Bush gives CNN the Helen Thomas treatment.
By on Dec 24th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Bush gives CNN the Helen Thomas treatment.
In the last month, CNN’s Ed Henry has aggressively questioned Press Secretary Dana Perino about the White House’s deceptive statements about Iranian intelligence and its evasiveness about its role in destroying the torture tapes. Fishbowl DC reports that at his year-end press conference last Thursday, Bush did not call on CNN, “making CNN’s Ed Henry and Helen Thomas (who almost never gets called on by Bush) the only two front-row journos not to be called on.”
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Talk about a mark of distinction!
December 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pmDoesn't really matter whether you get to answer a question or not.
GDumbya never answers any of them, anyway.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:06 pmLuv it, CNN is no longer a reputable institution, but merely another henchman of the DNC. I wouldn't give them the time of day either.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:11 pmListen,
These F2@$king Repukes dont care
I know lots of them, some are in my extended family
They laugh at homeless and minorities
they laugh at the sick uninsured
they laugh at torture of innocent people
Hell, they laugh when people get tazered.
Not calling on Hlen and CNN is terribly spiteful and childish...... but in the grand scheme of things ... its not a big deal compared to the other damage they do.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:15 pmLuv it, CNN is no longer a reputable institution, but merely another henchman of the DNC. I wouldn’t give them the time of day either.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
Yeah, sure, Jason.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:16 pmThats why Glen Beck works for CNN, right?
**rolls eyes**
The bigger question is, why isn't the rest of the media asking this administration why they repeatedly lied about Iran's nuclear program? Why were they warning us of mushroom clouds over US cities when they were clearly told Iran had halted it's nuke weapon program back in 2003?
Bush lied us into one war, then tried to lie us into another, but most of the media is too scared of being called "liberal" to actually ask them about it.
That's why this administration gets away with crime after crime against the American people.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:17 pmLuv it, CNN is no longer a reputable institution, but merely another henchman of the DNC. I wouldn’t give them the time of day either.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
Oh, how I wish that were true.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:17 pmMust. Ignore. Too. Embarassing.!
December 24th, 2007 at 2:18 pmBush is afraid of tough questions. The guy can barely answer the softballs that are so often lobbed his way. He looked like a deer in the headlights the other day when asked when he knew about the NIE on Iran. The laughable answer that he had just heard of it - when every other member of his administration had already been briefed....what a joke.
You could see in his darting eyes and furtive looks that he was trying to remember the exact lie they told him to say.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:18 pmIt's fairly well known that Bush won't ever call on anyone who won't gently lob him a nice puffy softball question (and those who manage to gush while doing so get even more preferential treatment).
What amazes me is that Bush doesn't even care how obvious it looks. Why doesn't he just go all the way and have his own staffers ask questions in staged "press conferences" a la FEMA?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pmJason Hitler loves it when the fascisti like Bush try to silence the American people.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pmhttp://ccoaler.blogspot.com/2007/12/discussion-about-mercy-for-no3-of-sisde.html
December 24th, 2007 at 2:21 pmMAfia news: Napolitano files plea deal for Contrada
December 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pmMaybe Bush was just hoping he could get more phony press credentials for Jeff Gannon and have him ask his GOP planted questions.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:22 pmIf George W. Bush can't face Helen Thomas and Ed Henry, how can we expect him to face Osama Bin Laden?
-GSD
December 24th, 2007 at 2:25 pmCNN is no longer a reputable institution, but merely another henchman of the DNC. I wouldn’t give them the time of day either.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
Glenn Beck is gonna be surprised to discover that he's a henchman of the DNC...
Seriously, do you really think that asking Bush or Barbie Peroxide tough questions makes one a henchman of the DNC? As I recall, CNN reporters asked some tough questions of Bill Clinton, too -- for pretty much the same reasons. When you dance around the truth, give replies as vague as possible, and play with semantics, you can expect a few journalists to try to get your position nailed down.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:26 pmThis is just another indicator of the level of cowardice displayed by this faux dictator. Ed and Helen are SCARY!
