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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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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I will hex the first person who posts a picture
What a waste of oxygen she is...
Maybe he was afraid he would turn to stone if he looked directly at her. LOL
He was probably just trying to not look directly at her. I hear that turned the Kracken to stone.
"You might wanna put some ice on that."
You know the rules.......ugly pictures coming.
I saw her during the briefing and remember thinking: "Man, has she gotten irrelevant or what?" She's nobody now.
""He came on to my turf."
Actually Helen you are on the people's turf.
How many times does Bush have to answer this question before liberals hear it?
"raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her. "
well yeah he probably did not want to look in that direction or he probably would have vomitted, so he just did not see the old crone
I detest this hateful woman!
Helen, the last guy that "took you on"....well....lets just say he has a great Vegas act and he's the other half of Seigfried.
Helen Thomas is still alive?
Who knew?
The dead walk.
Bush is no coward. He is the first one with the cajones to ignore this old terrorist sup[porter.
I love it ,. It would be even better if he banned her for beign too ugly to be the presence of human beings.
Its not like the ole Arab lover had anything worth answering anyway.
Now that is talent. A combination of Helen Thomas, Emperor Palpatine, Hillary Clinton (oops...She Who Must Not Be Named) and Freddy Krueger in one picture. Petronius, you win!
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