re: #144 seekeroftruth

Something struck me yesterday while watching Joe the Plumber’s report from Israel. He was showing the “caterpillars ” bomb shelters on the playgrounds in Israeli. And explaining how when a rocket is incoming, the children all run for shelter in the caterpillars. I’ve never seen pictures of how Israeli people have to cope with the rockets coming from the Palestinians. I’ve seen plenty of pictures from the Palestinian side over the years, but never from the Israeli side. It was so sad, considering how the Palestinians have been the aggressors. Joe did a much, much better job of getting out the Israeli side than any reporter has all these years.

Without either suggesting that Joe isn’t a righteous dude in his own odd way, or that the American press has said much (a d*** thing) about rocketing of Israel for the past decade, he’s not the first reporter to report passionately about the rockets and the mortars for a small conservative news organization. (Not to mention the Israeli press, much of which is available in English.) He’s just the first one who’s been a, well, Joe the Plumber.