When future historians dust off the archives labeled “2008″, they’ll be struck by one thing — the unprecedented proliferation of suckholes, 
crybabies and 15-minutes-of-fame chasers that accompanied the foul exercise in batshit craziness known as the “US Presidential Election”. Sarah Palin and “Joe the Plumber” are but two examples.
Both still cling to the media like suckling pigs. But while Sarah is mostly complaining about the media, Joe the Plumber has taken things one step further and become the media, having been hired as a (stand back!) war correspondent covering Gaza for right-wing nuthouse “PJTV”. Today, JTP issues his first Dispatch From The War Zone:
Joe the Plumber called on President-elect Barack Obama on Monday to help Israel in its campaign against Hamas.
The plumber-turned-war correspondent has been unabashed in his support of Israel’s two-week campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and has been touring the Gaza border region and Israeli towns hit by Palestinian rocket fire.
“President Obama has already spoken about what he would do here. That if his daughters were living here he would take whatever means necessary to protect his daughters. So I just hope he carries through with it, but that is going to be up to him,” said Joe, whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher.
Well that’s special. Joe The Plumber goes to Israel to ask Barack Obama to help Israel. Huh!? Well, what did you expect: his job description is probably something like “Report on how Hamas rains death from the sky on Israel”. Don’t hold your breath for any “Joe The Plumber” reports from utterly devastated Palestinian Gaza, where it takes more than a plunger to defend oneself.
This is all so surreal – I feel like I’m watching a Borat movie.
But JJ, he’s protected by Jeebus, doncha know?
Oh, and apparently he wants media coverage of the war to be reduced to little more than a virulently anti-Palestinian propaganda machine.
sassy – I wouldn’t believe it if I wasn’t seeing it reported. Joe the Plumber has become a franchise.
JAB – Thanks for the links. That’s hilarious — Joe the Plumber/War Correspondent, who presumably is supposed to be reporting the news from Israel/Gaza, doesn’t think the news should be reported? Well, not ALL of it, I guess. Jeebus, what a tool. A human toilet snake.
A human toilet snake! LOL, very appropriate given that he is/is not a plummer. Roto rooter reporter!
Roto rooter reporter – that’s very good, Beijing!
RE: JAB’s links. Could Sarah Palin be writing Joe’s scripts?
sassy – Never mind that, Joe might be Sarah’s running mate in 2012.
sassy:
<Sarah Palin>Perhaps sew.</Sarah Palin>
Joe the Douchebag update: he’s gone from declaring an Israeli Reuters reporter anti-Israel to declaring that any information the media receives about war should go through the filter of a military PR unit.
JAB – You’re kidding — Joe the Journalist thinks that all the news should be subject to military censorship? That’s good journamalism.