Monday, January 12, 2009

Joe the Plumber/War Correspondent to the World: No Need for War Correspondents

To be honest with you, I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war [sic]. … You make a big deal about it, it's asinine. 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 the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them. Now everyone’s got an opinion and wants to down soldiers — our American soldiers, our Israeli soldiers. I think media should be abolished from reporting. You know, war’s hell, and if you’re gonna sit there and say ‘Well look at this atrocity’ — well you don’t know the full story behind it half the time. So I think the media should have no business in it.
Joe Wurzelbacher (link to video on nytimes lede blog) is amazed at the "Israel people" -- or "our Israeli soldiers," as he put it -- and their resilience in the face of overwhelming condemnation from the world, for protecting their own.

And me? I'm speechless.

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