Comments on: Joe the Plumber in Sderot for PJTV

By: Belladonna Rogers

Belladonna Rogers — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:06:42 +0000

A stroke of genius to send Joe. He has everything a good reporter needs: intellectual and emotional intelligence, the ability to ask questions and actually listen to the answers, the capacity to be a credible eye witness and to communicate his observations with clarity. Not to mention courage and grace under fire. You saw how he gallantly and bravely herded others into the shelter before entering it himself. I was fascinated when he was describing the heinous (and, fortunately, failed) Hamas attempt to murder elementary school children and their parents, when he noted that the students had just returned from a three-week hiatus. He paused momentarily, and then added that they’d been on a break from school. I thought that was terrific—that he realized mid-sentence that there may be viewers unfamiliar with the meaning of “hiatus” and so he clarified what it meant. He is so real, he just makes all the MSM correspondents look like cardboard stand-ups reading their biased, scripted, slanted copy without giving any background whatsoever. With the MSM, it is as if the world began today: no sense of history or context. Joe gets it, and he presents it with clarity, decency and truth. What more could anyone want?

By: Cap'n Eddie Ricketyback

Cap'n Eddie Ricketyback — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:37:55 +0000

Re: 6. Roger L Simon: But… if you are having a problem, log in and hit “support”.

So, the video froze up my browser and trying to X out or hitting “support” resulted in only the little dinging sound, and the only way to get out was through CTRL-ALT-DELETE and shutting it down with the Task Manager, which of course shut down all my browser windows requiring me to start over. Not the first time that has happened with one of those videos, by the way.

Just thought that info may be of some use to you.

By: Sissy Willis

Sissy Willis — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:33:59 +0000

It's the authenticity, stupid Terrific job!

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:28:07 +0000

That was awesome. Joe was fantastic. I’ve never seen anything like that — a regular person reporting the news. Terrific.

By: Lawrence Kellogg

Lawrence Kellogg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:10:01 +0000

Kudos to Joe and to PJTV for having the balls to stand up and tell the truth—with a very good camera person, as well. What could have been more vivid than what we saw with Joe? I particularly appreciated what he said about the impact of such an attack on the lives of the children. What MSM reporter ever says anything so perceptive, and, of course, accurate? This was a brilliant idea, and Joe is doing a magnificent and brave job. I’m sorry to say this because I assume he has many grateful plumbing customers, but I hope he changes careers and continues reporting around the country and the world for PJTV. He is absolutely terrific.

By: Judge Crater

Judge Crater — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:55:17 +0000

There was a short mention of Joe Wurzelbacher going reporting from Israel on NPR’s Morning edition today. More a bemused, wry note rather than anything serious.

But no mention of PJTV. Per NPR Joe Wurzelbacher is working for “a conservative website.”

One of those “don’t mention the war” Fawlty Towers moments. Can’t let the name of a possible competitor go out on the airways.

By: Mike_K

Mike_K — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:03:28 +0000

I can’t even register from my MacBook, Roger.

By: Victor Erimita

Victor Erimita — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:42:27 +0000

How dare you send a so-called reporter to Israel who doesn’t hate Israel?

I actually think this is a pretty brilliant move. Joe the Plumber, Like Sarah Palin, is a fairly ordinary American, a “working American,” in fact, in the socialist-derived groupsspeak of the Left, who had the temerity to to speak truth to power. Predictably, the champions of the working class tore him to shreds, as they did Palin. Not only did he question The One, but he didn’t go to an elite college, doesn’t speak in the patterns approved by Campbell Brown, Tina Fey and the other guardians of public speech form, and he actually seems to simply question some of the preposterous axioms the reality-based community takes for granted. It would have been worth sending him just to witness the hilarious apoplexy with which the “professional media” regard him.

But more importantly, it is an eloquent dagger to the heart of what is left of the MSM conceit that it alone determines reality. Unfortunately, the election of a no-achievement zero to the presidency, and the gullibility of the public on issues like global warming and the demonization of Bush, show that the MSM still has enormous, even determinative, power to shape public opinion. But the cracks are in the wall, and Joe the Plumber is the perfect choice to keep pointing out the shallowness of the MSM consensus. I hope he becomes very popular.

By: frankly don

frankly don — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:16:14 +0000

Hey, if Stuttering John can go from ‘The Howard Stern Show’ to ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,’ then Joe the Plumber has a bright future ahead him.

By: Roger L Simon

Roger L Simon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:46:37 +0000

Lawrence Kellog, the Joe videos are free even to non-subscribers. But… if you are having a problem, log in and hit “support”. Our support folks are very helpful.

Also, this is getting a lot of hits, so may be temp server problem. Don’t know.