What is this woman's deal? Does she think she's some sort of queen and that the President owes her something? I wouldn't call on this psycho radical lefty either.

Hat tip Drudge on today's story (and The Political Teen for pointing me to it):

BUSH SNUBS HELEN THOMAS [AGAIN] Thu Jan 26 2006 15:42:32 2006

President Bush today again avoided taking a question from White House doyenne Helen Thomas during his 45-minute press conference, even though he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat.

"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

She had a few questions in mind, though. "I wanted to ask about Iraq: 'You said you didn't go in for oil or for Israel or for WMDs. so why did you go in?' "

She also had another question at the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.

"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"

Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.

But as she left, she made a prediction: "He came on to my turf. I'll bet the next press conference will be in Room 450 of the EEOB," a theater-style room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where she would not be in the front row.

Developing...

Again, The Political Teen pointed me to that, and he's had full Helen coverage all week. She's clearly got a classic case of Bush Derangment Syndrome, and I think him not calling her but calling on everyone around her is hilarious. That's awesome. She's always so disrespectful, well maybe she'll smarten up now.

The Political Teen has more Helen from the past week here, here, and here.

By the way, Drudge's piece says Thomas was a "UPI White House reporter for 57 years"... How old is this woman!? Wow, I gotta give her credit for working for so long... But I'm much more in favor of crediting her with being the nuttiest lefty in the White House press corps (and that's saying a lot.)

Anyone else think she makes a great couple with this guy?

UPDATE: Conservababes remembers July 31, 2005 when Helen Thomas said:

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

Thanks Conservababes, I had forgotten all about that. The best part is that she goes on to get mad about that quote being published. But back to the point, why would The President ever call on this lunatic? Does she deserve any respect when she acts like this? She sounds like she should be rioting with a bunch of kids dressed in black, wearing scarves and throwing molotov cocktails during an anti-war "rally". Not a journalist who deserves to be anywhere near the White House.

So basically Helen, all I have to say to you is: cry about it. The President apparently feels the same way, and has nothing for you but a box of tissues.

 

UPDATE: The Political Teen has video up of a CNN correspondent explaining the situation. Luckily it looks more and more like Kerry is just making of a fool of himself. If he is seriously thinking about running for President again in 2008, he should have sent some nobody out to call for a filibuster so he wouldn't look like such an idiot when it backfires. Or maybe Kerry doesn't want a filibuster at all. Maybe he just wants to be able to come out later and say he was for the filibuster before he was against it.

Hat tip Drudge for being first on this, as usual...

Read all about Kerry's call to filibuster the Alito nomination here, via CNN.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.

Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.

He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also has the support of his fellow Massachusetts senator, Democrat Edward Kennedy.

Some senior Democrats said they are worried that the move could backfire.

Republicans need 60 votes to overturn a filibuster.

Senior White House officials said the move makes the Democrats look bad, and Republicans already have enough votes to overcome any filibuster attempt.

I suspect The Political Teen will have more to come, but just has a CNN screen shot up at the moment.

Interestingly, this development comes as more Dems back Alito. I'm obviously no fan of Byrd and don't know much about Johnson.. but it's just kind of funny that I read that story along side Kerry's call for a filibuster.

What a mess... anyway, I think this only stands to backfire on the Dems.

UPDATE: Check out the lefty blogs on this... they're all singing Kerry's praises for "growing a pair" and taking a stand, etc.... pathetic.

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If you don't already know, "Where did the WMDs go?", is something I'm obsessed with. I haven't been able to, and don't think I ever will accept the "bad intel, they were never there" line. It just doesn't make sense when we knew he had and used the stuff, we know there are stockpiles unaccounted for, we know he was a brutal murderous dictator so there is no reason to believe he decided to get rid of the stuff on his own, without proving it to the UN and making things easier on himself. Not to mention that virtually all intelligence agencies from around the world seemed to agree he had the stuff.

