Joe the Plumber thinks reporters shouldn't cover wars. Interferes with the feel-good propaganda.

Joe is more formally known as Samuel K. Wurzelbacher. He became a conservative darling following a tete a tete with Barack Obama back in October. Although he complained that Obama's tax plan would get in the way of his achieving the American dream, it turned out Joe wasn't a licenced plumber and owed taxes.

This makes him qualified to report from the Middle East for Pajamas TV, a conservative website.

The NYT's The Lede offers this partial transcript of Joe holding forth on war reporting:

To be honest with you, I don’t think journalists should be anywhere allowed war [sic]. … 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 the screen and everyone would be real excited and happy for them. Now everyone’s got an opinion and wants to down soldiers — our American soldiers, our Israeli soldiers. I think media should be abolished from reporting. You know, war’s hell, and if you’re gonna sit there and say ‘Well look at this atrocity’ — well you don’t know the full story behind it half the time. So I think the media should have no business in it.

Here's the YouTube video (the above segment starts at about the 1:18 mark):

I'd like to joke about a Palin/Joe ticket in '12, but the thought chills me. Or how about Joe as Secretary of State?