December 24th, 2007 at 2:27 pmWingnuts like Hendler fail to realize that the press is supposed to ask tough questions of people in power. That's what they do (or are supposed to do) and it's why we give them some extraordinary latitude in holding secrets. The wingnuts only want a supine press, that never pushes for tough answers. Unless, of course, the questionee happens to be a Democrat or a liberal and even then what they really want are bogus, irrelevant questions intended to make the person look sinister.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:30 pmCheney-Bush was a coward when he skipped out on his Air Force duties and he's still a coward now. Cowardice and bullying go hand in hand, don't they?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:30 pmI'm reminded of an old saying.
"Liars avoid the truth like ugly people avoid mirrors".
December 24th, 2007 at 2:31 pm#16, missmolly,
Well, when Bush taps an intern, then I will agree with you.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:31 pm#18, gummy,
There is a difference between insightful questions and malicious accusations intended to diminish an individuals stature.
CNN wheels that corpse Helen into the press room to rant and rail at the President, in the hopes that he will push back, so the libs can scream victim. Personally, I would luv to see him pound her again, as he did awhile back when she got too rude.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pmLuv it, CNN is no longer a reputable institution, but merely another henchman of the DNC. I wouldn’t give them the time of day either.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Bush is a WATB. So he is not going to call on a reporter if the question matters to the American people? I guess we should start making room for the 'fair and balanced' Faux news then.
Bush and his sychophants are standing alone against the world right now. Oh, how the deluded have fallen.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:33 pm#18 - precisely. They see the world, including law, morality, and professional conduct in an "their side/our side" frame, and can't imagine anyone acting outside that paradigm.
So when someone asks tough questions of their side, the questioner must be from the other side.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:34 pmThe bigger question is, why isn’t the administration asking the President of Iran why they have repeatedly lied about Iran’s nucular program?
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Uh, because the administration doesn't talk to Iran?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:34 pmAnd here I thought a well informed populace was the hallmark of democracy.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:35 pmHendler must think the Fourth Estate is Cheney's Wyoming ranch.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pmComment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
When did CNN hire Helen Thomas?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pmJason, your not qualified, as a member of the hoi polloi, to govern nor criticise.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:36 pmCase in point: #23 - no consideration that there are real issues, such as illegal conduct committed by the government, a coverup of that conduct, obstruction of oversight functions, a repeat of gross distortions as a pretext for war and so on.
It's "they asked it because they want our guy to look bad".
Civic responsibilities never enter their minds.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:38 pmThe fourth estate is Bush's sanctuary in Paraguay where he will hope to avoid war crimes tribunals.
-GSD
December 24th, 2007 at 2:41 pmyou mean bush wouldnt take a question not related to what he is planning on having for christmas dinner?
im shocked and yawned.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pmPresident of Iran why they have repeatedly lied about Iran’s nucular program?
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Why not lie?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pmThere is a difference between insightful questions and malicious accusations intended to diminish an individuals stature.
CNN wheels that corpse Helen into the press room to rant and rail at the President, in the hopes that he will push back, so the libs can scream victim. Personally, I would luv to see him pound her again, as he did awhile back when she got too rude.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
First of all, check your facts before you make yourself look even more retarded. Helen Thomas has been with UPI, not CNN, for 57 years. She's old school press and this country would do far better with a room filled with reporters of her integrity.
Your analysis of what questions she asks are absurd. If your president can't answer real questions, he should get back to clearing brush.
When he steps in front of those microphones and cameras, Bush isn't a little crybaby "individual" he's supposed to be the President of the United States and not some crybaby, afraid of an old woman.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pmCNN wheels that corpse Helen into the press room to rant and rail at the President, in the hopes that he will push back, so the libs can scream victim. Personally, I would luv to see him pound her again, as he did awhile back when she got too rude.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Thomas reports for UPI, not CNN
December 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pmGeez Jason.....
Helen Thomas, who asks real and tough questions, is not the type of journalist that Bush likes.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:45 pmHe prefers stenographers and Cheerleaders...instead.
Yeah, if you ask Bush HARD questions that require him to TELL THE TRUTH, he either would be shown to be a
LIAR, or a MORON, or a TRAITOR to the USA.
