives to accurately portray war, let alone to all the soldiers, civilians and others of every stripe who would be trees falling in the forest were it not for eyewitnesses to history.
Joe's a MORON!
Does anyone really care what his opinion is.
Go away already man.
As Joe would have it: Journalists should not cover the war because they don't know the whole story. Joe should cover the war because he knows - based on apparently incomplete media reports and prior to doing any of his own reporting - that the media are slanting the coverage to favor Israel. How god-like of him.
Joe Wurzelbacher, Professional Idiot.
So much hate from the all-inclusive Left
This proves that not everyone can be everything. It takes an education to be a real journalist and a real plumber. It takes experiences and knowledge. Joe has none of these. He does not realize he is a tool for pro-Israeli groups. He is already biased. If you have nothing to hide, then let the media in and let them do their work! Joe needs an education and needs to work as hard as journalists do. The GOP is desperate and this is very sad but also dangerous. It is sad to see some commentators here think that anyone can do anyone's job. Did it ever occur to him that this conflict has a long history and that both may be right and wrong?
I think Joe the Plunger thinks if Sarah could get as far as she did, and he probably thinks he is smarter than she is, that he could become the next George W. Bush...well, he may have a point there.
Take his advice – stop – you know...reporting on him!
Is hypocrisy part of Joe's plattform?
There are 172 comments asking why CNN continues to cover this guy. I guess peole ARE interested in what he has to say.
SNJGUY
HE WAS YOUR GUY DURING THE ELECTIONS, AND HE WILL REMAIN YOUR GUY. WE INTELLIGENT OBAMA SUPPORTES SAW RIGHT THROUGH HIM FROM THE BEGINNING. YOU HUNG ONTO TO HIS VIEWAS LIKE WHITE ON RICE, NOW YOU WANT TO GIVE HIM TO US. SORRY THANKS, BUT NO THANKS. YOU BETCHA
We need more reporting on the war, but not by reporters. Average Americans should do more reporting so we can get less biased coverage.
Someone needs to hire Keith Olbermann to be a plumber for 10 days for satire against this attempt at conservative brain-numbing caca.
Why are we talking about this? We must be stupid, too.
they should make sarah palin a war reporter too... team joe and sarah, send them to the front lines.
Get back in your lane Joe. You are just another example of what some folks will do for the almight dollar–and make the biggest fools of themselves. I am hoping that real journalism students will remember that you will NEVER be in the same category as any of journalist that have very worked hard and EARNED the respect they have achieved for their outstanding reporting.
joe the hayseed.
The left wing should be proud of the group of vile, hate spewing comments. Joe may not be the sharpest pencil in the box but at least he has the ability to draaw conclusions from the facts as he sees them. Most on this website could not generate a thought on their own. Moderate that!
That's why this country is so great... because opportunities exist and anyone can change over night. Leave him alone he's not hurting anyone. His hour of fame won't last let him enjoy it.
Jim
He got what he wanted and that was for people like you to talk about him. He isnt the face of republicans at all hes working for a random company that happens to be conservative. That would be like saying Every news anchor on TV is the face of the democrats. You all hate this man but you are the ones who made him who he is by making fun of him for no reason you built him up for some media outlet to think hes worth putting on. I dont agree with him bein there at all but i have to say the left is some of the most evil, mean people i have ever spoken to or listened to. You people are so self endulging that as this war keeps going the right way and things keep getting done you will all give Obama your lord and savior the credit for it. your all idiots.
"Im not gona pay for gas no more im not gona pay no more for my house or for food"-Obama supporters the night of his election. As if he is some mythical being
So let me get this straight....JTP thnks the media should be barred from reporting on wars, but yet he is doing what?????
Of all the informed, educated people in this world that could actually do an intelligent, unbiased report of the conflict the MiddleEast... they pick this guy? He can't even form a sentence. What a waste of a great opportunity for the public to get a real story.
Why is Joe the Plumber still around? Anyone? Now he's this up and coming journalist? Please.
Rumor has it that he will run for Secretary of State in 2012. Well, when you really think about it he will have some experience now. Running from those missiles and everythang... otta qualify for something...
tennis shoe commercial...something!!!!
As much as a train wreck this is (just like S. Failing), I think CNN should stop reporting about this guy.
He can say whatever he wants as he is protected by the same amendment he is trying to abolish. But there are a thousand news that should be reported instead of anything related to him.
Maybe a small footnote on news of the absurd would be the most apropriate place for this.
I think the media should report on him.
Is the man even a plumber?
"Tthe media" is an easy target
for those who don't understand the information.
Ann Coulter just went Bald.
Hey Joe,
Tell you what, I'll back your suggestion that the media should be banned from Gaza if you'll be willing to be the only one reporting from there. And you know what buddy, the Arabs LOVE republicans, so while in Gaza you should wear a shirt that says "I support George W. Bush."
Do that and you'll have 100% of my support.
Joe The Plumber? Never heard of him. Maybe Hanoi Jane has something to say about all this. Does anyone have her number? Hey Ted, yeah, you! You still have ol Hanoi Jane's digits? I bet she can really sort out this foreign conflict.
But in Joe's defense, I think every American has the right to weigh in on War. I mean, that guy probably knows a lot more about War than we give him credit for. Just think about it... He's probably seen Full Metal Jacket more than a few times, and I bet he can quote Private Pile better than any of you folks out there ridiculing him for his stance on media in War times. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for doubting the capabilities of this man. He seems to be informed and is doing a heck of a lot more than you computer desk jockeys are. I mean, all you can do is blog while this man has traveled to the front lines to get the real scoop. Keep blogging, oh you mislead people of America. Joe The Plumber will save the day.
Btw, did anyone catch the final score of the Steelers game last night? My Ambien kicked in well before the final snap.
P.S.- I'm not really a Taxman.
rob... i do like your analogy w/ the KKK b/c it puts it in terms Americans can relate to. but the problem is that YES, we would all be decrying the needless bloodshed of all the innocent "noncombatants" who happen to live where the KKK decided to set up camp. these are just regular people trying to go to work and school who don't like "the KKK" either, but they are continually cut of from food and water supplies.
but i really don't hear much of the media saying that isreal is in the wrong? what channel are you watching? aren't we pretty much their biggest ally? i'm not seeing the slanted media or arab support that you are seeing.
everyone just wants the needless killing of innocent people to stop. there has been enough wrong-doing by both arab, muslims, and yes, even christians in that part of the world over the years.
"...when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
The boy? Is that a racial reference?
So typical.
this is guy is an ignorant, the only reason why the media focus on the palestinian saide is becasue they are the one getting screwed and as lond as the States keeps their unconditional support for Israel it will continue, I hope Obana steps back and be a little more strict to Israel specially on the UN and keep them in check, then the violence will stop for good
I can't believe this guy, he is not only contradicting himself by criticizing media coverage of the war but also thinks he is a reporter himself. he is hard to swallow
Joe the Plumber is an uneducated piece of white trash. With any luck he'll have his head blown off and none of us will have to listen to his ignorance spew from his mouth
His 15 minutes are way over...
If Joe the plumber thinks the media shouldn't cover the war, Maybe CNN shouldn't cover Joe the Plumber, that'll make him go away.
I just cant believe some Americans actually thought he was credible during the campaign.
Alert:
Small village in Ohio is missing their idiot named "Joe the Plumber’ Wurzelbacher. "
Why was there a group of reports anywhere near this idiot?
This is funny in the most painful way possible! So many new doors just opened for all of us!
Funny, CNN has time to report on Joe the Plumber, but strangely won't pick up the story about Obama's climate czar (btw, when did a 'czar' become a good thing?) being a member of a SOCIALIST group that favors one world government.
i'd love to see this posted, then see all the venom spewed by those ever so tolerant progressive liberals.
whatever.
CNN, you need to step it up. I come to cnn for laughs now, i started going elsewhere for my news. CNN is pathetic, as are the progressive socialist cheerleaders who come here for their only source of info.
Hopefully this will qualify him to be Sec of State for the State of Alaska. He could then ligitimately go to work for Sarah and get out of our faces forever !!!
I’m in my office, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I have to put up with more of this hack job.
If I want opinions on cleanout valves or spud gaskets, I'll ask Joe the Poopsmith. I really don't care what he has to say about ANYTHING else.
Jesus. Unfriggin believable.
DREAM TEAM 2012 – Sarah P., President, Joe the Plumber, V.P.!!!
Joe the Plumber should be referred in the future to as "Joe the Censor" or "Joe the Fascist."
Joe the Plumber a war correspondent!? I thought we hit the bottom with Bush!
@ Chris, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
Just a minor correction, but the 1st Amendment stops at our borders...like it or not.
Why doesn't Joe the Idiot go and report from Gaza? I wonder how angry he'll be when rockets start falling on him there.
If he had any common sense he would look at the number of people killed in this conflict. The number of Palestinans killed is extremely higher than those of Israel.
...." well you don’t know the whole story behind it half the time,..."
Katie Couric, could you schedule an interview with this moron?
He obviously doesn't live by "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
I am guessing he doesn't know the whole story behind it ALL of the time.
And who the hell made him king????
I Kinda feel sorry for this poor ignorant Redneck. CNN you should be ashamed of yourself, we know you are just reporting on this so people will laugh at him. You are at the top of list for National Enquirer wanna be's. The poor nut makes such a fool of himself and is totally ignorant of the fact that people are making fun of him. A serious educated reporter, he is not. And 'm beginning to wonder about CNN for reporting this kind of nonsense.
I would sure like to judge some you who are making fun of Joe the Plumber for his lack of education ("non-educated," ha) ,what with all of your mis-spellings and lack of proper grammar, but I wont.
More importantly, those who are speaking out pro-Palestine are again basing comments on opinions and half-facts. I will not try to convince anyone of anything, but I suggest you go to wikipedia and search for "Gaza Strip." Read the whole unbiased article, don't just skim through it, read it! Then form your own opinion.
Seriously? This guy is an idiot. "Israel's being bad". ? I love how 'Publicans qualify countries, i.e. "Axis of Evil", "bad guys". Effective way to start wars.
Wonder how much they are paying him, he's so stupid they are probably doing it from free.
I hope they gave him a 1 way ticket.
Joe the plumber should stick to what he knows "plumbing" and keep his moth shut. He is obviously not very educated. I guess that's why he was a plumber.
I have to wonder what damage JTP will cause for his "reporting". He sure won't be doing any good for foreign policy with his antics. My question is WHY is the various mainstream media giving him air time? Unless they are trying to show Americans what NOT to do OR are really hard up for something to report.
Joe The 'Conservative Republican' Plumber:
Witness your entire family murdered by Israeli soldiers using American weapons before you open your mouth.
He doesn't understand the idea of Freedom of the Press.
No surprise there.
Wow. Ban the media? Try banning stupidity.
Does media coverage make war look bad?
Could this guy be more biased and hypocritical? He can't even hold down a real job, but claims to be a war reporter. He claims to be an American patriot, but then cheats on his taxes (which btw pays for American and Israelis soldier's armor and equipment whom he also claims to love). He discounts alleged atrocities because "you don't know the whole story half-time", which actually implies that 50% of the time the media does have the whole story and innocent people are being killed by Israelis actions.
And it gets worse. Joe should interview a gentleman I saw on the street yesterday who said, "gee, I sure hope the resolve this thing quick."
Wow....I'm a conservative (different than being a Republican) and I still think this guy is an idiot. Can someone tell me why some redneck plumber (uncertified as a plumber even) gets sent to Israel as a reporter? And I thought President Bush made Americans look bad. CNN, please discontinue wasting space on your website to draw attention to this moron.
Joe the Plumber is on to something. The media generally gets part of the story wrong on most things it covers. I am guessing that when it comes to war reporting they are even less accurate.
Wow. I've got to wonder how angry he would be if he had known there were precision-targeted 2000 lb. bombs falling in his direction, aimed by hearsay and dropped by the same people who have been denying him and his family a job, food, electricity, medical care and freedom of movement for weeks and weeks and weeks? Bet he would be angry enough to throw a few rocks or mortar rounds or rockets right back. Welcome to life in the Gaza Strip, Joe. You should fit right in.
It is funny... Freedom of speech and opinion is great as long as it is your opinion. Posters on this board should be ashamed of themselves for their comments. Joe is just reporting a different view of the subject of the Isreal-Hamas conflict.
But I realize now that there should be no postings except how the President Elect is doing something and having a press conference and that anyone who votes republican should be revoked of thier right to vote because they are stupid and corrupt (just like all those other republicans: The illlinois gov, the mayor of baltimore, the mayor of Atlanta, the Mayor of detriot... ohhh wait, they are dems)
OK, besides the Fox's Network crowd who will listen and pay attention to this clown? Give us break, go back to making toilets work>
What a dork. If this is media and he's doing it, then no, they shouldn't be reporting on it.
There is the future of the republicant's Palin/ Werzelbacker 2012 what a joke the two of them are
For the love of God, would this man PLEASE GO AWAY !!!!!
Has anyone actually gone to the website of the people who hired him?
No?
And that is my point. He - Joe-the-fake-plumber - is the story. He is the celebrity and the focus, not the fighting and dying. Please, CNN, get back to covering what matters, and ignore all the junk.
Joe the Plumber wants to abolish his own, new job. Apparently
he doesn't want to go back being a plumber. Keep looking Joe,
I'm sure you'll find a job you like someday.
Who does this moron appeal to?
"Making Israel look bad?" I don't think they need help with that. I feel sorry for this clueless joker. What's scary is that we actually have people in this country who "think" this way. Oh boy.
I was just sitting here wondering what Letterman was going to do without the Bush being a boob segment...
I think it just got filled!
What a moron!
So, he's in Israel as a representative of the MEDIA, saying that the MEDIA should not be allowed to report the war because "you, know, war is hell". Well Joe, no, we wouldn't "you know", because if you had your way, we wouldn't be getting ANY coverage of war. And, furthermore, he's saying that the media is one-sided in this conflict, so he's going to report ONLY Israel's side.
Way to waste your 15 minutes, Joe.
Joe should stick to fixing toilet bowls! Oh yeah that's right he couldn't find a job. What an idiot, he had a plan all along.
Wish I could have stood where JTP did and be noticed by John Mcain, I would be in the money!
Joe is an fake and was from the start. He had a hidden agenda and it makes me wonder if John Mcain & Joe set it all up in advance!
Take the moral high ground CNN, its not nice to make fun of people with mental disabilities like Joe. Because of this kind of reporting kids may grow up to point and stare at people like Joe or giggle and snort at exhibits in museums with rednecks in them (the species hominis redneckus may die out); much like we laughed at seeing those neanderthal exhibits when I was a kid.
Joe the Plumber supports a media ban on war because yes, he supports WAR CRIMES. just like any good republican, war crimes and torture are A-OK in his book.
Joe is Plumbing the depths of stupidity.
Hey Joe,
You do realize you are a national joke right? I believe most people have more respect for Paris Hilton and Britney that for you. Your 15 minutes were up months ago. Go home and take that plumbers correspondence course to you can actually get a plumbers license.
It is important to note that the merits of the media are terribly challenged by the fact that he is now a member. I can’t help but consider the cost we have paid to the media in our struggle in Iraq. While we need war correspondents, I don’t think we need to broadcast our military’s objectives on CNN or Al-Jazera television. If we can save our soldier’s lives by regulating the amount of media, I think it would be foolish to discredit the notion of limiting the media in a war zone just because the messenger is an idiot.
Joe,
is there any limit to your stupidity? The media shouldn't report on war? So you're saying that things like the Holocaust should be allowed to happen because "war is hell" and we don't want things to be reported? Only an aggressive media in a free society could have exposed an injustice like that. Come on GOP, if this is an example of your voting bloc, I think you should get used to being out of power. Man, you conservos scare me.
He was born in Alabama,need more be said?
Like the Katie Couric interview, this stuff is beyond parody.
Just keep on talking Joe. We godless liberals need all the help we can get in further marginalizing the wingnuts of the Republican party.
When will this lying tax evader just go away?
Excuse me. It amazes me how Hollywood celebrities can "express their voice" on practically anything with politics and the media sits in awe and puts in on the front page of their news websites...spouting how so and so doesn't like so and so and they think this is wrong or what ever babble they spew and folks eat it up. I mean they are movie stars. They play make believe and have computer generated moves make them look like super heros. Please. But you let an average american "have an opinion" and depending on what ever side you are on, folks lamblast them, insult them, call them ugly names. You people don't even know this guy. You just know what the newsmedia put on their station during the campaign. You might actually like the guy. Regardless of your opinion, he has just as much right to do what he is doing ..... as you do putting your ugly little comments on this forum. I mean....really.....who cares what we think.
Joe the Plumber is the new Jeff Gannon. If you don't remember, he's the Conservative male prostitute Karl Rove put in the Bush Press room to lob friendly questions. Google him, the pictures are gross.
Why insult plumbers with what this idiot has to say? It should be Joe the Dumber.
