Posted on 01/26/2006 12:50:28 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
President Bush today again avoided taking a question from White House doyenne Helen Thomas during his 45-minute press conference, even though he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat.
"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."
Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.
Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.
She had a few questions in mind, though. "I wanted to ask about Iraq: 'You said you didn't go in for oil or for Israel or for WMDs. so why did you go in?' "
She also had another question at the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.
"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"
Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.
But as she left, she made a prediction: "He came on to my turf. I'll bet the next press conference will be in Room 450 of the EEOB," a theater-style room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where she would not be in the front row.
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She's gorgeous. Thanks.
If the guy with the Ugly Stick couldn't take her out, it ain't gonna do any good.
Yes indeed! Go for it.
"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."
That's hilarious! Go home, Helen.
She never asks any other question other than "Why are we in Iraq?" Scott M. knows that will be her question when he calls on her. I wonder if this old bag lady knows that everyone (including the other press corp members) is laughing at her. I'm glad that the President continues to snub her.
If this was the sort of question Bush was avoiding, I'd have avoided it too. Painful, childish, and a complete non sequitor. I've read better stuff in My Weekly Reader.
Helen Thomas..
the engine is still running, but there is no one behind the wheel !
Newsflash: Most reporters ARE rabidly partisan hacks!
She's so ugly, that when she cries, the tears roll across the back of her head to keep from having to go across that face.
Yeah, I didn't realize it was a lookalike until someone told me and I double-checked the page.
I would rather shove a glass rod up my anus and ride a motorcyle down some railroad tracks.
Helen, nobody wants to take you on. Nobody wants to take you off. Nobody wants to take you out. Nobody wants to take you down. Nobody wants to take you anywhere because nobody can take you. Period.
Best laugh I've had all day. :D
The real Medusa was prettier (as long as you were sloshed)
LOL!
My thoughts exactly!
He was just trying to protect her....from making a public ass of herself.
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