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rowanf ([personal profile] rowanf) wrote2003-01-08 06:32 am

Illuminating press briefing

I found the first section where Helen Thomas Takes on Ari Fleischer about the Iraqi people quite interesting. I wish we saw more of that attitude in the actual press.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030106-1.html#2.



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[identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com 2003-01-08 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you

Helen Thomas rocks

[identity profile] kightp.livejournal.com 2003-01-08 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
... and she gets away with saying things no other journalist can say simply because she's been in the White House Press Corps *forever* and knows where all the bodies are buried. (That, and the fact that whippersnappers like Ari Fleischer don't *dare* slap down an 82-year-old woman.)

It's going to be a sad day when she finally retires (or, more likely, dies on the job).

[identity profile] queergrrrl.livejournal.com 2003-01-08 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I have always found Helen Thomas to be an amazing and gutsy womyn. She asks the hard questions and has never tossed any softballs. Those were good questions and I was disgusted by the responses from Fleischer.

As for your iPod ... sorry to hear you lost the zillions of tunes you had in it!

[identity profile] spikeiowa.livejournal.com 2003-01-08 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, I will be sharing this.

[identity profile] rowanf.livejournal.com 2003-01-09 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Luckily the tunes all still existed on my hard drive and after many gyrations and reloadings of software the iPod is up again. I'm up to 3200 songs!

Re: Helen Thomas rocks

[identity profile] rowanf.livejournal.com 2003-01-09 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Quite so. Maybe we should point to her as a *very*non-useless older woman for Z. :-)n

3200 tunes ...

[identity profile] queergrrrl.livejournal.com 2003-01-09 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
how do you even listen to 3200 tunes??? YIKES!

[identity profile] elinor.livejournal.com 2003-01-11 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thank all the gods there are some press folks left who ask real questions. The only questions their interested in asking in the UK, it seems, are either too personal or too confrontational and on the wrong issues...

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