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Joe The Reporter, from Israel: "Media shouldn't report war"

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Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 07:10:03 AM PDT

The newest-minted war correspondent of the Western World, former non-plumber Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher, reports from Israel:

   "I'll be honest with you.  I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war.  I mean, you guys report where our troops are at.  You report what's happening day to day.  You make a big deal out of it.  I-I think it's asinine.  You know, 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, you know, the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for'em.  Now everyone's got an opinion and wants to downer--and down soldiers.  You know, American soldiers or Israeli soldiers.  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."

I forget what they call what Joey (currently located just outside Gaza) is doing right now, though I must confess it does bear some superficial resemblance to "reporting on war".

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