I think Joe has a point. War is ugly and the last thing our soldiers need is the media 'shaping' perceptions. For example, when things weren't going so well in Iraq, CNN reported on EVERY car bombing, EVERY soldier that died, including civilians. CNN would continuously hammer us with polls about how unpopular the war is and how unpopular President Bush is. As soon as things started turning around, and the death tolls started declining, the media (and CNN) suddenly start losing interest and have a really hard time admitting that the SURGE was successful. So, you go, Joe! And let's get a different perspective to counter the Left Wing yellow journalism we have to put up with.
Hey Joe...isn't that what you are there for, to report on the war? Just come on back to ohio...I have a clogged toilet that I need your help with....oh wait...you weren't really a plumber either were you?
Serioulsy....what stunt is this guy going to try next to extend his 15 minutes of fame?
I now go by Joe the Idiot
Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin......and you all thought it couldnt' get worse than Pres Bush W.
I'm not sure who will get my vote for village idiot – Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber!
Why is space being devoted to "Joe the Plumber" ? I thought his 15 minutes were up after he turned on John McCain. This guy is unbelievable (ROFLOL) . Anything in the name of fame!
Please stop writing about things that have no news value. That fact that this guy made news during the campaign does not make every crap he takes a newsworthy event now.
The moment CNN started covering childish "news", like Bush's cat death and Obama's "dog search" I KNEW THIS BOZO "JOE THE PLUMBER" and the queen of morons Palin WOULD NEVER GO AWAY. CNN has to be fair, so if they publish irrelevant non-news about Obama, then they have the "duty" to publish as well any non-news about the two biggest moron-celebrities of the right: Pseudo-Plumber and Hockey Mom. Sad but true.And yes, you can call me a moron for keeping the fire burning, by posting another comment about this moron brainless unlicensed "plumber". I'm just another one of the big, big majority of people who just wants him and Palin to go away!
Are you serious? Joe not the plumber is reporting on behalf of right wing media. The hypocrisy is absurd, but I guess par for course.
First of all, let's stop criticizing Doh for going over there in the first place. He obviously needs the work since our economy is in a shambles and he's sold all his plumbing tools. I like Doh the plumber and think we need more idiots like him on the right speaking up for the rest of the idiots on the right. You go Doh!!
@ Andy J, Upstate, NY
More meaningless GOP talking points. I hardly think you can discredit a guy who is saying "scientific evidence shows we need to reduce toxic emissions" by saying "oh yeah? well you're a dirty socialist pig!" His job has nothing to do with his personally held philosophical beliefs, just science (and yes, I fully understand it's hard for you GOPers to separate the two). Get relevent or get bent.
Joe is right. While the media should not be banned completely they should not be on the ground in the manner that they are. There have been mistakes over the years that have given out information that has endangered lives. That is not ok. Having served in the military the people need to know that there are things they do not, and should not, know. I didn't vote for the coming administration, but support it, and we will all see what happends once the new administration is privy to the information will do not and should not know.
is everyone on this post freakin' crazy ????? you guys are so venom filled. u all want him to stop being reported on, yet there are 130 comments on this post bashing the crap out of this guy, HELLO PEOPLE !!!!!! YOUR FEEDING THIS THING !!!! let him have his 15, oh sorry 20 min of fame and he'll be gone. although i must agree with him on the media reporting on war, don't you all think that all our enemies are watching all this MEDIA REPORTING ALSO ??? GET A CLUE !!! when media reports that the u.s has ships of the gulf of wherewver, or troop buildup here and there of our forces, that they aren't plotting against us. sometimes it makes me sick the reporting of the media, i mean why don't the media just grab all our enemies and bring them to all our war room meetings at time of war ? thay mideas well, if their going to tell the world where our forces are, what kind of artillary we have and how many and where our troops are, on the tv, internet and radio !!!!!! they may be third world countries, but theys till have access to reporting on all fronts of media. be sure that they will be watching the president-selects inaugr, PLOTTING.
And it gets worse. Joe should interview a gentleman I saw on the street yesterday who said, "gee, I sure hope they resolve this thing quick."
So now he is Joe the War Correspondent! Wow from a plumber to a bonafide War Reporter in less than 3 months!
We can all thank our lucky stars that Palin didn't become a heartbeat away from the nuclear codes
I believe Joe the Plumber & Sarah Palin were seperated at birth....The Moron twins!!!
If you ever want to define "stupid", just look at his photo. In the words of Forrest Gump, "stupid is as stupid does".
Frank calls someone out for using the word "boy."
Another word rendered useless by liberal PCdom.
Frank, what should we call male children now? Persons of Diminutive Stature and Non-Feminine Attributes (PODSNFAs)?
That worked! Lots of comments with heart felt warmth from the nation of love and prosperity. You are what you read, thats what Joe's saying. Time magazine weekend of January 10th runs a cover that says, Why Israel can"t win". Joe will probably come up with some real questions and maybe answers not spiked by some pompous editor of leftist persuasion. We might even come to a conclusion that were in a time of enlightenment in which we hear what REAL people see and believe, not what some left wingnut wants to sell us as there anti-establishment BS. Right now the media falls in line with Madoff and the numerous other robber barons of this our time. The truth will set you free.
Let's ban the media from covering Joe the Plumber.
If he says that media should not be allowed to report the war, he should not have taken the journalist job. He needs to go back to Ohio and come back to his normal life.
I get that this is considered news because this guy was used as a pawn in the presidential campaign. Doesn't mean it actually is news though.
So if Joe Worthlessplumber gets (God forbid) injured or killed while traipsing around a war zone, will he get a Darwin award?
Are there really people still listening to what Samuel Wurzelbacher has to say? I have nothing against Mr. Wurzelbacher, but I'm certain that his expertise about economics, politics and journalism is a little "lite," to say the least. The continued sponsorship of this persona, "Joe the Plumber," says a lot about what ails this country. But I guess he's no dummy: He's milking his 15 minutes of fame for all they're worth.
Go to school Joe.
Joe probably couldn't even fix a toilet let alone clean one out!
Poor man – totally clueless.
Why give a platform to a biased devisive figure??? Unless you want to keep America didvided CNN!
If he thinks the media should be abolished from reporting on this conflict, then why is he there? Can't this guy just go away?
Poor dumb Joe, can't even get one sentence out w/o contradicting himself. This is what happens when you come late to the game of getting your head straightened out. And this is why he'll always vote Republican, the party where no two beliefs are compatible, and only lead to chaos.
Joe the plumber is very smart: He uses the media to cover his stories while asking the same media not to cover other stories.... And my biggest issue is that in the USofA, the leading country of the free world, you still find people believing in him..... and finally guess what, Joe the plumber's stupid stories will be on the first cover of the European and foreign press showing how simple and ignorant Americans are....
To paraphrase this atavistic Hemingway on war, 'you have to take a quick shower..I know I would..you can't plan a picnic.' This is it? This is the insight that PajamaMedia wants?
As a retired navy man who just witnessed the commissioning of the GHW Bush, CVN-77 in Norfolk and also a veteran of a foreign war, this guy makes me want to PUKE. This chickens&&t chicken hawk non military serving yet self serving punk is pimping off the misery in this conflict to better promote his own celebrity.
He needs the s%$t kicked out of him.
Hey Joe...don't forget you do have the the right to remain silent! MORON!!!
what the hell is that fraud doing in Israel?
Is this a joke?!
How is Joe the Plumber news anymore? The guy has a rebellious high school kid attitude, and his comments are usually reactionary and obnoxious. CNN, please stop reporting on what Joe the Plumber is reporting!
If the media has no business covering war, what exactly is he doing in Israel? Why is he even qualified to comment on such topics?
When he was told he would be heading to the Middle East I wonder if he thought it was Scranton PA?
You know, it's funny how all you guys are criticizing him, and yet, he makes good points. He's also making money while you guys are sitting there blogging. He's gotten somewhere in such a short amount of time, and that's something to applaud. You guys seem to be just jealous. If you really didn't want to hear about him, like you say, then why would you read this article?
My god, he´s almost as dumb as Bush!
Not allowing the media to report on war is completely disregarding the roles that the media holds and withholds information from the public!
To Andy J, Upstate NY,
"(btw, when did a 'czar' become a good thing?) being a member of a SOCIALIST group that favors one world government.
i'd love to see this posted, then see all the venom spewed by those ever so tolerant progressive liberals.
whatever. "
Well Andy, for starters...the czar was the title given to the emperor of Russia. It derived from caesar and came to mean monarch in certain parts of eastern europe. Czar Nicholas II was the one that was overthrown and killed by the communists during the revolution.
Please try to get some education before posting and then us tolerant, progressive liberals will not need to post.
Go Joe! This guy got right with isreal what the mainstrem media has been purposely botching for years!
Say what? Did he say he should be reporting on the war? Well, he's just another ring wing hypocrite, except this time he is posing as a war correspondent reporter, who doesn't believe he should be reporting on the war! I don't know how the rest of you guys feel, but I thought I saw it all from Joe the so-called plumber but this beats all!
Who Cares! Go back to Ohio.
JOE AND PALIN ARE BOTH IDIOTS AND BRAINLESS!
Joe represents the best of America. Hard working, honest, dripping with integrity. It is sad that people see the need to rip into this decent man just because he is not part of the liberal elite media. For my money, he well represents many of us out here in the silent majority, and I hope he keeps at it. By the way, please save this comment for April 1, when it will be most relevant.....
Yeah, you'd better think you shouldn't be allowed to report on the war, or you'll actually have to go there.
Go. Away.
Why is Joe still even in the media limelight? I am so tired of hearing about him and I do not care about he feels about this terrible situation. Why should his opinion matter? I wish his 15 minutes would hurry up and run out.
Joe The Plumber is another Government LIE.
Sounds like the guy who wrote the book about how bad the publishing
companies are and was then shocked that no one would publish it.
What a terrible idea. Banning reporting on war....I never thought I would hear someone honestly submit that as a possibility. Upon thinking beyond his nose for more than 3 seconds, everyone can easily see the foolishness of this thought.
Reporting in war is good because. 1. We at least see some of what is going on. There is never perfect reporting of any event, war or non-war
2. Images from war help convey the true horror of war to people so they aren't so willing to go to war. Think about it, is it easier to trick a young man to go to war during ww1 or now? ww1 obviously where propaganda can be more effectively used
3. Without reporting, there is less to answer for
We should ask Joe for his expertise on quantum physics, cosmology, black hole physics, physiology, psychology, medicine too. He seems so versed in all subjects.
his two minutes of glory went to far.
It is so sad that in our society, we regard stupidity. Case in point. Palin and Joe the plumber.
What an idiot. I mean, he's absolutely right about the media slant in the Arabs' favour, but forbidding journalists from covering war?! This guy is a joke.
Definition of news: This is not news. Whatever news is, this is what it is not.
Regards
There's a larger issue than Joe the Plumber's appalling stupidity, here. The reactionary, religious right keeps whining about not being taken seriously. The best they can do, apparently, are people like Joe the "wannabe" Plumber, who couldn't even hold a steady job before McCain "discovered" him, and Sarah Palin, who struggled in near-oblivion before the McCain campaign "discovered" her. This is the best you can do??? Well of course no one is going to take you seriously!
Here's a hint. Find someone with a decent education, a basic understanding of world politics, a knowledge of geography, and put THEM up as the hood ornament of your political vehicle. You might get some respect. Until then? Prepare to be the continued butt of jokes you're setting yourself up for.
Sickening, just sickening. More sickening, Madoff is still free on bond. MONEY TALKS, the rich scumbags.
Joe, your 15 min. of fame are over.
Seriously, what a freakin joke.
I hope Joe gets kidnapped by Hamas
OMG. Get him out of there before he gets someone killed. Remove the media? Then what "news" will we get out of a war zone? The manufactured, cleaned up version? We're already being "saved" from the sight of the corpses returning from Iraq–even their commander-in-chief doesn't welcome them home.
And guess what...when Israel has killed 800 people, half of them civilians, and they have suffered what 10 deaths, they ARE the bad guys right now, and they are funded by the good old USA.
You are all so hung up on Joe the Plumber that you are missing the point of all of this. His issue is about media bias in reporting & we should all be concerned about that. Of course his isnt really qualified to be a journalist, but the point about media bias is valid. It was clear during the presidential campaign that the media was biased in favor of Obama. It is their job to report facts & not opinions & Israel has been getting the short end in recent reporting.
Did anyone ever stop to consider when looking at all of the suffering in Gaza, that "what did they expect when they elected a terrorist organization as their governing party"??
Abbas was looking for peace. Hamas is looking for the destruction of Israel. Arent the Palestinians getting what they asked for??? They obviously wanted the destruction of Israel or they wouldnt have elected Hamas to govern. I guess it isnt working out the way they planned!!!!!
Half the story wasn't there...he went on to say that reporting on troop movements and relaying information to the enemy is not good journalism...you may enjoy "hating him" but he is correct. This is not how war was reported in WWII...we were late getting there and were scoffed at by Europe for it...also Germany never attacked us either...quit worrying about palin and worry about what the next Pres. can or can not do...
so hes against freedom of press and taxes.
typical republicant.
loser.
Really sad. In our society, we reward stupidity.
I read all the comments goofing on this guy, and I'm thinking to myself, "Are these a bunch of liberal whinners saying these things? What has this man said so far that isn't true?"
Put yourself in the Israeli's position. If the country of Mexico or Canada were firing missles into American border towns, killing indescriminantly, would you still be standing up for those countries? Hell no. We'd be sending in the military to kick the crap out of them until they decided to stop firing missles into our country.
Why is this so hard for people to accept? Because noncombatants are getting killed? The same noncombatants that voted in the Hamas government by an overwhelming margin? The same noncombatants that the Hamas fighters are hiding behind when Israeli forces attack?
How the bloody hell did so many stupid people sneak in to the gene pool?
Call Joe a moron if you like but the reality is if WWII had been covered the same way as present day media covers war, all of Europe would be speaking German and all the West would be speaking Japanese. We wouldn't have the stomach to do what had to be done to win that war.
And, that's the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...
what is Wurzelbacher doing In Israel maybe just for a picture There is noting he can do but get hurt
...And HE'S a subject matter expert because...? Oh! he's been there a whole few hours!!!
What a fruitcake !
Maybe Joe the Plumber should shut up. He has no legitimate claim to fame, and he's not even a reporter. You want to talk about a guy who doesn't know the back story half of the time, you're looking right at him. The man is just trying to take advantage of his wading fame by making annoying comments. If this is the hope for the GOP, I'm happy to be a democrat.
I guess he's never heard of heard of Ernie Pyle.
can someone please tell me why this "wanna be" is over there?
this moron thinks the poor israelis cant take a picnic is too sad. What can gazan's do? and by the way, the israelis are taking picnics and placing their law chairs on hilltops to watch the movie going on in gaza.
So to recap... He wants blind support of our dear leader, take away freedom of the press and freedom of speech, And he calls the dems socialist. LOL what he proposed is pretty much a communist attitude.
This is exactly why the GOP got so badly beat. They want to put us back 60 yrs, throw out the constitution and promote fear and hate.
I have difficulty believing how stupid "Joe the plumber-turned-foreign correspondent" actually is. He is complaining about people of south Israel taking short showers and not going out on picnic. How about he goes to Gaza and witnesses those poor people showering in blood and huddling inside a kitchen or basement for days without food and water. God, my mind is blowing!
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”
I see. So then the reporters would be, you know, not reporters.
“You know, war is hell"
So I had heard, Joe, so I had heard ...
It would be funny, if it wasn't so tragic ...
andy kaufman worked this one up from beyond the grave– sasha cohen, please take notes.
Listen up folks; that circus clown, aka Joe the Plumber, has arrived n Israel. Psssssssst don't tell the media, they have no business here, okay...wink wink you betcha!
What a moron. Send him into Gaza... Please!
Is he not too now considered media since he's "reporting" on the lives of regular Joes? I guess he got tired of dealing and slinging McCain's crap for a while and now wants to sling his own crap.
Anyone notice a conflict here? He doesn't think media should report on war but I guess it's okay for him to get paid to report on war.
Not the kind of person that runs from things? Except the IRS...
Makes sense he should go there – says the media shouldn't cover the story, he's as far from the "media" as I am – If this is the new look of conservative republican, then God help us all! Just makes it clear the party learned absolutely nothing from the election, they'll continue to tout the same ole stuff, in the same ole way, and go down in the same ole defeat.
He thinks that the media should be banned from war, yet he's a war corespondent for a media outlet? I guess that makes sense in his little head.
Please Joe,
It's always slanted toward the Isreali side. But then again the God Fearing Christian Right would never side with Muslim's would they?
One sided since the end of WWII.
I am sick of hearing from and about "Joe the Plumber". Hey Joe...take your two cents and stick it!!
Thank you, Joe, for showing the Israeli side of the conflict. I am Jewish and I have been to Israel and, after being in Israel, can appreciate it the need to fight when surrounded by enemies.
Send a plumber to do a journalist's job and this is what you get, overly simplified observations about complex political issues. He's more qualified to be commentator on a World Wrestling Federation broadcast.
Please stop devoting valuable internet bandwidth to this dolt.
to Fred:
January 12th, 2009 3:16 pm ET
You know, it's funny how all you guys are criticizing him, and yet, he makes good points. He's also making money while you guys are sitting there blogging. He's gotten somewhere in such a short amount of time, and that's something to applaud. You guys seem to be just jealous. If you really didn't want to hear about him, like you say, then why would you read this article?
