Bush Snubs Helen Thomas At Final Press Conference

[unapatriciated]

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/george-bush-snubs-helen-thomas-his-fina (video)

From C&L:
In a classless move, President Bush snubbed Helen Thomas, the longtime Press Pool reporter covering the White House, and refused to take a question from her as she sat in the front row, waving her hand to him as he asked his final question from his last presser.

She's covered more presidents than Bush has verbs in his vocabulary. The snub ran directly counter to the sentiments expressed in his opening remarks regarding the press:

Through it all, it's been -- I have respected you. Sometimes didn't like the stories that you wrote or reported on. Sometimes you misunderestimated me. But always the relationship I have felt has been professional. And I appreciate it.

I appreciate -- I do appreciate working with you. My friends say, what is it like to deal with the press corps? I said, these are just people trying to do the best they possibly can.

I guess he didn't appreciate working with her since she called him out for many of his policies. Maybe he just misunderestimated her too...

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Bush and the GOP can't handle the truth.

Jail is where Bush belongs.

[madokie]

2. Its in his cards

I almost promise

[yellowcanine]

4. "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." — Harry S. Truman

HST, talking about Republicans.

Other gems from HST....

"I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was."

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in. "

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference."


"Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged."

"The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better."

[tridim]

3. Did he invite Jeff Gannon back to ask a question?

[shaniqua6392]

5. Don't worry Helen!!!

A real President is coming next week and I am sure he will be happy to take questions from you!! I can't wait to see President Obama's first press conference. I know he will be calling on her often.

[spanone]

6. he's treated her like shit for eight years.....he knows no shame

he has no idea why people don't like him....what the fuck can you say to that?

[barbtries]

7. a fucking childish dick

to the end. bastard.

[burythehatchet]

10. even a dickish child.

[lpbk2713]

8. He's afraid of her. It's that simple.

Don't ever expect this miserable POS to show anything resembling a backbone.

[jimlup]

9. The snipets of that conference that I heard were revoltings

The commander and thief :puke:

[troubleinwinter]

11. Remember

[illuminaughty]

13. OMG I never saw pictures of it before!

Yes, I remember. How the hell I missed the pics I have no clue. Thanks.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. Petulant sociopath right to the bitter end...

I hope he dies choking on his own vomit in his forthcoming drunken stupors.

[marions ghost]

18. yep

it's interesting how petulant sociopaths make their triumphal exits from the scene of the crime...
like nothing really bad ever happened. It's all about moving on...'and now for my richly deserved earthly rewards'...& on to new exploitative opportunities in the private sector--

What sickens me is the way that our society lets them get away with it and participates in the immediate revisionist history (so as to keep up the pathetic delusion that everything's OK and that this was not criminal)...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

23. yep

you pretty much nailed it...

it is incredibly maddening/frustrating/sad

[roguevalley]

14. she's a national treasure and he's afraid of her. BWAHA! he's afraid of her

[4 t 4]

15. I saw that too

and it broke my heart. Right up to the very last second he'll disgrace himself. I hope our new President gives her all the respect she deserves and more to make up for the little child that has held us captive for a very long and painful eight years.

[rvablue]

16. President Obama: That first question needs to go to Helen!!

The shrub is such a cowardly, little man.

Can't take a question from an old lady, huh? That's right, because she probably would have called you out on your lies.

Please, please, please, President Obama, give the first question to Helen... it needs to be done.

[hootinholler]

17. I suspect that President Obama will call on her for his first question in his first presser.

Just a feeling I have but still, that would be his style.

-Hoot

[Cleita]

22. That would be awesome and really show not only the nation but

the corporate whore media that change is coming for sure.

[ellisonz]

19. Coward.

[formercia]

20. Junior is a little prick

just like Poppy is a big prick, from a long line of pricks.

[Cleita]

21. Helen and Cindy Sheehan are both on his sh*t list, two women who didn't

take any guff from him. Can he have proved himself to be any pettier than what he has done to these two women? At least he didn't have Helen arrested for not liking her T-Shirt.