By Bree Hocking
War is hell, as they say, and Joe the Plumber, in an ongoing campaign to earn his place as the most famous idiot in history, has just come forward with a solution for dealing with this irksome little fact. Ban war coverage.
Joe, who until his adoption by the McCain campaign’s after-school outreach effort was known as Samuel Wurzelbacher, recently touched down in the Middle East to begin a 10-day stint covering the conflict in Gaza for a conservative web site. He’s only been there a day, but what a day he’s had. According to CNN, Wurzelbacher, an unlicensed plumber-cum-foreign correspondent (who needs government re-training programs?), had this to say about media coverage and what he sees as its anti-Israel bias:
“I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting. …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.”
Coverage, of course, may vary from publication to publication. And some of it is certainly biased. Joe need look no further than his own employer for proof of that. But an out-and-out news black-out? Looks like Joe might have more in common with another famous censor from history who just happened to share his fake name. For future reference, may I suggest “Uncle Joe the Plumber” as a more appropriate moniker?
