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Some old people don’t just wear diapers, they also cry like babies.

[Snubbed 'reporter' Helen Thomas] had a few questions in mind, though. "I wanted
to ask about Iraq: 'You said you didn't go in for oil or for Israel or
for WMDs. so why did you go in?' "

She also had another question at the ready, just in case, this
one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law
known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National
Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program
that Democrats contend is illegal.

"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"

Gee, why didn’t the President call on a "reporter" (whose objective approach to news has included her calling Bush the worst president in U.S. history) who has no intention of asking serious questions?

Maybe she has Alzheimers, but he’s answered her first question about 50 gazillion times, so why waste time repeating it? One may reasonably suspect that her motives for asking such a question are not entirely genuine.

As for her second question, you’d think someone born in the day of gaslights and chariot races would be able to understand that the U.S. Constitution is a broad document that does not deal with specific areas of technology, whereas the FISA statute is a detailed law specifically addressing now-obsolete technological issues. Whether or not that alone is valid justification for NSA’s wiretapping in the War on Terror is an entirely separate issue from how dumb Helen Thomas is and why more than just the President would do well to ignore her.

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