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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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 thought this was scrappleface at first. Thomas - the Arab apologist.
Rules is rules. We need the "hot" babe photo.
Where's the 'Babbling BattleAxe Barf Alert'???!?
Ahem. There is a picture rule when this gasbag is in the title......
1. she's no journalist
2. she doesn't ask questions; she makes speeches
3. snubbing her was more polite than the more sensible
course, which would be to simply not renew her WH pass
Are you volunteering for a meeting with Mr JDAM?
Good for the President! Why should these "unbiased" left wing hacks think everyone should answer to them?
Now that's funny.
Ouch! That is bad!
Helen should know you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Actually, I think when the president took David Gregory's question he thought that was Helen Thomas.
she is so hot...
Helen,
I feel your pain.
Ha!
I'll bet Helen took April's seat?
What a whining witch she has become.
Top 10 list of detestful people without doubt.
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