He left out ugly.
Posted on 05/30/2006 11:46:52 AM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
Helen Thomas calls new Bush aide 'contemptible,' tangles with Tony Snow
Tue May 30 2006 13:34:41 ET
Helen Thomas, doyenne of the White House press corps, tangles with Tony Snow at today's briefing over President Bush's appointment of Karl Zinmeister as domestic policy adviser:
QUESTION: Why did the president pick a man who is so contemptible of the public servants in Washington to be his domestic adviser, saying, People in Washington are morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings. Why did he...
SNOW: Apparently an opinion that's...
QUESTION: Why would he pick such a man to be a domestic adviser?
SNOW: You meant contemptuous as opposed to contemptible I think.
QUESTION: Pure contempt.
SNOW: I'm not sure it's pure contempt. I know Karl Zinsmeister pretty well and he is somebody who expresses himself with a certain amount of piquancy. You're perhaps familiar with that, aren't you, Helen?
(LAUGHTER)
And so, as a consequence from time to time, he's going to say -- he'll have some sharp elbows.
QUESTION: His attitude toward public servants...
SNOW: I don't think it is his attitude toward public servants. It may have been toward the press. Just kidding.
(LAUGHTER)
No, look if, you look at the bulk of what Karl Zinsmeister has done at the American Enterprise and elsewhere, I think you're going to find somebody who's done some pretty meaty and interesting research on a variety of topics.
The reason he's being brought in is that he's...
QUESTION: Do you agree with his assessment?
SNOW: I'm not going to -- it is one sentence the guy wrote. And perhaps you may recall -- yes?
QUESTION: Arrogant, morally repugnant, cheating, shifty.
SNOW: That's a lot in one sentence, isn't it? He just packed it right in.
Developing...
Tony is too nice to be the President.
I didn't know that!
I learn something new every day on FR.
OMG ROFLMAO....wonder what Ari's wife thinks about this?????
Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark....
Tony Snow put Helen Thomas in her place. I'm not sure under which rock he put her, but he got the job done.
Helen appears to be describing her own moral character.
He left out ugly.
I wish the admin woudl apply some strategery here. When anti-admin presstitutes ask loaded questions, the answer ought to be "we'll look into that and get back to you, next."
Tony is having fun. Cool.
I'm trying to ensure that I never find Helen Thomas at all.
...delegates, residents, city fathers, city 'hos ...
WHAT SNOW SHOULD HAVE SAID: Helen, you've said far worse about Republicans, but we still let you in here. Why the double standard?
(...now, what to do with that chunk of ham sandwich that ended up on the windowsill...)
Well--My theory on that is that at some early point in her employment, the editors in charge (her bosses) desperately searched for a way to get her out of the office, out of their hair and above all, out of their sight. The solution--Voilla (to quote that French speaking sometimes drunk when calling IMUS NBC-news WH twit), get Helen permanently over at the WH where her presence would sulley the view but for a more limited sector of DC. Once there-would any of her bosses actually let her back into the headquarters--no way. So she persists on her permanent WH assignment.
"Morally repugnant, cheating, shifty.." Sounds like a pretty good description of inside-the-beltway types to me.
Snow is wittier than David Letterman et al. About Letterman, my assessment of him is the same as Bryant Gumbel's and when I agree with Bryant Gumbel.....!
Tony is shooting fish in a barrel.
Here's a secret, don't tell anyone - I just looked it up in Merriam-Webster's Online.
;-)
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