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Helen Thomas Continues to Grind Ax at WH Press Briefings
Excerpted from Monday's breifing. I saw the festivities on CSPAN. I felt for poor Scott. He looked as if just calling on her now gives him a migraine.Two Bagger: 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 -- I guess I missed that statement by Tony. MR. McCLELLAN: I think Prime Minister Blair said that it was the right thing to do; that Saddam Hussein's regime was a threat. TB: 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? At this point of the breifing I began to wonder whether Helen's entire cerebral activity could be simulated with less than 100 lines of code - maybe 50 to cover activities not related to essential bodily activities. MR. 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. TB: There was no threat. Helen consides this to be axiomatic. I wonder how her brain reconciles the necessity fo having 150K troops on the borders to encourage Sadaam to accept inspectors. MR. McCLELLAN: The President made the decision to confront the threat. TB: Saddam Hussein did not threaten this country. I'm sure that statements by Sadaam to the contrary are just a googgle away, but her naked stupidity doesn't inspire action on my part. - note: sorry for using the ajective naked to modify Helen even though I used the word to describe her mentality. MR. 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 -- TB: The Intelligence Committee said there was no threat. Note to Helen - any show hosted by Bill Moyers fails to qualify as an intelligence committee. In fact, Moyers and intelligence form an oxymoron (Moyers takes care of the moron part of the oxymoron.) MR. McCLELLAN: As I said, it taught us that we must confront threats before it's too late. TB: So the President doesn't take full responsibility? Here, Helen is admitting that her brain operates as a very simple receptor kind of like the square hole. I have searched the web in a vain search for a descriptive nickname for Helen Thomas as a journalist The name I was looking for belongs to the Playskool toy for shape matching that has two hemispheres (one red and one blue) and 12 faces. In each face there is a cutout for the insertion of a yellow plastic geometric shape. This toy describes Helen because she only accepts responses that fit nicely into the holes that she has already fashioned for them. These days I think she writes here editorials before the press briefings. Maybe she always has. (Note the closest name that I found of my search was the Klackeroo, which is a different shape matching toy that Hasbro has been forced to recall because the geometrically shaped button fall off leaving a dangerous plastic-knobbed toy resembling a WWII contact mine or the head of the villain in Hellraiser. MR. McCLELLAN: The President already talked about the responsibility for the decisions he's made. He talked about that with Prime Minister Blair. Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-21 |
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