I took the liberty of taking what are perhaps the five worst, most biased questions in today's White House news conference (see earlier live blog thread here and official White House transcript here).
Video (3:15): Real (2.38 MB) or Windows (1.99 MB), plus MP3 audio (1.11 MB).
It starts with Helen Thomas insisting that President Bush is responsible for al Qaeda in Iraq and ends with Martha Raddatz of ABC News misconstruing a new report on al Qaeda to conclude the terror network's threat is "greater than ever now." NBC's David Gregory and CBS's Jim Axelrod are also included. All questions betray an alarmist and defeatist tone on Iraq and/or push President Bush to consider hypotheticals involving Democrats passing legislation to curtail his management of the war.
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Helen Thomas is a jihadist.
July 12, 2007 - 17:16 ET by mattmHelen Thomas is a jihadist.
BTW aren't these reporters supposed to report? Oh, yeah...I forgot...for a minute there I thought we were discussing journalists...nevermind.
Helen Thomas Racist
July 12, 2007 - 17:17 ET by Lame CherryApparently the malevolent old Thomas missed Jake Tapper at his finest in grilling Harry Reid on WOULD IRAQI'S BE MORE SAFE IF AMERICANS LEFT IRAQ.
While Thomas and comrades were playing global shills, Tapper asked Reid over and over and Reid would not answer the question.
Let us face it that Helen Thomas is a racist just like most of the people who want out of Iraq have been exposed. They hate "those people over there" and want nothing to do with them and desire them dead.
Victor Davis Hanson wrote a revealing article on this a few months ago which exposed this disturbing racist trend in certain people.
I have seen this over and over. Richard Perle in his documentary on the Middle East on PBS was questioning and English policy maker "who wanted out of Iraq" and that person could not have cared less that women would be hung by their hair for going to college or little girls would be molested for going to school. These people have no love at all for "people not like them".
I hope Jake Tapper grows another set of manhood and starts poking his camera in Helen Thomas' face and grills her why she is a hate filled racist, then David Gregory, Chris Matthews and that entire mob. They need to be exposed.
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Helen Thomas is an ignoramus.
July 12, 2007 - 17:28 ET by Dave RWhile I have some serious issues with our president on how the conflict in Iraq is being directed, I listened to the press conference today and was fairly happy to hear what he had to say. I also listened to as much of the media guestions as I could stomach. I reached two conclusions:
1) The liberal MSM, represented here by the White House Press Corp., is squarely on the side of our enemies in this war.
2) Helen Thomas is an ignoramus.
Just once, I'd like to see GWB get in her face and ask her whose side she is on in the GWOT, as I suspect she is in the tank for the Jihadists. I know it won't happen, but I would love to see it just the same.
Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.
About a year ago Tony Snow
July 12, 2007 - 19:13 ET by Heather RadishAbout a year ago Tony Snow thanked Helen for presenting the terrorists' point of view
That should definitely be standard procedure from now on.
Heather,LOL-I remember that.
July 12, 2007 - 21:14 ET by Dave RHeather,
LOL-I remember that. Laughed so hard my sides ached.
I listened to most of this to
July 12, 2007 - 17:29 ET by bigtimerI listened to most of this today live....it is all I can do to put myself through listening to these self-delusional leftist defeatist twits anymore...
The enemy within is all they are and ever will be.
Helen Thomas has always...and I mean always said the President started this war....blah blah blah...nothing new with that old leftist bat.
Martha Cry Me a River Radditz is praying there will be no progress with the surge by Sept....along with the rest of her leftist comrades...btw...the AlQaeda Intelligence Report? I loved how the Pres. came back at the end and kind of snickered with that asinine question....
Gregory with his smugness about implying, no stating... that the Pres. is too stubborn, in denial or not realistic about the facts of this war...blah blah blah
Axlerod saying that Congress is going to get him in the end...yeah right...when pigs fly.
If these enemies within as far as I am concerned would just shut the hell up, quit aiding and abetting the enemy, let the Generals and military alone, let them do their jobs without being micro-managed every step of the way, let alone Congress and their own individual political goals we would of already won as far as I am concerned.
For me they are all nothing but traitors...I am never forgetting any of this since day one of this war.
They are despicable...and this country and Congress is supposed to be a role model for the new Iraqi govt....
