Honestly. It was bad enough that the McCain Campaign saw fit to hoist this man atop their flagship as the banner of the working man, even though he wasn’t licensed to perform the job he was so famous for. It was even worse when some nutjob gave him a goddamned book deal. But now Pajamas Media has employed Joe Wurzelbacher to be a correspondent for them in Israel. Because, you know, we really need to know what he thinks since he’s such an expert on Middle East relations.

As testament to his vast knowledge and wisdom, Joe took a moment to wax philosophical on the very presence of media in the war zone (hat tip to RawStory).

“I’ll be honest with you: I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war. (sic) 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 think it’s asinine. You know, I liked back in World War I and World War II when you’d go to the theater and you’d see your troops on, you know, the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for ‘em.

Now everyone’s got an opinion and wants to…down soldiers. You know, American soldiers or Israeli soldiers…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.”

I wonder if two things have ever occurred to Joe, when those two neurons in his brainpan manage to fire every so often:

1. Is he aware that the trailers of World War II footage are called “newsreels”? US Army propaganda, to be sure, but it was effectively journalism.
2. If people are astounded by the atrocity of war, and you’re upset that they don’t know the whole story, why would less media be a good thing? Aren’t they there to, you know, add context and depth to the story?

I swear, it’s like he doesn’t think at all. The words coming out of his mouth are just the random neural firings of a mind soaked in talk radio.

Can we please just get past this monumental waste of human being and get on with our lives? Preferably with real reporters? This man isn’t fit to fix my sink.