{"id":1247,"date":"2006-07-20T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2006-07-20T22:37:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T22:37:29","slug":"2006-7-20-helen-thomas-pro-hizbullah-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1247","title":{"rendered":"Helen Thomas, pro-Hizbullah?"},"content":{"rendered":"
From the White House press briefing<\/a> with veteran correspondent Helen Thomas (a descendant of Lebanese immigrants to the US):<\/p>\n

Helen.<\/p>\n

Q The United States is not that helpless. It could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon. We have that much control with the Israelis.<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: I don’t think so, Helen.<\/p>\n

Q We have gone for collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine.<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: What’s interesting, Helen —<\/p>\n

Q And this is what’s happening, and that’s the perception of the United States.<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view, but I would encourage you —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So not only does White House spokesman Tony Snow (a former fake journalist for Fox News) describe one of the greatest journalists in America (she’s met every president since Truman, has tons of awards, etc.) as a Hezbullah supporter, but he also thinks the US is powerless to stop Israel. Interesting.<\/p>\n

Via ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the White House press briefing<\/a> with veteran correspondent Helen Thomas (a descendant of Lebanese immigrants to the US):<\/p>\n

Helen.
\nQ The United States is not that helpless. It could have stopped the bombardment of Lebanon. We have that much control with the Israelis.
\nMR. SNOW: I don’t think so, Helen.
\nQ We have gone for collective punishment against all of Lebanon and Palestine.
\nMR. SNOW: What’s interesting, Helen —
\nQ And this is what’s happening, and that’s the perception of the United States.
\nMR. SNOW: Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view, but I would encourage you —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So not only does White House spokesman Tony Snow (a former fake journalist for Fox News) describe one of the greatest journalists in America (she’s met every president since Truman, has tons of awards, etc.) as a Hezbullah supporter, but he also thinks the US is powerless to stop Israel. Interesting.
\nVia ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[30,60,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}