They all should be ashamed...but they do not even know how to spell that word let alone define it.
Heaven help us all.
helen thomas ... when is that
July 12, 2007 - 18:02 ET by pmohbuckhelen thomas ... when is that crusty bag of stale oats going to retire? i mean i'd never heard of her until a couple of years ago when a MSM program did a piece on the fossil's front row perch at white house pressers ... other than scaring kids on a daily basis, what is this woman's purpose?
Howdy pmho....I do not think
July 12, 2007 - 18:13 ET by bigtimerHowdy pmho....
I do not think she is ever going to retire until she is... well, buried in her own story if you get my drift...
LOL...
How will we know when she is.
July 12, 2007 - 18:37 ET by midnight cowboyHow will we know when she is.... ? By any reasonable standard she aleady looks like she could have expired years ago. There's pictures of exhumed bodies that look better than her.
What I want to know is how come costume makers do not have a mask and costume in her name. All I know is, when I was a kid out trick or treating and if she would have answered the door at night, (actually make that during the day as well), that would have been the last house I went to 'cause I'd be too busy running home with soiled shorts.
mc...ROFLMAO!
July 12, 2007 - 18:39 ET by bigtimermc...
ROFLMAO!
Pat Dollard has a great sum
July 12, 2007 - 18:24 ET by Right2thePointPat Dollard has a great summary of what that mess of a press conference was today
http://patdollard.co...
The press was entirely uninterested in asking the President
questions, and instead chose to use their airtime to make political
statements. Statements mostly quasi-disguised as questions, but to no
rational mind recognizable as anything other than propaganda.
Dollard's take
July 12, 2007 - 18:29 ET by bigtimerRight2...
Great story indeed....I love Dollard's site...here is the link he is talking about...well worth reading.
Yikes! Where did you get that
July 12, 2007 - 18:30 ET by ThisnThatYikes! Where did you get that picture of Helen? Makes me want to scrub my computer screen.
I thought Helen Thomas was de
July 12, 2007 - 18:48 ET by GalvanicI thought Helen Thomas was dead.
galv...
July 12, 2007 - 18:53 ET by LionKingBrain dead
Wishfull thinking, she sold h
July 12, 2007 - 18:55 ET by BEGRUNTWishfull thinking, she sold her soul to the devil back when she was covering the Lincoln Administration. That is why "it" is still alive. Only a stake through the heart, or a silver bullet will put an end to her sorry ass.
One day soon, Helen will not
July 12, 2007 - 20:04 ET by BlazerOne day soon, Helen will not wake up from her coffin beneath the White House to attend a press conference, and you guys will feel bad for making fun of her.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
"One day soon, Helen wil
July 12, 2007 - 22:59 ET by acadia1755"One day soon, Helen will not wake up from her coffin beneath the White House to attend a press conference, and you guys will feel bad for making fun of her."
Bury the thing upside down and let the hag dig all she wants!
The Liberals have become what they hate.
Traitors abound....what
July 13, 2007 - 00:07 ET by Army BratTraitors abound....what the hell is going on? Happy Trails...
Yipes! What a scary pic!
July 13, 2007 - 00:15 ET by SnowWhiteYipes! What a scary pic! Doesn't this old bag have some great,great,great,great, grandchildren somewhere to dandle on her knees? You'd think she'd want to get ready to meet her maker... which surely can't be too far off....instead of harrassing George W.
Traitors
July 13, 2007 - 08:15 ET by cvgbuckeyeThese people would gladly take up a weapon and shoot a United States Marine in the head if they thought it would put blood on America's and President Bush's hands.
I know that it is disgusting beyond description and we all get so angry that we are speechless but, believe it or not, there is light at the end of the tunnel. I'll tell you why.
The stack up and combination of the unprecedented OVERREACHING of the MSM and democrats is wearing on the American Public. The unprecedented beating on our President and this nation WILL EVENTUALLY yield tremendous backlash.
Marry the preceding with the undeniable signs of our success in Iraq and our Presidents skill at politely telling these people to kiss his behind and these people are going into absolute panic mode.
All the signs are there. We are going to come out on top in this thing.
The Creature speaks again...w
July 13, 2007 - 12:01 ET by the_red_stateThe Creature speaks again...when is Tony Snow going to wake up, relegate the old bag to the back row and ignore her questions?