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Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent

Question:

Why does anyone give a **** about Joe being a war correspondent? So what? If it were me, I'd JUMP at the chance to make money doing nothing. I'd rather be a war correspondent than a plumber any day of the week.

If you can take advantage of a situation, that's the smart thing to do. Who cares if you make an ass of yourself by doing it? I'd absolutely LOVE to make dumb comments for money.

Normally I just do it for free!
 
Question:

Why does anyone on either side give a **** about Joe being a war correspondent? So what? If it were me, I'd JUMP at the chance to make money doing nothing. I'd rather be a war correspondent than a plumber any day of the week.

If you can take advantage of a situation, that's the smart thing to do. Who cares if you make an ass of yourself by doing it? I'd absolutely LOVE to make dumb comments for mone.

Normally I just do it for free!



So far all I see caring is the thread starter and his left wing ilk who are caring. But hey, that's just me my friend.
 
Question:
Why does anyone give a **** about Joe being a war correspondent? So what? If it were me, I'd JUMP at the chance to make money doing nothing. I'd rather be a war correspondent than a plumber any day of the week.
Its really quite simple:

Joe The Plumber had the audacity to legitimately question The Obama, and in doing so, exposed The Obama for what he really is.

The Obamanistas cannot allow this to stand, and so are driven to discredit Joe every chance they get.
 
So far all I see caring is the thread starter and his left wing ilk who are caring. But hey, that's just me my friend.

Actually, I edited out the "ethier side" because I noticed it was not equal on both sides. Most righties don't really give a **** and agree that he did the smart thing by taking advantage of the situation.

It looks like a few lefties have stated it as well, but most of the people attacking Joe for taking the job are on the left.

I see it as, he should definitely have taken the job, absolutely. There is no doubt it was the smart thing to do. It doesn't mean he's all that good at it or that I agree with his opinions on some things, or that I think he's all that intelligent overall, but he sure as hell made the smart decision to take this job.

Although that seems like a no-brainer on his part. Even I'd be smart enough to make that decision.
 
I honestly don't see the need to attack the guy at all. It's not like he created this position for himself or went around giving out some sort of bull**** resume saying he was qualified for this position. Pajamas Media offered him the position and he took it like anyone would.

If anything they should be criticized for lowering the bar so much that they gave a quasi-celebrity like Joe The Plumber a job as a war correspondent. Who knows why they tapped him for that job? When I saw the clip of him asking Obama the notorious question I certainly didn't think that the guy had chops to be a war correspondent. The idea hadn't even popped into my head. It seems to me that the only reason they tapped him to be a War Correspondent was to grab headlines and perhaps keep the guy in the press a bit longer. It may or may not come back to bite them in the ass. Who knows and frankly, who cares? If you don't like what he has to say or the fact that he was given the job don't watch his reports and steer clear of Pajamas Media.
 
Actually, I edited out the "ethier side" because I noticed it was not equal on both sides. Most righties don't really give a **** and agree that he did the smart thing by taking advantage of the situation.

It looks like a few lefties have stated it as well, but most of the people attacking Joe for taking the job are on the left.

I see it as, he should definitely have taken the job, absolutely. There is no doubt it was the smart thing to do. It doesn't mean he's all that good at it or that I agree with his opinions on some things, or that I think he's all that intelligent overall, but he sure as hell made the smart decision to take this job.

Although that seems like a no-brainer on his part. Even I'd be smart enough to make that decision.


Exactly. I'd do it not only for the money, which I'm sure is decent, but the travel opportunities. How often does one get the chance to visit all of these different countries just to ask people questions?
 
Its really quite simple:

Joe The Plumber had the audacity to legitimately question The Obama, and in doing so, exposed The Obama for what he really is.

The Obamanistas cannot allow this to stand, and so are driven to discredit Joe every chance they get.

I don't get why they feel the need to discredit Joe "the Plumber"? Doesn;t the need to discredit someone imply that they have a reason to be creditted to begin with?
 
I don't get why they feel the need to discredit Joe "the Plumber"? Doesn;t the need to discredit someone imply that they have a reason to be creditted to begin with?
Commandment I: Thou Shall Not Make The Obama Look Bad.
Commandment II: Thou Shall Villify All That Do.
 
So, just forget about college right, forget about individual differences in intelligence and abilities?

Why?

You kinda slipped right off into the deep end there.

My point was merely that academic credentialing is nothing more than a credential. And has we have seen recently, academic credentialing has not prevented journalists from becoming daily editorialists in their articles or mitigated their social change activism.

We should just consider that everyone is just as smart as everyone else and we can all do each others jobs just as good... Hey, Kenneth Lay got busted so that means that Joe Plumber could run an energy company?

Hyperbole, much? You'd do well to read more closely.

No, what it means is that academic credentialing is nothing more than a credential.