Which he has already been SHOWN to be.
Which is WHY you can't ask him HARD questions that would require him to TELL THE TRUTH.
Sincerely,
NRA Gun Nutes
December 24th, 2007 at 2:47 pmThe United States has said in the past it would talk directly with Iran on its nuclear ambitions only if it first suspends uranium enrichment. The Bush administration tried to draw a distinction between Monday's talks on Iraq and the nuclear issue.Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
Is that the part I was supposed to read? I didn't forget.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:47 pmBush likes O'Reilly,Limbaugh and Co.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:48 pmBush misses the days when Jeff Gannon would pop up, ask a softball question and then get the guest pass from Chimpy for a little dong-tag in the green room.
Those were the days.
-GSD
December 24th, 2007 at 2:49 pmNo need to, your side is winning…………-Billy Hill
I have no 'side'
December 24th, 2007 at 2:49 pmWingnut press conference
Fair question: "Mr. President, what can I do to make sure the world knows what a fine and brilliant leader you are?"
Unfair question: "Mr. President, what is the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni?"
December 24th, 2007 at 2:50 pmThe US officials, under Bush, Billy, are holding talks with Iran, your 'side'
December 24th, 2007 at 2:51 pmWas Duh Bya wearing his special Mission Accomplished codpiece when he stood up to those mean correspondents?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:51 pmComment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
Billy, Rupert Murdoch AND the NYT have sold their television interests to Oakhill.
Media is controversy, nothing more.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:52 pmOh really………. maybe a front or back?
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
Add Karma Recommend (0) |
I only have waves.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:53 pmThis is entertainment, nothing more.
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:54 pm
Is entertainment truth? Are reality shows real?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:55 pmAs for your link Billy, do YOU think Iran has "Great Victory" by engaging in talks?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pmThats up to you. Some people chose the news THEY LIKE TO HEAR, like Countdown on MSNBC…….. thats news Democrats WANT to hear spun just the way they like it!
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
How can reality be spin?
December 24th, 2007 at 2:57 pmBush is a MORON and a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.
Asking him HARD questions is "unfair".
WAAAAAAAAHHH!
People better "watch what they say", according to Ari the JewishNazi.
Sincerely,
NRA Gun Nutes
December 24th, 2007 at 2:58 pmCNN wheels that corpse Helen into the press room to rant and rail at the President, in the hopes that he will push back, so the libs can scream victim. Personally, I would luv to see him pound her again, as he did awhile back when she got too rude.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Jason thinks Helen Thomas works for CNN? You get dumber every day JJ. Stanford, indeed!
December 24th, 2007 at 3:04 pmThe bigger question is, why isn’t the administration asking the President of Iran why they have repeatedly lied about Iran’s nucular program?
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
It's nuclear, dumbass. And do we live in Iran under Iran's president? We're allowed to ask other foreign leaders what they're doing but you fascists don't want us to ask OUR LEADER what he's doing. Heil Hillbilly!
December 24th, 2007 at 3:06 pmThat’s too bad. Bush should have called on the reporter from the Clinton News Network just to show that he is bigger than the Democrats who refuse to deal with Fox News.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
What are you talking about? He'd be in good company calling someone from the Conservative News Network.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:16 pmI think you have Bush confused with CAP ally David Brock.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
No. He's right on the money.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:18 pmNever before has a President and Vice President deserved to be impeached more than these.
Yet our Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, is working behind the scenes with House Democrats, not to build a consensus for impeachment, but to do just the opposite: to keep others from succeeding in their effort to hold this president accountable by means of impeachment.
With the FISA bill still looming in the Senate, and a new war funding bill passed with no structure in place to Bring our Troops Home, we have to show the leaders of the House and Senate that this is still our country.
Please read the petition to replace Pelosi with a Democratic Representative who will bring impeachment proceedings to the floor. A Question of Privilege under House Rules IX can declare the Speaker seat vacant.
