Jennifer Loven of The AP had a Rough Week
She managaged to get called out twice this week.
Associated Press White House correspondent Jennifer Loven is either a glutton for punishment or just too ideologically driven to know how ridiculous she appears to the public. At Tuesday’s presidential press conference with Bush and Karzai, Loven is the reporter asking the questions:
PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you. We’ll have two questions a side. We’ll start with Jennifer Loven.
Q Thank you, sir. Even after hearing that one of the major conclusions of the National Intelligence Estimate in April was that the Iraq war has fueled terror growth around the world, why have you continued to say that the Iraq war has made this country safer?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I, of course, read the key judgments on the NIE…Some people have guessed what’s in the report and have concluded that going into Iraq was a mistake…
Now, you know what’s interesting about the NIE — it was a intelligence report done last April. As I understand, the conclusions — the evidence on the conclusions reached was stopped being gathered on February — at the end of February. And here we are, coming down the stretch in an election campaign, and it’s on the front page of your newspapers. Isn’t that interesting? Somebody has taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes…
Q Why is that declassification not —
PRESIDENT BUSH: Because I want you to read the documents so you don’t speculate about what it says. You asked me a question based upon what you thought was in the document, or at least somebody told you was in the document. And so I think, Jennifer, you’ll be able to ask a more profound question when you get to look at it yourself — (laughter) — as opposed to relying upon gossip and somebody who may or may not have seen the document trying to classify the war in Iraq one way or the other. …I guess it’s just Washington, isn’t it, where, you know, we kind of — there’s no such thing as classification anymore, hardly. But, anyway, you ought to take a look at it and then you’ll get to see…
Karzai hammers Loven, too:
PRESIDENT KARZAI: Ma’am, before I go to remarks by my brother, President Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11th…They came to America on September 11th, but they were attacking you before September 11th in other parts of the world. We are a witness in Afghanistan to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a witness in New York. Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high? Who did that?…Should we wait for them to come and kill us again?
On Thursday, Loven came back for another helping of smackdown during the gaggle with Press Secretary Tony Snow aboard Air Force One:
MR. SNOW: The President’s remarks today…we’ll have extensive comments on the war on terror, the tools that are needed to win it. He will address the National Intelligence Estimate, but will also talk more broadly about the administration’s strategy for winning the war on terror and the political differences between the two parties in their own words and their own votes, as far as proceeding with the battle against terrorists…
Q Could you talk more specifically about what kinds of differences he’s going to point out?
MR. SNOW: For instance, differences in votes on matters like the Hamdan legislation yesterday in the House of Representatives. He’ll be citing some of the comments that members of the Democratic leadership have made in recent days about what they think is necessary for winning the war on terror, and so on…
Q Is he going to specifically name Democrats?
MR. SNOW: No, he will not. He will not be naming names. He will be reciting quotes, however.
Q So it will be clear who he’s talking about?
MR. SNOW: If you have been reading the papers, you will know.
Q Uh-oh.
MR. SNOW: Uh-oh, says Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press.
Jennifer Loven, stuck on stupid.
September 30, 2006 - 11:24 AM on September 30th, 2006
Now if only Bush and Karzai were as good at governing as they are at whupping up on Ms. Loven, the world might be a better place.
September 30, 2006 - 12:41 PM on September 30th, 2006
The world is blind. A menace is growing every day. It does not grow on a unified front. It is not organized as a country. It does not have a seat at the UN. Some of its membership worldwide are not participating in open acts of violence, yet the insidious oppressive nature of this force finds its ways in through the front door of openness and inclusion. Openness and Inclusion are doctrines of the West. They are noble and just. But taken to the extreme, these doctrines can bring in division and oppression. Peace at any price, meaning the absence of conflict, is the most costly form of peace. It means submission. The world, primarily the West, is submitting. This is the aim of the adherents to the peaceful force that I am describing. Islam.
To offend somebody in the western Islamic community can bear either violent consequences or western societal submission. The moment speech is abridged, true freedom dies. The moment a woman in Western Civilization hesitates going into public dressed in a certain manner, true freedom dies. The moment law enforcement turns from protecting law abiding citizens, true freedom dies. When the predominating reason for tolerance is precipitated by fear, freedom dies.
Western society has two choices. Vanquish, or be vanquished.
Islam, by its nature, is not a status quo worldview. It is a jealous master. It will not submit by choice. If you doubt, open your eyes and read the Quran and the Hadith. Then read history. You can not come away from this study and find a worldview compatible with Western Civilization. This study coupled with today’s headlines is a loud message from over a billion Muslims. It is visible everywhere, even in the UN. To miss this, one must willfully choose to disbelieve glaring evidence.
Understand, these encroachments on liberty will continue, and like a snowball at the top of a mountain, the onslaught will grow in size and speed. Ask yourself, why do I want to accept and appease Islamists? Is it because of your openness, your respect for multiculturalism? Or are you now starting to fear deep down inside. The hurried frenzy to negotiate and appease a fascist dictator in Iran is a great example of this problem. Iran will become a nuclear power if the world just keeps on negotiating.
How does it make you feel? Ahmadinejad, Iran’s President, has stated numerous times that the Holocaust did not happen. He has also on numerous occasions called for the Muslim world to envisage a world without Israel. He is very direct in his statements. Ahmadinejad is not alone. There is a hunger in the Muslim world to see the destruction of Israel. It is not just Arabs. It is Muslims worldwide that desire the eventual removal of Israel from the map.
If you choose to willfully ignore the facts and believe that the threat can be negotiated with and contained, you are mistaken. Again, I ask you to conduct your own study. Read the Quran and the Hadith. Then read history. You can not come away from this study and find a worldview compatible Western Civilization. This study coupled with today’s headlines is a loud message. It is visible everywhere, even in the UN. To miss this, one must willfully choose to disbelieve glaring evidence.
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September 30, 2006 - 07:51 PM on September 30th, 2006
Bwaaa haa haaa haaa! Another BHDS idiot reporter slapped down! This is what should happen to others too, like Helen Thomas, but I guess they give her a pass due to her advancing senility.
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