Talk to old school newspaper guys and they'll be up-front with you that j-school ain't all that and, in fact, has become as infected with liberal do-goodism as the cultural studies departments leading to j-school grads who want to solve social problems rather than report the news.
 
Commandment I: Thou Shall Not Make The Obama Look Bad.
Commandment II: Thou Shall Villify All That Do.

So do their heads explode because they then would have to villify Obama whenever he makes a gaffe? :confused:

Example: Warning warning 57 states! Warning!!! Head must explode! Warning!!! Boom!
 
So do their heads explode because they then would have to villify Obama whenever he makes a gaffe? :confused:
Their Commandments naturally lead to contradictions.
If their heads explode trying to deal with them -- well, that's OK by me.
:mrgreen:
 
If anything they should be criticized for lowering the bar so much that they gave a quasi-celebrity like Joe The Plumber a job as a war correspondent.

As if the bar could be lowered further... :roll:
 
I'm not blaming joe-the-not-so-much-a-plumber for taking the job. did you misread my post in your blind partisanship?
So I call you a partisan and you attack Joe the Plumber using partisan talking points? Thanks for proving my point.


Really? When was the last time you applied for a job as a journalist? :roll: have there been instances where people became reporters/correspondents/commentators/writers/et al. I'm sure, but I'll bet if you could find one there would be a better reason than, he was a plumber. You're just trying to excuse this ridiculous appointment.
Yeah, uh, my hourly job is at a news radio station, so yeah, I am in journalism, I majored in Broadcasting, it had heavy jounalistic elements, many of the people I work with do NOT have a journalism degree. So what was your criteria for judging journalism credentials again?


I'm really getting sick of the "right" trying to tell us all that being elite is bad. It's not bad, being a dumbass is bad not vise versa. This is an example of what I'm talking about when I say that the "right" is hell bent on dumbing down our nation. Being ignorant should be something looked down on, not praised.
I never said you were elite, I said you were practicing elitISM, that is a nice way of saying snobbery. Frankly I am sick of people thinking they are better than others because they went to college, or calling blue collar workers stupid because they don't have a four year degree, can you figure out the timing on a Ford Fairlane, or completely rebuild a pipe system for a house, etc. No? then you are no better than those who can, and again, Journalism can be learned in the field, it's not something that requires a degree from Cornell.


So your argument is that since there have been well spoken dumbasses we should just assume that a dumb dumbass can't be any worse? Great thinking there.
First of all, Joe the Plumber can't be all that stupid if he landed that correspondents job, and, his question was intelligent enough to make Obama stammer, so I don't see where you get off calling him dumb.


Ah no, I'm talking about people who have shown us that they aren't very smart or intellectually curious. A car mechanic may or may not be very smart and still be able to fix a car but that's a different thing isn't it? I think if you are going to comment on knowing the basics of human intelligence you might consider that there are different kinds of intelligence. Just because you are smart enough to put plumbing tape on a leak doesn't mean you're smart enough to be a Senator. Wouldn't you agree?
So now you use the "different kinds of intelligence" argument since it helps you out. I already know there are different kinds of intelligence since I had to take multiple behavioral science classes in college, it is YOU claiming people are stupid because they don't have book knowledge. And many plumbers, carpenters, and oil men in my area have shown a better working knowledge of this country and business than the average four year MBA graduate.


Really? you don't think there is a difference in the intelligence level of Obama compared to Joe the plumber? I think if you were to ask the ENTIRE COUNTRY who they would trust information from more, Obama or JTP...
Let's see, Joe asked Obama a question about taxes and got a template answer, who looked smarter?
 
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how "Elite" you must be to think that us pointing out your self aggrandizing intelletcualism means we actually believe "the elite" to be, well, "elite".


They are not, they think they are. I am not suprised you have not pickd up on that yet.

Hope this post finds you well. :rofl
I don't even break out my I.Q. unless asked at a social function because I don't think it makes me better or worse than anyone else, which is why I love it when someone on the left starts acting like they are part of some politically exclusive brain trust and find out they don't have as much mental firepower as they think.
 
True.

But I place him one slight notch below Ann Coulter.
One difference, Ann Coulture, Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. are opinion journalists, they are supposed to be biased, not the straight news journalists like Rather, Couric, Donaldson, et. al, the fact that the latter spins news and tries to create a different spin on the events says alot about "real" journalism.
 
One difference, Ann Coulture, Dennis Miller, Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. are opinion journalists, they are supposed to be biased, not the straight news journalists like Rather, Couric, Donaldson, et. al, the fact that the latter spins news and tries to create a different spin on the events says alot about "real" journalism.

It seems opinion journalism is taking over. Perhaps that is the problem, I--for one--do not care about the opinion of the newsman/woman. I just want the news, straight up.
 
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