Simple Fred... It's a car wreck and everyone slows down for them. Should we slow down...no. But this morbid facination with people who are obvioulsy not well positioned to be where they are(Palin) astounds the rest of us.
I don't think I will ever forgive McCain for unleashing Palin and this moron into to public conscience. What a lasting legacy of one of the worst campaigns in history. Yuck.
Yeah, if I had a chance like that I be all over it TOO, like Israel on HAMAS..
Conservatives are such hypocrites! Their number one argument against President Elect Barack Obama is that he is inexperienced. Now they have hired this unlicensed plumber as a reporter…what the heck are they thinking. Let me add this to the "Out of Touch" Republican list:
1. Keeping Sarah Palin in the news
2. Barack the Magic Negro song
3. Conservative news reporter “Joe the Plumber”
4. What next___________?
It seems like we just can't get rid of good old Joe the Plumber. This guy has been chasing a buck every since his encounter with President-Elect Obama. It's obvious to me, as it should be to most Americans that have a sliver of common sense, that everytime this guy opens his mouth he doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. I mean I'm sure he's a nice enough guy but he just doesn't have a clue.
He's quoted as saying that he thinks the media should be abolished from reporting on the war. Well if that's the case what's his purpose for going to Israel, oh right I forgot, he's going cover Israel's side of the conflict. The fact that he's going over there to cover only Israel's side of the conflict makes it very apparent to me that he doesn't even understand the concept of a free press.
Joe, could you please just go away, you've had your 15 minutes and then some.
Since Joe the Plumber does not want the media to cover the war, the media should just pack up and leave.
Leave him behind, please!
Joe and Sarah - they should get married and raise their children in Alaska - yah !!
Obviously theres a village somewhere in the world missing its "idiot"!
Joe W. is not a "plumber turned war correspondent"; he is a self-described handyman with no plumber's license. In his present incarnation he is a mouthpiece for a conservative website. He has no journalism training, no understanding of the conflict in the Middle East, a limited grasp of the English language, and no credibility.
Please do us all a favor. Cease reporting anything about Joe W. at the same time you discontinue your obsession with his buddy Sarah P. Maybe then you could competently cover the real stories of the day such as our crippled economy and battered reputation.
No wonder McCain lost the election, between Palin and Joe the plumber, there is no were else to go but down.
I would beleive Joe the Plumber any day before I would beleive the propagandist that are railing against him. How smug your little personal attacks sound. You scared to discuss the content of what he says?
I think I'm going to be sick. I guess this is John McCain's lasting legacy - creating this little Napoleon oaf.
Gives everyone a clear idea of this guy's notion of open democracy, doesn't it? I'd be interested in his take on the newspaper's coverage of the Civil War, newspaper's and radio correspondents' coverage of WWII, and television coverage of the Korean War. They'd probably be hung as spies in Wurzelbacher World ("Wurly World").
And for a group calling itself "Pajamas Media," no less.
Somebody please give us a rousing chorus of 'Holiday Road' here. "Look kids, it's a fraud!"
Joe, when your 3rd grade teacher covered the civics segment of the curriculum, (s)he probably mentioned this thing called the US Constitution, which came with some stuff called the Bill of Rights, which started out with the 1st Amendment. Go look it up.
Is it just me – or does he represent the media now? He is there doing a 10 day story....as a journalist wannabe.
What an idiot. Why do we give people like this any attention at all?
No one seems to care that Hamas is a terrorist organization, they have killed so many innocent people in Israel. We are getting one sided reporting.
I bet Joe turns out to be a good reporter, give him a chance. Of course if he is not biased against Israel a lot of people will hate him.
I am sick and tired of reading about how bad Israel is, how good the other side is.
I am stunned. Is this really happening? Joe the Plumber is now a reporter? Why doesn't he ban himself from the war (because aftrerall, why should the world have any idea what's going on there?) go home and return to fixing broken garbage disposals. I'm sure the conservative right has no problem getting their news from a completely unqualified, biased and ignorant source–that's the only kind they'll listen to, anyway. I just cannot believe this is in the realm of reality.....
It seems Joe the Plumber is getting ahead fast while the liberal bloggers on here are going backwards. hahaha
And isn't that exactly what HE'S doing there? Reporting on the war? And I was so afraid there wouldn't be anything entertaining in the news after the presidential campaigns were over!
LMAO! In light of all Joe's recent career endeavors (i.e, plumber, author, country music star, now war correspondent), I think he doesn't even like any of these careers. I think he probably prefers to be Joe the Six Pack and will really be good at it.
Sounds like Doc is jealous!!!
"Joe the Moron", live from Israel? No wonder the United Staes is hated throughout the Mid-East. This guy doesn't know his hind end from a hot rock about anything, and some one out there is stupid enough to buy this toilet jockey a plane ticket. I hope it was a one way ticket.
When will this guy stop milking his five minutes of fame. Nows hes a war correspondent because he couldnt hack it as a plumber. What a moron.
Finally have someone fair and balanced instead of the Whackos from the left that stole the election with their left wing agenda to elect the bigges liberal of all mankind. Yea, the one called big ears from Chicago.
What does Joe the Plumber have to say about the high rate of unemployment among the Palestinians in Gaza?
What does Joe the Plumber have to say about the high rate of unemployment among the Palestinians in Gaza????
Let's hope he connects with the line of fire. I promise, I would then admit he is a national hero.
Thanks, you nazi.
Go back to cheating on your taxes.
This guy's 15 minutes were over a long time ago. Shame on the media for keeping him in the spotlight.
Joe, just go away. No one cares what you have to say.
Please someone send him into Gaza and leave him there for a couple of weeks. Both sides have to share the blame but if we could reach a peace agreement by threatning to leave the plumber there if they do not stop, I think that would work.
I pray that there are no more casualties on either side of this conflict; but if there MUST BE ONE MORE... LET IT BE THIS CLOWN!
LOL......... SO DID HE SAY THIS A MAKE-BELIEVE JOURNALIST???? SAD THAT THIS GUY WAS CONSIDERD THE VOICE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY............... WILL THEY PREP HIM TO RUN WITH PALIN?????? THAT WOULD BE BRILLIANT... FOR THE DEMOCRATS OFCOURSE...........
I can hardly wait for the Palin/Joe the Plumber ticket in 2012 – simply for the sheer entertainment value! What a fruitcake.
The media has a place, in war reporting and everywhere – its the media's bias that does not. Joe is right – war is tough. War has casualties. Imagine if the media showed nothing but casualities during WWI and WWII - and tried everything in their power to turn the american public against the wars - it would be a different world - and not for the better. If the media is going to report – they should be darn certain to report both sides equally and not just bolster their own ideals.
WHY is this news?? Please stop reporting everytime this guy says or does anything – he's had his 15 minutes of fame so let ig go....PLEASE!
I thought war was a "picnic" and that is why so many politicians were so quick to get us into one. Now Joe the "plummer" has told me otherwise, I guess war is hell and we shouldn't be in one. So, how bout we end it!
And we care what Joe the plumber thinks because.....
your 15 minutes have long been up....
Actually Kathy, they aren't just regular people who don't like that the KKK set up camp there and are victims as well. What everyone forgets is that Hamas was ELECTED to represent these people in a FREE ELECTION. Good KKK analogy, but it would be more accurate if this KKK was freely elected to represent those people firing upon the South Side.
Honestly, I don't care what Joe the Plumber thinks. Who is he? He's just another person. If I say that the media SHOULD report on war "because we have the right to know what's going on in the world and that if we don't know enough about it they should inform us," are you going to post that as a separate blog? LOL. I mean "Shereen the Student" doesn't have the same ring as Joe the Plumber, but really. This is ridiculous.
Joe the plumber is making the U.S.A. A LAUGHING STOCK THROUGHOUT THE WORLD!!!
THE GREAT U.S.A. will never face this one down.
What Joe does not understand, or will not admit, is that only 3 Israeli civilians have been killed in this conflict, compared with around 300 Palestinians civilians, many of them children. Note that the Palestinian death toll is approx. 100 TIMES that of the Israeli death toll. Israel of course is entitled to defend itself – BUT ONLY IN PROPORTION TO THE THREAT THEY ARE FACING. Wurzelbacher cites supposedly difficult living conditions in Sderot while completely ignoring the fact that Gazans often lack access to drinking water, their economy has been strategically crippled by the Israelis, and that their cities have been laid completely to ruin. He says the media shoudn't comment, and then he comments. He says the media should be aware of the fulls tory, and then he completely excludes the Palestinian side of the equation. He also implicitly conflates "Palestinians" (all of them) with "Hamas." In short, the guy is a hypocrite on many counts.
What a boob. What are his credentials? What, other than his "stature" as a flash-in-the-pan "celebrity" got him here? He has absolutely no business "writing" (I call it typing, certainly not writing!) about things of which he has little or no knowledge. His idea to "ban the media" from war zones is ludicrous. No media in Vietnam would have kept under cover Mai Lai and other outrageous behavior by our military goons. Reporters have been in the fields of battle long before Thucydides' epic reportage in 430 BC on the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Joe Blow should blow town and get back to work to pay of his liens and get a plumbing license. He makes a mockery of a United States citizen.
Who on earth sponsored this Israeli Republican pimp to report on
such a serious conflict is beyond me.
We heard enough from this bozo.
Let me get this right. Joe the Plummer has recently gotten a job as a reporter for a conservative & has been dispatched to Israel to report on the war. Joe's first official act was to release a statement saying reporters should be abolished from reporting on the war. His reason is because they don't know the whole story & will say bad things about Israel. However Joe who has never taken a journalism course is his life should be exempt from his own ban because he is going to tell Israel's side of the story. It amazes me that people this dumb are employed. You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
ONE WORD : " FOOL" !!
That picture was probably taken near a Staten Island, New York landfill with the help of Bush's "special effects" crew.
NO PICNICS!!? What an atrocity...
How is this guy going to say the media should stay out of wars while he's there reporting on it. And how in the world did he go from plumber to journalist?
He is such a moron. Can someone please make him go away?
Joe is just showing us his fair and balanced journlistic integrety lol.I hope they keep him so he dont come back to Ohio.At least the GOP sesspool gave him a job . Propaganda minister!
Joe is a freaking moron!!!! How can anyone listen to him to begin with?
To Fred:
Making money running from missiles, just to say weeee....look at meeeee!!!!!!! No thanks the economy ain't that bad yet bubba!
It sort of leaves you speechless , doesn't it.
Wait....is someone going to jump out of my computer and yell "the jokes on you!"?
@Doc
Well said....couldn't agree more.
I see Joe the Plumber is a graduate of the Sarah Palin Oratory School.
It cracks me up knowing that over 30% of this country is sitting back after reading this, thinking "Wow, Joe the Plumber has some acute insight on this matter, and his presentation is flawless."
Chris in, Oakbrook Terrace, IL; the 1st amendment does not apply to U.S. citizens outside of our country; try that crap in IRAN, stupid! Joe has a job, do you? Having press in a war zone is dangerous for the reporters, who are ALLOWED upon request to cover the story; it’s not a right to be in, around, or at a F.O.B. It also puts our troops in danger as they are a distraction. Revolution coming?
When did joe become the evening news anchor guy? i thought his thing was plumbing... if the media should not cover a war , ' in his opinion ' why is his mouth open ? WHAT IS UP WTIH THIS GUY???? He proclaims that he's only trying to bring about the truth..... Well truth is , Joe is trying to get paid!!!
Hey "andy j, upstate new york" we already knew yiou went "elsewhere" for your news. You go to the faux news site and drink koolaide all day, don't you? Admit it, tell the truth you are the one viewer they have!
Then stop this nonsense and get the hell out of there you moron!!
..."ban the media" says Joe. . . .so he's there because....?
This chump represents absolutely the worst side of America.
He is not a journalist, yet he is doing "journalism", saying there should be no journalism when it is inconvenient.
He doesn't think the Government does a good job with things like taxes and subsidies, yet he would trust them with whatever they say about our (or Israel's) actions during war.
“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.”
Abolished? Then the cliche "war is hell"?? So we don't know the whole story, so we shouldn't even try to find out?!?...
What an idiot...
I have to say, I think this guy is a liar and an idiot, as well as a low level GOP tool. He has no ptretense to impartiality and it is a painfully inadequate understatement to say he has no business acting as a reporter.
That said, on some basic I can't beleive I am saying this level, I have to admit I somewhat agree that there can be too much war reporting. I know, I know, we the public can never have too much information, but if you beleive that, then it is hypocritical to say he should not be there reporting his "side" (however slanted) of the story.
I don't know what "Joe visiting Israel" is about, really, but I have lived near Sderot and you can believe him when he comments that people had better "take quick showers." Bomb shelters are as common as dirt along the Israeli side of the Gaza strip because of the constant and spontaneous lobbing of missiles from the Gaza strip into Israel...into homes, into schools, into shopping areas, into streets. The Israelis have been extraordinarily patient: Imagine the state next to the one in which you live wantonly lobbing rockets into your home, your child's school, the store in which you shop...how many missiles would it take before your state took retaliatory action?
is this a joke? I though I was on cnn.com, but there must be some sort of mix up with The Onion...
If you think there are atrocities where the media doesn't know the back story, just imagine what could happen if soldiers knew there wouldn't any reporters around to report their illegal acts.
Another truly dumb comment from the Republicans' #1 dud-head.
Wow, just another leftover idiot from the campaign! Would I care what he says?? Nobody with a brain the size of a pinhead should care!
Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin must be the new plagues!!!!
We're not amused and you're not funny.
Seriously, can't Republicans come up with better comedy? This is just pathetic.
Is this guy for real. This is a slap in the face to all of the hard working journalist around the world to see him in Israel reporting on the Gaza conflict. Like it wasn't enough to hear him over here, now we have to listen to him from Israel. Thanks to John McCain & Sarah Palin we now have Joe The Reporter. Would someone actually take him seriously? I hope not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the press should not be covering is Joe the Whatever The Heck and Who Cares What He Is.
So I guess he gave up his plumbing business to be a war correspondent. Oh wait, he never owned a plumbing business. What a bafoon.
FIRST OF ALL, WHO IS THIS JERK TO MAKE SUCH A STATEMENT ? HEY.
CNN, you are my favorite news broadcast, but please,please, get off the Joe the Plumber thing. It was alright at first for one huge laugh but enough is enough. He is getting exactly what he wants now, to get noticed by the big news networks. To acknowledge him is such a discredit to the reporters that are deserving of the title and who put themselves in harms way. All major networks need to turn this man off. Give the credit where it has been earned and deserved. Burned out in Michigan. Michigan Tim
this man is the very symbol of why most repubs in 2009 are morons. sycophants desperately seeking a leader. all style and no substance. we should ban all media from covering war zones huh? why don't we start by banning this clown. he clearly has no idea what he is talking about.
Being in Sderot, I hope Joe takes cover, he going to need to. At least Israel will be able to put him into a bomb shelter.
Finally. An unbiased perspective. Go Joe.
I am a palestinean from Gaza living in America. This "Plumber" uncovered his real face. I think he is one of those who creates the lies about middle east and Israel such as his bosses Pat Robertson and Micheal Hagee. He looks happy with the deaths of all Gazans thinking this will bring the Christ faster. He is one of the real extremist. All of what he did in election was a propaganda for those extreme right. Hope America will really goes little bit toward center and get rid all of this extrmisim in this country.
This guy makes a lot more sense compared to these liberals on this blog!!
Tell 'em like it is Joe!!
I'm certainly not a fan of "dumb Joe", but he does have some points, such as information being given over the airways by journalists that could sometimes be detrimental to the cause. That being said, only the republicans would try to make a star out out of a non-thinking neocon.
Joe says he was fearful and then wanted retribution. Yes that's what we need more of in this world is people who can't control their emotions and then lust after retribution. That'll smooth things right out in this world.
I wonder if Joe has ever read the Constitution. There are good reasons for having a free press, and covering any war, including the loss of life, should always be considered a high priority of the press. The press decided to go along with the Bush administration and not show the pictures of our soldiers coming home in flagged coffins. If they had done it, the pressure would have been on the administration to do something differently long before it actually did. If Joe thinks that the media shouldn't be there, then he should set an example and leave.
SInce when did such blatant stupidity become newsworthy?
Flo the Bomber January 12th, 2009 2:34 pm ET
Joe is absolutely right. Every single Hamas terrorist needs to be exterminated.
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Every single terrorist needs to be exterminated...
starting with you.
Let's have a legitimate discussion. Topic: Barack Obama back-peddaling on all of his campaign promises.
What a joke. And Joe reporting on "how bad" Israel has it isn't biased? yeah, right..
Joe people in Gaza do not have shelters and sirens to warn them about incoming missiles! Can you understand the simple difference? Remember missiles do not know who is "Joe the Plumber" and who is not, it just take whatever it can get. I would not be surprised if you become the news eventually, because of your stupidity! History has a funny way of repeating itself .... Watch and learn folks, because it is too late for him to learn!
The Palin-McCain ,joe plumber joke was really funny ha,ha.Ok the election is over.A not for real plumber playing a not for real reporter equals the leader of the RNC.
