The Daily Show: Joe a.k.a. "Go Away!" the Plumber's War Correspondence
By Heather Friday Jan 09, 2009 4:30pm
Joe the Plumber is unfortunately NOT going away but heading to Israel to be a propoganda "war" correspondent for Pajamas Media. Jon Stewart as usual puts this into the proper perspective that our sorry excuse for a "main stream media" does not.
Stewart: Hey Joe, what are you going to be doing over there brother?
JTP: We don't really get the full story. And so I'm gonna' go there, interview some Israeli soldiers, civilian population and get their take on what's going on.
Stewart: Yes your interviewing there will be very helpful. Also while you're over there in Gaza they haven't had water for ten days. So you know what they could actually use. A PLUMBER!!
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Stewart: So Joe, ah, reporting, interviewing people, it's a new field for you. What kind of prep work have you been doing?
JTP: Ah you know I've just been studying new, everything that comes out on the news lately, um, trying to get uh, how to pronounciate some of the names, things like that.
Stewart: You know often the first casualty of war is pronounciunciation. Now Joe the Plumber's mission is relatively harmless but how will Joe the Plumber keep safe and Joe please phrase your answer in a way that is most offensive to the people of the region.
John McCain, I hope you're ooohhh so proud of yourself for inflicting this man and Sarah Palin on the rest of us and having that be a part of your legacy which I truly hope follows you to and haunts you in your grave.
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I wonder if Joe is still planning on buying that plumbing business? He's going to need something to fall back on when his moment in the spotlight is over.
Is going to do a documentary on Joe the plumber, business owner and war correspondant.
timely and funny!
we all seek entertainment. 2009 style.
Understand this: On 11/22/63 our government was overthrown.
Until we come to grips with that, we'll have presidents like the shrubs, reagan, clinton, and Obama.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
If only the rest of us were as smart as you...
No fuckin' way! Dude is pure comedy gold every time he opens his mouth.
You're supposed to fix it so the crap goes away, not create more crap.
The age of parody is dead.
Joe the Plunger has proved one thing. The qualifications to work in the media are none and nil. Obviously, any idiot can walk off the street and get paid to be correspondent. Wonder how current news reporters feel about this one.
I'm not sure what you mean by media in this case.
Pajamas Media is made up of bloggers. Right-wingers all, with the exception of John Cole at Balloon Juice (a reformed Republican). Bloggers nonetheless. Like everyone who works at C&L, but with (typically right-wing) lower standards.
And there's my argument with your assertion that the media has low standards. Some organizations, maybe even the majority, are less-than-selective. But would you argue that Rachel Maddow, or Amy Goodman at Democracy Now, had the bar lowered? Becuse they are members of the media, marginalized or not.
I was just wondering aloud how REAL media reporters (like Rachel Maddow) would feel about this buffoon pretending to actually have any credentials at all. And that's not mentioning real bloggers like John, Nicolle, Bluegal, etc. etc.
A lot of folks get media credentials they aren't really qualified to have. Jeff Gannon, of course, is a glaring example. You see football teams give press passes to celebs all the time. Hell, writers from the Weekly Shopper get press credentials. And there's nothing all to modern about this phenomenon, either.
Cheezis Stumbling Smith shit onna biskit...
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One doesn't earn the title "plumber" simply because they crawled out of a sewer.
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Joe the plumber... NOT!
Joe the singer... NOT!
Joe the tax payer... NOT!
Joe the war reporter... NOT!
Hell, Joe isn't even a Joe, he's a Sam.
His 15 minutes of fame was over 30 minutes ago!
Now he wants to be the Pajama blogger all reporters dream of...
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...Joe the Plumber will be fathering the child of Bristol Palin's younger sister in no time flat.
They are fed to you.
Palin, Joe the Plumber, and so on.
Focus on them. They deserve your attention.
And ignore the evil that is destroying your country.
I thought it was your country too.
I served it in Viet Nam, for example.
But I don't love our government.
