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Reporter: Cheney’s Not Presidential Material [Helen Thomas BARF Alert!]
The Hill ^ | July 28, 2005 | Albert Eisele and Jeff Dufour

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at hillnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; bush; cheney; cheney2008; helenthomas; media
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To: SmithL

We need a "Draft Cheney" movement right NOW!


21 posted on 07/28/2005 12:00:14 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: West Coast Conservative
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” (Thomas) told The Hill.

Like we needed one more reason to hope for a Cheney candidacy. C'mon Big Time! Doesn't that sweeten the pot?

22 posted on 07/28/2005 12:00:56 PM PDT by gridlock (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: West Coast Conservative
“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.”

Well we know who Helen woke up hating that morning!

23 posted on 07/28/2005 12:01:01 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Liberals-beyond your expectations! !)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Helen Thomas: “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.”

Pull the *itches press pass immediately. SHE IS NO REPORTER!!!

24 posted on 07/28/2005 12:01:36 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: West Coast Conservative
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” she told The Hill.

Promises, promises...

25 posted on 07/28/2005 12:02:14 PM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: mozrock
“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,” she told The Hill.

Up until this moment, I had heard no compelling argument that might convince him to run.

26 posted on 07/28/2005 12:02:15 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl
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To: West Coast Conservative

If someone was to dig up Babe Ruth today he would still look better than Helen. She must spend a fortune in replacement mirrors.


27 posted on 07/28/2005 12:03:08 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

“The day I say Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself,”

RUN DICK RUN! RUN DICK RUN!


28 posted on 07/28/2005 12:04:03 PM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: West Coast Conservative

NO MEDIA BIAS.

29 posted on 07/28/2005 12:04:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: West Coast Conservative

...and Helen is not journalist material.


30 posted on 07/28/2005 12:04:53 PM PDT by fish hawk (hollow points were made to hold pig lard)
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To: West Coast Conservative
...she told The Hill. “All we need is one more liar.”

Paging the BSm (Babbling Stream media -- formerly known as the MSM, Main Stream Media).

31 posted on 07/28/2005 12:04:59 PM PDT by jigsaw (Only morons believe the root cause of terrorism is our fight against terrorism.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

“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.


32 posted on 07/28/2005 12:05:14 PM PDT by MikeA
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To: Straight8

No, she was the after-birth brought to life.


33 posted on 07/28/2005 12:05:32 PM PDT by WillMalven (It don't matter where you are when "the bomb" goes off, as long as you can say "What was that?")
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To: mozrock
See Dick run. Run Dick Run!!!!

Somehow I don't think you mean this LOL


34 posted on 07/28/2005 12:07:36 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME)
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To: fish hawk

“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.”

35 posted on 07/28/2005 12:08:24 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: West Coast Conservative
Helen Thomas is the poster girl for liberal reporters.


36 posted on 07/28/2005 12:09:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (The civilized world must win WW IV/the Final Crusade and destroy Jihadism!)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Cheney’s Not Presidential Material

Maybe, but HelenThomas is fecal material.

37 posted on 07/28/2005 12:10:44 PM PDT by Originalist (Clarence Thomas for Chief Justice!!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

38 posted on 07/28/2005 12:11:29 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: West Coast Conservative

Rather have Gore, Helen?


39 posted on 07/28/2005 12:11:59 PM PDT by Sangria
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To: WillMalven

In her case, I'll waive my belief in right-to-life.


40 posted on 07/28/2005 12:12:18 PM PDT by Straight8 (It's amazing what you can do, if you don't know what you can't do!)
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