Reply from Helen Thomas

>
> thank you for the kind words; I think for McClellan
> to stand there and
> say we were in Iraq and Afghanistan at their
> invitation is
> unconscionable---helent
>
> -----Original Message-----

> Subject: GOOD FOR YOU, HELEN!!! MORE POWER TO
> YOU!
>
> I just read that you peppered Scott McClellan
> today with important
> questions about Iraq and Afghanistan: "Did
> they invite us?" (GOOD
> question!)
>
> But of course, being the disgrace that he is,
> McClellan ignored you
> and tried to put you down. I don't know how you
> even got called on,
> Helen, since they sat you in the last row behind
> the potted
> plants--but God bless you for persisting! Too
> many of your
> journalistic colleagues have either gone over to
> the Bush camp--or
> are lying down and presenting themselves as
> doormats for BushCo to
> wipe their feet on. I suspect this is because
> many of them are
> under command from their corporate hierarchy who
> are Bush
> buddies--receiving all those great tax cuts.
>
> Journalistic integrity, for the most part in our
> country, has been
> sullied beyond recognition. You stand out as a
> shining light amidst
> the dark and forlorn mess that our "fourth
> estate" has sadly
> become. The Jeff Gannon/James Guckert episode
> alone was enough to
> do it and the Bush White House in--but, just
> like all other
> revelatory events in this administration, it was
> glossed over by the
> mainstream media.
>
> I hope you have become friends with Ron Reagan,
> Jr. and Keith
> Olbermann. I would love to see them interview
> you on MSNBC. They
> seem to feel the same about most things as you
> and half of our
> nation's people do. Unfortunately, we are the
> half that no one
> listens to, as BushCo takes us further and
> further into darkness on
> every important issue of the day:
> environmentalism, science
> technology, women's rights, etc., etc.
>
> The Republicans own our government--all three
> branches, and I
> believe they got there through vote fraud that
> was not pursued by
> Kerry/Edwards in Ohio and Florida. That was a
> major
> disappointment--that the Democratic candidates
> would not fight for
> those votes when we, the people, had done so
> much to try to get them
> elected. They let us down--and worse, they let
> the country down.
> Do you see Election Reform being addressed now,
> in preparation for
> the 2006 mid-term elections? No, neither do I.
> It looks like we
> will have to take the word of the Diebold CEO
> once again, with still
> no paper trails to check on the Diebold voting
> machines, that (as he
> promised Bush in 2004) "I will deliver Ohio to
> you, Mr. Bush."
> Which he certainly did.
>
> I fear, Helen, that the Republicans will
> continue to own the
> government if no election reforms are
> undertaken. They will be able
> to manipulate the vote however they want it.
> And the Democrat wimps
> will continue to lie still for it. I am almost
> 70 years old now,
> and I don't fear for myself, but for my children
> and grandchildren.
> The world they live in is so different from the
> one in which I grew
> up....and the changes have not been for the
> better.
>
> Whatever has happened to our country? Where are
> the Mr. Smiths when
> you most need them in Washington? The words to
> Where Have All the
> Flowers Gone echo in my mind: "Gone to
> graveyards every one...Oh,
> when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they
> ever learn?"
>
> Keep up the good work, Helen. After today, you
> will probably never
> again be called on by Scott McClellan--and they
> may just move your
> seat out into the hallway. But you have
> guts--and courage--and good
> common sense! All of which are sadly lacking in
> the majority of
> journalists today. I wish we could clone you
> and put you on the
> staff of every major news organization in
> America. May your tribe
> increase!
>
> Sincerely,

> Santa Cruz, California
>
>
>

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