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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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.
PLease remove this duplicate thread. Another was posted as I was posting.
Thanks
Lev
He could have easily overlooked her. She easily passes for a trash can.
I had to look twice. Skimming the article I thought there was an error. She's always been a communist < /sarcasm >
Territorial little #@%&*. No?
I've gotta give the Prez props--that must be tough, to have to stand that close to a circus freak and not stare.
What a bitch!
He just had breakfast and couldn't bring his self to look at her.
Apparently, she didn't have any meaningful questions.
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.
What about posting some of your fine art...LOL
Helen, that is so stupid on so many levels you piece of human debris.
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.
She was there when they wrote it - and she didn't understand it back then.
The face that launched a thousand scows.
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