Helen Thomas to Obama: Do you know of any country in the Middle East with nukes?
posted at 9:51 pm on February 9, 2009 by Allahpundit
Behold the left’s journalist hero, using her moment on national television not to ask a probing question of the president but to grandstand by asking a question everyone knows the answer to. She’s trying to get Obama to say “Israel” so that she can embarrass herself with a follow-up about why it’s okay for them to have apocalyptic weapons but not the anti-semitic, eliminationist fanatics in Tehran. Tony Snow, among his many other virtues, had her pegged. I give her credit for consistency, though: Take a walk down memory lane with Newsbusters and remind yourself what her first “question” to Bush was. She’s always been a grandstanding hack. That’s why liberals adore her, and why even The One feels obliged to pay her a little extra homage at the beginning here.
I’m giving you the full exchange so you can see how he avoids her trap. I take the fact that he didn’t let her follow up at the end as a sign of his righteous annoyance. Note, too, her reference to the “so-called terrorists” in the Pakistani tribal areas. Like I say, Tony Snow was no fool.
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Still … alive?
hawkdriver on February 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
She’s still alive? Crikey. Can’t we just make her an ambassador to Iran or Timbuktu something? PLEASE!
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
JINX!!!
hawkdriver on February 9, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Wasn’t it nice to see the president wearing a flag pin on his lapel?
Tommy_G on February 9, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Follow up question-
Do you know any states that have more then one McDonald’s?
christene on February 9, 2009 at 9:55 PM
That leftist Jew-hater has got to go, once and for all!
stonemeister on February 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
I owe you a coke, hawk. Dangit!
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Still.
Old.
Friend.
You’ve managed to kill everybody else but like a poor marksman you keep missing the target.
Skywise on February 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Why are people assuming she’s still alive?
Remember the road signs in Texas warning about zombies ahead?
malclave on February 9, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Zombie Helen, indeed.
Midas on February 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Helen did not look very well…but then again when?
d1carter on February 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Imagine a conservative version of this creepy leftist dame, hanging around the White House way past her
cogencyprime.No, you can’t imagine it–it’s unimaginable.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Tony, we miss you.
Helen, only the good die young.
JudetheFossil on February 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
A so called journalist refering to so called terrorists. I think it makes sense and is therefore consistent. It would take a journalist to be able to say the word terrorist without qualifications.
anuts on February 9, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I’m not watching this. I didn’t watch Osama Obama either.
I fear starting to feel suicidal when confronted by the depths to which our country has sunk.
Better to drink and pretend the coalition of lefty American-haters and rabid McCain-bashers didn’t screw us this badly.
MrScribbler on February 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Did anyone throw him a hardball? I didn’t catch the whole thing.
amerpundit on February 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
I find it strange that we only see Helen Thomas when Castro and the little dude from Nork are missing or unseen from the public eye. HMMMM…coincidence? I think NOT!
I think Helen Thomas is Kim Jong Castro.
Prove me wrong! PROVE IT!
robblefarian on February 9, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Is that Ed Schultz behind her? A liberal radio talk show host? I don’t remember Limbaugh or Hannity being present at Bush’s press conferences.
Verbal Abuse on February 9, 2009 at 10:00 PM
It seems to me that BHO either forgot that Israel is in the Middle East, or that they have nukes.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Personally I was relieved when she stood up. For about 20 minutes she just sat there not moving. Kind of reminded me of “weekend at bernie’s”. I was waiting for someone to check her pulse.
milwife88 on February 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
G-d she is despicable. Hey Helen here is an assignment for you. How about you do feature story on the terrorists that decapitated that Polish engineer.
I’ll pay for the ticket.
Lance Murdock on February 9, 2009 at 10:02 PM
All great civilizations must decay & die. It is simply in the nature of things. Try resigning yourself to this fact philosophically. Consider yourself a citizen of the Roman Empire in, let’s say, AD 37.
JudetheFossil on February 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Every time the camera zooms in on her while she’s asking a question, I keep expecting one of her limbs to fall off or something.
World B. Free on February 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
The One is a unifier! Everyone, on all sides can be ticked off by the annoying hag!
bikermailman on February 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Does she remind anyone else of a female version of the really old banker in Mary Poppins? The one who dies of laughter at the end?
amerpundit on February 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
She is not a journalist, she is a an activist for radical Islam. Somebody should have the balls to exclude her from these news conferences.
echosyst on February 9, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Fat ogre.
artist on February 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I want to see a “hacked” road sign photoshop that says “Danger! Helen Thomas ahead!!!”
Nethicus on February 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Helen looks like a three-day-old road kill on a hot August day.
Then the shock overcame me. My God! I realized that she’s alive and THAT’S Benny’s mother. That’s why he’s been up and on the computer all night; she isn’t home.
