Jimmy

So Joe the Plumber has landed himself a gig as a war reporter and is in Israel for 10 days “to cover Israel’s side of the” current massacre, sorry I mean “conflict”, in Gaza.

So far so good, aside from the part where he’s concerned that we poor Americans are getting cheated out of hearing the truth about this conflict that has killed nearly 1,000 Gazans and…13 Israelis, but that’s not my main point, my main point is that while in Israel on assignment as a war reporter he told a group of journalists, and I quote: “I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting,” and “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.”

The irony of Joe landing a job as a war reporter and then telling the other reporters to go home is just too, too rich. The guy’s ego has no bounds, does it?

Before I end this post, I would just like to point out that while only 3 of the 13 dead Israelis have been civilians, fully one third (over 300) of the dead Gazans have been children. I don’t know exactly how many have been (adult) civilians, but the percentage of dead civilians in Gaza, to say nothing of the extremely lopsided Gazan-to-Israeli death ratio, is surely much higher than it is in Israel.

Glad to hear Joe’ll be bringing us all the important facts on those 3 dead Israeli civilians. I look forward to it with baited breath.

-j

Posted in: Media and Culture, Politics by jimmy2 / Tags: gaza, israel, war