"I think media should be abolished from reporting."

[sabotabby]

He's ignorant. He's a fraud. He has no knowledge of journalism beyond that you're supposed to kind of point a mic in the other person's general direction. He's Joe the Plumber, and he's Pajamas Media's new war correspondent in Israel!

Watch on YouTube

Hat tip: corvus.

[Poll #1330630]

Comments

[joxn.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish AP had banned itself from reporting on him.

[sabotabby]

I feel bad for contributing, in my own small blawgish way, to his continuing to exist in the public mind. In the same way, I can't turn away from a trainwreck.

Joe the Plumber Eats Himself

[jordansc.livejournal.com]

Pajama Media also has a clip up of Joe the Plumber calling reporters over and berating them for reporting on him rather than on the Israeli fellow he was apparently in the process of interviewing. In a profound act of hand-biting, Joe the Plumber not only condemns himself for reporting on the war, but also condemns reporters for remaining interested in him and thus giving him the forum to condemn reporters for remaining interested in him and thus giving him the forum to condemn....

Re: Joe the Plumber Eats Himself

[sabotabby]

It's like a fractal, only instead of with pretty patterns and colours, it's made out of stupid.

Re: Joe the Plumber Eats Himself

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

LOL

Re: Joe the Plumber Eats Himself

[jordansc.livejournal.com]

Hee.

From relatively simple, deterministic, stupid rules, come complex, unexpected, stupid patterns.

Re: Joe the Plumber Eats Himself

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

bwahaha

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding!? I think he is hilarious and hope he never goes away. I agree with Bill Maher. This has been The Best Election Season Ever. And thanks to Joe, it may never end.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'm taking ticky plunger because the answer I was looking for is "Me, if he does not shut the hell up right now."

[sabotabby]

I also left out the UN doing it as a humanitarian gesture.

[darkestembrace.livejournal.com]

I like that option better than the others. Can I write it in at the bottom of my ballot, thereby spoiling my vote?

[sabotabby]

You're asking the girl who voted Marxist-Leninist.

[darkestembrace.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

I've always wanted to be one of those people who eats the ballot as a mini-protest.

[sabotabby]

I was going to do that one year and then I heard you can get arrested for it. So I chickened out and drew a little anarchy symbol in all of the circles.

Voting CPC-ML was much funnier though.

[pluvka.livejournal.com]

what

[sabotabby]

I don't know.

What have we learned from Joe the Plumber?

[febrile.livejournal.com]

Spreading the wealth around = bad.
Spreading the tonnage of high explosive around Gaza = good.
Press reporting on war = bad.
Press reporting on personal credentials = bad.
Press reporting on sports = probably okay sometimes.
John McCain's ability to accidentally be a kingmaker to "Joe the Plumber" and "Sarah the Palin" = frightening.

Re: What have we learned from Joe the Plumber?

[sabotabby]

Did he say that sports reporting was okay? I kind of tuned him out after awhile.

Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Palin make me a bit happy inside because I feel that if I run around being an idiot enough, one day someone will pay me for it too.

Re: What have we learned from Joe the Plumber?

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

Never. You are not dumb enough, by many orders of magnitude, and much too witty.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I chose ticky-plunger because I want him to meet this:

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Yes I know I'm recycling jokes, but I say that if you can have Joe here drop the same "asinine" statements over and over (due to free media coverage, *cough-hack-couch-vomit-dies*), I can post Dalek pictures when and wherever!

[sabotabby]

You can never have too many Daleks.

EXTERMINATE.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

god damn fuck that smug asshole i hated him since he was an archetypal midwestern shitfucker that spawned in my nightmares years ago

[sabotabby]

He should be banned from IRL.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

I'm Cindy the Beer Heiress: DONT TAX ME FO WORKIN HARRRRD

[fidget]

Your polls are always the best. And I miss you.

[sabotabby]

I am hoping this particular stress level won't last for long. Exams are soon, and then the kids get to be stressed for a week and I don't have to teach.

[fidget]

No, I mean with all my name changing and journal deleting, I don't think I'm on your Flist anymore!

[sabotabby]

WHUT

Okay, fixed now.

[fidget]

Let the awesomeness begin!

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

all I can do is hiss.

[sabotabby]

Hiss and boo.

[rbowspryte.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see that they are taking the matter so seriously that they got their top man in the know on the job. *sigh*

[simienwolf.livejournal.com]

I've officially popped my cursing-via-net-poll cherry. There weren't nearly enough expletives in that choice.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

g) BRUCE COCKBURN!!!

[jordansc.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, the CEO of Pajamas Media does have an awesome hat.

[sabotabby]

That is an awesome hat. I also like his book cover. Is that emo 20-something supposed to be him, because it doesn't look like him.

[jordansc.livejournal.com]

After 9\11 everything changed for him.

[arnavtul.livejournal.com]

you missed a choice"
local peace activists who just realized the limits of pacificism

[orpheus42.livejournal.com]

PLUMBER'S CRACK! PLUMBER'S CRACK! PLUMBER'S CRACK!

It makes about as much sense as the fact that he's doing what he's doing, if not more.

From the mouths of morons

[revolution-grrl.livejournal.com]

The Israeli people, even with world opinion being down on them, they just basically don't care.

Yes, that's true.

[stoneself.livejournal.com]

people are dying in gaza... and what's the news?

joe the idiot goes to gaza and makes a verbal fart.

[theoldanarchist.livejournal.com]

There is absolutely no reason we should be paying any attention to this guy. But, I shared the link on Facebook, too, so I really cannot say anything.