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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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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You just had to, didn't you?
LOL!
"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 "
Gee, I wonder why he didn't call on her. Honestly, why the heck is she allow in the white house? Would Clinton have allowed Rush Limbaugh into the first row of press conferences? Little troll should go back to her bridge and eat passing children.
>>I like the top pic, but what's with the burning Smurfs??
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1499811/posts
I heard Helen's husband made woopie with her and was later arrested for bestiality.
Maybe so Helen but he is a coward with enough sense to avoid eye contact and be turned to stone.
exactly f-ck her
Danny and Burgess await your gracious apology.
This woman is a hoot. Does she really not get that she is laughing stock all over the country -- even among her "colleagues"? And, an uglier woman does not exist -- well, until Hilliary ages a bit...
Good one!
I doubt she has any trouble catching flies.
Bush was brought up to respect women and the elderly, thus, he could not treat her as he might a guy but Bush also respects his fellow human beings as children of God.
Helen needs to enroll in "anger management" treatment.
with that face all she is catching is paper bags
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