It can be done, it must be done. We have waited long enough.
http://www.petitiononline.com/everyman/petition.html
December 24th, 2007 at 3:19 pmThat’s too bad. Bush should have called on the reporter from the Clinton News Network just to show that he is bigger than the Democrats who refuse to deal with Fox News.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Poor Manless thinks Helen Thomas isn't a real reporter and Fox News is real news. How are thinks in backwards town?
December 24th, 2007 at 3:19 pmCome on, Tighty Righties! Jason "cold_flaccid_right" Hendler and Billy Hill are the best your side can do?
Jeez, all the can do is claim that holding the administration accountable for things they say is unfair, or trying to derail the thread.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pmThe bigger question is, why isn’t the administration asking the President of Iran why they have repeatedly lied about Iran’s nucular program?
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
Iran has said all along is has a nuclear energy program. They have maintained that they are not developing a nuclear WEAPON program. Our National Intelligence Estimate backed their claims, and refuted the Bush Admin claims of a nuclear WEAPONS program.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pmWhy do you have so much confidence in the most recent NIE concerning Iran? After all, an October 2002 NIE said Iraq had WMD.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Well, for one thing, the IAEA (the agency monitoring Iran's nuke program) agrees with the most recent NIE.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pmKaplan is now with the liberals at CBS Corporation.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
You are delusional enough to be an employee of Bushco. Go ahead and send them your resume.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pmAfter all, an October 2002 NIE said Iraq had WMD.
Incorrect. A declassified summary said that.
The actual NIE - which had been seriously distorted in any event by the efforts of Cheney's Office of Special Plans - actually had serious caveats on all the claims of Iraqi WMD, and caveats on the sources, and caveats on the conclusions. The caveats, naturally, were excised in the run-up to war.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:22 pmOh, and:
Why do you have so much confidence in the most recent NIE concerning Iran?
Because it's consistent with what the IAEA inspectors have always said. And the IAEA inspectors, one should recall, were 100% right on Iraq.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:23 pm#57 Shayne, priceless post...Blessing
December 24th, 2007 at 3:23 pmHow does somebody who is afraid to answer tough questions keep his office? Because most members of the media don't ask the questions that need to be answered. And look how many trolls are here proud of their leader's cowardice. You trolls would have been polishing Hitler's shoes back in the day. Hope you're proud of yourselves.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:25 pmThanks #1. Our fascist trolls are very busy bootlicking today. You'd think they'd be in church what with all the christofascism going on in their party.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:26 pmYour recollection is faulty. The Clinton News Network was run by Clinton golf buddy Rick Kaplan at that time. He gave orders to his reporters not to be too tough on Clinton. See http://ibdeditorials.com/ IBDArticles.aspx?id=258250369428152
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
The article says he killed stories about a scandal the Clintons were not involved in: Whitewater.
And there's no way to tell if this information is true.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:28 pmThats up to you. Some people chose the news THEY LIKE TO HEAR, like Countdown on MSNBC…….. thats news Democrats WANT to hear spun just the way they like it!
Comment by Billy Hill — December 24, 2007 @ 2:50 pm
My, my. Where to start.
The story you linked clearly said, as anyone who pays attention knows well, that Bushco and the Iranians don't have "normalized" relations. To the best of my knowledge they have never discussed Iran's "nukular" ambitions.
I haven't subscribed to cable in nearly ten years. I can't force myself to watch that much T.V. and can't justify the expense. So, MSNBC isn't one of my sources.
As someone who chooses not to hear anything negative about Buhco, I'm not sure you're in any position to judge what others "pick and choose". I would prefer not to hear/read bad news about my country, however, that's not an option when there is so much bad to report.
Finally, though it may be hard to believe, I have no longstanding loyalty to any party. My leanings are "old conservative"; not to be confused with the reckless radicals, known as neocons, who have seized the GOP. I vote for, or against, individuals based on their stands on issues which are important to me. Occasionally I consider the company they keep.
That's why I will vote against anyone with any connection to Bushco. The first time I saw the Chimps shifting, beady, little eyes; I thought RAT! Sadly, he's proven far worse than my worst nightmares.
