Samuel Wurzelbacher, a man better known to the world as “Joe the Plumber”, has arrived in Israel to serve as a war correspondent for PJTV — the video news outfit of Pajamas Media. It didn’t take him long after arrival to begin telling the media what it’s doing wrong.

Samuel Wurzelbacher of Ohio, aka Joe the Plumber, arrived in Sderot at noon Sunday to show local and foreign reporters how to do it right.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” he told foreign reporters.

“You should be patriotic, protect your family and children, not report like you have been doing for the past two weeks since this war has started,” he said.…

The people of Sderot “can’t do normal things day to day,” like get soap in their eyes in the shower, for fear a rocket might come in, Wurzelbacher said. “I’m sure they’re taking quick showers. I know I would.”

He also wondered why Israel waited so long to act. “I know if I were a citizen here, I’d be damned upset.” He described himself as a “peaceloving man,” but added, “when someone hits me, I’m going to unload on the boy. And if the rest of the world doesn’t understand that, then I’m sorry.”

It’s true that the media is generally showing a pro-Palestinian angle without much balance. We have CNN airing Pallywood productions as real news, French television trying to pin the deaths of Palestinians by Hamas in 2005 as Israel’s doing in 2009, and the world simply eating up the staged pictures Hamas and Hezbullah have been known to create. On that count, Joe is right.

But as Ed Morrissey says, Joe’s wrong that the media should have a pro-Israeli bias. The problem with much of the media isn’t that it’s biased in the wrong direction. The problem is that it’s biased at all. The solution to accepting staged propaganda from one side isn’t to start only accepting staged propaganda from the other side. The solution is to stop accepting any staged propaganda and report what’s happening objectively.

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