NO MEDIA BIAS.
Posted on 07/28/2005 11:45:51 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
If Vice President Cheney is indeed a “serious darkhorse” candidate for president in 2008, as Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward recently suggested, he probably won’t want to enlist legendary White House reporter Helen Thomas to help with his press relations, even though she has proposed a campaign strategy he could run on.
Thomas, a syndicated columnist for Hearst Newspapers who has covered the White House since the Kennedy administration, wrote in May that Cheney “certainly could campaign on the theme that he has had experience in running the White House.”
Thomas made the suggestion in a column she wrote about President Bush’s not being notified about a terror scare caused by an off-course Cessna airplane until after it was over, according to Editor & Publisher magazine.
Declaring that the incident “again raises the question of who’s running the show,” Thomas also noted Cheney’s central role on Sept. 11 and the widely held view that he is “probably the most powerful vice president in recent times, perhaps in U.S. history.”
But asked this week if she is promoting a Cheney candidacy, Thomas made it clear she isn’t.
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” she told The Hill. “All we need is one more liar.”
Thomas added, “I think he’d like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.”
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We need a "Draft Cheney" movement right NOW!
Like we needed one more reason to hope for a Cheney candidacy. C'mon Big Time! Doesn't that sweeten the pot?
Well we know who Helen woke up hating that morning!
Pull the *itches press pass immediately. SHE IS NO REPORTER!!!
Promises, promises...
Up until this moment, I had heard no compelling argument that might convince him to run.
If someone was to dig up Babe Ruth today he would still look better than Helen. She must spend a fortune in replacement mirrors.
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,”
RUN DICK RUN! RUN DICK RUN!
NO MEDIA BIAS.
...and Helen is not journalist material.
Paging the BSm (Babbling Stream media -- formerly known as the MSM, Main Stream Media).
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” she told The Hill. “All we need is one more liar.”
Sounds like the best argument yet for running Cheney! I wasn't for it before, but now I'm his most ardent supporter.
No, she was the after-birth brought to life.
Somehow I don't think you mean this LOL
“These days, everyone who has a computer fancies themselves a journalist,” Thomas said.
“There is fear in journalists of being called unpatriotic, un-American, if you ask an important question about Iraq,” Thomas said. “Reporters are only now beginning to come out of their coma.”
“We were told Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, ties to terrorist networks. Give me a break,” Thomas said. “Of course we had to fight terrorism after 9/11. But we have to be careful when Bush labels the war on Iraq as a war on terrorism.”
Maybe, but HelenThomas is fecal material.
Rather have Gore, Helen?
In her case, I'll waive my belief in right-to-life.
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