Joe The Reporting Plumber — In Israel

Published on January 12th, 2009

Is this guy fair and balanced or what? Oddly, turns out the regular, professional press doesn’t like Joe the Reporter much. And as commenter jccalhoun pointed out, he’s been sent by the guys at PJTV.

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# 1 Personality said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:43 am

I hope he goes into Gaza and gets shot.

# 2 Olo Baggins of Bywater said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:45 am

Can’t they buy the guy a freakin shirt?

# 3 jccalhoun said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:46 am

It should be noted that he is there reporting for Pajamas Media which is company behind Little Green Footballs. So that should tell you all you need to know about his “reporting.”

# 4 johnhattan said, on January 12th, 2009 at 6:27 am

I think that one camerman’s expression at 0:20 summed it up.

So Joe the Plumber shows up as a reporter, claims he has a million questions, asks one question, then lectures all the cameras that reporters (except for him presumably) shouldn’t be allowed to report on wars.

Reading the PJTV page, it’s pretty clear that they’re just milking him for hits on their page and they don’t expect to get any actual substance out of it. I presume they chose Joe the Plumber because he was cheaper than Pauly Shore.

# 5 Mister Mustard said, on January 12th, 2009 at 6:40 am

“What did I learn today? I uhh…you know … uhhh, the Israek people uhh.. you know.. are incredible..To be honest, I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war. I mean, uhh”

“uhh”! “you know”! “I mean, uhh”!

I wonder if Faux Spews and the wingnut blogs will be reporting on “Joe” the “Plumber” and his oratory skills.

# 6 QB said, on January 12th, 2009 at 6:47 am

Wow, I guess it’s time for Steve Coll to retire

# 7 The DON said, on January 12th, 2009 at 6:54 am

@ #2 Olol Baggins

They could buy him a shirt, but that would defeat the object of them buying him the old looking T-shirt to make him appear more average Joe

# 8 Maine Owl said, on January 12th, 2009 at 6:55 am

It’s a stunt designed to stir up American nitwit politics. The examples of Bush and Palin suggest it can work pretty well.

# 9 BillM said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:14 am

He sounds articulate enough to give Caroline Kennedy a run for senator from NY.

# 10 Marc said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:16 am

He said he wants to go there to report “how it really is”.

Wow. Way to go Joey Plumber.

If you want to really report on “how it really is” go into Gaza and ask all the suffering, innocent people that are being killed by hundreds in a genocide like style.

But yeah the IDF doesn’t allow you to go in there so continue your silly biased little ignorant red-neck “reporting”.

# 11 daveg said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:22 am

If you go to that PJTV sight it looks like an Israel blog – becuase it is.

The people associate with PJTV, in general, could care less about the US and US interests.

# 12 daveg said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:22 am

If you go to that PJTV sight it looks like an Israel blog – because it is.

The people associate with PJTV, in general, could care less about the US and US interests.

# 13 Ron Larson said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:23 am

Uh…umm.. you know…. uh.. ah ah ah… uh… ummm

Learn to speak.

# 14 Paddy-O said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:29 am

He seems as effective as your average reporter.

# 15 Mr. Fusion said, on January 12th, 2009 at 8:01 am

Why even give this guy the attention. It only encourages the wing nuts.

# 16 Bobby said, on January 12th, 2009 at 8:19 am

Politics aside-as a professional photojournalist, this guy is aweful. Uh-and-uh=uhand-uh. It looks like he’s NEVER spoken in public and he is certainly no journalist. The folks at PJTV might have a good idea, but they need to be a lot more professional about it if they want people to tune in for more than a minute or so.

# 17 R. Hastings said, on January 12th, 2009 at 9:08 am

Joe, I have a few questions you could ask the brave Israeli handlers you have:
1. Why are there so many people living in Gaza?
2. Where did they/their parents live 60 years ago?
3. Why can’t they live there now?
4. What would you do if people drove you out of your home, took your land and told you you not only don’t live there anymore but you can’t even cross their new “border?” No American would put up with the crap the Palestinians have for 60 years.

# 18 daveg said, on January 12th, 2009 at 9:21 am

Background:

Sderot, where a few homemade harmless missiles have landed, was once an Arab village called Najd, whose 600 Arab inhabitants were expelled by Israelis in 1948. Jewish settlers built over the old town in 1951. Having been ethnically cleansed, the Arabs moved to the Gaza Strip, along with some other 750,000 Palestinians who had been removed from their lands—or murdered, like the villagers of Deir Yassin—before the first Arab-Israeli war had even begun.