Joe needs to go back to unplugging toilets. What an ignorant disgrace.
Can someone send a pair of shoes to Hammas to give joe a bloody nose.
stick to plumbing
Republican Hypocrisy 101:
Non-taxpaying plumber reports on war, taking the stance that war should not be reported on.
Almost as effective as Palin preaching abstinence.
I think the media has a right to report on the war, but leave the opinions for the editorial pages.
More power to him; he's got a job, making his own money and paying his own bills....which is tenfold more than most Obamkins can say...they're busy standing in line to get a gov't freebie....
If Joe wants to be a reporter without experience, without any inkling of what he's doing...so what? He's only following Obama's lead!
He thinks the media should be banned from reporting on the conflict? Isn't that exactly what he is doing? What is so sad about this, is he thinks he knows all about politics both domestic and abroad. He only knows what Rush and Glen Beck tell him.
guess physicians shouldn't be practicing medicine either, or lawyers trying cases in court. what's the point of actually going to college and gaining years of experience to learn how to do something when you can just "decide" you're a journalist... better than one, actually, since they have no business reporting things, according to this boob. now I understand why this "plumber" never even bothered to get a license. what a complete idiot!
And why do you care how this man makes an honest living? I applaud this guy. He's got a job...not one I'd take but he went for it and he's earning his keep There are few media outlets providing balanced viewpoints and the one he's working for is as legitimate as any of the others...everyone has their own agenda when it comes to the modern media. I don't think he's stupid...I don't think Sarah Palin's stupid. I may not agree with them but I'm not gonna kick any of them when they're down. Get over yourselves and move on...the republicans lost..you won..let these poor people go on with their lives...or better yet...you should go get a life for yourself.
This is a travesty of journalism and a mockery of the collective intelligence of the people. That this untrained inexperienced individual not possessive of critical thinking skills or professional ethics of any kind is in this position is beyond comprehension. I find this man and his actions reprehensible, dangerously opportunistic, repugnant and criminally irresponsible.
Why on earth would you give any credence to anything that pops out of this moron's mouth? "The media should be abolished from, you know, reporting." Joe obviously knows nothing about the US Constitution which guarantees freedom of the press ... and as we all know, he knows even less about plumbing. Enough, already!!!!
I think they should ban Joe the Plumber from just about everything. The man is a greedy, self-indulgent idiot.
If the media doesn't report on the war, then who will? Are we suppose to be left in the dark and not knowing what's going on in other parts of the Country? Wow, I think this guy enjoys public attention and will do anything now to get it.
lol...imagine that....then the media could write history 'they way they want"....oops....do they do that now?
lol i just giggle with Joe P in the battelfield...this is just getting to be too much! lol lol lol
The media has no problem showing innocents being killed and injured. How about something about those Hamas cowards, who view women as lower than dogs, except when it comes to using them as human shields.
Be a shame if those big, tough, Hamas manly men were to actually grow a pair and not hide amongst the innocent people.
Maybe Joe does have point. But then hey, a dead kid gets more airplay than a dead thug.
I bet Joe the Plumber is Nailin Palin.
Is this news? And for those who wonder, I read the article out of incredulity that this was really made into a whole article. Like driving past a car accident, as they say.
Rob January 12th, 2009 2:17 pm ET
Hey Rob. I hope Obama wouldn't act as cowardly as HAMAS. I hate what HAMAS is doing but Israel is doing exactly what HAMAS is doing. The right thing for Israel to do and they are starting to do it is to start their ground game and root out HAMAS. It's not easy but it's the only way to root out the terroist. That's what we did in IRAQ and you spare a greater number of innocent men, women, and CHILDREN that way. You can't just bomb, bomb, bomb your way to a solution in this fashion because you only create more sympathy for your enemy and your struggle becomes harder. WAR isn't pretty so you can't start one and hope you don't get dirty!!
fred: curious to know what "good points" you think Joe made. I'd agree that all sides of a story should be covered, but 1) that is so obvious it does not even bear mentioning, 2) Gaza, not Sderot, is being destroyed. Sderot and the 3 dead Israeli civilians should be (and have been) mentioned, but let's face it, Gaza is where the story is. 3) Joe doesn't follow his own advice; he basically sweeps the destruction of Gaza under the rug and reduces the Palestinian people to "terrorists." The guy has an amazingly unnuanced grasp of the conflict.
Israel could not have any worse of an ally, friggin Stone Cold Steve Austin wanna be!
What happened to Freedom of the Press , Joe the Contractor? I am a veteran and I believe in the constitution.
So sorry they can't take a picnic – why don't they send the jerk to Gaza and he can see what daily life is there -
America loves a good train wreck. That is why people are still paying attention to Joe the Plumber.
I thought the guy was a hard working and serious plumber....now I find out he's an simple idiot!
Andy J, Czars were pre-socialist, imperial leaders of Russia. Get your facts straight before you make completely useless statements...
I thought Joe's time was only suppose to be 15 minutes. Well, if he at least is going to report from the Middle East about a war that he believes shouldn't be reported on, then....... the RNC should give the courtesy give him some of Sarah Palin's campaign clothes since she returned them so he looks like a respectable Republican reporter. Please Joe don't let your PR company exploit you any further. Go back to being a respectable , hard working plumber...much more respect for you then... and I am a die-hard Democrat.
I wish Hamas would target the guy and get us rid of him ...
I hate to say this, but who cares? Why should we care what Joe the Plumber has to say about the Middle East?
Get over it Dems....
America is turely a land of opportunities. Especially the opportunity to be dumb and ignorant.
Maybe Joe should spend a day or two in Gaza. I am pretty sure that not being able to plan a picnic would be a concern to people in Gaza, at this particular moment.
Can Joe get an interview with John McCain?
I am trying so hard to understand the perspective of this guy in this issue...
Pro America?
Pro Israel?
or Anti Hamas?
anti Palentinians?
Joe i really like to know your views about this issue and also will want you to tell us the begining of this war
Does Joe the Plumber even know how to spell war correspondent ??? Has he even been in the military ???
Joe went to the same school of journalism as Sarah Palin.
joe the plumber? cnn are you kidding me ,if you keep talking about this guy he,ll never go away ,in the mean time he is there as a reporter ,but still says it should not be cover by reporters, oh right he , is a fake, joe is nothing but a blatant apportunist,
Why is any reputable news program report on anything this idiot does or says. It just reduces or eliminates the news programs credability.
THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT. AN OPEN SOCIETY AND FREEDOM RELIES ON A FREE AND OPEN PRESS. REMEMBER, THIS IS THE GUY WHO MCCAIN AND PALIN PUT UP AS THE VOICE OF THE COMMON MAN. JOE, YOU NEED TO STUDY HISTORY AND REALIZE WITHOUT A FREE PRESS THE ATTROCITIES OF HITLER, WATERGATE WOULD NEVER HAVE COME TO LIGHT.
Well, here's a guy who got it right the first time around. If I were CNN, NBC, ABC and all the other cynical media outlet – I would listen carefully and heed hus adivce.
Who in the world cares what Joe the Plumber thinks about anything??? Suddenly his 15 minutes of fame is extending to the point where you might think he actually knows something!!
Advocating banning the media from war coverage shows how un-American he and his right-wing cronies are. Someone needs to teach them some constitutional law before giving any credence to their ridiculous comments!!!
Isn't this the same guy that backstabbed John McCain after the election was over? Yet the far right GOP still loves him, huh? And the Republicans wonder why they have an image problem.
Ban media from war? Isn't he representing media and therefore, reporting on the conflict between Israel and Hamas as a media representative?
What a nut case.
I believe this is disgrace to legendary reporter all over the world to see Joe as a "Reporter". Only a criminal will allow him to report.
Why are you reporting on him. NO ONE CARES!
I really hope that those of you who are saying that Joe the Plumber should be able to participate in the political arena by voicing his thoughts and opinions are not the same people who criticized celebrities for doing the same during the election.
This is why republicans won't be winning another election for a few decades. It has become so painfully (but also hilariously) clear that they embrace total idiots as their spokesman. Bush, Palin, this mongoloid.
Does this man represent the real America? If yes, do Americans really want peace in Middle east or they want to implement their Ideology of the extreme right and Evangilical in our land. Gaza and West bank is for the Palestineans including Jerusalem. We are resisting the occupation on our Land. If people in Sderot are taking showers in quick then people of Gaza are taking showers of deplete Uranium and White phosphorus bombs made in USA. America has to choose between being extreme right or America that spread freedom in the world not hatered.
@Doc: I 100% agree with you. Furthermore, I note that the colorful description of this guy that you gave in your last sentence also fits G. Bush to a "tee"!
did joe the plumber really go irac
joe, sarah, et al: i'm just enjoying the hell out of you people; you have a way of brightening up the day for those of us with triple-digit iq's
Really, why is this guy still relevant? I don't understand why everyone made such a big fuss over him during the election, and I'm buffled as to why anyone cares about him now that the election is over.
why is this guy getting media coverage?
Joe is positioning himself to run as Palin's VP in the next election
I think a lot of your are confused...his opinion is that the media should not report in the war because of biase. But because there is reporting, he is electing to report on the Israeli point of view, because no one else is.
But it is quite funny to see all of these posters saying it's not newsworthy, when they must have read the story to make a comment...oh wait, that's what they all did to Joe and Sarah during the campaign: comment on them before they even knew anything.
oh my goodness. are you kidding me. did he really just say that. and what a hypocrite, isnt he reporting this war also? i thought i had heard the last of him the night macain lost. darn!
Did Joe the Plumber carry his "Plunger" with him ? Did he use Air Force One for his trip ?
Isn't it interesting that Joe the Plumber says the media shouldn't report on the war, but signs on as a reporter to report on it himself. Hmmm.
Sure, being under rocket attack is certainly rough but Joe should realize there are two sides to every story. Had Joe been one of those Palestinians booted off their land and stripped of their rights when Israel was formed in the 1940's, I'm sure he'd also "unload on the boy".
And the irony is that Israelis have killed nearly as many Israelis via friendly fire than Palestinians have killed in this war (including rocket attacks). All those Israelis total about 15. And the number of Palestinians dead? About 900. 400 of those killed are women or children.
I'd say the media coverage has been more than fair to Israel.
Duh? Doesn't he realize that he's saying that HE shouldn't be there? Like Sarah Palin, he needs some elocution lessons if he wants to be a correspondent; "well" is not a word to use two or three times in one or two sentences!
However, I do agree with one thing he is saying...and that there has been a distinctly anti-Israel slant to a lot of the press. When Hamas is making their headquarters under a hospital, and storing and firing rockets from a school, it is bound to cause problems for Israel to strike at solely military targets. This is a favorite tactic of many of the extremist Islamic groups, sheltering behind their own children and women to prevent retailiation from being effective. Yet you rarely see any form of outrage when they target suicide attacks at innocents in a church or at a market in Israel. But the entire problem is going to require the wisdom of Soloman to resolve.
He has no business being in Isreal!!! Whoever sent him should have their heads examined, by a plumber!!!!
This is guy is just as much of an opportunist as Palin. I can't believe the media is giving this guy attention and a platform from which to spout his nonsense.
I can kind of relate to what Joe is saying. As a civilian consultant, I was trapped in El Salvador in 1989 during the big FMLN uprising. I got out alive (barely), and my family had saved all the newspaper and TV reports about the fighting.
When I read and watched the reports, I was appalled at the one-sided perspective that the American media took. I saw plenty of atrocities from both sides of the conflict.
Ever since then, I distrust what I see and hear in the mainstream US media. We never do and probably never will get the "whole" story on any conflict like this.
What a dumb***. If media didn't report on wars, we'd have stuff like the Holocaust happen and never know about it until afterwards. And don't you think it'd be a smarter idea to ban wars so that media wouldn't have to report on them.
Soooo. aren't you reporting on the war, Joe?
Some of you are absolutely out of your mind.
He has a point but you are so blinded by the slants of media you refuse to see it. There isn't a full disclosure of information on the war. That's what he is saying. So it's not reporting news...it's reporting agendas of the media companies and how they want the story to come across. People who are getting tired of Israel do the following: Imagine growing up your whole life seeing rockets fly over your head and people burning effigies of your countrymen daily only 30 miles from where you live. Hell, Americans everywhere were ready to do anything after 9/11. That was one time. That is what Joe is saying. Most people have no clue the reasons that Israel is attacking Gaza simply because there is no view of what they go through on a daily basis.
I have a better idea. Ban the "PLUMBING REPORTER". What an airhead this guy is.
Quick showers?! He went over there show the "other side" and that's all he can come up with? Quick showers?!
"I’m not a person that runs from things, but when it’s a missile, you run.”
Quit telling me about this idiot and quit trying to make him a news story. I don't care about Joe, never have, never did and never will. Give us real news for a change.
All this reporting on the war...
Does anybody know, are WE still at war in Iraq. I only ask because I hear so much about Gaza and NOTHING about Iraq.
Maybe Joe could swing by and do some reporting where we really need it.
this is too funny!
thanks for the laugh, CNN!
He is the poster child for the C students.
You gotta be kidding me.
So you're saying that the media shouldn't be allowed to cover war, but yet you're saying this WHILE YOU'RE COVERING THE WAR?
Seriously Joe, your 15 minutes of fame expired a long time ago, please just fly away. You are a disgrace to Ohioans.
Why are we still seeing articles on this dumb dumb? He needs to be banned from humanity. Where does the GOP get these folks?
Prediction: Palin will either dump her hubby and marry Joe or will name him as her VP pick in 2012. They both share the same ignorant views, are grossly unqualified to run a country (or act as a reporter) and pander to the more idiotic of the conservative party.
I agree with Joe Wurzelbacher....The Media can only screw information up and most of it is partisan crap and mis-information.
We are witness to the masters of spin and mis-infoprmation by
the Hammas terrorists. Maybe the ACLU should get into the foray and help Hammas negotiate a peace while they send their rockets into Israel....they could probably win some kind of UN lawsuit and
show the Palestinians the Legal system to support criminals as victims...just like we do in the USA. Yes Joe is right....but the majority
of loose screws writing here won't ever get it and so it goes.
Peace
Chris
If the media should stay out of the wars, plumbers should stay out of the media.
Thanks Joe. You're a credit to our species.
AND WHY IS HE RELEVANT?????
What credentials does this person have to be "reporting" in an official capacity? Obviously, the folks at PJTV want someone who's on their side. Someone who appeals to the Bush core demographic (bonehead, go-get-em mentality).
Judging by a lot of the comments defending him, they've reached their target audience. Entertaining, but don't count on getting anything but opinionated babble from him.
So insightful seeing the ramblings of the clueless and the unqualified. It's what I come to expect from the right wing.
AndyJ-Maybe when the story is verified by someone credible– not the Washington Times or Hannity. Or maybe when there is some understanding of their positions and not the knee-jerk reaction of right wingers screaming "socialism". But, then again, you guys are the tolerant ones right?
More deep thoughts from Joe the Plumber. Can't he stick to fixing sinks? Why the F is he on CNN's site?? I am so close to not even looking at CNN anymore for continually putting garbage up like this that is supposd to be "news."
What a douchebag. Go away already!
GO AWAY....YOU ARE IRRELEVANT! NOT TO MENTION A MORON...
Fred,
Reducing the Palestinian/Israeli conflict to a playground fight, with a "when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy" philosophy is the reason these conflicts exist. Also, news updates are available to anyone with a computer, not just people at home. We read them to understand the world around us the the bigots who "applaud" shoddy reporting.
Finally, you praise getting somewhere "in such a short amount of time", as if that's unconditionally a great thing. Committing a crime will no doubt land me on TVs evening news. Would you applaud that as well?
Diplomacy, compromise and a resolution to share scare resources are tools that will solve conflicts around the globe.
Joe the Plumber won't be going anywhere soon. Like Palin, he likes life in front of the camera even though he does not know what he is talking about. Like Palin, he wants to be famous......ROFL
Are you kidding me??? Joe the plumber...he is not a plumber. This is utterly ridiculous. His 15 min was up long time ago...he and Palin need to just shut up. They appear a bit smarter that way.
Joe you need to be here in the state to fix some of the toilets its back up...
Hate on a guy bringing up good debate. Asking the questions CNN won't. Reporting on the violence of war in general is not the greatest thing. As he stated, we already know war is hell. Liberal media does this to project the negatives of the war, and negative sales these days. Everyone would rather hate then resolve. If this had been done in WWI or WWII, would the outcomes have been different? Those are the two bloodiest wars of the past century, yet Americans stayed rallied behind the effort. Why? No one wins in war, but some times it’s necessary.
WHO CARES WHAT HE HAS TO THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
joe stick to plumbing
Has the state of journalism really come down to this???!!! It's a sad, sad state of affairs.
You can thank McCain for making Joe the Plumber and Pain so popular, can you imagine McCain as president. scary!
Wow.......what an idiot!
I can't believe some news organization.....and I use that term loosely....actually sent him over to report on a war, and he's states Reporters shouldn't be able to report on wars.
Joe........Come home............give the money back and just come home. Follow your own advice.
I repeat.......what an idiot!!!!
