BUSH SNUBS HELEN THOMAS [AGAIN]Drudge Report
Thu Jan 26 2006 15:42:32 2006
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.
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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"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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Ok, let's see, Helen of Troll, where to start? (I'll ignore the fact that you are no longer relevant and just address your loaded questions.)
"He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."
Maybe President Bush is tired of your liberal rhetoric and stale questions and wanted to address other reporters who, although doubtful, may have some new questions to ask?!
"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?' "
Wow! That's original! Those questions have never been asked before! I think the President has made it adamantly clear that even though WMDs have not been found, yet(might have to ask Syria about that one), we removed a brutal dictator from power. A brutal dictator who harbored, trained, and paid Islamic terrorists. From the begining, this was addressed as a front against international terrorism and we're killing terrorists every day in Iraq instead of having to fight them here.
"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"
Of course it isn't, you miserable misinformed dwarf. But I don't think the Constitution addresses the evil that we are now facing. The FISA law certainly does, but don't you think the state of international (Islamic) terrorism is a wee bit different now since 9/11?? A majority of Americans understand what our government was trying to do and approve of the steps President Bush took in order to protect us. There IS NOT a carte blanche order to spy on all Americans. There WAS an order given to intercept international phone calls and emails that either were sent to or originated from known terrorist groups. Understand Helen?
If anything good came from 9/11, it was that it exposed libs for who they truly are. As long as the Dim-ocratic Party continues to embrace their leftist brothers and sisters, the more and more elections they will lose, and the more irrelevant they will become. RIP.
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