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March 8 2003 Weekend
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Change of the Media Guard
Press corps doyenne gets no notice
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A long-running Washington tradition apparently ended last night when, for
the first time in memory, the doyenne of the White House press corps was not
called on in a presidential press conference.
Syndicated columnist Helen Thomas, who has covered every president since
John F. Kennedy, was relegated to the third row in last night's East Room
event and — if the memory of press corps veterans is accurate — received her
first presidential snub.
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Bush couldn't handle a question posed by Helen Thomas.
That's the reason Bush didn't call on Helen Thomas.
The above story is by the Moonie publication, The
Washington Times -- they didn't call Helen Thomas the
dean of the press
corps, they used an archaic word such as doyenne
-- a word that Bush surely doesn't know.
Who will take her place? Or was this a temporary
demotion of Helen Thomas?
Of course, in the meantime the above goose steppers will
provide us with an accurate view of the news.
His daddy gave us the New World Order. Bush II gave us the
New Media Order.
That was my inspiration for the above cartoon.
 FACT-CHECKING
THE BLONDE BANSHEE
Ann Coulter Is Unmasked
by Eric Alterman
I first met Ann Coulter in 1996 when we were both hired to be
pundits on the new cable news station, MSNBC. Still just a right-wing
congressional aide, she had been hired without even a hint of journalistic
experience, but with a mouth so vicious she made her fellow leggy blonde pundit,
Laura Ingraham, look and sound like Mary Tyler Moore in comparison.
Coulter was eventually fired when she attacked a disabled Vietnam veteran on the
air, screaming, "People like you caused us to lose that war." But this was just
one of many incidents where she had leaped over the bounds of good taste into
the kind of talk that is usually reserved for bleachers or bar-fights.
The sheer weight of Coulter's factual errors demonstrates "the moral and
intellectual bankruptcy of a journalistic culture that allows her near a
microphone, much less a printing press."
Ann Coulter is also in the cartoon I
did for today's edition. I know of no other "pundit" on the left that can
hold a candle to her.
"President Bush and National Security Guard Tom Ridge launched
the new Department of Homeland Security, just 24 hours after taking us down to
threat level French -- I'm sorry, I mean threat level yellow." —Craig Kilborn
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Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake
U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 8, 2003
A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to
have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said
yesterday in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims
about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions. |
Do as we say not as we do.
I have this finger on the biggest weapons of
mass destruction. Feel better?
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Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake
U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 8, 2003
A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to
have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said yesterday
in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's
secret nuclear ambitions.
cya
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