Ya, that's right. Supress the media. Way to go freedom-fighting WingNuts. Better yet, ban JOE correspondent!
Sad. People are dying over there on both sides and this bozo is given a platform.
Can't we send him to Alaska? Maybe his mouth would freeze as well as his brain.
this guy is one ignorant JERK. "Media shouldn't be allowed to report on war because they don't know the whole story " – well, duh, that's what the media does – inform the public! If he's so against journalists, why is this moron pretending to be one?? His story sure was deep, "showers and picnics"... I would think the Palestinians have more on their mind other than planning a picnic. Good God, CNN, please stop covering this JERK! Monica / Victoria, BC CDA
Joe the Plumber is such a hypocrite. If media shouldn't report on wars he should follow his own advice! I can't believe people actually care about what he says. He's been discredited by so many yet news outlets continue to report on him and inflate his sense of self worth. Enough already.
I know anything is possible in America. But Joe the Plumber? People will do anything for their 15 minutes. I'm shaking my head right now. Sigh.
He makes one good point that I buy–him being a plumber is not it. The media these days "spins" things their way which is not always the right or honest way. I have no issue with media covering the war just be honest about what your reporting and give us both sides. I have a hard time buying/believing anything the govt nor media tells us esp. after hearing that Egypt/Saudi Arabia loves Americans through the media eyes yet you go there and see for yourself this is not the case.
So many of you are filled with so much hate. You sicken me.
Will someone please tell Samuel his 15 minutes of fame ended 3 hours ago.
p.s. Holland, OH called, they want their idiot back.
Joe the plumber is just another republican moron, and his belief to censor the press, goes against the Bill of Rights and our founding father's ideals when they wrote The Constitution and The Declaration of Independence.
Has Joe been sniffing the Draino again? Or was it Liquid Plumber?
What a jerk!
Now it's Joe the Dummy..... he says the media shouldn't be allowed to report on the war. I guess he doesn't understand that HE"S now a part of the media! Please Joe (what ever you are this week), Please GO AWAY!
so he doesnt think people should report on war....but he is in Gaza reporting on the war.......hmmm interesting concept.
He's a correspondent there, so technically he's a part of the media... He doesn't know what he's talking about. GO AWAY!!!
Let Joe off the leash, he will go single handedly take care of business there .
Seriously, why the hell does anyone care what Joe "the Plumber" thinks or says? Surely there are much more credible and experienced people talking about the war we'd care to hear from. Not this hack.
How is the media showing that 'Israel is the bad guy" ? The US has long history with trading and working with Israel and their government. Which is why the US wouldn't step in and help Lebanon, when Israel attacks them. Bush even said today that Israel has a right to defend herself and a cease fire can only happen if Hamas stops firing rockets. So, how is Israel being the bad guy? Let's see, maybe one thing is when they fire rockets and blow up schools full of children, including the UN school. So Israel has 20 or 30 deaths and wounded and Gaza has over 800 deaths and wounded. Its just like the US invading Iraq and killing civilians all over again.
Why does the media keep providing this bonehead a platform? Is he news or are they just despirate for something to cover?
Yeah, this guy is your average Joe...
joe the plumber is an idiot. Although sending him to a war zone isn't a bad idea. fingers crossed.
Joe the Plumber as constitutional scholar and conservative war correspondent...well, why not? If a know-nothing babe with big hair and and over-sexed child can be a vice-presidential nominee, why can't a failed plumber become a conservative commentator?
Give me a break! Does Mr. Joe the Plumber know of the First Amendment that says we have freedom of the press? The press is out there INFORMING us of what is going on in the world. With all those people unemployed, he is the best pjtv can come up with as a reporter? He is incompetent, just like Palin and McCain were....go away. PLEASE go away.
Hey Andy J. Czars aren't socialist they're facist ( opposite of socialism on the polictical spectrum). Know your history.
Joe the Putz
THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN GEORGE BUSH AND THE JOE THE PLUMBER ! BOTH ARE IDIOTS.
How can anyone take this guy seriously?
Oh yeah, the state of journalism today; NEVERMIND……..
Wow, reading these responses just made me more of an idiot than the people who posted here. I guess you can't fix stoopid (and I'm not talking about Joe)
So let me get this straight; Joe the Plumber thinks the media should be banned from reporting on any war/conflict.....while he himself is working for the media and reporting on a war???? Sounds like hypocracy to me. Evidently Joe, just like most other Neo-Cons, would prefer to have most of their political actions kept out of the public eye. A government exists soley at the will of THE PEOPLE and all of its actions are subject to the scrutiny of THE PEOPLE. As far as the news media reporting on the evils of Israel, I don't know what (if any) sources Joe has been citing, but most of the media coverage I have seen has been overwhelmingly slanted in Israel's favor. Where is the in-depth coverage of the Palestinian and Hamas casualties, not just in this conflict, but over the past several decades? Israel is not some innocent bystander. Both sides are equally liable for the violence and destruction in that region but somehow, fundamentalist Christians seem to think they can ride Israel's coat-tails into the Promised Land as defenders of God's chosen people. In spite of all of this, what credentials does Joe the Plumber have for being a reputable journalist anyway? I've seen more indepth coverage on the Travel Channel. Here's some advice Joe: GET A CLUE.
Thank God for Joe the Plumber. He makes all conservatives look like the fools they are!
Joe the Plumber is an idiotic nobody who stumbled into a unique situation. I cannot believe this guy is still in the public discourse! He pretty much turned out to be a fraud (he apparently is not a licensed plumber) and it's really a joke that anyone would listen to this guy regarding anything! In fact, I feel like an idiot for even putting forth the effort to write this comment!
He is marketing himself. Can u believe how opporunist he is
Ban the press?!!! I guess you don't believe in democracy Joe.
wow how can a guy who is not even a certified plumber even get to the Middle East? I am amazed how this guy trashed the Republican Nominee for President and now is reporting on the War. Joe the Plumber is plumbing the USA for a freebie. What a loser some one needs to kick him in his plumber's crack!!
I've read a lot of articles printed in the USA about Israel's campaign in Gaza, and I don't believe for one second that they are unfair or slanted against Israel. In fact, I think support for Israel is rather strong. My instinct tells me that Joe the Plumber and others of his political persuasion simply like to bash the media whenever it suits them.
This dude is ridiculous!
Typical "Bubba". The rest of the world hates us because they think Americans are like this Joe "the plumber" character. Please stop giving him press time!
Not only did Mccain give us S. Palin who made history as the first idiot running for VP, but also this skinned head ignorant who want to be an adviser on war. Jesus Lord! People could not wait for the election to be over so that these two could vanish from their sight; but they are two stuborn stains that refuse to fade away. The media should take his advice and stay away from wars because , he and Palin are two wars against peoples' sight. Why the media keep covering these two idiots, I don't know.
:14:59:59- PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop givng this guy any more media coverage! He's an idiot! He doesn't represent me, my values nor literacy level. If he wants to spout off his moronic ideals on PJTV, let him go for it, but please stop putting him on legit news outlets!!!!
So, why are you there, reporting on the war, Joe? What a jerk. He sure has a lot of veiws, I just don't know why CNN felt anyone really
needed, or cared, to hear any of them.
Joe the fascist, hater of 1st amendment, US constitution. Stop reporting on this guy's opinion. It's about as newsworthy as mine.... Come to think of it, how about a CNN headline "jrshipley thinks Joe the plumber is a fascist"? Then if someone comments on that, calling me a leftist jerkwad or whatever, you can report on that.... beats, ya know, doing actual reporting.
Why would anyone think sending this bozo to a warzone is a smart idea?
Pardon me, Fred, you're actually applauding (hence rewarding) some jerk from Ohio for basically lying, misrepresenting himself, not paying his taxes, and maintaining his unemployment until the point where he found a way to take advantage of the political scene and turn himself into the Paris Hilton of the McCain campaign?
Get the F outta my country man!
I rather listen to Rosie the Riveter.
@ fred
What good points are you referring to? The humor of a war reporter saying war reporting should be banned, or the simplification of war's trauma to 'not being able to take a 20 minute shower'?
And sorry, but any success he has a result of his appearance in the election is not attributable to his hard work or talent, all of these gigs are being handed to him (sort of like the welfare he so decries). And his appearance in Israel is an insult to every single person who ever worked their butt off on a journalism degree and who are still looking for work in their chosen field.
We think the media should not be allowed to cover Joe the Plumber.
War is always ugly no matter the way you put it. I believe that both sides are wrong, at this time of age every body should discuss their differences with diplomacy.
Should we create another iron curtain? I do not think so.
Sad to say......I'm from Ohio......we produce all kinds of fools. We did get it right in getting rid of Bush, though.
Isn't it about way past this man's " fifteen minutes of fame" is over? Send Joe and Sarah back to obscurity where they belong!
Yes, war reporting should be left to fake plumbers.
I have thought for years that the Media often causes more harm than good during war time. War is not pretty and most of it should not be covered, only the highlights. Do we really need to see the awful effects of war as they happen? Is it going to change anything at that moment?
For instance, when we first entered IRAQ we had Journalists announcing to the world where we(our troops) were heading and at what time. The IRAQI army received alot of our where abouts from the news media.
World war 2 did not have much media coverage and there was more damage and innocent victoms then any war since. Did we need to see it ? Did we want to lose the moral of our fighting soldiers? Our soldiers were heroes when they returned and thanks to media our soldiers are murderers when they return form war much due to media coverage.
War is hell and sometimes you need to break a few eggs to make an omlet. Sorry for the analogy but that is war.
A country has every right to defend itself and that is why we are not demanding a stop to this.
Joe the plumber is doing what any of you bloggers would be doing if given the opportunity so stop your whining, get off your a$$es and make your own difference. Adopt a poor child from Gaza or something productive.
There, I feel better ( ;
Incredible, Joe. So who's going to decide which wars should be covered and which should not? You and your right-wing supporters? And any time you think there's some media bias, you are going to ban coverage?There's a word for that–CENSORSHIP. My friend, if we took a vote on it, YOU would be banned. Fortunately things don't work that way in America (though we were close to it under Bush-Cheney!).
I'm with you on this one...Joe! 100%
Joe the plumber and Sarah the Palin need to keep quiet for a while, a long while.
Neither seems too bright and whenever they talk they prove it.
I think that the point that is being missed here is that you can tell a professional journalism vs. a hack. All he is full of is biased opinion that has no substance..
What we all should take a way is being able to tell what a good and true story with facts from both sides vs. his story about his anger issues and single sidedness...
Another issue is that he is a "journalist" and getting angry that missiles are coming his way, sorry buddy, but no, they are meant for Isreal, not you....
This is how people will see us around the world, as ignorant and uneducated americans.... giving the rest of us bad names...
you know he's right, we shouldn't allow the media to report on war. we should just do whatever the government says and take their account of things as golden. they've never lied to us about war. they've never gotten us into useless wars. they don't owe us anything - it's not like we're a government of the people or they're using our tax dollars or our warriors or anything like that.
we don't need to know anything. we should just be good little sheep.
joe the plumber for president in 1984!
Umm... that's all about the conservatives that keep picking up the boneheaded plumber or bimbo for VP.
As an independant, I couldn't see any future for a bunch of morons, aka conservatives for a while. What a dumb luck for Obama!
So he said the media shouldn't cover the war, while he is there to do precisely that.
The mind boggles. Well, with that guy, not really.
Every argument he makes could be made for the Palestinian side and have it make more sense. You want to see people who live in fear? Try the citizens of the Gaza who have seen over 800 deaths, over 350 of those being women and children, all because extremists they have no affiliation with apart from nationality are commencing rocket attacks. 828 deaths to 13 deaths. Yeah, I'd say Israel is being pretty fair about this.
As for the media slanting the story to the Palestinian side, ohhhh I just love that. Our government and our media have always blindly supported Israel in every move it makes, and this conflict has been no different. You have to dig pretty deep to find any major news outlet that cares to report the numbers of Palestinian casualties as well as Israelis. Although I must say I'm impressed, because this means it's possible Joe the plumber has seen a news report that isn't from FOX.
Ban the media? Did he just say that? Much less on a media trip that he's going there to cover in his own admittedly biased way?
BAN THE MEDIA? What you want Joe, is an unquestioning public that has no option but to go along with your war-mongering ideals. If the public can't see it without going against your side, 9 times out of 10, you're wrong.
We know war is hell. We know the media can't get it all right. We know your ideas are dangerous and badly BADLY ill-informed.
I used to think Ohio was a pretty good place to visit and always heard that Alaska was really a great place to visit. This election cycle I lost interest in those places, especially Alaska. Now if Joe moved to Alaska .... BTW, anyone think it extremely odd this guy uses two different names? Makes you wonder if he votes twice or something. Hiding from creditors? Alimony behind?
lol...This is the funniest and saddest thing I have read. Funniest because, what makes Joe the Plumber an "expert" on international relations. Saddest because, CNN is a waste for posting stories from "Joe the Plumber" – when we have real stories to report.!!!!!!!! Nice to see my tax dollars are going in the right use!!!!! NOT!!
Dear Joe,
Of course the media should cover wars to let the people know how how horrible they are and maybe they would concentrate on peace instead. If that is what you think why are you there in the first place, who cares what kind of showers the people are taking. Do you think you were sent there to repair the plumbing. Joe, go home, get your license and go to work, that is where you are needed most.
A New Yorker who needs a good plumber.
Why does anyone care about what this phony idiot thinks?!
I'm sick of him and Palin!!!
Hello media – forget about him already!!
So he wants to ban the media....yet he's there as a part of the media????? Just another shining example of why the GOP failed.
I agree: the US would have lost WWII if reporters were allowed everywhere. If reporters want to report on a guerilla-style war, they shouldn't complain if they're shot at.
"Does Joe not know? The First Amendment gives the press the right to be there. "
Just to clarify, the American Constitution does not apply in other sovereign countries, including those in the Middle East.
one word......SOCIOPATH!!!!
Maybe he can be a plumber over there
Oh god please help us all! Seriously, go away Joe! Nobody cares! I for one need not see this man ever again.
OMG – first off, this guy is an idiot. "Ban the media" – he IS the media! And what horrible hardships he's describing – quick showers and no picnics? Hey – the hot water at our house runs out quickly when everyone is showering – so you better believe I take a quick shower. But I'm in peaceful Fort Worth Texas! The media doesn't know the whole story – so his solution is to not give them ANY story. Seriously, this man's a doofus.
Seriously, this is the problem with our media. This guy had his 15 minutes of fame, and we are still reading about him. Who really cares what Joe the Plumber is doing!
Are you kidding me with this loser? Not only is he dead wrong on not allowing media to cover world events like war and conflict, but he's a hypocrite because he's engaged in a reporting piece on the war for a media group while telling others they shouldn't.
Moron.
So to him, he wants to live in a country where we don't pay taxes and are not informed about events that our own troops are involved in.
Why aren't we rid of this idiot yet?
I can't believe CNN and other media outlets are covering this BS. He is so irrelevant and so out of touch with reality and yet he is still given an outlet.
We should get rid of all reporting, including the Weather Channel. Christina Abernathy is a communist sympathizer.
I see his 5 minutes have been extended.
So, Republican Party, still wondering where you went wrong?
Way to many of guys like this in the world. Thats why we have war.
CNN I don't know which is worse, your never ending series of fluff stories about Obama (Obama gets a hangnail, Obama eats a hot dog, Obama picks his nose) or the equally annoying stuff about Palin and Joe the Plumber. One would think with an economic crisis, 2 wars, the Mideast, a tillion dollar budget deficit, and senate seats for sale; you could just maybe focus on real news.
He isn't making any good points. The guys is a total moron. Can everyone please start ignoring him, so he will go away?
Next he will have his own program on CNN after DL Hughley..YUCK! What happen CNN??? Why even waste the space reporting about this guy...oh yeah...you are the same guys who gave DL Hughley a program...oh well guess I should not be surprised...
Hey Fred, Monica Lewisky got real famous, really quickly, but I wouldn't want to trade places with her either.
Reading the above is a great way to gauge the opinion of the nation.
Does Joe the P. and Sarah P. know how much this nation despises them?
Behold the new face of the Republican party. As long as they keep it up with their racist, bigoted, ignorant publicity stunts, the Republican party will keep heading south in the polls. Every time I hear them or look at them, they remind me of what Republican trash is. As long as they and their supporters are in the public eye, we will be reminded of the rot in our nation, the rot that makes us less than we could be.
I do not understand what the issue is here. It makes perfect sense that Joe the Plumber whose real name is Sam and is not a licensed plumber should now be a war correspondent who has never been in a war and never been a reporter! In the eyes of Republicans, what's the big deal? He has the one credential that counts – he's Conservative!
who needs to hear any more from this clown?
Joe The RNC Chair!
Uh...this is too funny! He says the media shouldn't be allowed to cover the war but yet he decides to "become a reporter" and cover it himself???? OKAAAAYYY!
Funny how the right-wing wants to make this tax-dodging idiot into their spokesperson.
I suppose "Joe' is now considering starting up a blackwater type tactical unit to root out Hamas but he's concerned that as a small business owner the revenue will force him into a higher tax bracket.
