Posted on 07/31/2005 4:28:13 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 31, 2005 19:44:05 ET XXXXX
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...
Since Cheney's not running, maybe Helen can kill herself over this tiff with this reporter friend of hers.
two good things here. She offs herself if Cheney runs and she wont talk to another reporter.It's a win-win situation for us!
PLEASE! ENOUGH ALREADY! MY EYES!!!!!
"Helen of Troy was said to have had the face that launched a thousand ships..."
Looks like our Helen used her face to smack the bows.
I would love the hear Chaney call in to Rush and nudge this forward by saying that he had no plans to run; but this new development might give him serious reason to reconsider.
What is it with these arabs and suicide?
If I were a Republican president, or press representative, I would not ask her a question, senior reporter or not.
Perhaps Cheney's playing with her, you know a true Viking Kitty.
With a face like Helen's....there'd sure be a lot of sunken ships.
Ahhh, the BUFF is angry, is she...well damn!...I mean just damn!
Helen dear, four words of advice. LAY OFF THE MASCARA!
"I'd like to get the Freepers, opinion - who is uglier: Helen Thomas or Molly Ivins?"
Don't forget Ann Richards! aka the Bag-o-wrinkles."
Hey as long as you are not in pain my FRiend.... :-)
Didn't President Bush snub her at one of his last pressers? She was all in a tizzy about that one.
I wish she'd just get on her broom and fly away.
She is complaining about having something printed that she didn't want others to hear/know...
Isn't that sorta what Rove is going through, and what Cheney went through when he told Leahy what to do on the Senate floor a couple years ago? (Alan Colmes STILL blasts Cheney for that.)
Helen needs to go to the next White House briefing and apologize for all of the grief she has given them for supposed off the record remarks.!
Nope, it's Estrich all the way.
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