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• transcript (thank you news.google.com) (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  transcript of said press briefing [state.gov].

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
• There is no quid pro quo (Score:1)

  by waltman (335)

  MR. FLEISCHER: This is a time -- no, the President is not offering quid pro quos.

  Hmm...where have we heard that before...?
• Our docile and well-trained press corps (Score:2, Interesting)

  by waltman (335)

  Having just watched the video, it appeared to be foreign (perhaps Mexican?) reporters who were asking Ari the tough questions.
  • Re:Our docile and well-trained press corps (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    Yup, those kooky foreigners. I find that the US press is in general not totally feckless, but nowhere as perseverant with their questions as other presses. I guess the US press doesn't want to be seen as giving anyone a hard time. It's a laudable goal, but at worst it just makes journalists into glorified stenographers.
• Hold On (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  You're saying that providing "favors" to foreigners can get them to support war? I'd have to agree that's unreasonable.
  
  Now, providing billions of dollars to Turkey, that I can understand. But that seems to be on quite a different scale.