{"id":160,"date":"2003-01-10T15:55:59","date_gmt":"2003-01-10T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=160"},"modified":"2003-01-10T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2003-01-10T15:55:59","slug":"helen-if-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/01\/10\/helen-if-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen, If You Think…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helen Thomas asks tough questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Q (Helen Thomas<\/a>): 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.
\nMR. 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.
\nQ: My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?
\nMR. FLEISCHER: Helen, the question is how to protect Americans, and our allies and friends —
\nQ: They’re not attacking you.
\nMR. FLEISCHER: — from a country —
\nQ: Have they laid the glove on you or on the United States, the Iraqis, in 11 years?
\nMR. 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.
\nQ: Is this revenge, 11 years of revenge?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hoorah for Helen! Go git ‘im!
\nDid you hear about this in traditional, mainstream media? CNN? Fox? Anyone? It’s sad that the bubbly fluff that gets spit out of the tube and into print is never this interesting. And is poor old Helen Thomas the only one in the White House press corps trying to light a fire under the President’s ass?
\n(found via EastWest<\/a>, Cursor<\/a> and Bloggy<\/a> — I need to get Trackback<\/a> up and running)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helen Thomas asks tough questions. Q (Helen Thomas): 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. MR. FLEISCHER: I refer specifically to a horrible terrorist attack on Tel Aviv that killed scores… Continue reading Helen, If You Think…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-2A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}