Yoop on February 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
makes me miss Tony Snow. He was great.
conservative pilgrim on February 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM
She looks like she has bad breath.
SouthernGent on February 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM
You task me, Allah with the mere presence of my love, Helen………
………… you task me!
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
“JudetheFossil on February 9, 2009 at 10:03 PM”
i’m sorry but that’s bullcrap. 1. the end is NOT unavoidably nigh, and 2. Even IF it were, we sure don’t have to stand here and simply take it …
Buckaroo on February 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
“pahKEEstahn” has returned.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I wonder if she shuffles like John McCain.
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Yes, I miss Tony as well. A nice guy, smart and with a sense of humor.
Tony and Helen are a study in contrasts for what happens to you if you grow up to be a conservative or a lib.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
If ever she is hospitalized we will all have to be sure to send so-called flowers to offer our condolences for her so-called malady.
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Well said! What’s Tony up to these days?
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Maybe all of that money that Screecher Pelosi wanted for STD prevention was to go towards the printing of Helen Thomas condoms. Yeeeeesh.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Only the good die young.
Helen will be around for a while longer.
Professor Blather on February 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
If Obama had any balls he would have said that Israel needs nukes because without that deterrent her friends like Hamas, Hezbollah or Iran would have exterminated them by now.
echosyst on February 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
No, she’s Tokyo Rose!
She’s the right age, isn’t she?
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
“Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM”
i don’t often pull out this epithet, but, seriously, …
ESAD.
Buckaroo on February 9, 2009 at 10:13 PM
I did check her pulse and either she was dead of my watch had stopped.
- “Groucho”
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
For that you should be banned. I don’t usually go around calling for that, but that is over the line.
I meant, and I’m sure most here knew what I meant, when you compare Helen and Tony there is a stark difference in the character and demeanor.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I’m sure he’s God’s press secretary in Heaven.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I tried putting a small mirror up to her face to see if it fogged up so I could tell if she was still breathing but the mirror broke.
- “Groucho”
MB4 on February 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM
“INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:14 PM”
seconded!
Buckaroo on February 9, 2009 at 10:15 PM
I think VH knows that Tony Snow has passed away. He was being deliberately and beyond the pale insulting.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Rabid McCain bashers didn’t screw you numbnuts. Your party running a fossil with a negative charisma quotient of 5 million did it. You don’t play the Super Bowl with your waterboy at quarterback. You wasted our nomination on a bum. Suck it up.
Oh, hee hee ho ho. Attack the guy who died of cancer. I hope they ban you scumbag.
austinnelly on February 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Rome hung on to power for a few hundred years after that.
Our decline started with the
NewBad Deal.jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I would say that Tony Snow is in a far better place than you are Vermin Candyapple. Even if it is hell!
Vince on February 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Some little red-headed girl in a blue gingham dress should throw a bucket of water on this crone.
TinMan13 on February 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Just had to fix that for ya….
MrScribbler on February 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I finally figured it out. Helen Thomas is Emperor Palpatine’s long-lost mail-order bride.
pookysgirl on February 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Well said! What’s Tony up to these days?
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Certainly something more useful than you.
viking01 on February 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM
His pointless life is so low that all other lots he envies. Fame of him the world hath none. Mercy and justice both scorn him. Ignore him, look ahead and pass him by.
Tav on February 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Oh. OK. It’s so hard for me to keep track of the libtard douchetrolls that invade the site from time to time. Speaking of which, where’s Spackle, benny haha, et. al. tonight?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Helen is more likely Frankenstein’s monster’s mail order bride. Her better years were those before the Trojan War.
viking01 on February 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Holy mackarel. That is all.
Wanna ask what my cousin is up to nowadays? I mean, it’s funny when someone kills themselves right? Or maybe my Grandpa who died of bone cancer? You’re a cretin, Apple.
mjk on February 9, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Do you speak Olde English or just put it on after shaving?
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Not surprising. Not only is she a liberal, but she’s also Lebanese.
Wethal on February 9, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Typical 12 year old troll. Nothing substantive to add from a less-then-fecund imagination and so, like the typical Che kisser, attacks ad hominem in the most pathetically superfical way. Nice one, Vernon Candyass.
TinMan13 on February 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Was that the FATWA region,or GAZA region!
Maybe I didn’t hear cleary!
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Ohhhhhhhhhh……………
……… the body has numerous cavities that provide the sweet smell of “flowers and roses”.
Just ask our friend Vernon Hardapple…………
…….. he was just expelled from one.
Seven Percent Solution on February 9, 2009 at 10:24 PM
You are the Poster Child for the Classless Left in America.
Patrick S on February 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM
I know it’s easy in a quick flow of comments to miss who’s who. I caught on to it because it was in reply to my comment and I know his MO.
benny was here earlier.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Living, breathing proof that liberals are sick a**holes. They just cannot help themselves.
