Posted on 11/21/2004 4:18:57 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
President Bush's decision to nominate Condoleezza Rice received widespread praise from both Democrats and Republicans.
But longtime White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas, now a syndicated columnist with Hearst, had nothing but contempt for Rice's nomination. The feisty 84-year-old reporter who started at the White House during the Kennedy administration had some unkind words to describe Bush and Condi.
NewsMax bumped into Thomas in the lobby of New York's Waldorf-Astoria as she waited for a lunch date.
Asked about the election result, the sharp-tongued reporter simply put her hand on her face and said, "My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you."
She warned that Bush's victory will mean one thing: more war. She expects Iran to be next.
But surely Thomas, a female reporter who succeeded decades ago in a "man's world," had some empathy about Condi's appointment.
As we suggested the notion, a look of horror came over Thomas' face.
"I tell you, the women is a monster, a monster, a monster," she kept saying.
Asked why she was so angry with Condi, Thomas explained that the national security adviser had lied about the Iraq war and "thousands had died."
Thomas, to her credit, has asked tough questions of both Democrat and Republican presidents during her long tenure in the White House press corps, but some of her anger seemed more personal.
For decades, Thomas held the privileged front-row seat in the pressroom and usually got to ask the first question. Now she says she is back in the last row and "Bush is afraid to take my questions."
Fair enough, but the venom for Condi?
When NewsMax referred to some of Condi's positive achievements, Thomas kept interjecting "monster" to describe her. "The lady is a goddamn liar," Thomas said, adding that such prevaricators were commonplace in the Bush White House.
Nor was Thomas impressed that Condi, an African-American woman, had risen from segregated Alabama to become the most powerful woman in the nation.
Thomas rejected that, too, claiming that Condi's family had opposed Dr. Martin Luther King and that she and her folks had not supported the civil rights movement. In fact, Thomas then made the bizarre claim that Condi's family wouldn't even patronize black-owned stores.
Thomas had little substantiation for any of these allegations.
Nor for some very vague allegations about the Bush family, which she said would "stop at nothing" to deal with its enemies.
Michael Moore, please call Helen Thomas. She is ready to help with your next movie!
No wonder Bush changed her seating assignment.
Sounds like HT's freelancing career is over.
Reports state Arafat is Still dead, and France is still contemplating their next surrender.....
thomas is a washed up has been suffering from something....
Not if she's freelance'n ugly.
"Frailty, thy name is woman".
Hey helen, speak for yourself . . . oops, too late.
When UBL meets his end - I pray his 72 virgins all look just like Helen...
Helen proves once again that liberals wouldn't know a fascist from an anvil.
They're generally about as intelligent as a sack of hair, it seems, and much more reactionary. :)
The real "monster" here should take a good hard look in the mirror.
Can you imagine doing a press conference with that thing staring at you....
What would stop the vomit from coming up...
Back room, she should be across the street, or better yet send her to be a pool reporter for those poor insurgents in Iraq, I'll even provide here the GPS so she don't get lost...
Target aquired sir.....
Hey, it isn't nice to be critical of senile old people who weren't very bright to begin with!!
The "liberal" agenda--, to "separate church and state;" promote homosexuality, encourage relationship instability ("free love"), easy divorce, feminism, and child rebellion; to burn the flag, undermine the military, sympathize with murdering terrorists, and defend bloodthirsty dictators; to promote "separate but equal" racism, advance Marxist class warfare under the banner of "diversity,"; undermine small business through targeted tax increases on entrepreneurs, pressing for more government regulatory control, and using false chicken little "the sky is falling green science" to attack capitalism.
And they accomplish much of this through their useful idiots in the main stream media outlets.
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Really. Kinda like Michael Moore calling Linda Rhonstadt fat.
Helen, are the "thousands" that have died people that you would want to invite home for dinner? I think not - they were bad guys.
Please, please, please posters, don't follow the Coulter, Dowd and Malkin rules and post her picture. I'm not feeling well today, anyway!
"Not if she's freelance'n ugly.'
Actually, she is putting in DOUBLE OVERTIME on that assignment.
Yikes, who was she dating, Quasimodo?
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