Another article about flowers for Helen: "Bouquets for a Firebrand"

[Skinner]

Bouquets for a Firebrand
White House reporter Helen Thomas receives a truckload of roses for bulldogging President Bush on Iraq.

The best known member of the White House press corps, 85-year-old Helen Thomas, never worried about people-pleasing, which is just what has made her a great reporter.

After being relegated to the back row, Thomas was at last called upon March 21 by George Bush. Right off, Thomas put him on notice: “You’re going to be sorry."

"I’d like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your Cabinet—your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth—what was your real reason? You have said it wasn’t oil—quest for oil, it hasn’t been Israel, or anything else. What was it?"

The President proceeded to rollerblade away from the question.

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Human Flower Project

[flyarm]

1. simply wonderful!!!!!!!!!!..that lady owns my heart!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

soooo glad we did this..it warms the heart!!

Du'ers are the best!!:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

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[Catherine Vincent]

2. That is great!

Skinner, have you received any emails from Guckert lately? I emailed him and informed him of all the roses Helen has received for her hard work in the press corps. :)

[Stockholm]

3. Human Flower Project heart DU

"Thirty-eight dozen roses are hardly an “underground” activity. On the contrary, giving flowers is a revelation of both recipient and giver. In our view, guys, your group needs a more accurate and in-the-sunlight name!"

[myrna minx]

K&R.

A big :hug: to Helen.

[NMDemDist2]

4. K & N n/t

[CatWoman]

5. this is so wonderful

fantastic!!!

[japple]

6. So Skinner, will the name of DU be changed?

(snip)

"Thirty-eight dozen roses are hardly an “underground” activity. On the contrary, giving flowers is a revelation of both recipient and giver. In our view, guys, your group needs a more accurate and in-the-sunlight name!"

..........................................................

I've been thinking of new names, but so far I've only been able to come up with:

Sunny Ds
Democratic Laserbeams
Demoforces of Light

[SoCalDem]

7. "Here’s Helen Thomas with a shitload of roses"...wonkette

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/remainders/remainders-just-like-every-white-house-correspondent-sings-her-sad-sad-song-164456.php

Here’s Helen Thomas with a shitload of roses. Because she finally goaded Bush into admitting that his entire administation has been a failure and that he’s personally responsible for a number of war crimes.

Or because she finally got a chance to actually ask him a question, which he easily dodged. We don’t remember which, tell you the truth.

[Beaverhausen]

8. I'm confused

Is that the project we did or another one? We sent 100 dozen if I remember correctly. Is someone else trying to take credit for what we did?

anyone?

[SoCalDem]

9. Sloppy reporting on their part

Perhaps they wrote the story before the final amount was reached, and they didn't re-check :shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

12. someone should send them the press release helderheid wrote

[nicknameless]

19. Maybe the rose count was provided by the same dolts who severely

underreport crowd numbers at war protests.

:shrug:

[madrchsod]

10. very cooool

i guess we are not satanists

[suffragette]

11. Flower power in action

Great article.
Thanks for finding and posting it Skinner.

[SeattleGirl]

13. Great article. So nice to see the attention the project -- and

Ms. Thomas especially -- has received.

[AndyA]

14. Helen Thomas is quite a gal!

Other reporters could learn a lot from this wonderful lady. I'm glad to see she's getting recognition for doing the right thing all these years, regardless of whether people agreed with her or not.

[newblewtoo]

15. What amazes me

is that she is 87 And still going strong. I had no idea she was that old.

[helderheid]

16. THANK YOU!!! FYI, I will have another interview soon :) too bad they

report 38 dozen ... TRY 100 DOZEN!! :)

[helderheid]

17. Democracy Now. You know what to do. EOM.

[immoderate]

18. the article says we gave her 38 dozen roses.

The count I heard was 114 dozen.

At least they mentioned DU, which is nice.

--IMM

[helderheid]

20. 100 dozen - 1200 roses and 48 vases.

[immoderate]

21. Thanks, and you oughtta know.

They were very beautiful. Great job!

--IMM

[helderheid]

22. thanks! I wasn't there personally to pick them up and count each one

but that was what the order was for - and I trust Organic Bouquet! :)

[helderheid]

23. I think I figured out their mistake - they are probably counting 38

vases of roses - some broke during shipping.

[immoderate]

24. That clears up where that number came from.

:)
--IMM

[helderheid]

25. yep! Check it out - they updated the story!!

http://www.humanflowerproject.com/index.php/weblog/bouquets_for_a_firebrand