Saturday links - Sister Toldjah

Wanted to post these before I headed out for the day:

—– Carrying on in the fine tradition of her predecessor Tony Snow, WH press secretary Dana Perino gave liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas a verbal smackdown that you won’t hear anything about in the MSM – outside of the WashingtonTimes Fishwrap blog, which has a recap and video of the exchange here. In the exchange, Thomas delivers the typical far left talking point about Americans supposedly ‘deliberately’ killing innocent Iraqis. Kathryn Jean Lopez says Perino deserves a raise.

—– The Washington Post this morning has an inside look at how national reporters are getting increasingly frustrated with trying to cover Hillary Clinton, because she-who-wants-to-be-president limits access to herself more than any other candidate out there, to the point where she rarely answers a question – even the simple ones – while on the campaign trail. It’s yet another revealing piece on how the ferocious Clinton media-control machine operates.

—– In related news, Ann Althouse dissects an AP puff-piece on how Hillary Clinton handled yesterday’s hostage drama. Read more via Jim Lynch.

—– CBS is seeking an “eco-beat” reporter to cover environmental issues – with no knowledge of the issue required. Funny thing, as that seems to be the ‘requirement’ for Nobel Peace prize winners, too.

—– Thousands of Sudanese protesters are demanding the execution of the ‘Mohammed teddy bear’ teacher. Ah, the ‘tolerance’ of the Religion of Peace is once again glaringly obvious for all to see.

—– Take from it what you will: Gallup released a poll yesterday showing that more Republicans are reporting “better mental health” than others …

—– “No liberal media bias”? That’s definitely not obvious in this video, in which CNBC news anchor Erin Burnett refers to the President as “the monkey”:

Shameful.

Warner Todd Huston at Newsbusters has the transcript.

—– John Hawkins: Rudy Giuliani Would Be Our Bill Clinton. Considering the emerging scandal involving Rudy and his days as mayor and the dispute over how he may have abused the perks of the job to, among other things, chauffer around his then-mistress-now-wife Judy Nathan, could J-Hawk be right?

—– Prepare for another showdown between the WH and Congressional Dems on funding for the war in Iraq. Sigh. These people never learn.

—– Say goodbye to Evel Knievel. He passed away yesterday, at the age of 69.

Tom the Redhunter says:

December 1, 2007 at 12:37 pm

Helen Thomas is a fake journalist. I don’t knowhow she even makes it into the briefing room.

The WaPo story on Hillary is interesting. This might really start to hurt her during t he campaign (if or when she gets the nomination), but of course on the othe4r side the msm will be desperate to defeat the GOP nominee, so as with LBJ’s drinking they may give her a pass.

“Rudy would be our Bill Clinton”: Good heavens, I’ve thought exactly the same thing myself. My concern about Rudy is not his position on this or that social issue, but his personal behavior. Glad to see that someone else is is picking up on this too.

Leslie says:

December 2, 2007 at 10:42 am

Ah. Hah! Kudos to the delightful, delicious, delovely Dana.

Does not the color purple suit the lady well when she stands in front of the blue-dominated background? Mr. Blackwell, we have a winnah!

Her use of the coffee cup as prop while Ms. Thomas blathers on was a stroke of genius. “I must not be fully awake,” Ms. Perino implies, “I cannot be hearing this correctly, so I shall stop and refuel.” She does, and then as if to demonstrate that “egads! I did hear correctly,” she brilliantly ripostes.

And finally, as she should have, she knew precisely when enough was enough and declared she was moving on.

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As for the equally delightful, delicious, delovely Erin Burnett–who seems to have ingested rather more caffiene than is probably good for her–I have no idea what on earth she was talking about, and I doubt if she knows either. It appears to be some sort of shtick on the Scarborough show and therefore probably harmless enough. I think we need to look elsewhere for more injustice collecting against the MSM.

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As for experience not being necessary on the CBS eco-beat, well what’s the difference? Nobody else knows what they’re talking about either. And anyway, why would one expect CBS to require a hire to some knowledge about the environment than it apparently did regarding rudimentary knowledge of computer type fonts.

And that’s it from New York City where, of all things, snow is falling lightly on the old heat island of Manhattan.

December 2, 2007 at 10:47 am

Ooops typos in my previous comment! Correx in caps

why would one expect CBS to require a hire to HAVE some knowledge about the environment than it apparently ~~did~~ REQUIRED THEM TO HAVE regarding rudimentary knowledge of computer type fonts.

Steve Skubinna says:

December 2, 2007 at 1:21 pm

I’m certain that whomever CBS hires to cover the eco-beat (and that does sound kinda catchy – the Eco-Beat! Now with half the hydrocarbons!) will be just as qualified to do so as the people they hire to cover military affairs.

There used to be, maybe still is, a little two seater in Japan called the Honda Beat. Cute little sucker. The last one I saw had the slogan emblazoned on the side: “Midship Amusement.” This thing was dinky – it made the Del Sol look like an SUV.