Add in all the reports of WMDs being moved to/through Syria at various times throughout the war, even by Russian military in the weeks leading up to the war. I can't count how many brief stories I remember hearing about WMD finds and transportation in the first year of the war, only to never have any follow-ups. I've hoped this was because military intelligence is connecting dots and chasing the stuff down through Syria, and not wanting to pump a story and give a heads up to the enemy and compromise the mission.

Anyway, the point is... we all believed the stuff was there, and to believe it wasn't now is to belive that Saddam was the good guy and destroyed it on his own, and decided not to tell anyone.

What WMDs? That mushroom cloud is a product of Michael Moore after enjoying a meal at Baghdad's first Taco Bell. No WMDs though... And oh yeah, we're winning.

Enter today's former member of Saddam's regime who claims to have WMD knowledge. There have been a bunch of these guys, and I suppose motives (selling books, etc.) are good reason for skepticism. But since I have always believed they were moved to/through Syria, I believe this is an important story that the media will be in a hurry to ignore.

I began reading this earlier and got sidetracked, but Michelle Malkin pulled me back in, and I'm going to use the same exceprt as her, because it's the best one to draw you in:

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

The Iraqi general, Georges Sada, makes the charges in a new book, "Saddam's Secrets," released this week. He detailed the transfers in an interview yesterday with The New York Sun.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

Mr. Sada's comments come just more than a month after Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam "transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria."

Be sure to read the entire article from The New York Sun, it's broken in to 4 pages.

Of course, we'll need the proof for this to ever make any difference in the real world, but I think everytime we hear about one of these guys I cautiously feel a little more validated in my position. Let's just hope we round the stuff up before it gets over here. We know other weapons parts were turning up as far away as the Netherlands, why is it so hard to believe that the treasured WMDs were snuck in to Syria, especially after they got a head start from Senator Rockefeller. For other links on WMDs, see my "Smack libs with..." section in lower part of the right sidebar.

UPDATE: Rightwing Nuthouse's Rick Moran has a great post up about this, saying everything I wanted to say... only much better and in a clearer way. His post is jam packed with great links that I would have liked to have provided if my bookmarks weren't so disorganized. A definite must read.

Also, I meant to mention earlier... Can you imagine what this would do to the state of politics in America if we were able to prove the stuff was moved and recover it? That would totally justify the war that the media conveniently forgets the Dems basically spent 12 years arguing for. The Dems got nothin' right now, imagine how they would be burried if we could prove the existence of the WMDs. I get excited just thinking about it... I feel like a liberal seeing BCE (vs. BC) in a text book for the first time.

... Another quick point I forgot to mention earlier was that if the WMDs we all believed were there had been used in an attack in Israel, or worse, here in America the President would have been tossed out of office and the Dems and their media would be pointing to all those 12 years of quotes saying "we tried to warn you.. you should have taken action in a post 9/11 world."

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hat tip Drudge
Well, after a couple weeks of British Politician George Galloway taking his idiocy to new levels.. it (at least his place on the show Celebrity Big Brother) has come to an end. I guess he just didn't impress the judges.

"NEXT!"

Galloway: Hello, I'm George from Dundee, Scotland!
Paula: Okay, let's see whatcha got George...
Galloway: K, here goes...

Randy: George, you can't win this competition by showing us pictures of you hangin' out with the Hussein family... What else you got dog?

Randy: Okay, first of all I said (and always say) "dog", not "cat".. second of all... what is wrong with you dude, seriously!? Thirdly this is a singing competition!

Paula: Okay... it's more than a little creepy, but at least you're trying to look like a singer now.. but we still need a performance George.

Simon: That was by far the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life. How in the world did a psycho like you ever become a Member of Parliament in my home country?

Simon: You are a horrible horrible person and I hope you... well, nevermind... needless to say, you didn't make the cut. Get out of my sight.
Anne Robinson: You are the weakest...
Simon: Oh give it a rest Anne! He's already gone, and this isn't even your show!

The Political Teen has video and Michelle Malkin has a great roundup of Galloway news.

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