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February 16, 2006
I Can Almost Forgive Him for Miers

Posted by Bill

Hugh Hewitt again cracks me up with this latest merciless badgering of UPI curmudgeon Helen Thomas, also known as "La Volpe Sporca" in these parts. This bit is great:

(Helen Thomas): Where did...yes, it's...it's very important to me. Where did you work?

(Hugh Hewitt): PBS for ten years.

HT: PBS?

HH: Yes.

HT: Well, that's a good credential.

HH: There you have it. See? I'm...

HT: But then you decided to switch over?

HH: To switch over to what?

HT: God knows what you are.

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I have to admit, Hewitt did a pretty awesome job with that one. She's a soft target, but she deserved every bit of it. And the Aunt Bethany reference is spot on.

I think Lawrence O'Donnell got the better of him in the Cheney exchange, though.

Posted by: Allah at February 16, 2006 02:14 PM

Ah, it's all wonderful, wonderful entertainment. Just marvelous.

His pointed questions make him almost like the "Stuttering John" of the conservative movement.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at February 16, 2006 02:17 PM

Why didn't you print HT's next statement? "The dark side of the Force is very powerful, Darth Hewett."

Posted by: Lew Clark at February 16, 2006 06:17 PM

Ha! I love it. She TOTALLY pwn3d him.

"You have an undercurrent campaign going on in your mind."

Posted by: rabit at February 17, 2006 12:51 AM

rabit -

Only you could characterize a batty old partisan repeating the shallow tomfoolery that Bush said Iraq "could hit us with WMD in 45 minutes" as pwning someone.

"HT: No, I consider myself a very straight and fair reporter."

FLASHBACK, 2003:

" Q My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?"

FLASHBACK, 2004:

"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told The Hill newspaper. "All we need is one more liar."

Yet she won't even admit to Hewitt that she dislikes the President and the VP. Lordy. Not only is she out of it, but she's ... a "liar," evidently.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at February 17, 2006 12:58 AM

She's brilliant!

"HT: No, I consider myself a very straight and fair reporter."

And she is.

" Q My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?"

Yes, a real journalist. Are you delusional to believe that innocents don't get killed when you bomb a country? Because, when we eventually did go into Iraq, that is what eventually did happened. You're saying that's not a proper question for a journalist to ask? That the killing of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens was the price we would have to pay to stop Saddam's WMD production factories, terrorist funding programs, mass killing of thousands innocent Iraqi citizens.... I think the question of whether it's worth the killing of thousands of dead innocent Iraqi citizens in their own country by America is a proper one to ask.

Let me repeat: mass killing of thousands innocent Iraqi citizens.

And you wonder why they don't welcome us for ridding them of their psycopath dictator Saddam.

"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told The Hill newspaper. "All we need is one more liar."

Cheney is a liar. I've seen him contradict himself. That is a point of fact, without dispute. She is correct in pointing that out.

Yet she won't even admit to Hewitt that she dislikes the President and the VP. Lordy. Not only is she out of it, but she's ... a "liar," evidently.

Hehehehe, of course she dislikes them. What a silly question to ask. You know, 61% of the country dislikes Bush right now and probably more than that dislike Cheney. But a journalist is not supposed to politicize in their reporting. Bias exists but facts are not inherently biased. Stating that there are dead Iraqi citizens as a result of our faulty intelligence and rationale for going into Iraq is a statement of fact.

It's a journalist's job to give the administration a tough time. That's the whole point of having a press. It's a system of checks and balances and if you don't have a press asking difficult questions, very bad things happen.

I see conservatives argue that the press is there simply to report what the administration tells them. Except when the administration is Clinton, right? Because, as you recall, the mainstream press was far more tough with Clinton.

And one more time: mass killing of thousands innocent Iraqi citizens.

Sleep well.

Posted by: rabit at February 17, 2006 11:38 AM

Yes, a real journalist. Are you delusional to believe that innocents don't get killed when you bomb a country?

Yeah, that's what I believe, rabit. How did you figure it out?

You're an "idiot savant," minus the "savant."

Posted by: Bill from INDC at February 17, 2006 11:50 AM

Yeah, that's what I believe, rabit. How did you figure it out?

Well, because you fault her journalistic integrity in asking a question like "why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?"

Because, as you know, we did start dropping bombs fairly heavily in Iraq (as high as 54 tons in one month alone) and some did land on innocent Iraqi citizens in their own home.

Undeniable proof of this can be found by walking into any video store in the United States. (hint: look for Documentaries)

Is the death of innocent Iraqi people not a journalistic concern to raise among the administrations possibly valid justifications for pre-emptively invading Iraq?

And when most of these rationales turned out to be phony, what do you have left? Still dead innocent Iraqi people.

There was more outrage over Laci Peterson.

You're like an "idiot savant," minus the "savant" part.

Maybe so, but it seems a little quaint in face of the fact that there are thousands of dead innocent Iraqi civilians.

Posted by: rabit at February 17, 2006 01:14 PM

Look up the definition of the word "want," my agitated little howler monkey.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at February 17, 2006 01:20 PM

Is Hewitt suggesting that if Thomas didn't vote for Bush/Cheney that her reporting (and she's actually an opinion columnist now, not a straight journalist) is therefore tainted, so she shouldn't criticize or even comment on anything Cheney does? Should criticism of Cheney be limited to Bush/Cheney voters? Have Cheney critics who might have voted for someone else forfeited their right to free speech?

Posted by: Matt W at February 17, 2006 02:56 PM

Is Hewitt suggesting that if Thomas didn't vote for Bush/Cheney that her reporting (and she's actually an opinion columnist now, not a straight journalist) is therefore tainted, so she shouldn't criticize or even comment on anything Cheney does?

No.

Am I to gather from your comment - that is to say, are you suggesting - that you're high?

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