Helen Thomas to Gibbs: Hey, are we sure Iran’s a threat?
posted at 5:32 pm on May 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
I don’t know what to say about this that I didn’t already say when she asked The One a stupid question about Israeli nukes at his February presser, so refresh your memory. Grandstanding hack then, grandstanding hack now. In fairness to the left, as much as she prides herself on being a liberal, I think denial about Iran’s intentions is a minority position even on their side. The only question here, really, is whether she earnestly doubts that Iranian nuclear weapons would pose a threat or whether she recognizes that they would but is willing to tolerate them anyway in the name of moral equivalence. Smart money’s on the latter.
If you’re not familiar with the quotes from Iranian leaders that Gibbs mentions near the end, start here. Exit question: Seriously, isn’t Greg Hengler right about her keeping her seat at these pressers not because she’s asking anything worthwhile but out of simple respect for her longevity? That’s one less question per day that might advance a story that Gibbs is being asked.
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I think it’s time to put this old dog down (for a nice nap of course)….next she’ll be messing herself in the press corp seats.
RepubChica on May 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM
omg. has she had a dementia eval yet?
red131 on May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Did Helen ever father any children?
daesleeper on May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
what a doddering old hag.
it takes a lot for me to speak that way about a woman…
homesickamerican on May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
What part of “Death to America” is unclear?
CP on May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
RepubChica on May 18, 2009 at 5:35 PM
she has a special seat doncha know…
red131 on May 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM
She is rehearsing her willing suspension of disbelief.
maverick muse on May 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Nice to see them struggle with their own crew.
Maxim nr 92 BTW.
the_nile on May 18, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Helen, please go away for good!
txstar on May 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
The Weekend at Bernies Special
WashJeff on May 18, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Can’t someone put a bag over her head and a rag in her mouth? Although, she does represent the mainstream media well – kind of their mascot. irrelevant.
suzyk on May 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Gibbsy wishin’ a cell phone would ring…
red131 on May 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Ok , for the last time , Obama never heard Wright saying those words…
the_nile on May 18, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Helen’s kind of a (semi-living) Dorian Gray, in physically representing the inner psyche of the left in the media.
jon1979 on May 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Dude… I can’t believe they actually let her go on like this?
You don’t think that even the liberals wouldn’t be embarressed by something like the questions she has been asking.
She is kept around like a old show dog or pony. Why?
upinak on May 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Does the hag even know that under OBAMACARE, she’d be put down?
JiangxiDad on May 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Helen,
the Iranians said
“I’ll get you my pretty. And your little dog too!”
sound familiar?
400lb Gorilla on May 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Soylent Green Cake?
upinak on May 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
She is kept around like a old show dog or pony. Why?
upinak on May 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM
To prove to seniors that they don’t believe in euthenasia?
red131 on May 18, 2009 at 5:42 PM
she is not a pretty woman.
deidre on May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM
she is not a pretty woman.
deidre on May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM
And unfortunately she wasn’t blessed with a brain either.
red131 on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Comic Relief
CynicalOptimist on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM
journo-Zombie strikes again!!!!!
blatantblue on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Just wait…in about 15 years, MoDo is going to look just like her.
MadisonConservative on May 18, 2009 at 5:45 PM
Um, does she realize that Iran executes gays & imprisons journalists? Why does Helen Thomas hate gays and journalists?
rbj on May 18, 2009 at 5:45 PM
She has certainly aged beyond the usual of late.. I emailed her about 9 years ago about something she had written in a column, and she replied quite sharply, surprised me a bit really. Now she’s just popping out a lot of nonsense sadly..
It’s hard to see the Liberal ones enter the twilight years like that – The jump from irrational to psychobabble just isn’t that far a leap for them, sadly.
saus on May 18, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I wonder if she colors her hair?
Glenn Jericho on May 18, 2009 at 5:46 PM
You mean Pelosi right. But then again Pelosi may be the “I’M MELTING” queen due to Botox.
upinak on May 18, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Hope and change. she and jeaneane Grrafaloa, Napolitanno etc really don’t conmpare well with Gov Palin, Miss california and some more tallented people and minds in the republican party. Democrats, helen is your posterchild.
seven on May 18, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I heard her first assignment was covering the First Battle of Bull Run and she’s been full of bull ever since.
kingsjester on May 18, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Press Secretary 1 – Withered Old Witch 0
Sergeant Tim on May 18, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Someone ask this hag to state exactly what about Iran has changed since holding U.S. hostages for 444 days.
Roc on May 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I am simply speachless…….is that what America has become?
SDarchitect on May 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I must say that she fits in quite nicely with Obama and his gaggle of clowns.
rplat on May 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Confirmed, Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas meet to discuss how to discredit the CIA
Wyznowski on May 18, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I think she was a little confused about who the president was right then.
