I don’t think he is all that bright. I thought it was shameful for him to be invesitigate but some of the comments he made while stumping for McCain were clueless and just not needed.

I could see Joe perhaps writing a column for some publication, or starting a blog

With those credentials? I don’t think so. Mon Dieu.

But he's not a journalist.

Can you name any who are? Ollie North comes to mind, one of the BEST battlefield reporters I've seen. Oh, but wait, he doesn't have the union card, does he…

…Can't think of any "journalists". The definition of journalist means nothing anymore. Credentials and credibility mean nothing anymore…So what's your beef?

Rob, I really respect your views. I, too, find putting a plumber into a journalist's position a little odd. Yet, seeing how much it pisses off the MSM is entertaining enough to make it worth it. Besides, having a regular "Joe" doing some reporting may be a refreshing surprise. I say give him a chance, if he bombs, so be it.

I disagree.

What better response other than to listen to Matt Drudge's address to the reporting community at the National Press Club.

… clearly there is a hunger for unedited information, absent corporate considerations. …

From a little corner in my Hollywood apartment, in the company of nothing more than my 486 computer and my six-toed cat, I have consistently been able to break big stories, thanks to this network of ordinary guys. The Drudge Report, first to the name the vice-presidential nominee on the Republican ticket last election; first to announce to an American audience that Princess Diana had tragically died; first to tell the sad, sad story of Kathleen Willey, first every weekend with box-office results that even studio executives, some of them, admit they get from me. A new cable network is forming. I was first to announce the unholy alliance between Microsoft and NBC. …

The first lady of the United States recently addressed concerns about Internet during a cyberspatial Millennium Project press conference just weeks after Lewinsky broke. She said, "We're all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function."

Well that's really the issue now isn't it?

Drudge, to my knowledge hasn't had to retract his stories.

The Experts, however, have gifted us over the years with lies about Tailwind, No gun Ri, Exploding Sidesaddle gas tanks, and Fake-but-accurate Texas Air National Guard memos.

We've seen an unqualified, White-hating and America-hating Stealth Muslim, Stealth Communist elected to national office, largely with the assistance of a fawning, completely one-sided MSM.

The one saving grace we have had in recent years has been the advent of the internet, the Alternate Media, free of the Ministry of Truth's Gate-keeping function, which drives the Left to distraction, and has revealed to us from time to time, of the numerous and ongoing lies the experts have shat out for public consumption.

I dunno Rob.

I'll take my chances with Joe the Plumber, and be glad that Dan (Rather) the Liar has been discredited and handed his hat.

Really, I don't understand your objections in light of events in national and international news coverage over the years.

I'll take honesty and inexperience over an experienced, professional liar seven days a week and twice on Sunday.

Yet, seeing how much it pisses off the MSM is entertaining enough to make it worth it.

There is that.

Guys, I don't have a problem with Joe weighing in on anything he wants to. I'm hardly one to criticize anyone for not being qualified for commentary. But you gotta admit that it's just a bizarre idea.

News from the ignorant , for the ignorant.

Joe the P:

I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting. You know, war is hell. And if you're gonna sit there and say, 'Well look at this atrocity,' well you don't know the whole story behind it half the time, so I think the media should have no business in it."

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Conservatives prefer their media like their leaders.

Ignorant and simple.

but some of the comments he made while stumping for McCain were clueless and just not needed.

You're talking comments McCain made?

Another fine reporter for Fox.
Maybe Rush could use him,he needs a good investigative reporter.
Ann can always use some help on her next book.

Rob, where is the actual report done by Joe? I have not been able to find it. Hotair only has people giving their opinions, JPost only has an article about Joe coming to Israel.

If he has been such a stunning failure at this where is it?

And what is wrong with a citizen going there and telling people what he is seeing and what he thinks of the situation? "Journalists" have totally lost all credibility. Why is it wrong for other people to do the job they are so obviously incapable of doing?

OK, watched the Jan 12 interview, perhaps some one could explain what was so terrible about it. Just sent it to Wifey to get her opinion.

Ah, poor widdle spark! Still crying cause its heroes are getting the shit stomped out of them. And now Louis Wurzelbacher has been shown, in front of the entire world no less, to be spark's intellectual and moral superior. Wow, it really sucks to be you.

Joe the Plumber-turned-journalist seems to have done something the professional journalists of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, and Boston Herald never got around to doing. He actually took the time to read the official charter of HAMAS. And he's challenging the new president to do the same thing.

Professional plumber turned darned good reporter, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, challenges President Barack Hussein Obama on Pajamas TV to read the hate filled Hamas Charter.

Filled with vile invective against Jews, Israel and other infidels, Plumber Joe and his fellow reporters happen to think Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should read the original Charter source material before talking to, or engaging, Hamas followers in dialogue.

So has Joe scooped the main stream media? I don't think you can say it's a scoop since the palestinian equivelent of mein Kampf has been around for decades. But the much reviled Joe took the time to read something the big boys have averted their eyes from for years.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/01/joe_t…

Two: He's a middle class guy who wants to be upwardly mobile, he's not a part of the "journalist" class, and he exposed Obama's Marxist beliefs about redistribution on national TV.
Just for starters. Oh! He's a Republican/conservative.

He's obviously a conservative, since he doesn't drink Obama KoolAid and works for a living, while not living on the govt dole.

I think the Euros, especially the Italians, show us that a Parliamentary system with multiple Parties is definitely not the solution. Our real problem is the lurch of the Dem Party to the commie left.
Cultural Marxism must be constantly refuted in all media, and replaced with the truth about what works best. We need more "free people making free choices".