Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Don't you love Helen Thomas?
Helen Thomas is one tough cookie. It is encouraging to see someone from the Press Corps speak up, as witnessed by this interesting exchange with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan:
The James S. Brady Briefing Room
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
July 19, 2004
HELEN THOMAS: Prime Minister Blair took full personal responsibility for taking his nation into war under falsehoods -- under reasons that have been determined now to be false. Is President Bush also willing to take full, personal responsibility --
SCOTT McCLELLAN: I think Prime Minister Blair said that it was the right thing to do; that Saddam Hussein's regime was a threat.
HELEN THOMAS: Those were not the reasons he took his country into war. It turned out to be untrue, and the same is true for us. Does the President take full, personal responsibility for this war?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: The issue here is what do you to with a threat in a post-September 11th world? Either you live with a threat, or you confront the threat.
HELEN THOMAS: There was no threat.
SCOTT McCLELLAN: The President made the decision to confront the threat.
HELEN THOMAS: Saddam Hussein did not threaten this country.
SCOTT McCLELLAN: The world -- the world, the Congress and the administration all disagree. They all recognized that there was a threat posed by Saddam Hussein. When it came to September 11th, that changed the equation. It taught us, as I said --
HELEN THOMAS: The Intelligence Committee said there was no threat.
SCOTT McCLELLAN: As I said, it taught us that we must confront threats before it's too late.
HELEN THOMAS: So the President doesn't take full responsibility?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: The President already talked about the responsibility for the decisions he's made. He talked about that with Prime Minister Blair.
HELEN THOMAS: Personal responsibility?
SCOTT McCLELLAN: Terry, go ahead.
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HELEN THOMAS is such a retarded bitch! Anyone who votes for John Kerry or listens to Michael Moore needs to be anal raped for the next 4 years. Moore is not interested in exploring complexity. He likes to find scapegoats - generally some mix of corporations, America, and "stupid white males" - and hammer them. To properly arouse anger at his scapegoats, he ignores nuance and subtlety, and misrepresents statistics. It is not enough to criticize the NRA - Moore needs to make Charleton Heston look like a racist. It is not enough to find out why other countries have a lower murder rate than the US - Moore needs to make the difference in murder rates sound 20 times as bad as it is. And God knows he can't admit that in other crime categories America is actually safer than other countries. Then people might actually take a balanced look at the US, instead of finding America despicable. He's deceitful,has inaccurate statistics,and is completly one sided. Fuck michael moore, that fat ugly prick, and john kerry too ,and fuck anyone who votes for those cocksuckers...i'm like a woman's underwear...I support Bush!