Its OBAMA not BUSH. There there, now go drink a prune smoothie.
sonofdy on May 18, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Why…WHY..do these doddering old dementia riddled fossils continue to be given a voice or an office?..Robert “Kluxy McClannypants” Byrd come to mind…or Pelosi/Reid/Scheumer/Kennedy. Someone needs to break the news to them. Time for a 4 p.m. pudding cup, some nice fuzzy slippers and reruns of “Gone With the Wind” for some and the Woodstock movie on a continuous loop for others.
Please…just go away.
Itchee Dryback on May 18, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Helen Thomas died 9 years ago. Come on guys, I’ve seen better automatons at Disneyland.
portlandon on May 18, 2009 at 5:52 PM
The police stop her on the way home and she says, “But Osthifer… I’m not as thingk aths you djrunk I am… I haven’th hath too meenie martoonies…”
CynicalOptimist on May 18, 2009 at 5:52 PM
She would not be “put down”. She would be chosen to be given all that medical science could cram down her ugly persona…Remember “they” choose who to “put down”, and they would choose her…Your granny is history…..
nondhimmie on May 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Oh Helen, look up “we will turn Israel into a sea of fire”
On a computer. The magic box with a key board. No I will not change your diaper and I am not JFK…
sonofdy on May 18, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Second look at socialized medicine.
stenwin77 on May 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM
You have to admire her consistency. She is consistently anti=American no matter who is President. That’s something.
petunia on May 18, 2009 at 5:54 PM
LOL ironic this occurred. I wrote a fake press conf with Thomas in it
blatantblue on May 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Nope. Iran is not a threat.
“Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us…”
Daggett on May 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Nah, ObamaCare will only be for the riffraff – not the political/media elite. ;)
Midas on May 18, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Yes, Helen. We’re sure.
Glad to clear that up for you.
J.E. Dyer on May 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Disgusting.
YoungAmerican on May 18, 2009 at 5:57 PM
She seems confused. Helen, dear, it’s time to retire.
ronsfi on May 18, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Will someone just drop a house on her already??
mountaineer for liberty on May 18, 2009 at 5:58 PM
I agree…drop a house on her or bury her in the backyard. ugh
becki51758 on May 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM
The crazy old aunt who lives in the basement.
Hilts on May 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM
She should retire to the bell tower at Notre Dame.
mountaineer for liberty on May 18, 2009 at 6:02 PM
She is too far gone to do Depends commercials.
seven on May 18, 2009 at 6:03 PM
What a douchebag! She makes Gibbs seem intelligent – now that is saying something!
Hilts on May 18, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Maybe she can run for a Senate seat or something? She obviously has the mental acuity for the role.
cannonball on May 18, 2009 at 6:04 PM
“Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game”
the_nile on May 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I guess embalming fluid does work.
docflash on May 18, 2009 at 6:06 PM
the face of liberalism
notagool on May 18, 2009 at 6:08 PM
I’m going to defend the question but not the questioner since the latter is a foolish person who won’t accept the answer.
But it’s a pretty good question to ask a new Administration, especially since candidate Obama on one occasion said that Iran is a small, insignificant threat (in so many words).
Let’s get the Administration on record in explaining their view of the danger of Iran and the threat posed to us and our interests with their possession of nuclear weapons.
As I said, Ms. Thomas won’t accept the answer.
A for the question; F for the questioner.
SteveMG on May 18, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Don’t kid yourself. Most of the left claims that Ira
progressoverpeace on May 18, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Don’t kid yourself. The delusional world of the left is widespread among them and as detached from reality as your average committed schizophrenic.
progressoverpeace on May 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM
deidre on May 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM
She doesn’t even make a pretty man.
catmman on May 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM
It’s the majority position among the lefties I know. To the left, there’s no greater threat than the shadowy forces of the US bureaucracy. None.
ddrintn on May 18, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Question?
Who`s older!
Helen,or the Liberal Party?
canopfor on May 18, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Well, not “none”. Big Business is their Great Satan, actually; but then to their minds Big US Business and US Government are one and the same anyway.
ddrintn on May 18, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Gibbs said incoming administration!
Already!!!!!!!
canopfor on May 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM
It’s kind of pathetic that she tries so hard to be relevant in a world that she no longer seems to really understand. But, then, I could apply that to myself and would except like Helen, I don’t want to. LOL
jeanie on May 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Strongest posts:
Moutanieer for liberty, daesleeper, jiangxiDad, and 400 lb Gorilla
Keep up the good work!
Petaluma Patriot on May 18, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Sorry, Helen, but somewhere, there has to be a large painting of you getting prettier………
Techie on May 18, 2009 at 6:16 PM
CSM report:
“Biden speaks at Wake Forest – does not disclose nuclear launch codes”
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/18/biden-speaks-at-wake-forest-does-not-disclose-nuclear-launch-codes/
dtestard on May 18, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Oh, come on! You’re going to miss that little raisin when she’s gone.
