Joe the Pulitzer Prize Winner

Really, so true Michael. I mean, what kind of desperate, cynical bunch of manipulative political operatives — assisted by an eager media — could have ever thought that propelling this individual into the limelight could possibly be a good thing for our nation?
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Oh yeah — the McCain campaign.

has anyone asked Senator McCain what he thinks of these pearls of wisdom from his “hero”, his “role model”?

Michael-Not your fault, but a post about Joe the Plumber? Who gives a f**k what this guy has to say or why he is saying it? Just cause the right wing news media can do no better does not mean the rest of the media can’t ignore this made up bullsh*t of a person.

Watch your back, Mikey. This guy sounds like he could be after your job. Seems eminently qualified…

“Really. He really said that.”
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Want us to start posting some of the stuff you’ve said here? Didn’t think so….
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So did he go home after he said that, since he is there as a member of the media to, ya know, report on this war?

“So did he go home after he said that, since he is there as a member of the media to, ya know, report on this war?”
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I think he is too scared of Obama’s tax cuts benefiting him personally to come home.

Why are we still being inflicted with Sam, Joe or whoever this person is. Who gave him a microphone? I understand the desire to get him out of the country. But please take away this blowhard’s platform.

Hey, at least he’s out in the field looking for a story. What the hell you doing, Scherer?

Never forget, Michael: your critics on the left want you to do a good job reporting the news.
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Your critics on the right want you tried for treason (well, at least accused of it) and hung from a tree.

Hell just froze over.
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A member of the media — a conservative member of the media — finally noticed the anti-intellectual and anti-freedom mentality raging through the GOP base.
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Hey, Michael, all these commenters? All these people who insult you on a daily basis? They want you to do your job and win a Pulitzer. Joe the Plumber? Your party’s mascot? He wants you fired and your magazine shut down.
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Ironic, huh?

Shorter sqr1: What Elvis said.

Maybe Citizen Joe can look into why the ME’s only “democracy” just banned parties from elections based on race (this info is fresh from the media of righteous Israel, no less):
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http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054867.html

I wonder how this numbskull feels about unlicensed plumbers installing boilers?
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It may be news to some of the staff at Time, but the future of “journalism” is more jacka**es like Joe Wurzelbacher given a platform from which to spew their uninformed opinions masquerading as reporting.
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Joe is the new (and I will wager, much cheaper) Mark Halperin. I can’t tell them apart. I am sure the mucky-mucks at Time have taken notice.

Looks like Joe’s reporting career is going the same route as his plumbing career. But he is, in fact, stating Isreal’s position on media in the Gaza…not allowed. War is messy business from which the media and public outside Gaza is best protected.

Not to be confused with the Shakesspeare quote: “First kill all the lawyers” (which may or may not still have merit).
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What surprises me is they are letting him use his own words. I was expecting this all to be scripted. Plus has he found out yet that Jews live in Israel?
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MS must be thinking “Thank god I have an editor…otherwise there before the grace of god go I.”

Some questions? When did the Plumber apply for a ppt? How long did it take him to get one? What is the average waiting period for a US ppt? Did the Israelis give him VIP clearance? They take time to check “journalist’s credentials”. What occupation did he give when he made his application? This stuff smells.

Will Palin now complain that Joe is being shunned by the “elitist media” because he isn’t being taken seriously? This is truly a sad day for media and honest reporting.

Does Same not know that people actually risk their lives to give the world war zone reports?

So he really believes that the media shouldn’t be reporting on the surge success in Iraq?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

First Gannon/Guckert and now Joe the Plumber? Is there a factory where the GOP pumps out gay, bald, wingnut-talking-point-spouting, pseudo-journalists?

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More like Gomer Pyle than Ernie, I think.
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Nah. Gomer wasn’t such a tool.
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JOE: The story here is people are being killed and the media’s slanting it and trying to make it Hamas is, uh, as far as, that Israel’s being bad. Do you believe Israel is bad?

REPORTER: Do I believe it?

JOE: Yeah, do you?!

REPORTER: I’m Israeli, so…

JOE: So answer the question!

REPORTER: No, I don’t think Israel is bad.

JOE: Do you think Israel has every right to protect itself?

REPORTER: Yeah.

[pause]

JOE: You do?!

REPORTER: Yeah.

JOE: Have you said that on air?

REPORTER: I’m just a reporter.
http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/12/joe-the-plumber-exposes-blatantly-pro-hamas-israeli-reporter/

“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting.”
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I think this guy’s finally starting to make some, you know, sense.

No, I don’t want ‘Joe the Plumber’ to go away. Nor do I want to see Palin disappear from national stage.
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The GOP is in the process of shifting from making excuses for all that went wrong during their time in power to a much easier role of blaming all that’s bad on Democrats. They will have the help of a largely uncritical media that itself is shifting back to it’s former use of ‘Clinton rules’, false equivalency reporting (see the recent reporting that ‘many economists believe’ that FDR’s New Deal made the Great Depression worse), and warnings about evil unnamed straw-man liberals (‘There are those on the left who simply believe that Israel does not have the right to defend itself…’ — Joe Klein).
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As the nation’s memory fade, we will need people like Palin and Joe to remind us of just what a freak show the GOP has become.

