Crossposted in Democraticunderground.com

Glen Greenwald has the details (6-24-09):

For the last question at his press conference yesterday, Obama was asked by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux about his reaction to that video and to reports that Iranians are refraining from protesting due to fear of such violence. As Obama was answering -- attesting to how "heartbreaking" he found the video; how "anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust" about the violence; and paying homage to "certain international norms of freedom of speech, freedom of expression" -- Helen Thomas, who hadn't been called on, interrupted to ask Obama to reconcile those statements about the Iranian images with his efforts at home to suppress America's own torture photos ("Then why won't you allow the photos --").

The President quickly cut her off with these remarks:

THE PRESIDENT: Hold on a second, Helen. That's a different question. (Laughter.)

The White House Press corps loves to laugh condescendingly at Helen Thomas because, tenaciously insisting that our sermons to others be applied to our own Government, she acts like a real reporter...

Neda's death must not go unpunished; but let's be aware that candidate Mousavi of Iran is the main suspect of a 1988 bombing that killed the first US Navy woman to have died as a result of a terrorist attack:

Will we take steps to prosecute Mousavi, considering this allegation by "the father of the Navy Seal," retired Navy Admiral James "Ace" Lyons?:

"Lyons, sometimes called "the father" of the Navy SEALs' Red Cell counter-terror unit, also fingered Mousavi for the 1988 truck bombing of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Center in Naples, Italy, that killed five persons, including the first Navy woman to die in a terrorist attack."

In short, my suggestion is to bring justice to Neda and the victim of the 1988 attack.

To those who might argue that this happened 20 years ago and therefore we should get over it, go say that to her family.

We liberals demand that Luis Posada Carriles, main suspect of bombing a Cuban plane near Barbados killing dozens of people in the late 70's, be brought to justice. Let's keep it consistent.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/06/mousavi-celebrated-in-iranian.html

Much like the way all kidnap victims on CNN.com seem to be cute and sexy.

Are you going to tell me that ugly men have not been killed in the recent Iran protests? Or ugly women? Isn't the death count around 20? Why Neda?

She is a martyr, but so are the others.