January 12, 2009
the reporting has begun
Joe The War Correspondent’s first report.
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 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 downer–and 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.
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He’s a real American hero.
Maybe he’ll stumble into one of those atrocities and it’ll be like, “ka-BOOM!! Hey, wasn’t that Whatziname-the-Plumber that just got all blowed up?”
Lewis Black: “If it hadn’t been for my horrrse…I wouldn’t have had that year in Junior College….”
Another thing I hate about people–this guy.
*sigh*
i think i have a man-crush.
he’s so…forceful!
I read this thinking it was a piece of satire. Sadly, I was wrong.
Yeah, 9-11 is a classic case: pffft, atrocities, they happen in war. 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 listened to as much of GWB’s “exit interview” as I could manage this morning. When asked what he thought accounted for people’s strong negative feelings toward him (what Charles Krauthammer smarmily refers to as “Bush Derangement Syndrome”), Bush seemed a bit perplexed and said that he really doesn’t think all that many people in the country feel anger or animosity toward him. He said that, when he goes out among the people, they’re generally cordial and pleasant. He has no idea why some people are so angry or behave in a rude manner, but he certainly never let that affect any of his policy decisions.
And when asked about negative perceptions of the US overseas, he said that he disagrees that people in other parts of the world view America in a dim light.. As if it’s a matter of opinion. I think this is an exact quote: “It may be damaged amongst some of the elite. But people still understand America stands for freedom.”
The last thing I heard was a comment to the effect that he had to make the tough, right decisions he did in order to be able to look himself in the mirror back in Texas.
Fuck me up a flagpole.
I can see this dude having a big future: war zones, treaty negotiations, trade talks, the Ashes test series, spring break, the Oscars; seriously, any topic and I’d gobble it up.
The most sublime comedy I’ve read for at least five years.
I’d love to hear him wax lyrical on the enlargment of the EU.
Wow, do you think he takes requests, Kris?
My understanding of this dude is that he’d do anything for a quid.
Don’t worry, Kris and Lucy–Joe will get elected President in 8 short years.
Phew. Then we’ll see what a man without a license can REALLY achieve.
He replumbed my entire house and there’s water everywhere and he used lead pipes because “they’re better than this new copper and PVC crap” and he never finished the job but that’s OK because the parts he didn’t fix are the only ones that still work.