The ‘Joe the Plumber’ interview cincinnatus posted reveals a fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals. It has long been noted that conservatives tend to see the world in black and white, while liberals tend to see complex shades of gray.
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Joe’s question (‘Do you believe Israel is bad?’), and the liberal reaction to it, is a perfect example of this.

bobcn, good point. Lest we forget. Of course, I never was in that camp, but Bush did serve 2 terms and the idiots pranced around causing destruction for 8 years. Could we at least have kept it to 4?
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We need Palin and her family values and Joe and his small bidness worries about imaginary income from his unlicensed plumbing fantasy by an imaginary Obama tax. Education takes repetition, and maybe the fools who voted to give us 8 years of failure and misery will eventually see the light.

Let’s have a contest. Name the most contorted example of wingnut logic in recent memory. Not just something you disagree with, but over-the-top, scratch-your-head internally inconsistent nonsense.
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I’ll start:
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1. Joe Plumber becomes a journalist and travels to a war zone to protest journalists reporting from war zones.
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2. Justice Scalia blames Al Gore for 2000 recount fiasco because “Mr. Gore brought it into the courts” …by getting sued by George Bush.
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3. John McCain suspends his campaign in order to travel to Washington to make sure that Congress passes a bailout package…that he opposes.

sqr1, I submit my original disgust with the right wing nuts…the issue of service to country and patriotism.
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G.W. Bush, avoiding the draft by tapping into his priveleged circle to join the National Guard. Wait. The same draft avoider using the same guard and reserves to suffer the brunt of his inane war.
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The rest of his staff, who didn’t even know what basic training meant, stuffing experienced military personnel.

You know, a listing of the contradictions and hypocricy of the right wing can be endless.

Tim F. at Balloon Juice really had the perfect response to all this foolishness: “Republican hero worship was annoying when they fixated on Saint Ron, and puzzling when they chose George Bush’s least son from a batch that includes Neil. What passes for a shining white knight these days has reached the point that a true friend would stage an intervention. . . . Please tell me how this sounds like the future of anything. If I knew this was the future of my next bus trip I would splurge on the train.”
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http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=15558
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But consider me impressed that MS would call this out. Will wonders never cease.

Exit George Bush; Enter Joe the Not Reporter, formerly Joe the Not Plumber. Thanks America for the laughter.

This is mind-boggling. Michael Scherer pointing at someone and saying they’re doing a bad job (or perhaps merely an inane job) of reporting.
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This would have made a lot more sense coming from KT or JK, but from MS…I’m going to have to go take a nap.

Somewhere in Ohio a village has lost its idiot!

Amazing he’s over there reporting on the war that he says shouldn’t be covered by the media? I only hope that John MCcain’s hero keeps his high profile media standing all the way until 2010 elections. He speaks volumes as to why Republican’s should never be in charge of anything.

Who crashes and burns first Joe the Plumber or Gov. Palin? Is there a book on this in Vegas?

Time magazine: “Joe the Pulitzer Prize Winner”

Evidently, Time magazine isn’t familiar with the Pulitzer Prize. It’s awarded to political activists employed by political advocacy groups (see the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated (with terrorists) Press, et al.) pushing their favorite causes (e.g., anti-Americanism, the “global warming” hoax, America’s enemies, socialism, abortion, same-sex so-called “marriage”, feminism, racial tribalism, judicial lawlessness (code named: the “living” Constitution, etc.), their adored political candidates (i.e., Democrats) and their latest conspiracy theories. Joe doesn’t appear to follow that cult’s religion.

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[points, laughing at textee]
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Presumably, in your next post, you will find something silly done by an Obama supporter and claim it is equivalent

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How’s the campaign to make Mitt Romney auto czar going?

Watch your back, Mikey. This guy sounds like he could be after your job. Seems eminently qualified…

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Give him the Cliff Notes for Gravity’s Rainbow and Infinite Jest and he should be good to go.

textee: You forgot bestality.

Why respond further to textee Swampland? His own words make the case for his being an idiot.

There’s a certain consistency here – compare the tenure of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, the only member of the Bush Cabinet to do the whole eight-year gig. Just as Herr Wurzelbacher plays at journalism to advocate a ban on reporting, Secretary Chao has “led” the Labor Department as if its motto were “Arbeit macht frei” – which she understands to mean “Workers should make things for free.”

Hillary: We need to retreat from Iraq.

Obama: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP.

Hillary: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, and ignore Iran.

Obama: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, and buy some quickie real estate in Chicago.

Hillaroid: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, and blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate.

O’Bonger: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, and declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior.

Hillaroy: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, and build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions.

Ozzie: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, and surrender to Vermont.

Hipplery: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, and offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section).

Officious: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section), and federalize man-mutt sex west of Sacramento.

Horsehips: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section), federalize man-mutt sex west of Sacramento, and outlaw the Marines.

Oodles: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section), federalize man-mutt sex west of Sacramento, outlaw the Marines, and nuke Israel.

Horatio Hornblower: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section), federalize man-mutt sex west of Sacramento, outlaw the Marines, nuke Israel, and trade Utah for Gaybec.

Orifice: We need to retreat from Iraq ASAP, ignore Iran, buy some quickie real estate in Chicago, blame Bush for Monica and Pardongate, declare the President of Canada our new Secretary of the Inferior, build a Lieberry extension with Red Chinese restaurant contributions, surrender to Vermont, offer statehood to Belgium (the Walloon section), federalize man-mutt sex west of Sacramento, outlaw the Marines, nuke Israel, trade Utah for Gaybec, and keep Jesus out of bully pulpit political juxtaposition.

Hillarude: Like you said.

Oestes: Same to you.

http://www.HULAgate.org

Seems to me Mike the Fugitive Tax Dodger got it almost right.
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He picked up a camera…