God Bless Helen Thomas
No, really, I mean it – the White House press corps just wouldn’t be the same without her extreme anti-Republican bias. Here’s the latest:
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)
Hey, I was dead wrong about Tony Snow – he’s the best press secretary since C. J. Cregg…
Tony Snow is doing great! Even Helen Thomas probably isn’t as bad as cancer. No wait–you can get rid of cancer.
why is helen thomas still present at the white house briefing?
Ostensibly, there are still a couple of dozen people who read her work – but you and I know it’s for the comic relief…
Maybe she’s still there because she’s blackmailing somebody–she must have taken a few compromising daguerreotypes of someone’s ancestor.
Ah, yes – the only White House correspondent who used to file her dispatches on papyrus…