Joe The War Correspondent

I wish I could figure out a way to mock this better than it mocks itself:

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's "'Average Joes' share their story."

So Not-Joe the Not-Plumber has now gone from not-plumbing, to being Joe The Candidate, to Joe the Country Star, to Joe the War Correspondent.

This, of course, after Not-Joe, expert that he is on Middle Eastern affairs, publicly maintained that the election of Obama would lead to the "death of Israel". Oddly enough, Israel appears to live, given that Sammy is heading there to war-correspond and whatnot.

I fully expect that on my next trip to the ER, the resident will be one Samuel J. Wurzelbacher. After all, it's important to involve Average Joes in the health-care industry, so as to prevent the field from being dominated by all these elitist M.D.'s.

One has to wonder why so many exciting new career changes are actually necessary for Not-Joe, given the lucrative not-plumbing business he was prepared to start which would have crippled him under the new SOCIALIST tax plan. I guess a $250,000 not-plumbing business doesn't go as far as it used to.

There's plenty more in DemocraticLuntz' excellent diary.