Helen Thomas: If any other nationhad done this we'd be up in arms!

[Chisox08]

Run time: 01:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTmZV8hGZXY   Posted on YouTube: June 02, 2010 By YouTube Member: MoxNewsDotCom Views on YouTube: 24   Posted on DU: June 02, 2010 By DU Member: Chisox08 Views on DU: 3480

 
Helen Thomas asked Robert Gibbs the tough questions that needed to be asked.

[woodsprite]

1. She's right. n/t

[orbitalman]

21. Helen is RIGHT, like always. nt

[liberalmike27]

26. Man, is That a Perfect Word to Describe Us Toward Israel

sac·ro·sanct
adjective
1. sacred: very holy and sacred
2. inviolable: not to be criticized or tampered with

Not to be criticized, perfect. Our media, even MSNBC are slavishly trying to justify, however hollow it may sound, Israels actions. It would seem we've found another media filter Chomsky never mentioned, though I guess it could fit into the Pentagon filter. 6.) Never criticize Israel, no matter how much whatever they do sucks. And over concrete? Really? Concrete???

Netanyahoo is like Bush with 40 IQ points, just as arrogant, with bloody knuckles from dragging them on the ground.

It's bad enough they took over Palestine in the late forties, after getting along with them peacefully for millennium together. But they continue to stir up this shit in the world, and I for one am sick of it. I understand it is this continuing over-reaction to WW 2 and Germany, but still, it's about time to get over it.

Chris Matthews, while showing this swat raid of people dropping onto the ships are slavishly saying, "yep, that guy has a pipe and is hitting him, so they are justified in the massacre, yep, that's OK." Um...yea, Chris, who is invading who here, do they have to be dropping in, can't they do this in a more peaceable manner than a swat type raid?

[givemebackmycountry]

2. Helen Thomas has been kicking ass for longer than Gibbs has been alive.

Thanks Helen.

[SusanaMontana41]

13. Don't you just love her? Long live Helen Thomas!

Am missing Molly and Ann Richards though ... what a formidable trio they made!

[nichomachus]

3. Imagine if Iran had done this to an Israeli ship

The nukes would be falling on Tehran as we speak.

[Carolina]

33. EXACTLY!

[Capitalocracy]

4. Gibbs: "Nothing's going to bring them back, Helen."

That's true, but OUR ACTIONS will play an important role in determining how many people will die in the future. Israel has guns to shoot these people with because we gave them to them. If we say that's enough, then that's enough, and this bullsh.. ends.

Investigation my a$$. All they're going to investigate is how many bullets the IDF fired so they can be promptly replaced.

[LakeSamish706]

6. And the investigation is supposedly going to be carried out by the Israeli's.

How stupid do they think we are anyway?

[mikita]

9. how stupid are we?

pretty high up on that count, I'd say. Unfortunately.

[L. Coyote]

10. Stupid enough to let Bush steal the White House

Doesn't get any worse than to allow a Junta without a WHIMPER!!!

[bobbolink]

34. Sadly, you are so right on that. GULLIBLE.

Unthinking.

etc.

:(

[liberation]

12. Given that we allowed the banksters to investigate themselves...

... the Bush administrations investigated 9/11 themselves, we let our military investigate their own torture practices, and heck... for good measure we have even let HMOs write their own reform/regulation legislation pretty much by themselves. And those are the ones I could think of the top of my mind.

I'd say we have quite the track record of stupidity to justify their assumptions... In fact, not letting the Israelis investigate their actions themselves would have been the exception not the norm. So at least we're being consistent, one gots to find the silver lining somewhere...

[civilisation]

23. lets let all criminals submit their own investigations into the crimes?

yeah next time a bank-robber murders someone in a robbery,. we should have them do an 'impartial and thorough' investigation of just what happened,. and then just take their word for it when the report is issued.

[andypandanc]

5. We need more like Helen Thomas

Yes, indeed, we could use about 10,000 more like her! She speaks her mind and doesn't fail to kick butt.

[sasquuatch55]

7. Helen is awesome! Too bad more people don't call out our Govt. on their treachery.

nt

[SusanaMontana41]

14. Mike Papantonio is doing a good job

but you're right. We need more voices. How 'bout raising ours?

[Lars77]

8. This is sickening

The only journalist doing her job is an old lady, while the rest of the suit and tie cocksuckers are just kissing ass so they can get her seat when she retires.

[avaistheone1]

11. Helen Thomas is the nation's conscience

well at least she is the conscience all the media should aspire to.

[MissDeeds]

19. + 1000

Helen is in a league of her own. She's the best.

[lib2DaBone]

15. Nothing Can Bring Them Back.....

SO true Mr. Gibbs. What a visionary.

9mm Machine Guns trained on un-armed civilians has a tendency to spill human brains all over the ground.

Of course Mr. Gibbs.. you see no problem with that?

[SunDrop23]

16. The world needs more REAL journalists like Helen Thomas (nfm)

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. kick and recommend!!

[Ramulux]

18. Whenever I see Helen it pisses me off

Its ridiculous that the best journalist in the press corps is a 90 year old woman who can barely speak. Shes a national treasure and we are gonna be in real trouble when she dies, because there is no one there who even comes close to her and once shes gone no one like her is going to be brought in.

Its like Gibbs has an uncontrollable reflex where when he hears Helen's voice he has to make a fool of himself. If Emmanual and Geitner didn't suck so horribly Gibbs would easily be the worst thing about this administration.

[gorfle]

25. You kno why?

Its like Gibbs has an uncontrollable reflex where when he hears Helen's voice he has to make a fool of himself.

You know why he does that? Because in spite of the fact that we only give the barest lip service of respect to our elders these days, Helen still commands it.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

28. I disagree.

I believe Gibbs' problems arise from having to defend the insane, bullshit policies of BO.

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. The same thing can be said about the BP issue.

We have a serious blindside.

[laconicsax]

38. More like tunnel vision. n/t

[leeroysphitz]

22. We are going to miss here when she is gone. n/t

[DFW]

24. She has no intention of retiring

I just had dinner with her last Thursday. I asked her if she wanted to do anything to celebrate her
birthday in 2 months. She said, "hell no, I'm going to bed early!" Retire is not in her vocabulary.

[leeroysphitz]

29. That really isn't what I meant...

:(

[florida08]

27. lol

Helen sure knows how to hit 'em hard and direct. Gibbs is stammering while Helen is squaring off. A tough lady who doesn't pussyfoot around the issues. Darn good question..why didn't you come out and condemn it? Still waiting on that answer.

[Cherchez la Femme]

30. "nothing can bring them back, that's for sure"

FU Gibbs, that's an answer? There's no respect or care from that direction, none at all.

[mbperrin]

31. Hooray for Helen!

Gibbs is of course the typical suckass that gets the press job....

[mikelgb]

32. What a gal

[valerief]

35. Love me some Helen Thomas!!!!! nt

[Blacksheep214]

36. Never forget

the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty!

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter planes and motor torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and a civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nmi (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.<1>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

[HowHasItComeToThis]

39. YES YES YES

[4_TN_TITANS]

37. If a MUSLIM nation had done this

we'd be launching a new war.

[Dr.Phool]

40. Fuck you Gibbs!

"Nothing can bring them back". No shit Sherlock.

What if your kid was shot 4 times in the fucking head, by our "ally"?