Video: Rick Sanchez dumps all over Joe the Plumber

posted at 9:10 pm on January 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
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And I do mean all over. There’s bad blood here and it shows: This is nothing more or less than Sanchez’s version of an Olbermann special comment, replete with juvenile verbal tics to emphasize his contempt for his subject (“Samuel” replaces Olby’s sneering “sir” when addressing Bush). Never did I think I’d say this, but even by Olber-standards, the condescension here is simply exquisite.

Bill Whittle clarifies JTP’s comments about keeping the media away from the front lines at PJM:

What was more distressing to me was that some extremely patriotic men — J.D. Johannes for example — construed that to mean that Joe was referring to people like him, and Michael Yon, and Michael Totten; people who, at great risk to their lives and on their own dime, have for years now been placing themselves in harm’s way in order to get out the story that is not getting out any other way.

I think this is a terrible misunderstanding, although certainly an understandable one. I cannot speak for Joe, but I for one let that remark flow right over me simply because I took it to mean that he was referring to the leftist, anti-Western, so-called “professionals” from Reuters and the BBC and others; people who he has confronted on the ground in Gaza on the moral grounds that they are there to show each and every Palestinian casualty (and willing to fabricate them if necessary) while remaining utterly mute and invisible while rockets rain down on Israeli families. I cannot imagine for an instant that Joe was referring to common citizens like J.D., Mike Yon, and Mike Totten who — like me and like Joe himself for that matter — are simply regular people called to try and fight back against the tide of bias and outright deception we see in the media.

Maybe so, but according to Roggio, elsewhere JTP says, “I think the military should decide what information to give the media and then the media can release it to the public. I don’t believe they need to be in the front lines with soldiers, I don’t believe they need to, uh, you know, be bothering the military for information or for access to certain areas.” I’m not registered at PJTV so I can’t watch the clip, but that sounds like he’s opposed in principle to the idea of independent war reporting — or at least, “independent” reporting that won’t reliably report things exactly the way the military would like. Yon, Totten, Johannes, and Roggio are all unambiguously pro-western but none of them, I’m sure, would agree to that, especially someone like Yon who’s warned for years that Afghanistan’s falling to pieces.

Anyway, here’s Rick’s Olbermann impression.

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