Pisses me off, to no end, that we have to pay to clean up all the little piles of crap they leave laying around everywhere they go.
Yoop on February 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Talk about looking death in the face.
That is one withered ol’ usless marxist POS.
TheSitRep on February 9, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Nope. That’s the Jizya region. Oops. Sorry. Thought that was a BillyJeff presser.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Give folks the benefit of the doubt. He probably didn’t know.
jgapinoy on February 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I loved the fact that on CNN, during Obama’s replies, they posted graphics showing the name of the reporter and the question they asked … except in this case. Then it was simply “Question from Helen Thomas”.
jon1979 on February 9, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Tony Snow was a fine Christian and he is now in heaven. At least a lot of libs will be able to read about the place, most are in no danger of going to heaven.
Mojave Mark on February 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Usually, it’s easy to ID the trolls. They are more like a case of genital herpes……..sucks when they are around, but eventually they go away.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM
VH consistently leads with cruel insults. He’s been putting his two bits into the Open thread on the Presser. You can look at just a few things he said on the 11th page of the comments there to see what I mean.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Nice hardball questions there Helen. I wonder if anyone really knows the answers. Keep that insightful reporting going sweetie.
GarandFan on February 9, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Someone get that woman a burka! The kind with only peep holes.
hoosiermama on February 9, 2009 at 10:31 PM
He has a track record here of classless comments, jg…he gets no break.
Patrick S on February 9, 2009 at 10:31 PM
did helen offer her dust bowl to obama before the huffington post assclown interrupted her?
Sammy316 on February 9, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Have you been imbibing aftershavee lotion habitually or is it an occasional affliction?
Tav on February 9, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Where is Jeff Gannon when you need him!
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Some lefties have claimed that Snow’s comment was evil, awful and beyond the pale. Personally, I think that he was a bit understated.
Physics Geek on February 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Dr.Cwac.Cwac,
True. He’s been on too much tonight and that was the last straw for me.
INC on February 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Why don’t you talk to Ted Kennedy in a couple of months and find out?
(Both conservatives and liberals do die of cancer, Vern, so I’d watch your snark, or you won’t be able to feign outrage when you see a post mocking one of your guys when it comes time for them to go pinin’ for the fjords.)
jon1979 on February 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM
How ’bout the clip of Major Garrett wasting Urkel with a very simple question. And I hope we’ll be seeing some analysis tomorrow of his disgusting 10 minutes long speeches he gave, instead of answers, even to the most softballiest of questions. And how he continues to begin statements to simple questions with “uh… what I have said iiiiiis…” or “uh… as I said… uh… during the campaign… uh…” No one cares what you said mother effer, say something NOW! Stop wasting our time with that crap! I also hope there is discussion of his constant finger pointing, while claiming he’s looking for bipartisanship.
RightWinged on February 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Heres what Obama said!
The United States must reduce it Nuclear weapon’s first,
after that,it will send a clear signal to all ME countries,
that the US has set an example and of course with Liberal
thinking,they will follow suit!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NUTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW,Achmed,ImWearingADinnerJacketNutCase,is expecting a
CHANGE from Washington,
and Hopey talkin about reducing America’s insurance policy,
I think,Achmed likes what he heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on February 9, 2009 at 10:33 PM
No, it was just Obama and his trained seals from the mainstream media.
rplat on February 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM
helen thomas passed away 10 years ago..
What? none of you ever heard of the undead?
Seriously, I know of so many good old people that fall down and really injure themselves…
Why can’t the crappy ones fall every now and then. Just once.
Handel on February 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
The 20th century embalming process has really given Helen that 100 something vividness. Pelosi has her beat with 21st century Cologen technology.
portlandon on February 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
That’s English Leather, junior Roadapple. At least google it.
TinMan13 on February 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Why don’t you go ask him?
Laura in Maryland on February 9, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Ease up on twisted Vern a little.
No doubt he already realizes when his time comes his grave will be a urinal and his popularity will soar albeit not as he intended.
viking01 on February 9, 2009 at 10:36 PM
What I leave on Vern’s grave won’t pass for flowers.
portlandon on February 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Helen Thomas won again. You 24%ers can’t catch a break. Good night to all – tomorrow’s a new day in Obama’s America!
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Excrement is indignant!
Entelechy on February 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM
How old is Helen Thomas?
Robert Byrd once told Helen, “Shut up you old bitty.”
Bishop on February 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I very much doubt that he could make it through the right security gate.
Cheshire Cat on February 9, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Sorry lady – that’s Nancy Reagan’s department!
Vernon Hardapple on February 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Fox needs to quit having Trump on to talk about this stuff. he’s a hack and/or idiot. His casino’s are also about to go bankrupt again and he’s not unbias on this bailout stuff, he’s desperate and has an ego problem
jp on February 9, 2009 at 10:39 PM
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