Hell hath no fury like an incoming Secretary of State scorned.
Posted on 11/21/2004 4:18:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
President Bush's decision to nominate Condoleezza Rice received widespread praise from both Democrats and Republicans.
But longtime White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas, now a syndicated columnist with Hearst, had nothing but contempt for Rice's nomination. The feisty 84-year-old reporter who started at the White House during the Kennedy administration had some unkind words to describe Bush and Condi.
NewsMax bumped into Thomas in the lobby of New York's Waldorf-Astoria as she waited for a lunch date.
Asked about the election result, the sharp-tongued reporter simply put her hand on her face and said, "My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you."
She warned that Bush's victory will mean one thing: more war. She expects Iran to be next.
But surely Thomas, a female reporter who succeeded decades ago in a "man's world," had some empathy about Condi's appointment.
As we suggested the notion, a look of horror came over Thomas' face.
"I tell you, the women is a monster, a monster, a monster," she kept saying.
Asked why she was so angry with Condi, Thomas explained that the national security adviser had lied about the Iraq war and "thousands had died."
Thomas, to her credit, has asked tough questions of both Democrat and Republican presidents during her long tenure in the White House press corps, but some of her anger seemed more personal.
For decades, Thomas held the privileged front-row seat in the pressroom and usually got to ask the first question. Now she says she is back in the last row and "Bush is afraid to take my questions."
Fair enough, but the venom for Condi?
When NewsMax referred to some of Condi's positive achievements, Thomas kept interjecting "monster" to describe her. "The lady is a goddamn liar," Thomas said, adding that such prevaricators were commonplace in the Bush White House.
Nor was Thomas impressed that Condi, an African-American woman, had risen from segregated Alabama to become the most powerful woman in the nation.
Thomas rejected that, too, claiming that Condi's family had opposed Dr. Martin Luther King and that she and her folks had not supported the civil rights movement. In fact, Thomas then made the bizarre claim that Condi's family wouldn't even patronize black-owned stores.
Thomas had little substantiation for any of these allegations.
Nor for some very vague allegations about the Bush family, which she said would "stop at nothing" to deal with its enemies.
Michael Moore, please call Helen Thomas. She is ready to help with your next movie!
Get a Helen up ya! HAHAHA
It's here...It's here.....this just makes me laugh....
Helen Thomas now works for Hearst, who owns the S.F. Chronicle....
The largest queer directed newspaper in the country. Once owned by the DeYoung family and claimed the largest Sunday circulation in northern California with over 1million in the 1960's, Now, around 600k, 40 years later.
She must be a proud, proud lady.
BTW, is she jewish. She looks jewish. Cousin of Karl Marx?
How about if we all just pitch in a few bucks to buy her a case of "D" cells for her "little friend."
"I tell you, the women is a monster, a monster, a monster," she kept saying.
Helen's racism is showing!
Hell hath no fury like an incoming Secretary of State scorned.
Condi, I have a better idea: Diplomacy be darned; find this feisty old-F**T, and knock her down on her feisty old A$$!
"She is just like most of the libs, she is gonna die unhappy...
Don't forget bitter, hateful and forgotten.
An anti-Christia wombat....Is she a homo sapian?
Keep these people talking. The more they reveal of themselves, the more the American people recoil in disgust.
I would have moved her under a chair...or a truck for that matter.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Condi graduated cum laude PBK from University of Denver, MA from Notre Dame, PhD from U. of Denver, taught at Stanford as well as serving as Provost, served on the Boards of Directors for fifteen different organizations, was awarded seven honorary doctorates, and has served in two White House administrations.
Helen Thomas graduated from Wayne State which entitles her to slander Dr. Rice.
..Its' her Herbal medicines/Been Gray Body Rub stinking up the W/H. ...that and her FDR/Klintoon "wet" dreams. :P
Yeah, SURE, the lamestream media is objective and unbiased!
Team up with Maddy Halfbright and get a comedy act Helen, cause you are so yesterday.
When is Helen Thomas going to start dating Dr. Kevorkian?
It was not Condi who lied, it was Richard Clark. Who does this despicable woman work for now? They need to know we have had enough of her totally out of control mouth! I know it says Hearst, but exactly what paper or how do we contact them, anyone know?
"Our agent over there in Washington, Helen Thomas, will destroy the infidels."
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