Nothing needs to be added to this. His statement alone is funnier and more self-incriminating than any comment any of us could possibly make on it. I'll just repost it to highlight the fact:
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting."
"when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.”
Can't WAIT till he runs for congress!
Wow. The fact that McCain tried to portray this gibbering nitwit as an "everyman" is a grave insult to the intelligence of everymen everywhere.
No, seriously, go away
All politics aside, if he doesn't believe reporters should cover war, why is he there?!
Joe doesn't mind being the court jester-if he grasps the reality that he is one. He's like the guys who sold pet rocks. Who would have thought anyone could get rich selling ordinary rocks? Joe is going to make money off all of this. He's making himself a novelty item that the media will just have to interview to see what makes him tick. He'll take the ribbing and ridicule, make money without working, probably not pay taxes on it and have no problem being the butt of jokes. He likes the attention.
He's right. Media has no place broadcasting what's going on in the middle of a fight. They can talk from the sidelines, or report after the fact - when their presence won't force soldiers to protect them, or give enemies information they shouldn't have. Remember Black September? It was the stupid reporters who filmed the cops going in, which the terrorists watched on their tv sets, that ruined the rescue attempt; and, in the end, look what happened.
Reporters are concerned with selling their stories; they don't care if people die, so long as they increase the number of viewers or sell papers. They don't belong in the middle of a fight. Our soldiers shouldn't have to worry about protecting them, or having them give away important information.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” Wurzelbacher said.
aaaaaaand Scene. Thank you folks, that's a wrap!
I cannot understand those who distrust the government with their tax dollars but absolutely trust it with the lives of their sons and daughters enough to not want the media providing a fair viewpoint.
Am I missing something? By saying that the media shouldn't cover war, isn't he saying that he himself, as a correspondent, shouldn't have a job?
This yob really needs some learnin'...
Joe tells us the people of Sderot can't take picnics. But how about the people of Gaza City? If you think the media is biased (which some of it undoubtedly is), cover both sides fairly. Corrective bias is bias too, and just perpetuates unfair reporting.
Why is this fascist skinhead moron being sent to Israel to reprt on banning reporting???
ENOUGH OF THIS IDIOT!!
Fred: "You guys seem to be just jealous."
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You sound like someone's grandma.- "He's doing good. He's got a good job...."
Fred you're lacking in certain critical thinking skills, so you focus on semantics and completely skirt the fact that Plumber Joe is reporting on war while advocating abolishing said reporting because it inevitably makes one of the parties look bad.
So, to re-cap: saving face is more important than having a valid reason for blowing someone's off- but don't worry about that, cuz Joe is making money.
You're right Fred- I'm really jealous of the fact that Joe the Plumber is in Gaza reporting on something he strongly believes shouldn't be reported on. And as for Plumber Joe's 'vaild points'- I must have skipped those parts in the article because he's a friggin' plumber, Fred. It's like getting Britney Spears to be a key note speaker at an electrical engineering conference. 8 years of Bush has turned our citizens brains to mush.
It's a shame this guy doesn't realize what a joke he is. The world is laughing AT you, Joe, not with you.
And this person is an expert in ... what? He's not even a licensed plumber, much less a journalist.
The fact that this is reported in the political ticker shows just how important CNN considers him - right up there with the runaway bride.
who is paying him to do this?
I would really like to know what John McCain would be thinking right about now for making this Idiot such a big part of his campaign. I remember him saying in a interview 2 weeks before the Election that 'Joe the Plumber' has turned the Election completely around and he is closing in the gap. Boy, talk about some desperate measures by McCain. These kind of gimmicks would definitely alienate the intellectuals in GOP.
Joe would love Russia, they also don't like reporters writing stores about their soldiers killing civilians either. Joe could also bring indoor plumbing to Russia. He would be called Joe the turd king, and could make millions. It would be a great sacrifice by the American people to lose such a man, but I think we would get over it. Good bye Joe, your 15 minutes of fame (cough, cough) if thats what you call it, is over. Bye, bye, and don't forget to pay your taxes.
Take Joe Dirt and cross him with Forrest Gump or perhaps MTV Made and there you have it! Simple minded bafoon gets fame and fortune overnight.
This guy is over there making us look worse than we already do. His commentary is worthless and insulting.
What is this IDIOT doing in a war zone?
It was not til the press pointed out the futility of viet nam that that war started to end!!!!
The conservitive's are really showing their desperation sending this two bit idiot into this mess. And why is CNN wasting time reporting it?
OMG, did he really just discover war is NO PICNIC? What a keen insight!!
Hey Cuppa Joe!
FREEDOM (of the press) ISN'T FREE!
Please remember to keep that big bald head as high up as possible while in the field, Joe.
Bob, good one.
Joe, you're going ot he middle east.
What, Cleveland?
No, the middle east.
Indianapolis?
No, moron, the middle east!!!!
Ohhh, Detroit.
Lissa – Obviously the answer to your question is "yes, this is definitely a joke, even if it isn't funny"
I hope this guy gets shot out in Gaza
You've got to be kidding me – maybe he'll complain that Israel is spreading cream cheese too liberally on it's bagels.
Chris @ 4:18
"In the eyes of Republicans, what's the big deal? He has the one credential that counts – he's Conservative!"
He's "white" is what you should have said.
what does he mean "taking quick showers"?!?!?!?!?
Children are dying by the hundreds on the other side.
Whatever your politics are, please, at least have some decency.
The media doesn't know the whole story, so let's ban them altogether? Isn't that the whole point of journalism, to find the story and tell it? I think Joe, the unlicensed plumber, should stick his head back in the toilet where it belongs.
Someone should give his location coordinates to Hamas for a full unloading of rockets
I don't understand why anyone should care about "Joe the Plumber" and his opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I guess I'll have to check overseas for real reporting.
Maybe Joe can see Isreal from his front porch.
when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy.
Please Joe, let's leave your sexual fantasies out of this.
oh for the day we see the headline, joe the dirt napper.
Isn't that censorship?
"The plumber-turned-foreign correspondent"
LOL
When Bush tramples the Constitution, he's less subtle. When Joe the Dumber does it, he comes right out and "abolishes" freedom of the press.
So many things I could say about this, but there's really only one word that puts it all in a nutshell...hick
Nurse ratchet..."Your "My Country" comment perfectly exemplifies the hypocrisy and divisiveness of the liberals...get back to me after you use dictionary.com for my comments...and keep looking froward to Jan. 21 whenn you will still wake up just as poor and dim-witted as you are today.
If he doesn't want to run from a missile, that's fine.
If he wants to go head into Gaza to take the fight to the terrorists, that's fine too.
Heck, the maximum age to join the US military is 35. "Joe" is 34. Even though he'd have to put his real name on the enlistment papers, why doesn't he go ahead and sign up and go fight terrorists for real?
People: Ban Joe the Plumber from Media
I'm so intrigued by what Joe has to say about foriegn affairs. I have lived in NY all my life and it boggles my mind that OVER half the US seems to think like Joe. I'm personally not ashamed to admit I'm an extreme libral, and I find that the more conservatives I talk to the more we actually have in common. It seems we as liberals and conservatives want the same thing, we just disagree on how to get there. My personal veiw is Conservatives believe these things will come naturally without any government involment, where as I believe we need a very involved government. Good for Joe, I'll be reading his columns with an open mind because I beleive we need more "Joe" points of veiw in the media representing the conservatives not spoiled rich kid journalists......
Joe the Plumber isn't too old to join the military. He looks like he's in pretty good shape. He doesn't actually have a plumber's licensed. Why doesn't he join the Army?
Jeff,
It is called the Fairness Doctrine.....look it up.
You all are missing the point.
The perfect job for Joe the Dumber – speech writer for the Wasilla Imbecilla.
Joe the P and Sarah the P are the worst common denominators of what is happening to my country. No wonder the CIVILIZED world is WORRIED in what direction this country is going RE; our values and judgement. Please Joe and Sarah crawl back into the woodwork.
Joe:
Get a plumber apprenticeship, get a plumber's license, and
go away already. Your 15 minutes of fame are over.
Joe the plumber is now more qualified than S palin to be the next republican VP for the next presidential election. He has traveled to Israel a plumber and comes back a war adviser. That's more than Palin can say who could see Russia from her window in Alaska. Haha! You know, every time I remember this, I laught and fart; and instead of going into hidding, she's still out there delivering more absurdities. The republican party has turned into a laughing stock.
If he doesn't think the media should report
on the war, what's he doing there? C'mon
Joe. Who are you trying to kid? You can
barely speak to where anyone even knows
what you're talking about. What a joke.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” Wurzelbacher said. And I think that Joe the Laughable Plumber/Republican Tool, should run for office under the Fascist Party Banner. Keep them people uninformed and stoopid, Joe! Education, facts and information should only be held by the crooks who orchestrated the war and the economic collapse of America. If the average citizen doesn't know what sort of criminal activity its government and elected officials are up to, then they won't want to vote them out of office and pursue criminal complaints agains them. This is the entire mantra of the liars, crooks and cheats in the GOP who ruined America. Thank God we have the Democrats in office and Barack Obama as President! We need to end this type of criminal misconduct and make idiots like Joe the welfare Plumber go away!
Moron? Boob? nut case? idiot? tax evader? A joke?
C'mon! So joe is trying to capitalize on his fifteen minutes of fame. So what! We all do that in some way every day of our lives.
Leave him alone. He probably just a nice family man trying to get by in a world of people who have nothing better to do than drag others down.
Doesn't Joe realize everybody is
basically laughing at him going over
to Israel? Is he so full of himself that
he believes that we care what he
thinks?
Looks like Joe's a red-blooded American hero.
He turns the media circus about his private life into fortune, goes out and covers the Gaza crisis like a true reporter (Maddow doesn't even have a journalism degree- rather a PUBLIC POLICY degree – whatever purpose that serves), and highlights the mainstream disdain for reporting on the rocket attacks on Israeli citizens in favoring of publicizing the victimization of the attackers.
What a life this guy is leading. You can almost taste the jealousy from the arm-chair commentators.
I have read no insiteful information in any of the following post. I have heard no indepth reporting form any US prime time media outlet (or others). I have read a lot of periodical information on Isreail, the palastinien area ( not even god knows what the palastinien area is), and the middle east. Can't make heads or tails of it. Plame the Britsh. But. I am not giving my trailer lot back to the American Indians. The Isralies are not going to return Isreial to anyone. The arabs are all culpaple to the palastiniens plight.. Isriela must kill Hamas, because Hamas is trying to destroy Isrieal. The palastiniens voted hamas into power – not smart. Joe – hope you can make sense of it all – none of the other blogers has. Someone please correct my spelling and then kis my .....
Fred: For laughs, man – we read the article for laughs
thats what happens when you take an idiot andtry to make him what he is not, hope you did you plumbing better than this.
He says there should be no reporters but yet he is playing one and covering the war situation? I'm thinking between him and Palin, they'd make one joke of a ticket for the next election. They both have the same mentality = zero!
you have got to be kidding me.. putting our heads in the sand is his answer... isnt that what the world did in regards to darfur.. and look only 450,000 darfuris were killed by their own government,, but i guess we dont know the whole story, maybe they wanted to be raped and burned to death..
great idea you got there joe the unemployed bum!
get a job.
How can anyone take this man seriously? Heck, he isn't even a real plumber. He is soooo starved for attention. It makes me sick anyone would give this self promoter any attention at all. Go away, Joe the Fake!
A quote from the 'peace-loving man':
“I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do because they’re firing missiles,” Wurzelbacher said. “It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution. I’m not a person that runs from things, but when it’s a missile, you run.”
Wow – it's like he's channeling Ghandi
So life in an Israeli town is hard when someone fires unguided bottle rockets and they take short showers? "Joe", go report from inside Gaza and then tell us how hard life is for the Palestinians. After all how can you fairly and accurately report from just one side of the fence or does the though of guided munitions into a school, hotel or apartment building frighten you a bit too much?
Can we offer him as target practice for the Hamas rocket attack?
Now you know who John McCain and Sarah Palin worships. Election is over, but this guy just started. Very sad how media even has not trashed this idiot. This fool, not the media, should be ignored fully.
Cheers.
S
Is Joe the Plumberk, book??? writer, reporter correct? Should we all be kept in the dark to what is happening... is that his message???
Well, for once I agree with "Joe the Plumber"....he is right. People don't have realistic expectations or even basic understanding of what war is. If the Isaelis don't put a stop to Hamas who are killers (these people torture the Palestinians who don't agree with their "political" party)....the Palestinian people are suffering – not because of Israelis – but because of Hamas. Hamas has done NOTHING constructive for the Palestinian people....of course, they should live in peace – but are the Israelis to just let them continuously bombard their villages and schools with rockets and missiles....Iran has been arming Hamas who has nothing more in mind than to start this war with the Israelis....they are not interested in peace, educating their people, commerce, or anything else....they are KILLERS!!!
Amazing. As we love to say around here: "It's not real, is it, GrandMa?" This poor idiot might be comical if not for those that believe he might be valid. His 15 minutes of fame should be over soon. We can hope.
While I think this man is a complete buffoon, he is onto something. The media should always present both sides of the conflict. It makes me sick to think of the innocent people, mainly children, who are suffering and dying. And while it's sickening that Hammas is using Gazans as human shields, who put Hamas into power in Gaza? Hamas was smart enough to recognize that if they built the infrastructure that was missing in Gaza and provided Gazans with everyday needs, the people would back them. Unfortunately, they are now in a catch-22 as human shields. Hammas has played and replayed their hand to the point where Isreal finally retaliates with the intent to wipe out Hammas. How is this to be solved?
If other free nations, along with Isreal and Arab countries would have provided Gaza with funding to build their infrastructure and provide social services, education, etc in the first place, Hammas would have had a harder time making their foothold in Gaza. Oh well, just my thoughts. I'm not a expert on anything.
But as for Joe the Plumber, I'm really sick of reading about this guy. He has nothing to offer and makes me think mediocrity seems to be the new fashion for us Americans. :/
HAHAHA these are the hardships of daily life in southern israel? They have to take "quick showers" and "can't take a picnic". Go compare what the Palestinians are living like with jets and helicopters bombing them.
This is so hilarious comparing the Palestinian rockets with what Israel is shooting at them.
Peace loving man my butt! This guy looks like the kind that would would scream in enjoyment as he's shooting someone. you can always hear the US troops in Iraq laughing and applauding as they are shooting someone or calling in an airstrike on them.
I know war has to happen sometimes but you dont enjoy it. This guy is a liar and a war hawk. Hed be a proponent of nuking moslem mecca or something.
Boy, you really can't make this stuff up!
The problem is that Western journalists aren't being allowed in. All of the video and news that we're getting from Gaza is from the "Hamas Broadcast Company". HARDLY fair and balanced!!
What a pity. Joe's fighting for a good cause, but he's such a blowhard, the point is totally lost.
Here's an idea: The media should be banned from reporting on Joe the Plumber! This guy is as irrelevant as can be.
you guys complain that Joe is biased. What about the media you so glorify. They love to report on civilian casualties, but never mention the Hamas guerrilas are shooting and hiding behind those civilians. If you don't want civilian death, come out and fight mano amano. When Israel defends themselves and Arabs die, you guys are all over it. Yeah Hoe's biased, but it's about time someone is biased for Israel. As far as banning corresp[ondents from war zones, i feel myseelf tending to agree. If every time a US soldier died in WWII it was splashed all over the media, we would have lost the war after D-Day. War is Hell, and people die. The trouble now is liberal journalists use their deaths to advance their own agenda
JTP, please crawl back into whatever hole you came out of.
Try telling the victims of genocide that the reporters should not be allowed in, better yet be a victim of genocide and then talk about the visual truth. What an ignorant jerk, who made this guy someone of importance where his opinion would really matter. If your land was stolen from you, and you were regulated to the worst part of the land, it wouldn't be terrorist attacks, that would be retribution.
Stop referring to Sam as a plumber, as Joe and as a correspondent.
This is the reason this guy is still on TV.
shut up joe!!! please just shut up..
Ban the media? Sounds like communism
I agree with joe in some part. Reporting on somethings that you are absolutly biased on should be banned. You mr. are absolutly baised to call yourself a corespondant. if you began your reporting by saying "Israel should have attacked sooner" then you are there as a bropaganda tool than a reporter. For any news media to sit back and let this indvidual call himself a reporter is to let people think that being a reporter is nothing more than being a mouth peice.
An example how shallow Americans can be.
When it comes to stupidity and criminal attitude ..The sky is the limit !!
Call him "Joe The Moron"
Congratulations for the Israeli Terroists..They have a MORON in their side !!
Two more things...."Pyjama.com"????Wow that's fierce! Also, what about the irony of Joe complaining about the media, when he in FACT is being questioned by the media? Stay in the bunker, man
Let's ban the media from talking about Joe the Plumber.
I was just getting use to being proud of my U.S. roots again with the dawn of hope in our land...but another day in (sur)reality hits when Joe the Plumber corresponds from war on how there shouldn't be war correspondences!
This guy is right on the money....get those idiotic journalists out of the war zones. They don't report the news, they report their opinion and those opinions are usually what their demented liberal professors have told them it should be.
