The Fighting Irish

[Pale_Rider]

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8061

Does the Bush administration retaliate against reporters who don’t play nice with the White House? Well, let’s just say that Carol Coleman, the Washington correspondent for the Irish television network RTE, won’t be interviewing President Bush again anytime soon -- or ever, for that matter.

In an interview timed to coincide with Bush’s visit to Ireland over the weekend, the veteran reporter questioned the president aggressively about the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation, interrupting him several times during the 11-minute exhange.

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The administration’s surrogates outside the government got into the act, too. Radical right-wingers on FreeRepublic.com posted the address and phone number of Coleman’s Washington office, resulting in an answering machine full of abuse and invective, much of it in language common to sailors and, well, vice presidents.

If you get a chance, call and express your support for Coleman and RTE. Only if we had such journalists ...

[tigereye]

1. thank God someone was willing to ask these questions!

[rfkrocks]

2. one thing the irish hate is a wuss

and Shrub is one-thanks for the post-it will be done (too bad we have to depend on tough questions from the Irish press instead of our Corporate Media!)