Some folks get more than 15 minutes of fame. Case in point- Joe the Plumber. The career arc of Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher continues to cover new terrain, this time landing him a gig with Fox News as a correspondent specializing in media bias. Joe’s impeccable credentials as just plain folks and his compelling profile has caught the attention of the News Department at Fox. His brush with the McCain-Palin juggernaut was possibly helpful as well.
Joe has been sent abroad to investigate disturbing reports of liberal American media bias. News organizations covering the freedom crusade being waged in the middle east by George II have been less than forthcoming about our inherent righteousness.
This regular Joe has been imbedded in the field to faithfully report the unvarnished truth in a manner recognizable to the sensibilities of the Everyman. And since Fox News has a special knack for speaking truth, Joe was anointed by these Sons of Murdoch to follow the star of freedom eastward and bring back the truth to quench the thirst of a nation parched for hopeful news.
Alright. I’ve finished my lampoon. Joe has become a cartoon character but doesn’t seem to be aware of it yet. There must be some kind of PT Barnum character in Joe’s life who is milking the media’s tongue-in-cheek fascination with him.
I sincerely hope that something good might come from Joe’s expedition to Israel. But there seems to be little original analysis possible for the sad and tragic situation between Israeli Jews and the nascent Muslim caliphate. Each party claims a special relationship with the Diety and, accordingly, each has no option but to prevail.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Yahweh is singularly disinterested in human suffering other than to inflict it One suspects the bit about circumcision sealing a covenant with God renders its practioners culturally insane. OTOH, Abraham might have slipped his obsidian knife and invented the hemiorchidectomy. Count our blessings (even if it only requires one finger, centralized to avoid bias).
Local Muslims transport their women in opaque bags. Local Jews put their women in uniform and give them rifles. The singular path to Middle East peace is laser permanent hair-removal salons. I’m talkin’ 10-acre parking lots. Joe’s fringe could be shakedown for a brave new world. That’s a Nobel Peace Prize, easy.
There certainly seem to be some significant reality distortion fields in that vicinity. Israel can’t understand why people don’t think its actions are proportionate and just, and somehow Hamas thinks that firing rockets in Israel followed by receiving a major ass-whipping would give them credibility.
I think that their insistence on the rightness of their causes has little to do with divinity of their causes and more to do with the adherence of their identities to their territory, and everyone willingness to sacrifice the lives of others for their ambitions.
I think Fox believes that knowing nothing is a sufficient qualification for…well, anything. That explains their political position rather facilely.
Fox actually has a disturbing number of viewers (perhaps most of them are unemployed). While some of it is vapid and harmless, it appears a majority of Americans prefer to be told USA#1, Capitalism rules!, democrats are evil! and government is bad!
(Cable Nielson Ratings- breakdown by network)
http://tinyurl.com/8vxzxf
Just another continuation of the right wing’s long history of fascination with plumbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Plumbers
Another cheap shot: Fox News is affirmative action for morons.
It is the new Tintin (a brilliant cartoon written by a close-to-being-fascist writer). They have a few things in common: the same political friends and the fact that the journalist Tintin never works.