Helen Thomas hangs up on Hugh Hewitt.

[kpete]

snippet from interview

HH: I'm asking, Helen, if you think Saddam was good for Iraq?

HT: Of course not.

HH: Okay.

HT: But I don't think it was right to go in and to kill thousands of people.

HH: Do you think he would have killed even more...

HT: No.

HH: ...and that there would have been any free elections?

HT: No, no. I think that we brought it on, and we have really killed thousands. And I don't know how you can face that fact and look in the mirror.

HH: And what would have happened to the Oil For Food program if Saddam had not been removed?

HT: Look, are you...I'm talking about human beings. Why don't you try to think of the people you've killed. All of us. It's all on our hands.

HH: Helen, again, I think it was a good thing...

HT: I'm so sorry that you don't care about people who've been slained, thousands and thousands. I mean, worry about them.

HH: What about...

HT: They can't vote.

HH: Helen...

HT: Okay, goodbye.

Click.

HH: I lost her. Oh, well. Ed Henry and Helen Thomas. We'll return shortly.

End of aborted interview.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. He wasn't listening to her - I don't blame her for hanging up!

He refused to acknowledge the human toll of the war - sociopathic, sick fuck that he is...
Hugh Hewitt should change his name to Hugh Moran...:eyes:

[chalky]

2. I am SO SICK of that "So you think Saddam was good for Iraq?" bullshit.

What the hell kind of stupid question is that?

Stop dignifying that crap with a direct answer. I've started countering with, "Oh, so YOU think the man who killed over 3,000 on our soil isn't worth catching?" Shut 'em up every time.