Joe the Plumber. Seriously. Aren’t this guy’s fifteen minutes up? The man is like a bad reality television series. Let’s see Joe do jobs that he is completely unqualified for! In the series premiere, he starred as a plumber who does not have a license to work as a plumber in Ohio.
In the second episode, he was a spokesperson/celebrity endorser for John McCain. In this episode, highlights included his insights that a vote for Obama was a vote for the destruction of Israel. He would later explain that he really doesn’t know much about international politics and would encourage people to research the issues for themselves. And of course towards the end of this episode (after McCain lost) he explained that he really disagreed with McCain on a lot of policies.
In this week’s exciting season premiere, Joe becomes a war correspondent for Pyjamas Media (the tin foil brigade of “political commentators” who blog from their parents’ basements about how terrible liberals are. The man lacks any military experience; any journalistic experience; or any understanding of the region and issues involved. So obviously he’s the perfect choice for a conservative blog. He’s going to go interview ordinary Israelis – the Ze’ev the Plumbers, if you will – about their perspectives on the war. Asked about the security risks associated with becoming a war correspondent, he offered that he believes he’ll be taken care of by God as a Christian (I’m just hoping he makes this sort of comment to the Israelis he interviews).
The man is a caricature. I have less of a problem with Joe, himself, than I do with those people that continue to give this man a platform from which to share his ignorance for no apparent reason.
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