Joe the Plumber, aka Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, is dropping his unlicensed plunger and picking up a reporter's notebook. John McCain's campaign mascot told a Toledo, Ohio television station that he will soon depart for a 10-day trip to Israel to report on the conflict "without a politically correct filter". Like, say, the Guardian's.
He'll be reporting for conservative website pjtv.com, he said.
He tells WNWO television:
I get to go over there and let there "Average Joes" share their story, what they think, how they feel, especially with world opinion, maybe get a real story out there.
At least he isn't taking a job away from a real journalist. Like WNWO's Jennifer Taylor, who in her piece on Joe's trip erroneously states that "Thousands have died in the fighting". (The actual death toll, always a moving target for reporters, was about 700 today).
