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...

[rockabyebaby]

See Dick run, run Dick run!

[TommyDale]

Oh, so now she is trying to renege on her promise?

[bitt]

#206

[Publius6961]

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.

This is the most delicious irony of the decade.

From someone who, in a perfect world, would often hear the following (in its entirety) answer to her questions:

Don't be Silly!

[KStorm]

No need, Helen. You'll be signin' the papers soon enough.

Psst: Cheney/Rudy 2008!

[purpleland]

Helen Thomas is really a transvestite!? It's that all this time I thought she was an unattractive woman, but she's really an ugly man.

[Publius6961]

...like when President Bush called a reporter an "a$$hole" - I didn't see the press having any problem printing that statement.

And I didn't have a bit of trouble believing it...

[HonestConservative]

Too bad "Ugly" isn't a terminal illness.

[Collier]

Anyone have a picture of her when she was young?

Was she ever young?

[purpleland]

Ditto back to you, Fatima. As long as Helen isn't messy about it. Perspiring to death in Paris sounds neat.

[bitt]

"Hey, Teresa, what do you think of Cheney running for President in 2008"....?

[Arpege92]

Helen has thin skin? All this time I thought it was just sagging!

[Boazo]

Your right,I don't want to be banned!Ha LOL

[PGalt]

#78 LOL! LOL! Very funny :) and talented too! Your cartoon is soooo appropriate.

FReepers are funny!

BTTT!

[fatima]

They never leave.There should be an Island of Misdem like the Island of misfit toys they are just not put together right-Misdems:)

[Smartass]

aaaHHHHHHHH, HA, HA, HAHHHHHH

[Senator Goldwater]

I laughed hard enough to have a brain anuerism.

[NewJerseyJoe]

It was further reported that her suicide method will be to look in a mirror.

[afnamvet]

[an amused spectator]

Clinton's favorite thing about Helen Thomas was that the top of her head is flat, and her hair is thick enough that the Bubba didn't need a coaster... ;-)