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Helen Thomas, Impartial Journalist, in Today's WH Press Briefing
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| 6 January 2003
| the White House
Posted on 01/06/2003 6:55:22 PM PST by SFConservative
ARI FLEISCHER: And with that, I'm more than happy to take your questions. Helen.
HELEN THOMAS, Hearst Newspapers columnist: At the earlier briefing, Ari, you said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up.
FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores and wounded hundreds. And the President, as he said in his statement yesterday, deplores in the strongest terms the taking of those lives and the wounding of those people, innocents in Israel.
THOMAS: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
FLEISCHER: Helen, the question is how to protect Americans, and our allies and friends --
THOMAS: They're not attacking you.
FLEISCHER: -- from a country --
THOMAS: Have they laid the glove on you or on the United States, the Iraqis, in 11 years?
FLEISCHER: I guess you have forgotten about the Americans who were killed in the first Gulf War as a result of Saddam Hussein's aggression then.
THOMAS: Is this revenge, 11 years of revenge?
FLEISCHER: Helen, I think you know very well that the President's position is that he wants to avert war, and that the President has asked the United Nations to go into Iraq to help with the purpose of averting war.
THOMAS: Would the President attack innocent Iraqi lives?
FLEISCHER: The President wants to make certain that he can defend our country, defend our interests, defend the region, and make certain that American lives are not lost.
THOMAS: And he thinks they are a threat to us?
FLEISCHER: There is no question that the President thinks that Iraq is a threat to the United States.
THOMAS: The Iraqi people?
FLEISCHER: The Iraqi people are represented by their government. If there was regime change, the Iraqi --
THOMAS: So they will be vulnerable?
FLEISCHER: Actually, the President has made it very clear that he has not dispute with the people of Iraq. That's why the American policy remains a policy of regime change. There is no question the people of Iraq --
THOMAS: That's a decision for them to make, isn't it? It's their country.
FLEISCHER: Helen, if you think that the people of Iraq are in a position to dictate who their dictator is, I don't think that has been what history has shown.
THOMAS: I think many countries don't have -- people don't have the decision -- including us.
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To: Blue Screen of Death
Each time she makes a fool of herself some republican gets his wings. So that would mean that all Republicans in the country have their wings by now ... I don't know ...
Hey, what's that tickling feeling between my shoulder blades???
To: SFConservative
How does a man seperate his revulsion of Helen Thomas' corrupt agenda and deceitful ethos from his primal desire of animal lust, need and passion for her?
To: SFConservative; Southack; Trueblackman; Congressman Billybob; Sabertooth; rdb3; JohnHuang2; ...
We should pressure Hearst to dump this non-journalist from their payroll (I know, fat chance).I've got one better - as a columnist as opposed to a journalist, perhaps Evilene's White House credentials should be pulled. After all, Ann Coulter does not have White House press credentials...
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:15:07 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Dog Gone; End_Clintonism_Now
"As long as she's the voice of the opposition, we have nothing to fear. It's a plus." Kinda like this one, posted on another thread. Is it just me, or is the face of the RAT party getting uglier and more scary all the time?
To: ArneFufkin
That's the most disturbing post I've read in quite a while.
To: SFConservative; paul544; Munson; Paul Atreides; sweetliberty; billorites
It's odd how differently people can view things, I thought Helen exposed Ari as a shill for the policy of pre-emptive attack on some threats, not necessarily the most threatening to the U.S.
The dead and wounded in Israel have my prayers, on all sides.
To: ArneFufkin
How does a man seperate his revulsion of Helen Thomas' corrupt agenda and deceitful ethos from his primal desire of animal lust, need and passion for her? I recommend you go over to the microwave and stick your head in it on HIGH for about a minute - the resulting reprogramming will get you over those unnatural feelings ... ;-)
To: Interesting Times
My mistake. I thought this was about Fall Guy's "Heather Thomas".
To: SFConservative
Helen is the epitome of the Democrat's problem. Doubt, Doubt, Question, Riducule, Frustration, Anger, Childish, Decry, Deride, and Belittle. Guess What: It doesn't work. And the American people don't like it. Take a poll of how many Americans like Helen Thomas, and not many will vote in her favor.
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:17:42 PM PST
by
rs79bm
To: ArneFufkin
Man, thats a tough one...LOL...
To: ArneFufkin
I couldn't even find my keyboard after reading that one...says it all. Good God, I'm choking, laughing and drooling all at the same time.
To: JeanS
I think having Helen so prominent serves a purpose. She is so shrill and, well, her face fits her voice. Wouldn't you rather have her the 'face' of the left in the press conferences rather than, say, John Edwards?
Day in and day out, people hear this terribly unattractive and unpleasant person attacking the President. I suspect it may help his ratings. It certainly makes Ari Fleischer look patient.
To: ArneFufkin
Just damn. I just had my dinner!
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:21:42 PM PST
by
mhking
To: UnBlinkingEye
I thought Helen exposed Ari as a shill for the policy of pre-emptive attack on some threats, not necessarily the most threatening to the U.S. That asinine comment might have some traction if Bush had a track record of nuking unsuspecting countries.
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:22:30 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: SFConservative
I suppose she also defended Nazi Germany during WWII.
To: paul544
Why would they let her in the godammnned White House in the first place.
The senile old sewer faced evil demented socialist beast will bring a gun in next.
The briefing room isn't "Crossfire".
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:24:56 PM PST
by
Rome2000
To: Munson
Maybe the WH should dump Helen Thomas from the press pool.Or maybe they should just dump her IN the cesspool!
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:25:53 PM PST
by
Bullish
To: Dog Gone
That asinine comment might have some traction if Bush had a track record of nuking unsuspecting countries It's a newly announced asinine policy, apparently directed only towards those nations that can't defend themselves.
To: SFConservative
I saw the conference and think Ari made a mistake by engaging in a debate with her. Should have aswered her stupid question and moved on. Or better still, don't even call on the senile old bag
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:26:30 PM PST
by
paul51
To: SFConservative
The White House should dump her. The WH press corps is there to record and report the news, not to push their individual pet peeve agendas.
Ari wasted far too much time on her. She doesn't even function as a journalist anymore. She's merely a columnist, and a Lebanese one at that.
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