"I invaded the White House Press Corps"

[existentialist]

(The last four paragraphs of Cintra Wilson's
I invaded the White House press corps--a seven page editorial posted today at Salon.com:






"This president cannot get up at this stage and explain this war," said Helen Thomas. "If he did, and if reporters asked at his very few press conferences -- his rare press conferences, How can you defend all the untruths that were said in the run up to the war? How can you stand there, when thousands of people are dead when we went to war under false premises?"

"Have you asked this question?" I asked.

"No. I don't have a chance, but somebody should. I want everybody to wake up, and say, Is this us?"

Thomas is right. The White House press corps needs serious help -- a rallying point, a Charlemagne, someone who could take its beaten peoples and convince them of how much they could achieve together. But seriously, there is nothing more the corps could have done, those weeks in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. I was there. They could have ganged up and pistol-whipped Scott's molars into glue and punctured his eardrums with his own American flag lapel pin, and they would have gotten the same sunny, bleating drivel until he was unconscious or dead. He's a damn good soldier, that McClellan. If any major player in this administration is ever kidnapped by al-Qaida and tortured for national secrets, we can only hope that it is he. Like a quality linoleum, Scott will never crack.

[rodeodance]

1. anyone know when scotty is due back? Is he coming back?

......Like a quality linoleum, Scott will never crack.

[rodeodance]

2. this thread should be combined with the first 4 paragraphs that is on

another thread.

[existentialist]

3. ah, but then we might

violate the copyright laws.

(I did read the whole editorial so I figure I have the authority to quote the last four paragraphs and assert that it is a good summation of a good editorial. It is.)

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. No. I don't have a chance

Nobody has a voice anymore?

[existentialist]

5. Helen Thomas means

Literally, that she will not be given the chance to ask that question of Bush. But someone will, and she is suggesting that they do so.

[VPStoltz]

6. I am almost getting to understand the lack of real journalism.

The Bush family has a known history of ruining/destroying the lives of people it doesn't like. I have no doubt it also ended a few - what, upwards of 100,000 in Iraq. If you were a reporter would you want to be the one to ask that question? You'd probably never see your wife or kids again.

[riverwalker]

7. List of White House Correspondents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/correspondents.html

Why does Christian Broadcasting Network (Pat Robertson's baby) has a White House Correspondent anyway?