Monday, June 07, 2010

What was Helen Thomas thinking? :(

It sounded way too unreal to listen to the news report on NPR ... but then to watch her say those things on YouTube makes it surreal ... I mean, coming from Helen Thomas????

Jack Shafer noted in this piece from 2003, which Slate has "recycled" for the occasion, that when she questioned President Bush about the Iraq War, for instance:
As the child of Lebanese immigrants, Thomas knows exactly which religious button she's pushing when she repeatedly condemns Bush's plans for war on Iraq as a "crusade."
It will bizarre for anybody to say what Thomas said.  Even more for a seasoned White House corresponded to say that.  And it gets infinitely complicated against her own Lebanese background ...

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