Pathetic Know Nothingness In Action

TW: The know-nothings and ignorance is bliss crowd on the right-wing gets their wish, Joe Wurzelbacher as war reporter. Sad really.

From Economist:
"RIGHT-leaning blog-and-video site PajamasMedia decided that it would be a boost to its journalism—or its ads revenue, perhaps—to hire Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher as a correspondent in Israel. Mr Wurzelbacher filed his first dispatch to a bevy of TV reporters who hadn't seen a good trainwreck in months.

I'll be honest with you. I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war. I mean, you guys report where our troops are at. You report what's happening day to day. You make a big deal out of it. I-I think it's asinine... I think media should be abolished from, uh, you know, reporting. You know, war is hell. And if you're gonna sit there and say, 'Well look at this atrocity,' well you don't know the whole story behind it half the time, so I think the media should have no business in it.

We'd hope to never have to comment on Mr Wurzelbacher again. We assumed that, as an Average Joe who simply wanted to own his own plumbing company, he would return to his Ohio home and start working hard again. But it seems he's figured out what Paris Hilton and Johnny Knoxville took years to discover: being a nitwit in public is much easier than working."

From conservative blogger Confablulum:

"But any Pajamas Media figure who revels in Joe’s new assignment ought to lose whatever credibility they’ve built up as a serious news organization, or an enterprise seriously invested in improving upon the mainstream media’s flaws...he’s cheerleading exactly the kind of thing he’d criticize were the mainstream media to do it. Coocooning, I think he calls it. But has The New York Times, to cite one frequent Instapundit target, ever so cynically pandered to its audience by hiring a reporter so little qualified? Has it ever so blatantly sacrificed the quality of information it provides its readers? Even if the answer is yes — which I don’t think it is — it makes Pajamas Media no better than the very news organizations against which it defines itself as a superior alternative."

http://culture11.com/blogs/theconfabulum/2009/01/09/say-it-aint-so-glenn/

From Andrew Sullivan:

"The conservative blogosphere began as a way to ask more questions, to get more scrutiny out there, to add new perspectives to the cocoon of the MSM, to crack the silly professional smugness that infected many newsrooms. It is ending in the dissemination of propaganda in the defense of war and an attack on journalism itself"