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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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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Dear Helen,
If the Constitution is a living, breathing document, so are the FISA law.
Yeah, Helen, the White House is your turf.
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?'"
Note to Helen: This question has been answered dozens - if not hundreds - of times. Why would the President waste time answering - again - you inane, meaningless question? I hope he NEVER allows you to ask another question again.
What WOULD really lighten this thread up is some Angelina Jolie/Elizabeth Mitchell pictures from GIA !!!
but they wouldnt stay on here very long. ! ...LOL
Hitting the nail on the head yet again. :)
She is beyond a two bagger AND coyote ugly. She's so ugly there is no rating to rate her ugliness.
Oh, and here is another picture for y'all. Do you think she should get her belly button pierced?
I think the nasty old b - - - h belongs in NOW instead of the White House Press Corps.
I just don't know why anyone would want to speak to this arrogant, egotistical, puss-filled wind bag.
obviously joking..
LOL...
I would be glad to be there that day and do the dirty job for them, if they havent the courage.
Imagine waking up to THAT!!!
obviously joking..
LOL...
I'd prefer her room to her company, that's for sure. And I could stretch out in all directions except up.
Absolutely made my day!
Thanks for posting!
That makes it better.
"She's nobody now."
Why do you think she wants to be called on so badly??
Agreed. My Pappy wasn't either but he taught me not to poke rattlesnakes with sticks, sneak up on skunks or try to pet rabid dogs.
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