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Joe The Reporter is sharing some of the wisdom he's amassed during his parachute into Israel: first thing, he'd keep journalists away from war. If only he'd listen to his own heart.

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Joe The Reporter

POSTED: Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 8:46 AM

Joe The Reporter is sharing some of the wisdom he's amassed during his parachute into Israel: first thing, he'd keep journalists away from war.

The media personality/unlicensed plumber/book flogger is on assignment for Pajamas Media. AP TV caught up with the newly credentialed scribe during a photo opp in Sderot.

Joe, aka Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, had this to say:

To be honest with you, I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war … I liked back in World War I and World War II, when you’d go to the theater and you’d see your troops on the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them. Now everyone’s got an opinion and wants to down soldiers — our American soldiers, our Israeli soldiers. I think media should be abolished from reporting. You know, war’s hell, and if you’re gonna sit there and say ‘Well look at this atrocity’ — well you don’t know the full story behind it half the time. So I think the media should have no business in it.

If only he'd listen to his own heart.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:30 AM, 01/13/2009

Weird. Plumbers reporting on Gaza and the role of the media.

— rbpeeple

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:57 AM, 01/13/2009

Plumbers have more common sense than the elite "out to change the world" know-it-all journalists...

— fafafooey

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:20 AM, 01/13/2009

that may be. but war reporting does take a little more prep than finding someone to pay for your airfare.

— Blinq

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:34 AM, 01/13/2009

Another Joe had a similar opinion. Goebbels.

— Chamomiles Davis

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:01 AM, 01/13/2009

Somebody needs to tell Wurzelbacher that his 15 minutes of fame have long since expired, before he "accidently" catches a slug in his big mouth over there.

— AHiredGun

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:57 PM, 01/13/2009

Spoken like someone who has never read the Constitution. While I know that many of you would like to see the First Amendment, and by extension journalism, abolished, what you fail to consider is that when our rights as journalists to speak and report are taken away, whose right to speak do you think they're coming for next? But I forget, those of you who have read the Constitution conveniently skip over the First Amendment, go right to the Second, and stop reading any further. What a bunch of knuckleheads...led by your patron saint "Joe the Know-Nothing Plumber."

— Raiderfan

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:10 PM, 01/13/2009

Yes, everyone's "got an opinion." That's true, but everyone "don't got" to hear it. Sports fans complain about expansion and how it has diluted talent. The same thing has happened in media. Expansion and 24/7 cable, Internet and [egad] blogging have given every half-assed "Joe" a job. The "student/teacher ratio" is dwindling.

— apreziosi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:53 AM, 01/15/2009

He is a nitwit! I guess he has never heard of war correspondents Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Severied or Cornelius Ryan. I don't know who the correspondents were for the WWI. No matter, Joe should be renamed Jack Leg, as in Jack Leg plumber, writer, blogger and political commentator. Here is another reason why the McCain/Palin ticket lost.

— Anne Arkey