It was the best minute in TV since this morning when Helen embarrassed the President by asking why he planed to invade Iraq even before 9/11.
Leslie (aka Wolf) had Helen on to talk down to her about her questions to Bush earlier today. For some strange reason Leslie asked Helen why she thought the US invaded Iraq. Helen gestured toward Les (is our boy Les a neocon?) and said, (paraphrase) "Well because of the neocons at the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). Their plan was to invade first Iraq, then Syria, then Iran."
Les interrupted with some irrelevancy about all the 9/11 dead, and Helen leaned toward him and said, "They had nothing to do with each other...."
Then Helen said to Leslie, "Come home, you'll be welcomed."
(it gets better below)
But the best part was as she continued, "You and I were at the WH together and you used to ask tough questions. You asked Clinton why he didn't resign." Les was perturbed, cut her off and said,"That was a different time" and went to commercial.
God I hope Crooks and Liars
gets it soon.
Transcript update:
Poster Mz Kleen
below provided this CNN transcript:
(lots of good stuff skipped)
BLITZER: But you can't forget 9/11. Three thousand people were killed.
THOMAS: But the Iraqis didn't do it. I mean, how can you -- why don't you go bomb some other country? I mean, if you have no reason -- this is -- I don't believe in preemptive war, and it certainly is against international law. It's against the U.N. charter, it's against Geneva, and it's against Nuremberg.
BLITZER: Tell our viewers, who, as I said earlier, have grown up with you, Helen, what you're up to nowadays, how you feel, what your goals are right now.
THOMAS: My goals are to seek the truth, wherever it leads me. And I do think that's the goal of journalists, and I think we fell down on the job.
BLITZER: The news media in general? That we weren't watching?
THOMAS: Come back. All is forgiven.
BLITZER: You're going to forgive us?
THOMAS: To the White House.
BLITZER: You're part of -- they're part of the news media, too.
THOMAS: Right.
BLITZER: We sat in those briefings for a long time together.
Helen, I hope you're around...
THOMAS: You ask very tough questions.
BLITZER: Well, I'm trying to do the best I can, like you.
THOMAS: You asked President Clinton why he wouldn't resign.
BLITZER: I asked him some tough questions, but that's another time. And this is another story right now.
It's always good to have you here...
THOMAS: Thank you.
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