Blake on May 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I will miss her like a case of the clap on a Saturday night with a hot chick!
Hilts on May 18, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Everytime I see her talk, I think of that old video by Genesis called “Land of Confusion” where all the people were funny-looking puppets with exaggerated features.
she makes my skin crawl.
Black Adam on May 18, 2009 at 6:21 PM
She looks more and more like a cartoonist’s version of an old wicked Witch everyday. Scary actually.
TheBigOldDog on May 18, 2009 at 6:22 PM
“We can certainly Google that and get them to ya,” says Gibbs.
In other words, “Even I think you’re old and out of touch and probably don’t even know how to use a computer to look up what Iran has said about wiping Israel off the face of the earth and creating the conditions for the 12th Imam, you embarassing hack.”
PastorJon on May 18, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Let her stay there and torment those idiots. They can see how they like it.
echosyst on May 18, 2009 at 6:24 PM
I wonder if she’s going to get a Brazilian wax job……..
……….. Summer is almost here.
Seven Percent Solution on May 18, 2009 at 6:28 PM
o/t or maybe not: robt. byrd hospitalized. he’s another that wouldn’t be alive under obambicare. well, i guess he’s technically still alive now….
kelley in virginia on May 18, 2009 at 6:29 PM
It’s the Weekend at Bernie’s moment. Look, she’s just playing the odds. She, like everyone else, knows that Gibbs is a dummy. She was looking to see if he would say something that could be misconstrued in the Mideast, especially with Netanyahu in the neighborhood. Didn’t work, but for a moment it was close.
EMD on May 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Thomas: Hey, are we sure Iran’s a threat?
Gibbs: Well, Helen, like you underwear, it Depends.
RobCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Don’t remind me, Gibbsy. I’m trying to forget. Looking forward to the day when incoming becomes outgoing…
TheQuestion on May 18, 2009 at 6:39 PM
It was embarresing when she was calling him Larry Speakes for ten minutes.
RobCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:39 PM
She just reminds me how important it is that Jen gets that shard back to the Dark Crystal before it’s too late.
29Victor on May 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Obama’s got a soft spot in his heart for her. After all, she used to babysit Saul Alinsky’s father.
ardenenoch on May 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM
She wants quotes? How about the litany of quotes from Iran that it vows to wipe Israel off the map?
Time for Helen to retire; she’s an embarrassment.
redfoxbluestate on May 18, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Watch out Helen, like the cell phones, Gibbs may throw your colostomy can out of the room
RobCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:44 PM
She is a shining example of the Washington Press Corps.
They should all be proud to have her as their senior member.
cruadin on May 18, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Notice how they want Cheney to retire but they will keep her around for 1000 years.
RobCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:46 PM
I think we should use her as a cautionary tale to scare little children and puppies.
Oh. Wait.
Meryl Yourish on May 18, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Get her out of there. She is a disgusting little troll.
WisCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:48 PM
I love that title. So darn snarky. That’s how all news titles for the VP should go.
mjk on May 18, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Giving her Twinkies and Botox may be able to actually do that!
upinak on May 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Basically, too dumb to know how dumb she is.
tarpon on May 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM
I’m not so sure at all.
AUINSC on May 18, 2009 at 6:49 PM
GREAT IDEA:
Transfer Helen “Wicked Witch of the West” Thomas to Jerusalem if Iran is no big deal.
Or better yet, to Iran so they can throw a black table cloth over her head and she can bust Amawackjobs stones for awhile.
RobCon on May 18, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Brazilian Wax job…
Seven Percent Solution on May 18,2009 at 6:28PM.
Seven Percent Solution:
Now that is nasty,hehe!:)
I picture hacking through the forest with machete
in hand,looking for a lost temple that hasn`t seen
sunlight for hundreds of years`,and to top it off
its cursed!!ahem:)
canopfor on May 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM
The whole party is a gaggle of unattractive bags-o-douche, making up for their shortcomings in the beauty and popularity departments whence they attended high school, college, etc.
Frank, Waxman, Pelosi, this shrew, the list goes on.
When Obama signs a bill and they all crowd in for their publicity shot, it looks like the rejects line from the gag reel of American Idol.
selias on May 18, 2009 at 6:54 PM
This thread needs theme music,
Styx,Miss America!:)
canopfor on May 18, 2009 at 6:57 PM
This does not advance anything, but don’t you wonder what she smells like..The poor slob that has to sit next to her….Jake Tapper….maybe that is why he is so cranky….good cranky, but cranky…..
nondhimmie on May 18, 2009 at 6:58 PM
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