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Reporting From Gaza, This Is Joe the Plumber

Campaign celeb tries war journalism for conservative website

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(Newser) – Perhaps in an effort to ditch his infamous moniker, Joe the Plumber is swapping plunger for pen. The Ohio businessman, the presidential election’s "average American," will spend 10 days near Gaza covering Israel’s perspective on the conflict for pjtv.com, Internet arm of conservative Pajamas Media. “God’s not going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance,” he tells Toledo’s WNWO-TV.

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Samuel "Joe The Plumber" Wurzelbacher plans to spend 10 days reporting from Israel.   (AP Photo)
"Joe" signs autographs with Sarah Palin during the campaign. The Ohio businessman became famous when John McCain used him as an example in the presidential debates.   (AP Photo)
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Shannonals
Jan 8, 09 4:14 PM CST
Further evidence that the GOP of old is no more when all of Corona_kings heroes are ignorant individuals like Flip Flop Joe the Plumber or that dense absent-minded Mother Gov. Palin
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PaleRider
Jan 11, 09 2:55 PM CST
I love it, people like this scare the liberals to death because it's a premonition of things to come, we just have to make it through the next 4 years without worldwide disaster caused by a Clinton 2.0 White House.
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lrm
Jan 7, 09 4:46 PM CST
please just go away now! Reply
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Caps
Jan 7, 09 5:07 PM CST
I would like to know if he has paid his back taxes. Reply
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PaleRider
Jan 11, 09 2:51 PM CST
Did you?
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