Time to celebrate the dude’s mediocrity

Remember Joe the Plumber?

Mr Average recently went to the Israel/Gaza border and told a startled media pack that journalists “should be abolished from war reporting”.

From that tough assignment – repeating Israeli PR lines was surely exhausting – he’ll soon be appearing in Washington DC at the Pajamas TV Conservatism 2.0 Conference.

At what point will the conservative movement realise that Joe’s shameless media construction of deliberate ignorance appeals to nobody except those who love to celebrate ignorance?

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