HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED

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HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED

White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C.

In a column this week headlined "Reporter: Cheney's Not Presidential Material," Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."

Thomas also said: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does," according to Eisele's column.

But Thomas said yesterday at the White House that her comments to Eisele were for his ears only. "I'll never talk to a reporter again!" Thomas was overheard saying.

"We were just talking -- I was ranting -- and he wrote about it. That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed," Thomas said.

But Eisele said that when he called Thomas, "I assume she knew that we were on the record."

"She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item -- until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe," Eisele said.

Still, he noted that reporters aren't that happy when the tables are turned. "Nobody has thinner skin than reporters," Eisele said with a laugh.

Developing...

[asp1]

I'm not sure when it was, but it was a great night. If I'm not mistaken she had said something out of turn earlier in the week. This was the White House's way of punishing her. The rest of the White House reporters also lost their cookies over the snub to their beloved Helen.

[melt]

In view of Helen's suicide threat, I'd say that Dick Cheney should be "profiling" grumpy old buzzards wearing big overcoats.

[leftcoaster]

Well, we can all certainly understand Helen's anger. She definitely does NOT want Cheney to run, and now that her rant was publicized, he has a greater incentive to seek the Presidency.

My question is, assuming he does and she does, what is the big deal? Her body would only just catch up to her brain, which has been dead for decades.

[Thumper1960]

I'm sure that Dick has ole Helen marked down in the Clymer column.

[Cagey]

[Slings and Arrows]

Sweet, sweet schadenfreude ping!
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[syriacus]

So I guess that means HT will never speak to anyone ever again.

Then...the world will seem like a much nicer place.

[melt]

I'll never talk to another reporter again

How can she talk to herself--- when the mirror cracks every time she tries.

[Prince Charles]

A burka would do the job nicely too.

[Slings and Arrows]

At least you've got an excuse.

[Tall_Texan]

"She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item -- until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe," Eisele said.

I continue to marvel at how liberals want to blame their incendiary comments on "right-wing media" for reporting what they actually said.

And instead of apologizing for saying something beyond the pale, they blame Drudge or Limbaugh for "creating a furor" over it. And yet who got upset with Trent Lott's innocent joke at a birthday party for Strom Thurmond? And who got their noses bent out of shape when Earl Butz told an off-color joke to John Dean? And who went crazy over a muzzled comment by candidate Bush to Cheney during a campaign event?

Can you say "hypocrisy" kids?

[Slings and Arrows]

I'd like to get the Freepers, opinion - who is uglier: Helen Thomas or Molly Ivins?

Yes.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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JFK just laughed at HELEN THOMAS on National TV during his 1961 Presidential News Conferences.

WE should too.

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[AnOldCowhand]

What the hell is that on the left?

[Slings and Arrows]

Dear G-d, it spawned!

[Not A Snowbird]

She got a little dose of "what goes around, comes around!"

[26lemoncharlie]

Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself.
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Oh Yea!

[JLO]

What the hell is a SENIOR reporter anyway?

I'm thiking OLDER than the hills, lol.

[gopwinsin04]

Yikes! What in the heck happened to Molly Ivins? She's suddenly morphed into Kathy Bates from 'Misery.'