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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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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Leni
"but he won't take me on"..
Uhhhhhh...
Kinda makes me feel creepy all over
I am almost 20.. I had to look at it for a couple minutes to figure out that it was her.
what does that say about her ?
she is so hot that men young enough to be her great grandchildren think she was hot ?..LOL
Anyone who would ask such a question a) has never read the Constitution, and b) is stuck on stupid.
True torture would be to send her to Guantanamo and force the inmates to look at her.
Force the inmates to watch her sunbathe.
"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."
Correction:
No! He is not a coward. He's just wise enough not to waste his time listening to an old crow cawwing.
Leni
Thats funny she was irrelevant also maintaining the title as ugliest woman on the planet
"The face that launched a million ships, and looked like it had."
I had to look it up too. A "doyenne" is a woman who is most respected or prominent person in a particular field.
I think they meant "cretin."
That picture of her is not flattering ...does she have a cold?
Uh Helen, ever heard of terrorists?
Why, Helen, to keep you from having to wear a burka. Hmmmm, on second thought ...
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