It screws you and me.
they do have the potential to distract. but, really no more then xbox360, TV, the internetS, porn--and every other mass opiate the ruling class has tempted us with. we have an entire entertainment system that helps us ignore 'the evil'
imo, they actually do more harm than good to the "so-called conservative" cause. the more the palin's and the sam the unlicensed handiman's grace the airwaves the more compartmentalized and regional the rightwing becomes.
at one point in time the right could roll our some hard-hitting intellectuals to argue for neoimperialism. that was very dangerous. now, we have the power-puff rethugs exposing the ignorance, and extremism of the right.
i say give JTP and palin a microphone and let them dig their own grave.
"I say give JTP and Palin a microphone and let them dig their own graves." - Samson
Second.
for the fact that we still have a fair amount of viewers who would think he is legit. And a hero.
Until we have an anti-stupid vaccine that is required for citizenship, we will still have a Joe. When his 15 minutes are gone another idiot will show up to take his place.
A relative of Charles Keating.
A McCain and RNC tool.
"Tell those Israelis that they need Cheezis and make sure you pronounce your name"Voortzlbacher" while clicking your heels.."
Mainstream media is a sewer.
But, all joking aside, Pajamas Media isn't the MSM.
Now, it wouldn't surprise me if something closer to the mainstream- like Faux- gave Wurzelbacher a job, but they haven't done that. As it is, Wurzelbacher will provide "news" that will be linked at LGF and Instapundit- hardly mainstream.
he has to learn to spew forth properly first. How hard can it be to be a prerecorded talking parrot on Faux?
Unless they were doing a celebrity roast of Norm Crosby.
Sorry, that guy can't read a teleprompter. I think he'd have a hard time reading "Dick and Jane" books. Even Faux has some standards.
Faux has standards? Come on, you have to be kidding.
Have you ever saw a little show on Faux with Ollie North? Faux has no standards.
by "main stream media" I was talking about Fox and CNN and everyone else who has not given JTP the scorn he deserves as Stewart does in this clip. I agree that it would not surprise me either to see one of them give him a gig eventually.
if some one wants to have a beer with them, we are screwed.
one day joe hopes to own the station :-)
This:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQyIKyd2gqA
Thank you so much for that video. It seriously brought tears. I don't know what to say. that was powerful and sad. You can only ask why. It reminds me so much of the civil rights demonstrations in the 60's with more fire power and less water hoses. Why don't we see this on the news? FUCKING WHY!!!! All we see and hear is "Israel has the right to defend themselves". I will pass this video on to everyone I know.
I wonder if Joe's roommate overseas will be fellow 'journalist' Jeff Gannon.
Just think, they could 'put their heads together' and compare notes.
As long as they do their thing privately, pronounciate away guys! Go wild!
Who could ever make this stuff up? Honestly, mankind is screwed.
Joe is as bad as a booger stuck on the tip of your finger...you keep flicking and flicking, but the damn thing just won't come off.
Here's my predictions: In 2012, he'll reemerge as Sarah Palen's running mate, where they will abandon the race after losing by 26 points in the South Carolina primary, coming in fifth in a field of five just behind Fred "Foghorn Leghorn" Thompson, and just ahead of write-ins for "Anyone but the Colored Fella".
By May 2013, he'll emerge again headlining in a pay-per-view cage match against the tag-team of Tanya Harding and Paula Jones with the words "GoldenPalace.com" tattooed across his back. In the second round of the ticket, he loses by a TKO to Linda Tripp.
In 2015, he'll make news again when he releases a pornographic DVD co-starring Jeff Gannon titled "Buff and Hairless - After the Bush Years: a Grand Ole Party"
Following his arrest for distributing methanphetimine during the 2020 Republican National Convention, he'll end up as little more than the "D" answer on the back of a Trivial Persuit "Remember the Oughts" edition playing card.
Face it, Joe....your fifteen minutes are just about up.
awesome
the only thing i would add is that soon after that devastating loss in the SCaro primary faux news starts putting a (D) next to his name.
