Helen Thomas got Scotty again:

[LittleApple81]

MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon. I will go straight to your questions -- I have nothing to begin with today. Go ahead, Helen.

Q The President is very dedicated to seeing that U.N. resolutions are implemented. Is he going to work to get the U.N. resolution to calling on Israel to tear down the wall built on Palestinian land -- is he going to work for that?

MR. McCLELLAN: What he's going to do is continue to work for a political solution to --

Q I asked a different question.

MR. McCLELLAN: -- the situation in the Middle East. The United Nations resolution that you referred to, as you're aware, is not binding. We did express our concerns about that at the United --

Q Whether it's binding or not, it's a resolution, it is the U.N. and there have been several.

MR. McCLELLAN: Okay. I would like to respond to your question, and I'm trying to. The United Nations resolution that you referred to was not binding. We expressed our concerns about it, about it being one-sided. And we've also made it very clear that we believe the way to resolve the situation in the Middle East is through a political solution. And the road map is what has been put forward to get us to the political solution. The solution that the President proposed, of two states, living side-by-side in peace and security.

And the Quartet endorsed that road map as the way to resolve this --

Q The road map has nothing to do with this fence being built on Palestinian land, 400 miles.

MR. McCLELLAN: Okay. I'm going to finish here and then I'm going to move on. The President has made it very clear that he believes that's the appropriate way to resolve this matter. An Israeli court has also made a ruling, and Israel is working to meet the court's concerns that it raised. We've always said that Israel has the right to defend itself, but that as it takes steps to do that, it should keep in mind the plight of the Palestinian people and work in a way that doesn't place undo hardships on them, so that they can move about freely.

We've made our views -- we've made our views known on that. And the way to resolve this is through the road map. And we have the opportunity before us to get started again on the road map and get to a negotiated --

Q How have you made your views known? By vetoing everything?

MR. McCLELLAN: -- and to get to a negotiated settlement.

Steve.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040721-6.html

[Forkboy]

1. *SNARF*

I love Helen.

But I just bet someone will chime in with "Helen SUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKS!"

No names of course on who might do that here ;-)

[shadu]

3. Only a friggin' idiot would say 'Helen sucks'

(Perhaps you are thinking of a poster on Free Republic :)

[LittleApple81]

4. I think she is so great. She is rinkled, normal looking and bright.

None of those bimbettes, skeletons covered by makeup, with no brains or totally sold to the repugs.

[shadu]

5. Agreed. She is the-thinking-person's reporter.

[Forkboy]

7. Nope,I'm thinking of one DU's very own

You'll know him when you see him :)

[shadu]

10. Dems who say "Helen sucks" are like 'Christians against Christ'

How can it be?

[Brian Morans]

2. She's the best n/t

[faithnotgreed]

6. i emailed helen earlier today. shes right on! i told her that du wanted

to buy her roses when shes in her rightful place come january (for kerrys first presidential news conference!)

yesterday there was a thread on buying her flowers on just such an occasion. i know just who to order them from - organic bouquet. because eschaton ( i think it was) mentioned that this place donated flowers that had been ordered for a kerry fundraiser. when they found out who and what it was for, this place donated them and added some stuff to it.

[wryter2000]

9. I'll chip in for that

I can't wait until President Kerry calls on her at his first press conference.

[King Coal]

22. We will send her truck loads of roses.

[Solly Mack]

8. Helen is tenacious..and won't be put off by Bushit

she also answers her emails..


I give her the George Seldes thumbs-up for truth in journalism

[dr.strangelove]

11. I love that woman

She'll give it just a bad to Kerry, but she rules.

[CBHagman]

12. Yes, she's tough on everybody.

But she's a decent person. Check out the account of her behavior (and subsequent treatment by the odious Bush crowd) in James Wolcott's "Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants."

[faithnotgreed]

15. that would be fine! i just want freedom of the press back! and if kerry

needs some tough questions, i hope that he will get them.

[xchrom]

13. ya gotta love helen!

[riverwalker]

14. Helen for Kerry's Press Secretary?

ya gotta admit, it would be poetic justice.
(coffee and donuts for everyone except FOX)

[jpgray]

18. Keep her where she is--but give her a better seat

:D

[kikiek]

16. I love her. I sent her an e mail couple years back she personally answered

[Karenina]

17. Helen is an octogenarian.

She asks the questions we would ask given the opportunity. She ain't scared of NOTHIN' or NOBODY. She responds PERSONALLY to our mail.
She is OUR GODDESS OF LIBERTY!!!!

[Ducks In A Row]

19. I'm surprised Helen is allowed into the room

why can't the rest of the reporters follow her lead. {{sigh}}

[Veggie Meathead]

20. Thank God for Helen Thomas and Sen.Robert Byrd we can still

hold our heads high as Americans.It has fallen on two octagenarians and four black women ( Cynthia McKinney, Corinne Brown, Maxine Waters and Whoopi Goldberg) to speak the truth with an entire spineless crowd that passes for our media asleep at the wheels.

[Matilda]

21. Bush's treatment of Helen Thomas just diminishes him.

Russell Mokhiber was also good, especially with Ari Fleischer, he
just wouldn't let go. So they withdrew his press pass - tells you
all you need to know. What they can't control, they try to bury.