Spare the guy, even though he has tried to hog as much limelight as possible one must try and analyze things objectively. For instance his question on tax to obama was a valid one. Oh and btw i was a volunteer in the obama campaign at Chicago for 2 years. It was election season so we piled up on him.
Again even though his point of banning media from war sounds silly he is correct that media does not always show the complete picture. We talk about disproportionate response by Israel and suffering of Gazans. But do not forget that if Hamas had the same weapons as Israel it will have no qualms about killing every Israeli whether they are women or children. We are staring in the eyes of an ideology that loathes our very existence. Wake up please !
Poor Joe, what an idiot.
The whole point of the press is to pry, expose, and start the dialogue. Without them we wouldn't know anything about the war.
So Joe's idea of war correspondence is to keep out the press and trust the leadership to do everything fairly?
I'll second his nomination for RNC Chairman.
The Grand Old Party needs someone like this man.
He represents the average Joe.
He speaks truth to power.
He is good people.
Joe Is SO right!! The media should be banned from everything!! –
Without the media we would not have known that Joe was delinquent in his taxes and that he wasn't even a plumber!!
"The media shouldn't cover wars," said the man hired by a media organization to cover the war.
Hi there, reporting here from "Real America."
Joe, you're a complete idiot, and you and your moose-hunting folksy bimbo chummies can go sit in Gaza and side with whoever you feel is "right", just leave the rest of the world (including the rest of us in America who actually have our heads NOT in our rectums) out of it.
While you're there, might I recommend picking up a history book and learning about the region, rather than just throwing catchy one-liners at it that might work in your local bar, but not in the international scene.
Here's hoping he takes a mortar up the tailpipe.
Maybe Joe can get a standup routine with Ann Coulter! Now THERE'S a team. Geez.
Since when 'Joe the Plubmer' has become the Subject Mater Expert on Middle Eastern affairs???
For me, nothing is more outrageous than some uninformed coward westerners who live, sit and dine in the comfort of their peaceful countries who take to the streets branding Israel as the bad bully boy. I don't know where there were when the terrorist regime of Hamas in Gaza fired the first rocket. One Israeli life is as important as a million Palestinians and the vise versa.
The west is fast kowtowing to the radical Islamic threat and this is not good for the world today and posterity.
And the reason we care what Joe the Plumber thinks, considering he has no knowledge about anything nor can he express himself with any sense of intelligence?
Since this guy is now part of the "elite" media why is he reporting on war when he himself said media should not report on war. Who the heck cares or listens to this guy?!
I wonder how "good" old Joe the plumber would fair in Gaza. If he doesn't believe in the coverage of t he "news" of war, then why and in who's name is he over there in. I understand that the USA upports the State of Israel , however, when 40 percent of the rising last count of 740 people in Gaza that have died are women, children and civilians than when is what is happening truly "overkill".
Hey Joe take a walk on the wild side and see the atrocities there, then let give us your unbiased report, not that I belive you are capable of doing so.
Since when 'Joe the Plumber' has become the Subject Mater Expert on Middle Eastern affairs???
When they look back at when it became apparent to all that the Republican Party was finished, they will look at articles like this one. What a complete and utter moron. What an intellectually bankrupt party.
who ever hired Joe the not real plubmer should be ashamed to think he could resprent their organization in a true journalistic way.
What the media should be banned covering is idiots who aren't really named Joe, who aren't really plumbers, who don't pay their taxes, who don't make more than $250K and who don't have a clue as to what they're talking about. BTW Sammy boy, a real "peace-loving man" would take a lesson from Jesus Christ and turn the other cheek. But you're neither peace-loving or a man. You're a stupid idiot. May Hamas end your pathetic existence with a mortar round or rocket so that we never see you back in the US again! Better yet, maybe some IDF "friendly fire" will do the job.
Joe the Moron
Joe the Plumber please go away. Sarah has a job for you. Attorney general for Alaska. No experience needed. Guess what. You qualify.
It it wasn't for McCain and the "big bad mean media" Joe the fake plumber would still be lying about his plumbing credentials in Nowhere, USA.
Get on your knees and thank the media Joe "the Plumber".
Something tells me "Joe" is for the media, as long as it is covering the side of the story he wants to hear. Very un-American of you, "Joe".
Idiot. Moron. Reactionary. Ignorant. Hopped up on testasterone. Myopic. Unpatriotic. Imbecile. A joke. A boor. A bonehead. A fake. Immoral. Inhumane.
Hmmm... sounds like the last eight years.
This guy makes me laugh. He and Sarah Palin are perfect for each other. Bush doesn't make me laugh because he's been at the head of so much disaster and tragedy.
AMEN Joe the Plumber
I vote for this Clown to be Chairman of RNC or perhaps a Spokesperson for the RNC. Judging the IQ of RNC figures they could not have asked for a better spokesperson then Joe
And BTW, Hamas is not a terrorist organization – they are the democratically elected government of Gaza. They are attacking Israel with rockets because Israel has imposed a seige on their territory... what do you expect them to do. Sit back and take it Joe, or if somebody is hitting them, shouldn't they unload.
What a freaking moron.
I just want to know why the media is giving this man air time.
What now? Are toilets in Gaza plugged? Oh nevermind, he is not even a real plumber!
tallking to Obama bought this guy into the limelight.....so he afterward states disdain for Obama and joins the campaign of John McCain...who does more than enough to keep him in the spotlight...then afterward he throws McCain down, STEPS on him, keeps going and becomes an unqualified reporter in a war zone although he professes to have a dislike for the media. All of this while not REALLY being a plumber and not paying his back taxes. Yet the GOP want him as a spokesman for their party. Am I the only one that sees the irony in all this or has this just become the American way of getting to the top?
Joe the what? Plumber...politico....average Joe....reporter? Jack of all trades and master of none?
The average Joes are trying to figure out how to pay their bills, keep their jobs and keep food on the table. I don't think the average American needs an Average Joe translating the problems in the Middle East. We don't need one more version of events. There's no good guys/bad guys, just Average Middle Easterners ducking and keeping out of the line of fire of extremists and terrorists. We didn't care what you he had to say in October and November and don't care what he has to say now! Please don't anyone think that "Joe the Plumber" is representative of Ohioans, either! I'm proud of my state and baffled by the interest in this idiot!!
obviously this is a joke... i mean this fellow REALLY DOES KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT...maybe next week he can go shoot moose with sarah.
does anyone really care what this plumber has to say? isn't he over there doing exactly what he thinks shouldn't be happening? or did i miss something...
The media is the reason this idiot even gets any attention.
Compared to this guy, Fox News seems almost credible. What a goob! I'd like like that minute of my life back, please.
Is Joe Jewish? Why is he over there and who paid for his trip?
Keep blabbing on, Joe - or Sam - or whatever your real name is - you have become the comic relief in the midst of a tragedy....not even Comedy Central could make you up...
If Joe wants to 'know the whole story behind it half the time", then he is in the wrong location to get the other half. The 'story' from the Israeli side has been told to no end, and extremely overdone.
He needs to get over into Gaza and "experience" what it's like to have things "dictated" from a high explosive point of view.
Vito
Clarksville, TN
I think we ought to send Joe the Plumber to negotiate a peace. That's the next logical step for him. He seems to have such a firm grasp of international politics, a thorough understanding of regional and religious beliefs, why yes. Let Joe the Plumber swagger in, sit down at the table, slap a plumber's wrench on the table, finger a roll of teflon tape with a menacing look and tell these governments to stop with the bombs because “So you can’t plan your day, you can’t take a picnic.“ Pure genius!!!
How sad this man is still allowed on television. The media should be banned from reporting? Where is this guy from? Russia!? I bet he feels president Bush has done a super job and that the White House press should be barred there too. Genius. I can see why Mccain based his entire campaign on you...
Memo to the plumber. If it were not for the media this war might have never been found out for what it really was. A sham and a lie. When the media does its job people are informed and leaders are kept in check.
This is more about generating hits on the pjtv.com website than it is about real journalistic insight.
Ban this bozo and stop giving him coverage.
"Unload on the boy," "take quick showers," ... yowza. Paging Dr. Freud.
What an idiot.
Leave Joe alone!! He's just there to record a historic palestinian extinction event. The SUICIDE of a nation by an armed force. Really the Palestinian government wants the Hamas to make sure the extinction is complete. Hamas is Palestine and Palestine is Hamas, just look at the logical facts shall we??. No goverment, no laws, no army, no economic resources, all the marks of nation in its death throes.
Who in there right minds would intimdate a nation that has the power destroy another nation at will.
There is not a person on this planet that can withstand bombs and bullets... but yet! the Palestinians remain in the area of conflict and impervious to that fact destruction will occur in that area. Cries of dead women and children flood the media.........Please!! Who are the responsible palestinian man or woman that leave children in a combat zone. Rational and humane thoughts would be to get women and children to a non-combative zone. Have you not notice in the majority of media pictures that a palestinian male without a single scratch on him carrying an injured child, where was he?? Please Mr.Hamas launch your rockets from my back yard and you run for safety , I will stay here and watch artillary and bombs and see glorius heaven from my porch.
I fear the Palestinian Nation has seen it's last footprint on this planet.
Have a better after-life Palestine
joe, you are just another turd in the toilet of stupid opinions. go back to plumbing.
I can see it now. Joe the Plummer, Caribou Barbie's Secretary of State.
AND JUST WHY DOESN'T ANYONE WANT THE WORLD SEE ISRAEL SLAUGHTER THOSE PEOPLE???
He clearly has no clue what he's talking about.
Sheesh... Make that "plumber."
Who gives two good s..ts what this guy has to say. Is his 15 mins not up yet? Hey Joe shut the hell up and get back work cleaning porta jons.......
Don't you mean the media should be banned from talking about Gaza, Joe? Don't go there because the terrorist F-16's might actually hit you.
This nutcase nobody thinks wars should not be reported by the media- what, so that way any military atrocities can be kept secret. Oh yeah, that's the zealot Republican way of thinking, isn't it?
This guy is a nobody with no clue what he's doing. He's being USED by the far right media for their own doing, and he's too stupid to figure it out.
Old Joe continues to burnish his know-nothing credentials. What a joke. How and why does this jerk remain a public figure. Close the door on Joe.
"Wurzelbacher described the hardships of daily life in the southern Israeli town of Sderot" ... would you dare stay for one minute at the other side? Mr. plummer?? ... I agree with Lisa M. Bloom that you should stick your head in the toilet where it belongs...
"Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends." – Woody Allen
Douglas Babb_Princeton_KY
I partially agree with Joe that some media should not cover this war.
That media being Pajama Media and any other media outlet stupid enough to hire Joe the Plumber as a reporter.
If I wrote a fiction book about the idiocy of this guy, it would never sell because no one would believe it.
If I were a Democratic strategist and came up a plan to discredit conservatives that followed this scenario line by line, I would have been fired in a second because of the absurdity of the plan.
Truth is surely stranger than fiction only because ignorance is so much more conveinant than truth.
Stop playing! is this is an early April Fool's joke? This is not real. Are we being pranked??
No, Joe, go ahead, you don't have to run from the missiles. Stay out there, do your country a favor and stand right under one.
If something happens to Joe over there, the pjtv will get sued for sending a non professional to do a job he is not trained for, and by Joe's own admission a job he doesn't think anyone should be doing.
Joe, go back to Ohio and read some history books about War Propaganda, if that is too much for you then just read the book 1984.
Then maybe you will see why your comments are sooooo stupid.
At any rate, just go home!!!
I disagree that Joe is "reporting." Reporters tell facts – some of which Joe relayed to us – but he needs to leave his personal opinions out of it, which is NOT reporting. Also – if he were "reporting," he'd include quotes from others in his story and try to get quotes from sources on both sides. Joe's version of "reporting" is a joke. He needs to start doing real reporting, or just call this trip for what it is – a bully pulpit for him to espouse his views.
Yeah, when I'm hunkered down in a bunker avoiding a missile strike I then to get a little perturbed also... Why don't you run right out there Joe and tell them exactly how you feel... Just remember to yell really loud as rocket engines can muffle your pleading cries significantly.... Should have stuck to watching the NFl Joe.....
I don't know, doesn't Joe have the right to his opinion just as the rest of all you ? Or is it only your opinion that counts ?
i don't understand why people are complaining about this. if anything cnn is showing what happens when an idiot thinks he has an idea.
Lenin said that any short order cook could rule a country. Looks like, any plumber can work as a journalist...
I would not be saddened to hear that Hamas has done it's part to raise America's collective I.Q. score by turning Joe-the-Plumber into Joe-the-Crater.
Makes total sense. If you blind people from witnessing atrocities, they're less likely to argue against them. Then those committing the atrocities can get away with whatever they want.
Putz.
Cheer up guys, maybe the RNC will nominate this clown for VP in 2012.
Can you blame him? I'm sure he got a heck of raise to head over to the Middle East and voice his opinion. We're stuck blogging on here blogging for free. I really don't think he cares if anyone agrees with him. I wouldn't
Since Joe thinks reports should be banned from covering wars, I suggest we start with him!
Why doesn't someone please ban this non-entity; his 15 minutes of fame would up a long time ago.
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Duh? Doesn't he realize that he's saying that HE shouldn't be there? Like Sarah Palin, he needs some elocution lessons if he wants to be a correspondent; "well" is not a word to use two or three times in one or two sentences!
However, I do agree with one thing he is saying…and that there has been a distinctly anti-Israel slant to a lot of the press. When Hamas is making their headquarters under a hospital, and storing and firing rockets from a school, it is bound to cause problems for Israel to strike at solely military targets. This is a favorite tactic of many of the extremist Islamic groups, sheltering behind their own children and women to prevent retailiation from being effective. Yet you rarely see any form of outrage when they target suicide attacks at innocents in a church or at a market in Israel. But the entire problem is going to require the wisdom of Soloman to resolve.
To LOL in NC,
"Something smells…when is America going to flush!"
America can't flush b/c the toilet is broken here and JTP is in Israel ...
If the media should be abolished from covering the war, then he's suggesting that no one report on anything; what happens, happens. However, if he had principles, then he would have said, no, he's not going to be a reporter covering the war.
Even if we suggest that reporters don't know the whole story half the time, saying the media, therefore, should have no business covering the story means that the story just doesn't get covered, at all. And, the press and the public (all sides of the public) know nothing because you don't want the public to know what's happening. When the public (and subsequently he Congress) knows nothing, you allow bad deeds to happen without recourse.
As for his saying that he wanted to cover Israel's side because
he thought the media was slanting the story to make it look like “Israel’s being bad....” Well, if you're covering one side because you're saying reporting is making them look bad, it appears that you want to make them look good in your reporting. Is that any more credible reporting, saying, essentially, "Hey, let me tell you why the Israelis are the good guys and the other guys are the bad guys."
I'm fascinated with his saying "I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do because they’re firing missiles. It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution. I’m not a person that runs from things, but when it’s a missile, you run.”
You're there as a reporter; why are you getting angry, and outright furious by a "terrorist" dictating what you're going to do? It's a war. Each side is going to try to dictate what they can. However, you're not there to be an observer; you elected to go there as a reporter. To report. To tell the story of what's going on. You have no right to want retribution because you put yourself into harms way, because you decided you wanted to cover the war. If you don't want to be in harms way, if you don't want to run from missiles, then be somewhere else. It's not like you had no choice in being where missiles were being dropped.
If you want to be a reporter, be a journalist, then be one; cover the story and report on the facts that you saw or learned to the best of your ability. But don't say others are skewing the story by saying this or that, and then you providing "balance" by saying things you believe. If you're providing commentary, rather than reporting, say so. If you're reporting, report the facts and leave the commentary to the side, clearly identified as "this is my commentary to my reporting; this is what I think... not what I've seen, but what I think; what I believe; this is my commentary on the story I've impartially reported."
Why are you reporting on this, CNN? Let him report for whatever niche crazy-person news outlet this is, and allow the 14.6 viewers there to watch him with rapt attention, and weigh in on his interesting anecdotes, and deeeeep insight, accordingly. But why are you publicizing for this person??
So does Joe include himself in the ban? This guy is such a joke.
Personally, I think this story would have been better had it been conducted by The Rock:
Joe: "I think the media shouldn't ..."
Rock: It doesn't matter what you think jabroni!
[Rock lays the smack down on Joe.]
Wouldn't that be entertaining CNN?
Reporters should go and report on anything, anywhere they wish. However, they should not be guaranteed any degree of safety by the participants in the war. War is ugly. People die. It is naive to think any country could engage in war without civilians dying. In what kind of world are the civilian population not responsible for the actions of their elected government? (Notice I am limiting this to countries with an elected government; I believe that Hamas was the elected majority party of the Palestinian people.) They have two choices. They can defeat Israel in war; or they can elect a government that does not lob rockets into Israel.
News for idiots, reported by an idiot.
...right... that's the most flawed logic i've ever heard. a baboon feeding other baboons- thats what i see when i read joe will be reporting for republicans.
why should anyone care what this brainless dullard thinks about anything? Every time he opens his mouth he shows he has no business speaking on any issue.
When I think of the sterling journalists of the past who have covered war, and then see this - this -
Awesome comment "Laughing in Texas"!!
