Video player not working?0:000:000:00SettingsQualityAutoAudioSpeed1×CaptionsOffRick Sanchez Vs Joe The PlumberDula TVFunny videos since 2008Thumbs up0Thumbs down0 Share1.3K views Jan 2009CNN host Rick Sanchez responds to Joe the Plumber's claim that media should stay away from war, defending journalists and criticizing his credentials. Show transcript0:00Something else to take note of today. I want to share with you the thoughts of Samuel Wirzelbacher, you know, Joe the plumber, now Joe the war correspondent.0:11Yes, he's been in Israel filing reports, and here's his analysis as reported by the Associated Press.0:17You're going to love this. Quote, I don't think journalists should be anywhere around war.0:22I mean, you guys report where our troops are at. You report what's happening day to day.0:29You make a big deal out of it. I think it's asinine. I think media should be abolished from, comma, you know, reporting, comma, war is hell.0:40There you have it. Samuel, let me talk to you directly. First, I was born in a communist country, so I'm familiar with people like you, and Fidel Castro, by the way, not the name drop,0:50who also think, quote, that media should be abolished. Number 2, I've covered wars, and while I can't speak for war correspondents who put their lives on the line every day, I can tell you what they do is requisite,1:06essential to our democracy. Whether you've insulted them is up to them to tell you, but I will tell you who you have insulted.1:1541 journalists were killed last year, 2 already killed this year, while trying to practice their craft.1:22They can't speak for themselves because they're no longer with us, Samuel, and their children, their wives and husbands, their fathers and mothers, they don't have a TV show.1:32So on behalf of them, Sam, let's see, you're not really a licensed plumber, you're not really a war correspondent, and your name isn't even really Joe.1:44I think we all do know, though, who you are. You know that guy who lives down the street?1:50The guy who shows up at the backyard barbecue when there's free food?1:54You know that guy? Knows everything about everything, but really knows nothing.1:58Hates everything and everybody. Can't understand why anybody would find any fault with him.2:04You know, the obnoxious guy. There's always one at every party or every gathering on every block.2:08You know that guy. We all know that guy. Well, that guy wasn't made famous by John McCain and Sarah Palin.2:15You were, Sam. So we're stuck with you, but it doesn't mean that we can't call you out.2:21In fact, I just did. You can tell me what you think about that at CNN.com/Rick Sanchez, or right now on Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook.
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