I will continue to speak, and vote, against the neocon scum until one, or the other, ceases to exist.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:28 pmAnother good one, think the bulk of them are confused rather they should go to church, temple or cinagog(sp) and all the while march lock step...If they aren't careful they will all stumble over their lace's....Blessings
December 24th, 2007 at 3:31 pmBilly Hill, you have no argument so you have to resort to the Democrats = traitors rhetoric. Democrats love Iran argument. Thus you only show that you have nothing besides GOP talking points.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pmReally #1 they are a sad, sorry lot. Anybody who puts party over this once great country should be found guilty of treason. I hope their info can be backtracked from these threads once this country is under a normal leader again. And the only thing that is important is that we get the most normal leader possible.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:37 pm#79 Shayne, I agree, just hope I live long enough to see our country on a good path against all war's and rebuilding here and around the world...Along with justice and accountability ofcourse......Blessings to you and your's...
December 24th, 2007 at 3:42 pmThe acts of a coward. Big surprise.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:45 pmSeems like by now it ought to be a badge of honor and good journalism to not be called on by Bush...
December 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pmBumper sticker:
We don't demand perfection
December 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pmWe demand accountability
Bush's childish behavior makes it clear that he doesn't respresent all of the people. Hence Bush isn't the President of the United States, but instead he is only the President of the 28%'ers.
I'm proud to say that Bush isn't my president.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:46 pmBush knows that he's only considered Commander In Chief to those 24 percenters who call themselves Republicans! The rest of the country disowned him as President long, long ago.
December 24th, 2007 at 3:53 pmLabotamies for republican's, it's the law.....Blessings all
December 24th, 2007 at 3:55 pmArn Gunnutes:
“Bush is a MORON and a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.â€
I think you have Bush confused with CAP ally David Brock.
Comment by Manslagt — December 24, 2007 @ 3:14 pm
Nope, I definitely meant MURDERER BusHitler is a COXUCKER punk TRAITOR to the USA.
As for David Brock, he was once a right-winger, until he realized the EVIL (such as TRAITOR Bush Sr.) that he was helping.
Brock is another that told the TRUTH about MURDERER Bush the COXUCKER punk TRAITOR, thus your trying to discredit Brock.
Sincerely,
NRA Gun Nutes
December 24th, 2007 at 4:08 pm#4. Comment by overlap
December 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI too, am related to a bunch of republicans....THEIR money comes first... to them THEY are a success as look at the beautiful home they live in.... It is all about appearances and material wealth which is why so many go to BIG PHARMA for the drugs.....
What ever type of government it takes to ensure their money grows, no matter how corrupt, they rationalize to make it right.
That should be a much needed feather in the cap of CNN.
Ed Henry is one of the few people at CNN to have balls. I hope they don't force him to wuss out.
Bush wouldn't have answered the question anyway. This is why he loves David Gregroy "stretch" so much....as he can wuss away the answers and get by with it. Gregory is now Rove gal pal.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:30 pmEven if these moronic Bush-cultists were correct about CNN (and of course, they're not) it would change the fact that Bush is a petty little coward and a petulant bully who demeans the office.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:36 pmSorry, I meant to post that it WOULDN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT BUSH IS A PETTY LITTLE COWARD AND A PETULANT BULLY WHO DEMEANS THE OFFICE.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:37 pmJett: "Ed Henry is one of the few people at CNN to have balls. I hope they don’t force him to wuss out."
The is part of the way they manipulate the media. The media is now a corporate invironment in which players like Henry make real good money. I'm sure that having come so far, the last thing Ed Henry wants to do is ruin his own career. The way the Bush administration holds careerism over the heads of those who are supposed to ask them questions is one of the things poisoning the system.
December 24th, 2007 at 4:40 pmI really don't understand how and why Helen Thomas does what she does. It must make her crazy sitting there day after day watching the latest press secretary lie through their teeth. Nothing of any consequence ever happens at a Presidential press conference or daily briefing so why do they do it. Is it a prestige thing? If I were a journalist, that is the last place I would want to be.
December 24th, 2007 at 5:26 pmEven my republican friends stopped defending bush a long time ago. Now it's "The're all crooks"....this is progress folks. I still try not to respond to trolls, I just sit back and watch them self-destruct. I would never got to a neocon blog in some lame attempt to change their little pea brains.
