Is Joe the Plumber's secret identity mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent? Or maybe White House "journalist"-hooker Jeff Gannon?

"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-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."

-- Joe the Plumber-Reporter, "reporting" from Israel

So Joe the Plumber is now a working, er, journalist in Israel -- certified by Pajamas Media as, well, whatever the PM wingnuts can certify you as. (A colleague comments that he sounds like Grandpa Abe Simpson whining: "Back in those days, nickels had pictures of bees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter, we used to say. So where was I? Oh yeah, the important thing is that I had an onion tied to my belt, because that was the style at the time. We only had white onions because of the war....")

But seriously, has anyone seen Joe the Plumber and Clark Kent together? No, not Superman. We know our Joe is no Man of Steel.

Anyway, we know he expects us liberal hatcheteers to be picking at him like the vultures we are, so it would seem churlish not to oblige. Now, please just wake us when Joe is over.

Thanks to our VoteVets colleague Brandon Friedman for calling this to our attention. -- Ken

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