"John McCain, I hope you're ooohhh so proud of yourself for inflicting this man and Sarah Palin on the rest of us and having that be a part of your legacy which I truly hope follows you to and haunts you in your grave."
How about "Joe the Plumbers Pal" etched on his tombstone?
Thank you so much for that video. It seriously brought tears. I don't know what to say. that was powerful and sad. You can only ask why. It reminds me so much of the civil rights demonstrations in the 60's with more fire power and less water hoses. Why don't we see this on the news? FUCKING WHY!!!! All we see and hear is "Israel has the right to defend themselves". I will pass this video on to everyone I know.
I think Joe should wear a "Jesus Saves" T-shirt while walking through Faluja. Come on Joe, you know you would have nothing to worry about, your God will protect you.
Disgusting, and he just doesn't seem to go away. What an asshole. He and the lipstick pig are going to plague us for years to come, I'm sure.
Nation of morons.....one of the pack.
I suggest the forst two words you learn to pronunciate are the two you are sure to hear a lot:
"Blasphemous Infidel"
That is what most of the "Average Joes" you "inteview" in Israel are going to think of you.
Let me give you a clue, Joey...it ain't a complement.
Stick to plungin' toilets.
in your handto your head?"With all due apologies to Hendrix...
Well one thing for sure , the Republicans know how to play to their base , to the rest of us with IQ's over forty this stuff is an absolute insult , but to their base , the simple minded and probably the dumbest people on the planet , these rediculous ploys work and the Repugs know it . Damned pathetic but sadly it's true .
Joe Wurzehlbacher is to GOP-politics, as William Hung is to American Idol - they seem to get more than just 15 mins. in the spotlight.
This has been Joe the Plumber, reporting live from Gaza.... (well, not really in Gaza, but I can see the border from my table)
Nice tip to Steve Martin there. Keep up the good work, Jon.
maybe 12.
since he'll likely or the hell with that, definitely stay away from Gaza. I say lift the ban on "reporters" going in and we can get JTP's exclusive view on what it's like to really wonder if a bomb is going to go off over your head at any time.
Okay, he's going to Israel because we aren't getting the whole picture. He's preparing to go by watching all the news? So, he's going to tell us what we don't know by watching the guys who aren't telling us.
By the way, who is paying for this little get away? That's a pretty expensive trip for a plumber apprentice.
I saw this last night...Jon Stewart rules....but tell me this. Has humankind always been so incredibly stupid? There are people like Joe the F'n Plumber and his idiot supporters at Pajamas Media; there are people like Palin and her idiot supporters who fawn all over her; there are idiots like Ziegler who make no sense; and so on and so on.
This stuff is really causing me to ask myself if I'm going insane. Pajamas Media sending JTFP to Israel??? Why does this insanity exist???? Is it me, or is it them?
Someone....please tell me I'm not going crazy! There is too much of this nonsense going on out there!!!!!
Joe The Plumber & Sarah Palin = Media Gigolo & Media Whore.
They live for attention. And the media is dumb enough to give it to them. You solve the problem by turning off the cameras and the lights, walk away, go home, there's nothing to see here. Flush this down history's toilet.
If the right-wing 'alternate reality' media just did what 'The Daily Show' does and green-screen a background for their 'reporters'? Why waste money sending this fucking retard to Israel when he could spew the same mindless propaganda in front of a green screen on the cheap?
Yeah, I believe they call it Faux News.
in line with the belief that Sarah Palin could be vice president. Anti-intellectualism will destroy USA
Let's not fool around here. Joe's not going anywhere.
He's a skinhead and he is probably going to figure significantly
in our future as a figurehead for the mentally disabled white
trash from the South.
Fuck Joe the Plumber!
FUCK JOE THE PLUMBER!!!!!
FUCK!!!! HIM!!!!
And MOTHERFUCK any American stupid enough to buy into his bullshit.
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