December 24th, 2007 at 5:27 pmComment by wisedup — December 24, 2007 @ 5:27 pm
That is giving them way too much credit... a pea is way to large for a republican brain.
December 24th, 2007 at 7:38 pmI really don’t understand how and why Helen Thomas does what she does. It must make her crazy sitting there day after day watching the latest press secretary lie through their teeth. If I were a journalist, that is the last place I would want to be.
Comment by bilbobaggins — December 24, 2007 @ 5:26 pm
Presidents come and go, but Helen Thomas keeps the same seat she's had for decades. In a little over a year this administration will be gone, hopefully replaced with one less corrupt and secretive. If democracy is still alive in this country, it will have to be, because the American people can not tolerate this crap any more.
December 24th, 2007 at 9:00 pmBad for Ed Henry and CNN, but GOOD FOR ED HENRY!
The ones who are getting called on should start being journalists (for a change) asking the probing questions, and not letting Dana and Dubya
December 25th, 2007 at 12:26 amside-step their questions without a challenge!
Wewl if yous git invitwed ober towoo gwb's swandbox and won't lwet gwb kick swand in yous face - then yous might never be invwited back again towoo play. If gwb can't have fun - nobody has fun.
December 25th, 2007 at 3:38 ambush is probably still pissed at helen thomas for making that video with stephen colbert shown at the white house press party - and if i were ed henry i wouldn't be too concerned - he and helen must have been relieved that for 1 day they didn't have to hear people like david gregory kiss bush's ass before receiving an incoherent language-mangled off-topic repsponse to whatever questions they ask as we are all now accustomed to
December 25th, 2007 at 3:51 amJason M. Hendler @ 3
And FAUX News is not the communications hub of the
ReichWest Wing?In case your fall off the turnip truck occurred sometime in the past six or seven years, I should remind you that ALL of the networks -- including what you laughingly refer to as the Clinton News Network -- went after Clinton with much more viciousness and zeal than they go after this president. Timid would be the word that comes to mind now.
Jason M. Hendler @ 21
"Rude"? Judging from your last sentence here you appear to have a really warped concept as to what is rude or not. Obviously, you have zero respect for your elders or those with far greater intellect than you.
And talk about misinformed. Helen Thomas does not work for CNN, clownshoes. You gotta quit listening to Hannity and Rush.
December 25th, 2007 at 7:28 pmObviously to uninformed reps asking tuff questions must make you a "liberal" , yet if they knew anything how CNN , CBS has on and does business , they're anything BUT liberal . But since when has any right winger offered any proof to back up their phony allegations . Here's ACTUAL PROOF , CNN backs up the Bush Regime or U.S. foreign policy .
1. CNN hires Psyops (military intelligence unit) to work as interns, during late 90's , as reported by Abe Vreis and later admitted by CNN.
2. Hirers Generals, Colonels to cheer lead invasion of Iraq . No body from left , to counter war cheer leading .
3. CNN daily has on Council on Foreign Relations , William Cohen , Hass, and others to promote U.S. foreign policy . CFR believes in one world currency . Not Liberal at all .
4. Blitzer former AIPAC employee , protects U.s. foreign policy & Israel by censoring most stories about Gaza , unless Palestinians are killing each other . When Israel killed 14 civilians in one day , there was not one , NOT one verbal report, regulated to banner . 14 DEAD .
5. PNAC , the hottest subject with " liberal internet" proving neocons wanted a " new pearl harbor " . Subject of PNAC or neocons is rarely even mentioned , no discussion at all .
6. Pandering to Right Wing immigrant bashers, CNN launches into over hyped hysteria during You tube debate , about illegal immigration , even though its not even a top 3 issue for most people .
December 25th, 2007 at 9:12 pm"No need to, your side is winning…………
http://sweetness-light.com/ archive/ us-iran-talks-a-great-victory-for-tehran"
I must have missed where you turned from a progressive or democrat (i.e. "As a progressive" or "As a Democrat") into a poster that doesn't lie in his first sentence about his political bent. Weird.
December 25th, 2007 at 9:42 pm