Who gives a flying fudge cookie what "Joe" the Plumber's opinion is on the media. Is he actually trying to bite the hand that feeds him?
Edward R. Murrow is rolling over in his grave.
This is so funny.The media shouldn't cover the war but there he is posing as a media insider doing what.......he's covering the war. This reminds me of the interview he gave after the election.The interview where Joe the Plumber said that he was so mad at John McCain that he wanted to get off the Straight Talk Express because of McCain's position on the bailout but he never did. He rode on the Straight Talk Express all the way to defeat. The guy is a piece of work. I think as Americans we should demand Joe the freeloader give us back our money for the times he was on welfare and then decided to call everybody else a deadbeat. Or we should demand he pay his taxes or stop complaining about bailout money that he's not frontin because he owes the government money.
Joe has had WAY more than his 15 minutes of fame. It's time for him to go away.
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”
Mr. Simpleton with a simpleton comment. Maybe he would like to ban the press from everything. He is not a plumber and he sure is no reporter. Some people make me nervous and he is one. He has to much extreme right wing agenda going on.
Wait – let me get this straight. We should "ban the media," so out-of-work plumbers can better report on the situation? This reminds me of Jeff Foxworthy's bit: "It isn't that ALL Southerners (now substitute Conservatives) are dumb, we just can't seem to keep the least intelligent amongst us off the television."
Well said Joe...! With every right comes responsibility...the media has been a joke over the last several years...so left leaning it's pathetic...He isn't trashing the freedom of the press as some fool will likely say..rather he's pointing out the idiocy of receiving half-truths (lies) from our "press".
UNREAL...This guy didn't even pay his taxes. He talks bad about McCain. Plus he's not even a license plumber. UNREAL.
This man should be banned from all public speaking both in person and via the media. He's the Ryan Seacrest of political reporting, and thats kind of an insult to Ryn Seacrest.
CNN should be embarrased they even pay attention to this guy.
He's got a point. The Israeli conflict mostly been about Israelis cutting off the heads of children and the Palestinians are just the poor peaceful mountain people from the song "One Tin Soldier".
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”
hmmm...
"I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our..."
Joe the fake plumber, turned war correspondent, who doesn't believe in the rights of media to cover war. There are no words to describe how preposterous this is. If I get covered in a news story on national tv and act like an idiot, will I qualify for a reporting job, too? Is this what our media has turned into – unprofessional garbage? Yes, sadly!
I love the picture to accompany the story: him standing in the middle of a field in Israel. Media should be banned but he should be able to venture over it and tell the other side? This guy's such a dimwit.
I'd like to add my personal thanks to Pajama's Media, the Republican Party, John McCain, and the vast right wing conspiracy for providing some solid, comic entertainment in the form of Moosejaw Palin and "Joe" Das Klempner.
Well Joe.......why did you fly over to cover reporting of it? What a HYPOCRITE!!!!
He should spend 5 days there and 5 days in Gaza. THEN HE CAN MAKE A JUDGEMENT.
This guy makes me ashamed to live in the same state with him. This man is a total disgrace. I would agree a previous post. He has to be on fouryeen minutes of his fame by now.
MAybe its time to Cut off aid to both Israel and Palestine?
Perhaps we should quarden off ISrael and Palestine and let them annilate each other. Killing each other is all both parties know how to do. Peace will never be in their value systems.
Sad...but true After 2000 years, what else is left, really
I am sick of the US always standing up for Israel but we wont protect other countries in similar situations just because they dont have a voting block in significant numbers in our country like those of the jewish faith
I totally understand the oppression that Jews endured in their history. their perserverance to see that opression never happens to them again is paramount
But I am sorry, Israel 'right or wrong' is not a respectable stance anymore. ISrael is not without some blame of their own. Both sides are disfunctional.
We will never be considered a peace broker until we even out our support. We always suypport ISrael, so if you were Arab, how much are you going to listen to peace proposals if you support one side so blindly.
Remind me why this man is qualified to be commenting on anything at all? And why his comments are being covered??
Joe, you're a Nazi.
What a great American.
Let's ban the media from ever mentioning Joe the Plumber again; long may he live in Iraq.
So, Joe is in favor of censoring the media now? So that we only hear happy things? Kind of the way Bush made the media stop showing pictures of all the hundreds of caskets being flown home??
*Wurzelbacher said. “It was fear at first, then outright anger, and then me wanting some kind of retribution.*
Wow...just the way Yoda told it to Anakin...and look what happened with that. "Fear leads to anger, and anger leads to hate..." Did Darth Plumber learn nothing?
Joe (Sam) the (unlis
censed) plumber *is* the media now that he has taken this job. He should follow his own advice.
Hey Joe, don't you have plumbing to do? The campaign is over.
Wow, what a belligerent dirtbag this Joe guy is. This conflict is not as simple as rooting for your favorite football team, Joe. What Joe and so many others fail to realize is that innocent Palestinian people just like you and I are bearing the heaviest burden of this conflict. Women and children are being bombed and burned. Many of these displaced Palestinians literally have nowhere safe to go while this war continues. I understand that Israel has been terrorized by rocket attacks for quite some time, but this current Israeli aggression is far costlier in terms of treasure and blood. Either way, a wise man once proclaimed that you cannot fight violence with violence, you can only fight violence with love. Something to think about while watching this bald-headed tax-evader.
What a real joke he is! Unfair to Israel?! Did the GOP put him up to this? Who appointed him special envoy? If he doesn't watch his tail, his journalism career will be short lived.
@James in Utah January 12th, 2009 4:27 pm ET
Maybe Joe can see Isreal from his front porch.
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He is in Ohio you big dummy!!!!
I couldn't agree more with the first article response. He's doing far more than contradicting himself. People like him just continue the cycle...
Here's living proof that the Indian screwed the buffalo!
what joe is saying is a great idea. way back when veitnam was going on we may have seen a flash of what was going on. then the press said its our right to go there. and bring this home . if you ask me it streeses people out !we shouldint allow it! i agree it starts arguements between people, leave it where it is WE DONT NEED IT COMING INTO OUR HOMES! !
Keep talking, Joe! You continue to show us why you, and republicans at the moment, are irrelevant.
Hmmmmmm........the guy from ghost hunters is a plumber......Joe the plumber is a plumber............TWINS???
Inquiring minds want to know!!!
So, now he's a "journalist" just like he was a true plumber? LOL Hilarious! Has he fixed any toilets yet!?
What a complete waste of my time.
So...He wants the media out because they don't know what is going on half the time, so we can not know what is going on all the time?
....Makes sense to me
-Idiot
Wonder if he paid his back child support behind he took this "vacation."
Obama's not my Hero,
You're not very bright, are you?
Obama's not my Hero,
sorry forgot to add, because you don't seem to get it, James in Utah made fun of Joe and Palin at the same time.
"Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends."
– Woody Allen
douglas babb_princeton_ky
Does this guy really expect to be taken seriously?
Is there a reason we're supposed to care what uneducated, unemployed 15 minute celebrities care about foreign policy? Great article, CNN. Really insightful.
Joe I am glad you are over there because you need to be educated, and while you run your mouth alot about stuff you know nothing about, this will be good for you. You should get out more often! But make no mistake about it, You do not represent the USA, you represent someone making a dime on the misfortune and tragedy of a bad bad situation.
I think this is pretty cool,Joe calls a spade a spade in front of his house,gets national attention ,the Obama Democrats "try to burn him,even use the government to try and discredit him ,because he made Obama look like a fool"He is a ROCK STAR now,just like Obama !!
Both will gone in four years
McCain should be tried for treason for unleashing this supreme moron on the United States, along with Palin!
Somebody PLEASE....PLEASE.....SHOOT this moron!!!! "Friendly fire" anyone?????
Joe the Plumber has no repect for freedom of the press. Not surprising.
Dear media,
Please stop doing "Joe the Plumber" stories. He doesn't represent the views of the vast majority of Americans, as you think he does.
Ban Joe from the media! What does this tax dodging welfare taking fool know about anything?
Seriously?
Joe the plumber said "I’m in the bunker, I’m sitting there angry, outright furious, that I’m letting this terrorist dictate what I’m going to do because they’re firing missiles".
Hello IDIOT, you're in a war zone. You voluntarily placed yourself in a warzone, and then you wonder why missiles are being launched around you, then you have the nerve to become furious??? What did you expect, a starbucks latte and breakfast on a silver platter? You are one of the biggest morons to ever have walked the earth, next to George W. Bush.
Run... Joe... Run!! Keep running please! far... far... far away.
Make him go away, now! Any grown man with some sort of maturity that has to spend that much time every morning shaving his head so nobody can see his male-pattern baldness is too vain for me. What the hell is he doing in Israel? How did this idiot get a visa? Lord, if that's the best PR Israel can do, God help them.
And again, I forgot...He's Joe the PLUMBER! Soooo, the only thing he can talk about there is showers and water resources, not dying kids, not rubbled buildings, but SHOWERS. Man, I lived in the Middle East for 6 years, and SHOWERS are almost not available, hardly not even considered there. How about what your're going to eat tonight, maybe our house will blow up? What a moron
And I thought this man was a Plumber making $250k a year – a typical hardworking American enterpreneur. It seems that he was just another politician after all – What a tricky person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jam Master Mike- "I think that the point that is being missed here is that you can tell a professional journalism vs. a hack. All he is full of is biased opinion that has no substance.."
You couldn't be further away from the truth. Here I am a journalism graduate and I can tell you straight up that there is biased in all media and each reporter will put their own spin on things. There is no way around it. Just read any newspaper, right or left leaning, and you will see how it is.
Wow... I'm just speechless...
Lets see... so I guess some of the fighting in the Darfur region in Sudan is a war. Maybe we just "don’t know the whole story" behind why the Janjaweed are burning villages over there. We should have Joe the Plumber go over there and get their perspective of that war?
I guess I would just have a question for Joe the Plumber. What should the media be doing, if not reporting on conflicts such as the one in Gaza right now? Seeing what Brittney Spears has been up to? Or maybe what Levi Johnston is doing around in Alaska?
I'm sick and tired of Joe the Plumber! He is a complete fool who knows nothing. The media should be allowed to cover this conflict truthfully.
1) Joe the Plumber should do just thing – work on the plumbing business that became a political headline during the presidential campaign.
2) Joe the Plumber should do journalism for, humm, at least a couple of days before he decides he has an opinion on what journalists should or should not be allowed to do.
3) Joe the Plumber should realize that, wow, he is there, no matter how insane or ridiculous it is, as a reporter.
4) Joe the Plumber should limit his talk of God because he fails to represent Jesus' idea of turning the other cheek or being a peacemaker (Matthew 5).
5) Joe the Plumber, in the most polite way I know how to say it, should just shut his mouth.
By the way, thank you John McCain for giving America and the world this precious jewel of a man. You really have left a lasting impression, in spite of your presidential lost, on this country, as if Sarah Palin wasn't enough.
peace.
Hmm.. is he the only hope from GOP? No wonder so many GOP senators want to retire. This party has no future..
and what credentials does this idiot have?
Joe the Pseudo-fascist
What an ignorant fool...
Let's just keep the world uninformed, information is so overrated anyhow....
Joe, keep on showing the liberals that you are a man of many talents. You'll do a great job of reporting and i'm quite sure that is what is scaring them. They are scared they won't get the biased reporting to support their agendas that the MSM has been giving them.
The media already is banned from the war. When was the last time we saw a photograph of any coffins coming back home? Not that I'd love to look at something like that, but I'm not about to tell anyone they can't do it.
why is he complaining about media covering the conflict if he is there with cameras tagging behind him?
no doubt the media covers one side of an issue with at least some bias, but he is completely biased in his belief of retaliation
he doesn't mention anything regarding the causes of the conflict, and it is obvious he is mentally ill-equipped to do so
Is it a requisite of the Republican Party not to know, understand or respect the Consituion and the Bill of Rights? Or do they think it is sowthing to make paper airplanes out of?
7 more days..7 more days...
A war correspondent saying that war correspondents should cease to exist?
Wow.
And to clarify, I don't think the blame here lies with Israel. I think it lies with Hamas.
I also think that Joe Wurzelbacher is kind of a tool.
first of all israel is not letting anyone foreign journalists cover the war so i dont know where your getting your stories from. Censorship nice thats what my parents left in Cuba.
Joe, you're the reason why I have to wear a Canadian flag on my backpack when I travel abroad.
You know if you think about his name for a minute it does make sense.... cause he sure talks alot of ........... insert plunger!
Its McCain/Palin supporters like him with his stupidity about no freedom of the press that made the Republicans the laughing stock of the last election. Funny how a supporter for Conservative and Republican values, who in the past claimed that they were out to protect freedom and embrace around the world, wants to deny that freedom here at home about the wars going on....Pathetic!!!
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,”
Hey Joe...question about your ban...should it go into effect right now? Right this very moment when you are acting as a member of the media? Or do you conveniently believe this ban doesn't apply to you? That you're somehow brighter and more enlightened than the average American who pays their taxes, pays their child support, and is legitimately qualified to perform their chosen profession?
The thing about you Joe that's so pathetic is that you're too moronic to even realize how hypocritical your statement is.
CNN – could you televise a debate between JtP and Heidi and Spencer from the Hills to help illustrate the dire need to improve America's public schools? Then we could chain them all to the Capital Building spewing nonsensical bon mots as a reminder to congress people as they start their day of how critical their work on education reform is.
Everyone, close your eyes, prretend you don't know anything, bow down and give up all your life choices to those who say, "We know what we're doing. You don't have to know."
That is probably one of the scariest ideas that "media should not be able to report on war" I for one would not choose to have the wool pulled over my eyes and just trust that everything is just dandy over there.
Also, why would anyone want "Joe the Plumber" to go and be a correspondant. He made all sorts of comments favoring Israel and being against Palestine. Do we really think that this guy is going to be capable of giving an unbiased report of what's going on over there? Anybody can sift through information and pick out only what relates to your argument. It takes a real journalist to look at both sides and give a fair account of what is happening.
Joe, you're a bald-headed fool.... and a hypocrite at that.
You want journalists banned from reporting the war.
Have you noticed...
that you're REPORTING ON THE WAR?
If you believe that, why didn't you ban yourself, refuse the money and the attention, and go the hell home?
Read my lips: G O A W A Y.
What is this guy actually smoking;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, reporter with plumbling experience, I can understand if he is reporting on plumbling issues, What a country ......
Of course let's look the other way ! Let's forget wars, torture, gulags, concentration camps, gas chambers, genocides, holocausts. Who cares if we can go our merry go along ...
I agree with Joe–more than 10,000 Rockets have been fired from Hamas Terrorists. Why didn't Israel act sooner? Half the reason is probably the international media supporting the "underdog" Hamas terrorists who receive hundreds of millions of Dollars from Iran every year. We would never tolerate these missiles landing here in America.
Did I miss something Joe? Like why are you standing out there in that field? Aren't you a part of the media now? Please go back to Sis. Sarah and get some more mentoring. On second thought, I ban you!
OMG...can he and Palin just go away!! I mean seriously the 15 minutes of fame is over!!! JEEZ!!!
Uh, yeah.
Joe: if you're going to play journalist, learn something about the job, OK?
Reporting the NEWS is the specific responsibility of journalists. News isn't always pretty. Journalists are supposed to tell us about it – period.
Since you obviously have no clue what you're doing there, other than trying to extend your 15 minutes of fame – please get out. Now.
As in England, the media is forbidden by LAW to report any substantial points about and case still open,,,,being tried in court,,,,,,,,NOTHING is allowed,, for the simple reason,, The media DOES sway general public opinion,,,,,,,,,With NO REPORTING,,, the prospective jurors are not pre-exposed to bias from the media. and can try the case UNBIASED........
JOE, the plumber, has hit the nail on the head....... The freakin media DOES exploit the horrors of WAR,, for their own ratings...... this brings in their advertising profits, for this is their way,,,,,, ANYTHING to get their media business into MAJOR profit,,,,,,, Blood and guts,,, does nothing for the average citizen sitting down to eat their dinner,,,,, and as I did after VIETNAM,,, watched my own unit get blown up on LIVE TV,,,, this kind of horror,,,,, that two months earlier I left that unit and was now honorably seperated from active duty,,,,, SAW, that if I had stayed,,,,,, I as well, would have been killed................. Nothing will remove the horror of that reality for me,,,,,,,,, People have the constitutional RIGHT,,,, to know what is going on,,,,,,,,, BUT,,, by this example,,,,,,,, NO one has the freakin NEED,,,,,, get it,,,,, NEED TO KNOW this kind of activity that is if nothing other that COVERT, and supposed to be SECRET,,,,,,,,, from the enemy,,,,, whom ever it is....
Yes, ban the media from this war and let it begin with me!
Ban journalist? Then what the hell is he doing there if not playing wannbe journalist? Joe should just shut his mouth and pay his child support.
Usually, I would suggest Joe dip his tongue in his brain before speaking. Unfortunately, I think he did. Which is sad since this man was selected by a conservative website to conceivably represent the "average American." Which, if that's true, begs the question: Can Humans survive another 100 years on this planet?