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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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.
How she considers herself an "objective" reporter is beyond me. I wouldn't call on her, either. David Gregory looks positively right wing compared to her, lol
Is that really her?
And as well he should. As a President who has brought class and dignity back to the White House it boggles the mind as to how (she) it is still there.
The picture "rule" is temporarily suspended.
THANK YOU - that is very much appreciated.
There's a reason why he doesn't talk to her, he'd have to look into her eyes if he did.
Classic pic. I love it. It takes a shot at 2 types I despise most. When I first read the headline I thought it said "Bush Snuffs Helen Thomas.." Shoot!
LOL!
If you liked that pix - how about this one!
It's because you don't matter Helen. Don't take it hard, you never did matter.
Yep
Does she have alzheimer's?
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