No, really. Associated Press Television News captured Samuel J. Wurzelbacher — the man christened “Joe the Plumber” by Senator John McCain’s campaign last year — in the act of reporting from Sderot, Israel, for the conservative blog Pajamas TV on Monday. In remarks following his reporting work, during which he was himself surrounded by the news media recording his every move, reality television style, Mr. Wurzelbacher spoke out strongly against the whole idea of reporting from a war zone:
To be honest with you, I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war [sic]. … 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.
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