When I grow up, I want to be a jazzy old babe like Helen Thomas, who has been “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable” since the Kennedy Administration.
Thomas, a bestselling author, was the featured speaker at the kickoff dinner of the Media Giraffe Project Summit. It was an inspired choice since she's been sticking her neck out in the pursuit of accuracy and government accountability for more than 60 years.
Much to the chagrin of dissemblers like President Bush and his latest spinmeister, Tony Snow (and here), Thomas speaks truth to power.
Thomas posed a very straightforward question: What did the Iraqis do? There were no weapons of mass destruction, no connection to 9/11, and no ties to Al Qaeda (that is, until Bush invaded the country). Three years later, Thomas doubts whether Bush can give the American people a reason why thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians have died.
The conversation is just getting started. To get connected, you can view a live stream here.
