ARI FLEISCHER STOMPS BERET WEARING SOCK PUPPET AT BRIEFING

White House ^ | MARCH 5, 2003

[Cinnamon Girl]

Excerpt from today's briefing:

Helen: Ari, since there is an atmosphere of the imminence of war in this White House, and since we have no direct access to the President, will you state for the record, for the historical record, why he wants to bomb Iraqi people?

MR. FLEISCHER: Helen, I dispute the premise of your question, first of all. There's regular -- there's regular access to the President. The President is asked questions all the time. And when the President --

Helen: He hasn't had a press conference for months.

MR. FLEISCHER: And when 14 of your colleagues spend 36 minutes asking scores of questions to the President just two days ago --

Helen: Well, that's not a news conference.

MR. FLEISCHER: -- they asked the President a similar question, although they phrased it a little differently than you did. They asked the President why does he feel so strongly about the need to use force, if it comes to that, to disarm Saddam Hussein. And the answer from the President was that, given the fact that the world changed on September 11th, the threat to the American people was brought immediately to our home and to our shores and to our families, the President thinks it is in the interest of peace to make certain that Saddam Hussein does not have weapons of mass destruction which he can use against us, either by transferring them to terrorists or using them himself.

Helen: There is no imminent threat.

MR. FLEISCHER: This is where -- Helen, if you were President you might view things differently. But you have your judgment and the President has others.

Helen: Why doesn't he prove it? Why don't you lay it out? When have they threatened in the last 12 years?

MR. FLEISCHER: They have attacked their neighbors. They have gassed their own people.

Helen: Twelve years ago.

MR. FLEISCHER: They have launched attacks.

Helen: With our support.

MR. FLEISCHER: And September 11th showed the United States is vulnerable to those who would attack us. And one of the best ways to protect the homeland is to go after the threats abroad.

Helen: You haven't linked terrorism to Saddam Hussein, in terms of 9/11.

MR. FLEISCHER: It's not -- the threat is what took place on 9/11. You don't have to make a direct linkage between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 to know that others who are planning can try to do it again, Saddam Hussein included.

[lorrainer]

May I also nominate a graphic?

[RightOnline]

Ol' Helen...........that dried up, senile hag. Wish that despicable bitch would just slink away into the dustbin.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Helen Thomas was obviously lobotomized years ago (Don't remember the name of her proctologist). Understand that Ex-42 wants her mumified remains in kneeling position after she passes on - something about a special private shrine in his Little Rock Library.

[I'm ALL Right!]

She seems to have already had a lobotomy...how else can her total ignorance be explained?

[LibertarianInExile]

See, that's the thing--the WHITE HOUSE doesn't have to grant that bitch press credentials, and with an interrogation like that, she can hardly claim to be impartial press. She's gone over the deep end with this, and they should take advantage of it and shove her out to pasture for it. I bet they don't grant press credentials to Worker's World Weekly...why don't they retire that old crone before she plasters 'no blood for oil' on her walker and strips nude to protest the war at a press conference?

Still having nightmares at the image...the horror...the horror...

[Illwind]

When I see Helen, my mind conjurs up the aroma of bad breath and stale urine.

[lawgirl]

I saw this today and I wondered what she was talking about "with our support"??? Helen the sea Hag looks SO BAD she needs to retire.

[DKM]

[Cinnamon Girl]

To the people who suggested Helen might participate in this Saturday's nude anti-war protest: YUCK!

[lorrainer]

You had to do it, didn't you? Now I'll have nightmares.

[scott7278]

"Augh.. Helen Thomas is an ignorant terrorist sympathizer who needs a lobotomy, but I don't think any proctologist wants anywhere near her."

LOL!

[scott7278]

"Helen: Ari, since there is an atmosphere of the imminence of war in this White House, and since we have no direct access to the President..."

Clinton NEVER held press conferences! Only to deny, deny, deny...She has a terrible (selective) memory!

[clooney4824]

ROFLMAO!!I am going to use that statement-too funny. You should send jokes to Leno and Letterman-as if they would ever consider a conservative opinion.

[swheats]

[vaudine]

It is my understanding she no longer represents a paper or wire svc. Is she a freelance? They just humor her with her front row seat because of her long years of reporting. It's past time to pull her pass.

Vaudine

[Cinnamon Girl]

;)

[Cinnamon Girl]

Somebody put a beret on this thing, please.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Helen: "But Ari, why does Mr. Bush want to bomb little baby children and innocent harmless Iraqi people?"

[blake6900]

But does that also mean that she has to be called upon or can she simply be ignored?

She could indeed be ignored but she would still be like a fart in church...everyone knows it's there, everyone pretends it's not but the stink just won't go away.

[Core_Conservative]

Or she could be a fill-in for Russert

Have you ever seen the two of them together?