Comments on: Joe the Plumber meets Chairman Mao in Gaza

By: ktward

ktward — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:45:09 +0000

Actually, those of us on the ‘left’ care not at all what Joe the not-Plummer/not-Jounalist has to say. He’s already demonstrated his lack of expertise, the poor guy doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. I imagine he’s close to the end of his 15 mniutes. It does, however, speak volumes about PJTV. I used to read you as a way to absorb all points of view which I believe is the only way to have well-informed opinions. Your promotion of JTP as a journalist–a highly professional vocation requiring formal education and experience–dissolves your credibility, and your exploitation of him (he’s clueless, poor sap) is cruel.

By: pst314

pst314 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:11:07 +0000

“In my Maoist youth, we used to say ‘Let a thousand flowers bloom!’ Of course, the Chairman later backed away from this pronouncement….”

Not to nit-pick, Roger, but Mao only said that in order to get secret dissenters to reveal themselves so that they could later be eliminated.

(Not nit-picking, Roger, just clarifying a small point for the benefit of your many readers who were born after the Cultural Revolution.)

By: pst314

pst314 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:06:26 +0000

“…I might understand why Israelis are doing the same now murdering innocent women and children. Tactics are differ, but results are the same, dead cilivans!”

Sounds like you get your talking points from the old Soviet Politburo or the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al Husseini.

By: pst314

pst314 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:59:54 +0000

“I am disagreeing with people who believe it’s okay to wake up one morning and decide to be a journalist without required education to become one”

That’s risibly silly. You don’t need a college degree to ask people questions. The assertion that you do is a power-grab by people who want money and control.

America did just fine for generations before the j-schools started to take over, and in fact it did better when there were no journalism degrees.

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By: David

David — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:57:08 +0000

As a passionate liberal I hereby pledge to offer any support necessary to keep Joe The Plumber;

a) In Gaza / Israel.
b) In the public eye.
c) Spotlighted as prominent spokesmen for the right.

He is comedy gold. Keep him talking. Oh, and I will also pay money to help Sarah Palin become your 2012 nominee.

Here’s to watching the GOP self destruct! Cheers! 3 Days 11 Hours. Count it down, losers.

By: Mit dem Klempner in Israel » Gegenstimme

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By: Judith, NYC

Judith, NYC — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:11:37 +0000

JOE’S DAY FOUR:
Kudos to Joe for visiting Nitzan, the settlement where former Gush Katif Israeli’s live after being expelled from Gaza three yrs ago. None of the lazy reporters of the MSM trekked out to Nitzan even though those people are a central part of the conflict’s story( given that the former Gush Katif residents served as a buffer for Israel as facts on the ground, preventing missiles from being lobed into Southern Israel) As soon as they were evicted from their homes, Hamas moved in, destroyed the Synagogues, green houses & turned the land into rocket launching pads. Interesting to see in Joe’s piece what was written on the sewer pipes used to take cover from the rockets (incidentally, the pipes provide protection from the spraying metal shrapnel in the terror rocket’s payload & not from a direct hit.) In child’s writing it says, “We told you so–you can take us out of Gaza, but Gaza will follow you… from orange to red alert” (orange, the color adopted by those against the Gush katif expulsion & Gaza disengagement & red for the red alert of the sirens in Southern Israel.)

I would’ve liked to hear more impressions directly from the mouths of the people Joe was interviewing, instead of Joe describing what he heard from them. Clearly, a first hand account from the former residents of Gush Katif, hearing their voices, would have been powerful & informative. Still, we are getting more reporting about the war from the Israeli side than we get from any of the other “reporters” who just rely on doctored news feed from Hamas Media Inc. Keep-up the good work Joe.

As a Columbia Journalism School graduate & news publisher, I can say w/ some authority that J School is overrated & there is no substitute for boots on the ground, hard work, curiosity & common sense…Joe displayed all of the above plus a healthy disdain for what he calls “dense & agenda driven” reporting. The MSM reporters are frankly complicit in emboldening the terrorists w/ their bias for even-handedness over truth.

By: quasar

quasar — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:24:53 +0000

One only needs to harken back to the good old days when you had Gunga Dan Rather pay Afghan freedon fighter to take a break from the action and help Gunga Dan stagecraft a story for the folks back home. JTP is correct. Keep the idiots out of there.

By: Pops in Vienna

Pops in Vienna — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:19:01 +0000

I signed on to PJTV last night. In my opinion it’s not very user friendly. It’s difficult to know what to click on. I also had to keep entering my password to watch additional segments. Maybe it’s me but can’t your geeks make it more dummy proof?

I’d like to hear more reports about what the IDF is actually accomplishing. Why doesn’t Joe ask somebody why Israel got hit with 23 rockets on Wednesday? One wonders how this can happen with the IDF crawling all over Gaza. If Hamas can fire off 23 while the IDF is inside Gaza what can we expect after the IDF withdraws?

If Joe attracts readers/viewers and they keep coming back for more, I’d say that makes him a good journalist. The N.Y. Times has all the elite “pros” and they are going out of business. That should tell us something.

Bill Gates doesn’t have the credentials to get hired by the UN’s IT department for an entry level job. Need I say more?