Joe The Plumber To Become War Correspondent

TOLEDO, Ohio — Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.

The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.

Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's "'Average Joes' share their story."

Wurzelbacher gained attention during the final weeks of the campaign when he asked Barack Obama about his tax plan.

He later joined Republican John McCain on the campaign trail. At one stop, he agreed with a McCain supporter who asked if he believed a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel.

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Information from: WNWO-TV, http://www.nbc24.com/

Comments

[TotobiAyokoh23]

This is why of late, foreign countries do not take America seriously. We have become a nation of superfluity.

[goodog]

To think, while major news organizations retreat from international reporting, plumbing expands into the genre.

Nature obviously abhors a vacuum, and frankly, this sucks.

[whosyourdaddy]

This guy is only famous because he asked the PE a question that wasn't easy or convenient and far left sycophants and worshipers lost their minds, violated his privacy and vilified him.

Congratulations, he'll live to be a millionaire and you can take credit for it.

[KingWenclas]

The so-called Left, if they were for real, and not simply a ton of boozhie posers, would be celebrating an average American breaking into the club. (Or, 99% of current media commentators are representative of about 5% of the U.S. population. Joe the Plumber should balance out that equation, marginally.)

[Mahi Joe]

Only you so-called Neocons celebrate promoting inexperienced, incompetent people into jobs they are not qualified. Guess you forgot the past eight years huh?

[reggieb]

you flatter Joe the Plumber by calling him average

[Outofnowhere]

Nah, actually it's because that's the best you can offer up as a hero, which is pretty sad. And while we're giving credit where credit's due, thank you and your inept president for propelling Obama to the presidency.

[MarkieBee]

what's funny is Joe got pwned by Obama. Joe thought he was gonna stump Obama on the sidewalk and Obama explained EXACTLY what is going to happen. But after a little BASIC reporting, we came to find out that Joe was lying. He had no intention of buying a plumbing business because he has absolutely NO MONEY! I make more money than Joe and I PAY my taxes. I need the Obama taxbreak that's coming. Only people who don't own businesses and don't have solid jobs with major responsibilities can just go off to Israel for 10 days. He deserved to be vilified. I agree though, snooping around through government databases was wrong.

[littlepuffycloud]

Maybe someone could draw a bullseye on that noggin of his.

[whatevahs]

yeah, and send Sean Penn with him carrying a big picture of a cross on his chest. Wouldn't THAT be great?!

[littlepuffycloud]

What WOULD be great is for you to slither back under your rock before the slime dries out.
Your moniker says it all : "Whatevah"

[littlepuffycloud]

Your obsession with Sean Penn is becoming embarrassing..

[Pharos]

Well at least he will,by himself, double the average IQ of the staff at pjtv.com.

[democracy7]

I am not familiar with pjtv.com. But if he is the example of the caliber of so called journalists that the web site is espousing, I don't think i need to familiarize myself with it. Nothing to see here folks just move along.

[poochytown]

No wonder we've become a laughingstock in the eyes of the rest of the world. Goodbye, America.

[Marie9]

Please boycott the news organization who hired him!

[Marie9]

This is why Americans get such terrible information in the news -- they do not hire based on skills. It is a popularity contest! Sad!

What about all those people who went to college, and I should note owe debts for college loans -- who have been trained; yet they cannot find a job???????­???????!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

Yet Joe the non-plumber is hired to do reporting! Give us a break -- enough with promoting the ignorant!!!! Enough! Enough! Enough!

[chaosfilms]

Say it ain't so, Joe, say it ain't so.

[deepfreezevideo]

Joe the Qassam target.

[blimie]

Joe the plumber is a leftover campaign celebrity. He is such a dork, but you have to give him credit for keeping himself in the news and making money off his 15 minutes of fame.

[whatevahs]

First Sean Penn and now this?

[NWRICK]

Do you think he'll pay his back taxes now?.......yeah, me neither.

[NWRICK]

OMG!! Why won't he go away.
And a reporter?! Are you kidding me. The first press Joe got was when he LIED to Obama
in the street. Every word he said to Obama was a lie. He is not a plumber, he is not buying a business, does not make what he said he makes, and so on.
I guess then he would make a good anchor at Faux noise where facts don't matter.

[carlgt1]

Joe da Gentile....

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

Oy, a goy. Will the goy visit Gaza?

[jsgaetano]

Shouldn't Sam the Not-Plumber be reporting on Iraq? Seems that's a war which effects more Americans, seeing how Sam the Not-Plumber thinks he speaks for all Americans.

It seems like Sam, as all conservatives, is more interested in lies than reality. There would be too much reality for ol' Sam the Not-Plumber.

[RODERICK098]

Its a sad comment on the media that he is as bright or brighet and better informed than Bill Oreiily, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and will do as food a job as the media has been doing for the last 25 years or so WHICH IS ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING BUT TELLING THE AMERCIAN PEOPLE LIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC HAS TO START DEMNDING BETTER OR TUNING THEM OUT WHICH IS WHAT I HAVE DONE I GET MY NEWS FROM THE INTERNET-THATS IT

[NWRICK]

AHMEN

[jsgaetano]

Sam is just the propagandist flavor of the month.

If the Goopers have an abundance of one thing, it's shameless liars.