Run, Dick, Run

I heard this on the radio yesterday: Veteran wire reporter Helen Thomas is vowing to 'kill herself' if Dick Cheney announces he is running for president.

The newspaper HILL first reported the startling claim on Thursday.

"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself," she told the HILL. "All we need is one more liar."

Thomas added, "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does."

Now wait. Before We get all excited, let's remember that we have heard promises such as this before. Alec Baldwin, Hollywood actor and political expert, once said during the impeachment controversy surrounding President Clinton, "We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families..." (so much for the Liberals being the compassionate ones). Yes, the very same Alec Baldwin said he would move to France if George W. Bush was elected. He is still in Hollywood the last I heard.

Oh wait. He did explain why he didn't move. He said Bush wasn't elected, he was selected. Apparently that little loophole keeps him in this country that he hates so much. I wonder why he didn't leave the country after the next election, the outcome of which wasn't in doubt? Does anyone wonder why I don't lend any credence to what the "celiberals" say?

Quote of the day, from the Laura Ingraham show:
"The war was in 2003...is that right?"
-- Tim Robbins, on The Tavis Smiley Show.

What a moron.

But Helen Thomas is not really considered a celebrity, at least not a "Hollywood" celebrity. She is a journalist. Apparently not a very impartial journalist, but a journalist, nonetheless. This woman should be considered by her leftist friends an embarrassment, but I fear that, like Alec Baldwin, she will no doubt be given a pass on such ridiculous statements.

While I'm on the subject of celiberals, I'm sure that everyone has heard the news, by now, that Hanoi Jane Fonda is again embarrassing herself by launching a bus tour to protest the "war" in Iraq. In a bus using vegetable oil for fuel no less. When she announced a few years ago her conversion to Christianity, I believed her and, true to my Christian upbringing, I forgave her for her naive support of the other side in Viet Nam. I'm not saying that one cannot be a war protestor and a Christian at the same time, but if her latest announcement in any way supports the terrorists over her own people, I would have to say her conversion was probably not genuine.

We might have to start calling her "Hussein Jane" instead. That rolls trippingly off the tongue, doesn't it?

This brings me to another point that has long perplexed me. I have noticed, while surfing the blogwave, that often the Democrat and Liberal bloggers have often accused the same media outlets of bias as the Republican conservatives do. Of course, they accuse those outlets of being right wing and the conservatives accuse them of being left wing. How do they arrive at this conclusion? One only has to read the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, and Newsweek to see which way those organizations lean. The same can be said of NBC, CBS, CNN, and ABC. Except you have to watch and listen to them. It does little good to try to read them.

My slightly left of center (or right of center, depending on the issue) friend ER, will point out that not ALL media is liberal, and will point to his own employer as an example. And I have no reason to doubt him. In fact there are conservatives in the media, but the ones that these liberal bloggers refer to are decidely not conservative.

As I say, it is perplexing.

As I write this, I am watching (on Fox News) the swearing in of 6 soldiers who are re-enlisting because they want to voluntarily go back to Iraq and finish the job. I bet CBS isn't covering that.

OK. I don't really wish Helen Thomas will follow through with her promise. I don't wish death on anyone, unlike Alec Baldwin. But when I hear of things like this, I can't resist the urge to shout out, "Run, Dick, Run!"

But maybe it isn't asking to much for her to just retire. We really have all the extreme left wing Liberals in the media that we need, anyway.

UPDATE:
Right now, as I write, it is being reported that there have been approximately 6 explosions heard in London. Apparently they are associated with London Police raiding another suspected terrorist cell. The explosions are coming from stun grenades as the police assault barricaded suspects. At least, that's what is being reported currently. There will be much more to this story as the day wears on.

CORRECTION: I need to correct an earlier statement I made concerning Alec Baldwin and his promise to move to France. The promise I alluded to was actually made by Robert Altman. (Robert Altman remains in America too, I believe) I heard that Alec Baldwin did say he would move to France if Bush were elected but I have been unable to find that particular quote. I did find this quote which seems to suggest he may have said something, at one time, indicating that he might make that move:

"I never made that statement [about leaving the country if Pres. Bush was elected], but you can tell Gov. Bush to rest assured that I'm not going to leave the country because we have to get him out of office and we have to get his brother out of office in 2004. We're not resting until we get that done."

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected — selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

He's still a moron.