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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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.
Developing...
Perhaps what he saw of her reminded him of something he got on the bottom of his shoe while walking the dog.
Still, a great photo.
Isn't that French for "she who eats a lot of peanut M&M's"?
Kudos to Bush for simply ignoring her. I would not let her off that easy if I was president, I would be hurling nasty insults at her concerning her character.
Ice might cut down on her stench a tad... but that ugly is baked right in.
lol
That's what I'm talkin 'bout!
If her biased "reporting" wasn't enough of an excuse 5 years ago, then her outright insult of the CinC today *is*.
Hateful hag...
It doesn't take a psychic. She reiterates the question, usually verbatim, every stinkin' time she's at a press conference. Then interrupts the answer two-dozen times so it draws out what should be a 10-second answer into a five-minute PITA session. She does it to Mr. President, she does it to Scott McClellan, she does it to every administration official. Her playbook has one page, and she wore it out long, long ago.
Yeah, that's the character!
Please don't ever post that HT photo agian.
The Yorkie is still barking.
She looks like the back end of 30-year-old Shar Pei with incontinence.
"I think Elly rocks! She's mah (sniff) insparation. Check out (sniff) mah new (sniff, sniff) band!"
http://www.retardriot.com/music.html
Dang... she looks like someone pulled the cord on her compressed air cannister.
Is there a picture of this Helen Thomas somewhere?
Ann sans safety glasses....
(not that I'm complaining)
Why they answer any of her questions is beyond me. She should be ignored until she finally gets the hint that she's a shrill old witch that nobody cares about anymore.
Is there a picture of this Helen Thomas somewhere?
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Hanging in the outhouse to keep the flies away.
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