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Bush Snubs Helen Thomas (again)
Drudge ^ | 1/26/06

Posted on 01/26/2006 12:51:06 PM PST by llevrok

BUSH SNUBS HELEN THOMAS [AGAIN] Thu Jan 26 2006 15:42:32 2006

President Bush today again avoided taking a question from White House doyenne Helen Thomas during his 45-minute press conference, even though he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat.

"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"

Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.

But as she left, she made a prediction: "He came on to my turf. I'll bet the next press conference will be in Room 450 of the EEOB," a theater-style room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where she would not be in the front row.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: hag; helenthomas; pwn3d; thomas
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1 posted on 01/26/2006 12:51:07 PM PST by llevrok
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To: admin

PLease remove this duplicate thread. Another was posted as I was posting.
Thanks
Lev


2 posted on 01/26/2006 12:52:19 PM PST by llevrok (Drink your beer, damnit! There are people in Africa sober!.)
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To: llevrok

He could have easily overlooked her. She easily passes for a trash can.


3 posted on 01/26/2006 12:52:24 PM PST by groanup (Shred for Ian)
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To: llevrok
Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist...

I had to look twice. Skimming the article I thought there was an error. She's always been a communist < /sarcasm >

4 posted on 01/26/2006 12:53:26 PM PST by weegee
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To: llevrok
"He came on to my turf..."

Territorial little #@%&*. No?

5 posted on 01/26/2006 12:55:02 PM PST by weegee
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To: llevrok
Thankfully...Tierd of shooting "the ugly one", everytime she comes upon my my monitor.




about out of monitors too!
6 posted on 01/26/2006 12:55:43 PM PST by Issaquahking
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To: llevrok
..he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat.

I've gotta give the Prez props--that must be tough, to have to stand that close to a circus freak and not stare.

7 posted on 01/26/2006 1:05:25 PM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: llevrok

What a bitch!


8 posted on 01/26/2006 1:05:54 PM PST by countorlock (But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me,)
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To: llevrok
AWWWW HELEN ARE YOU RONELY?

9 posted on 01/26/2006 1:08:17 PM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: llevrok

He just had breakfast and couldn't bring his self to look at her.


10 posted on 01/26/2006 1:19:51 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: llevrok
"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."


11 posted on 01/26/2006 1:26:53 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: llevrok

Apparently, she didn't have any meaningful questions.


12 posted on 01/26/2006 1:46:16 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: atomicpossum

How many of us take the time in our daily lives to waste energy dealing with people like Thomas who are knowingly mean spirited? I don't blame him.


13 posted on 01/26/2006 1:49:23 PM PST by outofhere2
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To: Dashing Dasher

What about posting some of your fine art...LOL


14 posted on 01/26/2006 1:56:36 PM PST by marmar (Pray for our Warriors...they are the greatest there is............)
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To: llevrok
Helen Thomas as Modern Art....


15 posted on 01/26/2006 2:02:23 PM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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To: llevrok
"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"

Helen, that is so stupid on so many levels you piece of human debris.

16 posted on 01/26/2006 2:07:51 PM PST by ReaganRevolution
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To: ReaganRevolution
"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"

Indeed, RR. Jim Crow laws are 100 years old, but they are "out of date" and have been repealed. Awwwww, it's just not worth the trouble anymore. But if anyone thinks she was going to ask a question as inoccuous as her first one, they're smokin something. It would have been something loaded up on MoveOn.org moonbattiness.

17 posted on 01/26/2006 2:12:28 PM PST by seamus
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To: llevrok
""He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."


18 posted on 01/26/2006 2:23:18 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: ReaganRevolution

She was there when they wrote it - and she didn't understand it back then.


19 posted on 01/26/2006 2:41:04 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: TheCrusader

The face that launched a thousand scows.


20 posted on 01/26/2006 2:41:46 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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