Since Joe doesn't really have the credentials to be called a plumber, how about we start calling him Joe The Douchebag instead? He definitely has the requisites for that title.

He did say that, FWIW.

It was not as he describes it.

... and reported on the 1947 Arab-Israel war, and later events in Palestine/Israel. He also covered the French defeat at Dien Bieh Phu.

He'd laugh at this dolt. War reporting has been going on since Mathew Brady in the Civil War.

The Star Tribune in Minneapolis is owned by a hedge/venture fund, who know as little about reporting as Joe the Dumber. They are going to force the Trib into bankruptcy if they don't get their way with the Guild. You see, journalism is not about truth-seeking, it is about profits ... or propaganda. Welcome to the Brave New World.

Perhaps he should be speaking with Michael Ware or Christianne Amanpour when he's talking this nonsense. It speaks volumes for this Pajamas Website that he's their spokesperson in Israel. Joe, you are assanine! What a tool!

You think? Are you sure because there's little evidence of that. You propose a news blackout on all war activities? Are you sure you think? I guess your position would best be summed up as: "An ignorant, uninformed electorate will always make the best choices."

Based on this interview I wonder if the McCain/Palin team didn't draft Joe the Plumber in order to make Sarah sound smarter. I suspect the more we hear from Joe, the easier it will be to ignore him. What a Bozo!

The best part of this is that the GOP relies on dim bulbs like this guy to push their propaganda. How excellent, they don't seem to know that this is exactly what the general public began to hate about the GOP and Faux News. I hope they find more like him, I know there are more unlicensed plumbers out there to rely on as journalists!

The weird thing is, they don't seem to notice as a party they are become laughing stocks.

There's my Salon animation for the week!

Wouldn't you love to ask him how he thinks those images of World War II got onto the screens of movie theaters? Obviously he's never thought about it, but it would be a riot to watch him try to figure it out -- almost as much fun as seeing Palin bluff her way through a question she can't answer.

can you imagine J to the P in a McCain/Palin administration?

Whaddaya think, Secretary of State or Press Secretary?

I haven't seen anything this funny since the delusional press conferences from Baghdad Bob.

In a room with the windows covered up with sheets and paper to block out the sunlight. Whereupon she proceeds to give us a 'story' about the darkness the Palestinians are forced to live with.

Aside from the media reporting, it makes you wonder what he thinks of the war itself. It's safe to express such opinions here on American soil, but not so much in the heart of the fighting.

He better not take sides, or he may not make it home alive.

It's important to remember here that "Joe the Plummer" is not a journalist. He is a politically reliable talking head for the right. Of course this "political officer" looks down on those who actually DO the job he's been sent to oversee. So did soviet political officers. And as long as the right keep selecting for political reliability rather than talent or experience we'll have to listen to boneheads like this while we wait for the Republican party to go then way of the Soviets.

How sublime.

I think Sam the Not Plumber ought to be abolished from, you know, the undeserved limelight in which he's found himself.

Baghdad Bob said the occupier will come in and will not be able to get out.

Thank you, John McCain, for helping to foist this idiot upon us. As the one earlier poster proclaimed, "you can't even make up that much stupid." Hopefully his 15 minutes will be up more-than-soon.

I want to see MORE of Joe the Butt-Crack, Caribou Barbie and all the rest of the best of the GOP--ahem--brain trust in the coming two years. What better way to bury this misbegotten party then under a wave of its own stupidity? It would make me very, very happy for the majority of the public to see Republicans by 2010 as either a) mouth-breathing, crayon-writing troglodytes; b) rage-filled bloviators in the Rush, Hannity, Mike Savage and TrAnn Coulter vein; or c) obstructionists out to destroy the Obama presidency at a time when millions of Americans are suffering.

Keep covering the bastards, Salon. I'll sacrifice a few IQ points for the good of the team.

just threw-up a little in the back of his mouth, gaged a bit and then went back to reviewing his lawsuit fight to validate how low newsworthy reporting now-a-days has become...

One fart, and he blows what little brains he has all over his shorts.

"What a piece of steak walking around on two legs," husband says. Yeah, that's about the size of it.

Personally I call him Sam the Liar. Joe the Dumber won't cut it because his name is not Joe.

I'd be angrier than I am, except that when I start to foam at the mouth, I take a deep breath and remember: Obama won. America voted for the man who can pronounce "nuclear." A small but crucial majority rejected Sam and all he stands for.

I've worked with plumbers. I know plumbers. Plumbers are friends of mine - and you sir, are NO reporter!

Or plumber, from what I gather...

we have a national idiot.

Analysis: This essay would not meet New Jersey minimum basic standards for middle school. It contains 7 or 8 grammar and syntax errors.

Also the focus drifts. The main point, though stated, is not fully substantiated.

In this case, the writer may not possess the cognitive schemata necessary to fully articulate more complex abstract thought, (according to the theories of Piaget).