UN Resolution 194 and Article 13 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights say the people of Najd and Palestine’s other 384 demolished villages must be allowed to go home. But they can’t because Israel confines them in a small stretch of coastal desert that the Egyptian army held onto in 1949 and became a dumping ground for the displaced population of southern Palestine. Ninety per cent of Gaza’s 1.5 million people are refugees and their descendants. Israel won’t let them come back, nor will it let them have a state of their own in Gaza and the West Bank even if they relinquish their right of return.

# 19 MikeN said, on January 12th, 2009 at 9:31 am

Does anyone here realize that Jews were in that land for thousands of years?

# 20 R. Hastings said, on January 12th, 2009 at 9:45 am

Mike, how about going back to whatever part of Europe your forebears lived in for “thousands of years” and telling the current owner God said you owned their home and they’d have to move to a refugee camp. Of course, you might want to have the U.S. military-industrial complex tag along to back up your claim.

# 21 Roddy said, on January 12th, 2009 at 9:48 am

Joe the Plumber is Joe the Wifebeater.

Google it.

# 22 grog said, on January 12th, 2009 at 10:06 am

the gop has made this guy the face of the republican party

enjoy!

# 23 grog said, on January 12th, 2009 at 10:22 am

oh, and by the way, here is a clip of hamas tv calling on their children to make a human shield

any real man would die to protect their children.

in contrast, hamas is a collection of disgusting cowardly pigs who seek to protect themselves by putting their children directly in harm’s way.

i was never a big fan, but after seeing this, i will never again feel anything but disgust for hamas.

you may hate israel, but if you like hamas, then don’t ever come near my children.

video clip on live leak

# 24 AlGoreLeoni said, on January 12th, 2009 at 10:24 am

This is retarded…When will this fool figure out that he has been turned into a characature of himself?

# 25 grog said, on January 12th, 2009 at 10:29 am

in this video, members of hamas even hide their faces from their children. presumably because they can’t bear the shame of knowing they they deliberately are going to send them to their death.

i bet you the hamas members in this video will be cowering somewhere behind this little boy, like the cowardly pigs that they are.

“ahmed acts as a lookout for us on the streets”

because every member of hamas is coward.

video clip

# 26 Bill said, on January 12th, 2009 at 10:36 am

daveg, “homemade harmless missiles”…ha ha. you make it sound like Hamas is firing fourth of July fireworks. These missiles kill people. How about we put one in your living room so you can see how “harmless” it is?!

# 27 Mr. Fusion said, on January 12th, 2009 at 11:29 am

#18, Lyin’ Mike

Does anyone here realize that Jews were in that land for thousands of years?

Nope. They moved on to other, greener pastures. BUT, Semites, including the Arabs, have been there for thousands of years.

# 28 RBG said, on January 12th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

26 Mr. Fusion

“They moved onto other, greener pastures.”

Those people are just so darned accommodating, aren’t they? Especially when they moved on from Medina, to say the least.

RBG

# 29 RBG said, on January 12th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Wasn’t it Bill Maher who laughed at JTP’s ability to make money and realize “The American Dream”?

RBG

# 30 deowll said, on January 12th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

“Nope. They moved on to other, greener pastures. BUT, Semites, including the Arabs, have been there for thousands of years.”

The Romans killed the Jews or at least the ones in that land. The Jews didn’t move to greener pastures. Their bodies made the pastures greener.

# 31 MikeN said, on January 12th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

And the Palestinians moved on to other lands. How dare they try and come back!

# 32 Regenvelter said, on January 13th, 2009 at 5:17 am

Did anyone expect JTP to do any worth while news?
I sure as hell didn’t,especially coming from Pajamas Media.

I would venture that this is what angers the Spin Doctors about the Internets and Intertubes,
all the Blogs and comment sections just serve to cheapen the very career that pays their minimum wage.Vacuous prattle.
Any Monkey at a keyboard can do it and so You have Assclowns like Coulter,Hannity,O’Rielly,Malkin,Hume ad nauseum and what they sell is no more or less factual than the usual gibberish found over at the Free Republic or WSJ or Rev.Moon’s/G.H.W.Bush’s WashPost or Daily Kos,
fluff Op-ED peices paraded around as news.
JTP Anchor Man on the circle jerk network,give Me a physical break!
Actually give Me some facts like those Limey chaps get and I will happily pay for a newspaper again.

# 33 The0ne said, on January 13th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

good laugh for the day, that’s all. Couldn’t even make it through 30s of it.

But if you had to choose to listen to would it be Joe or Palin?!

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