Found this cartoon through Google Blog Search / Tony Snow (see post below dated Friday, May 19, 2006 re: Tony Snow and the tar baby) and thought it was pretty funny. With permission freely given from the cartoonist, Ken McCracken, I present it here. (Might need to right click and view image - Sorry -)
I also found this exchange on the - White House Press Briefing page dated May 19, 2006 - which I can only assume was between Helen and Tony (He calls the questioner "Helen" and it is in the same genre of questions she has been asking for 3 years)
- Quote -
Q The new Italian Prime Minister says that the President's invasion of Iraq was a grave error. As the new kid on the block, can you give me the latest rationale the U.S. has for invading Iraq?
MR. SNOW: There has only been one rationale, as you know, Helen, and this that Saddam Hussein had resisted -- what is the proper number, 17 United Nations resolutions -- and had refused repeatedly to permit weapons inspectors to do their work, and consistent with that. And also we had cited other concerns in terms of democracy and human rights. That case has never changed.
Also the case laid out and voted by the United States Senate --
Q He finds that as a justification to invade a country where we had choke-hold sanctions, satellite surveillance --
MR. SNOW: Helen, I'm not going to get in another argument about the -- this is a three-year-old argument and you're trying to re-argue the case. The President made his case back then. The United States Senate voted overwhelmingly.
Q He did not make the case.
MR. SNOW: Well, in your opinion he didn't make the case. He made the case. He laid out his reasons.
Q He made the case, in your opinion?
MR. SNOW: Yes.
- End Quote -
prying1 sez: Second verse, same as the first.
Update - May 24, 2006 - Q The President apparently has gotten several messages, underground, back-channel and so forth, through intermediaries for direct talks with Iran. Surely he is not going to blow a -- speaking of opportunities with Iraq, this is an opportunity to talk directly to Iran. And why doesn't the President do it? And don't give me the -- I'm sure the three other allies and so forth would be very happy if we talked directly to Iran.
MR. SNOW: Well, if you don't wish me to answer the question, then I'll just move to the next questioner.
Q I want you to answer after I've told you what my premise is. (Laughter.)
MR. SNOW: This from Secretary of State Helen Thomas. The position has always been clear. We are not going to divide --
Q If elected I will serve. (Laughter.)
MR. SNOW: Boy, that's going out everywhere today. ....
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