Belle of the Ball no more
Poor Helen Thomas is the belle of the ball no more. After years, and decades of being the front row chair. She no longer gets to spew forth the democratic talking points at the President of her discontent.
Her feelings of being ignored are justified, however isn't it about time someone else got a chance to question the president allowing her a chance to write the quotes and answers down verbatum instead of slanting them to her sqew of things.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
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."
(NO HELEN HE WAS IGNORING YOU AND YOUR ABSURD BIAS.)
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?' "
(NOTHING BUT D.N.C. TALKING POINTS. A WAY TO TRY AND SPIN THIS PRESS CONFRENCE IN FAVOR OF LEFTIST RHETORIC.)
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the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.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 Is that out of date, too?"
(WHAT AN ABSURD ASSINE STATMENT. THE CONSTITUTION TO OLD. SEEMS TO ME THAT HELEN NEEDS TO TAKE A CIVIC CLASS AND GET OFF THE "ITS A LIVING BREATHING DOCUMENT" WAGON AND REALIZE IT IS AN OUTLINE NOTHING MORE LIMITING THE GOVERNMENT ON WHAT IT CAN AND CAN NOT DO.)
Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.
(SAT SULLENLY ... HELL SHE SAT THERE AND POUTED BECAUSE SHE WAS IGNORED.)
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.
(HER TERF? WHO VOTED FOR HER TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? SHE WAS INVITED TO BE PRESENT AS A REPRESENATIVE OF THE MEDIA.)
Her feelings of being ignored are justified, however isn't it about time someone else got a chance to question the president allowing her a chance to write the quotes and answers down verbatum instead of slanting them to her sqew of things.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
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."
(NO HELEN HE WAS IGNORING YOU AND YOUR ABSURD BIAS.)
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?' "
(NOTHING BUT D.N.C. TALKING POINTS. A WAY TO TRY AND SPIN THIS PRESS CONFRENCE IN FAVOR OF LEFTIST RHETORIC.)
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?"
(WHAT AN ABSURD ASSINE STATMENT. THE CONSTITUTION TO OLD. SEEMS TO ME THAT HELEN NEEDS TO TAKE A CIVIC CLASS AND GET OFF THE "ITS A LIVING BREATHING DOCUMENT" WAGON AND REALIZE IT IS AN OUTLINE NOTHING MORE LIMITING THE GOVERNMENT ON WHAT IT CAN AND CAN NOT DO.)
Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.
(SAT SULLENLY ... HELL SHE SAT THERE AND POUTED BECAUSE SHE WAS IGNORED.)
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.
(HER TERF? WHO VOTED FOR HER TO BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE? SHE WAS INVITED TO BE PRESENT AS A REPRESENATIVE OF THE MEDIA.)
