WP: (liberal) Blogger Hits the Wall (when he asks McClellan a question)

Blogger Hits the Wall
Dan Froomkin
Tuesday, Apr 05, 2005


The second blogger allowed into the White House briefing room became the first blogger to actually ask press secretary Scott McClellan a question last week.

Eric Brewer, a scientist by trade and one of a handful of contributors to a small, liberal blog called BTC News, got his chance toward the end of Friday's briefing.

The question he asked was a good one, on a topic that's probably of great interest to an awful lot of people.

It's also precisely the kind of question your typical full-time White House correspondent doesn't ask anymore -- because there's simply no point. You're not going to get an answer.

Here's the question Brewer asked...."Back to the report on the botched WMD intelligence, have the massive intelligence failures documented in the report caused the President to rethink his policy of preventive war?"...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/

What a comeback!

McClellan: I think we've talked about this before.The world is safer with Saddam Hussein's regime removed from power. The Iraqi people are serving as an example to the rest of the Middle East through their courage and determination to build a free future."

And at this point, Hearst columnist Helen Thomas piped in:

"The ones that are alive, you mean?"

Thank you, Helen!! :bounce:

We need more like her.

And asked Scotty what Laura's favorite color was, so we could all get back to the bare-knuckle no-nonsense kind of journalism we're used to seeing practiced in the White House Press Room.

-snip-
McClellan: I think we've talked about this before. The world is safer with Saddam Hussein's regime removed from power. The Iraqi people are serving as an example to the rest of the Middle East through their courage and determination to build a free future."

And at this point, Hearst columnist Helen Thomas piped in:

"The ones that are alive, you mean?"
-snip-

McClellan: I think we've talked about this before.The world is safer with Saddam Hussein's regime removed from power. The Iraqi people are serving as an example to the rest of the Middle East through their courage and determination to build a free future."

And at this point, Hearst columnist Helen Thomas piped in:

"The ones that are alive, you mean?"

must go to original link to just get a glimpse of the split-tongue talk that McClellan employs.

:argh:

His response was just too pre-programed to be real.
You know, September 11th taught us a very important lesson,
This President will not hesitate when it comes to protecting the American people
in the post-September 11th world that we live in,
The world is safer with Saddam Hussein's regime removed from power. The Iraqi people are serving as an example to the rest of the Middle East

What a piece of horse shit.

might try this here as well.

...they used an interview technique to evoke a "human" response. Many "humans" failed the test, and some replicants passed it. The only sure way to know a replicant was to 'deactivate' it and find out in the autopsy.

Sounds like a plan to me!

Blade Runner is my all-time favorite movie. One of the best movies ever made..

And you don't "deactivate" a replicant, you "retire" it..

Cheers..

It has been a while since I read the book or watched Blade Runner.

"You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down...

You look down and see a tortoise, Scott. It's crawling toward you...

The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping ...

Damn that's good.

..."search terms site:whitehouse.gov" for any given phrase coming out of the White House, and you get a zillion prior instances of the same or similar phrases.

These guys are robots. They can't think to save their own lives.

eletist. rel peple git their nuws from FOX and Limpba

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/03/04_boot.html
& site www.btcnews.com

"Back to the report on the botched WMD intelligence, have the massive intelligence failures documented in the report caused the President to rethink his policy of preventive war?"

It's a good question because the doctrine of preemption is one of the most defining and precedent-shattering elements of the Bush canon.

this is a very important distinction since preemption is legal but PREVENTIVE is illegal.

ah, but what should i expect from the media whores, eh?
not much

peace

a form of abuse of power. To let our elected leaders wage war on who we want, when we want, whenever we want is simply an official anouncement of abuse of power.

We the People who are paying for all this DEATH, MAIMING, SUFFERING... We the People would like an answer!

with WH transcript and blog comments:

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/index.php?p=894

:bounce:

Hope shines if only a little.

And thank you so much Helen Thomas for that follow up!

Now if only the rest of those crash test dummmies in the seats around them would join in!

And,
:toast: Welcome to DU Tuesday-Morning!

Way to go Eric and Helen

laziness.

"It's also precisely the kind of question your typical full-time White House correspondent doesn't ask anymore -- because there's simply no point. You're not going to get an answer."

Silly me, I thought journalists were supposed to ask the tough questions, regardless of what they perceive the response will be. The point is to get a statement on the record. It doesn't matter if the answer is inane, the people still deserve to hear it.

If the MSM doesn't care to distinguish between the White House refusing to answer a question and the press refusing to ask it, then what good are they?