When the Tables are Turned
I almost feel sorry for Helen Thomas:
White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C.
In a column this week headlined “Reporter: Cheney’s Not Presidential Material,” Eisele quoted Thomas as saying “The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.”
Thomas also said: “I think he’d like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does,” according to Eisele’s column.
But Thomas said yesterday at the White House that her comments to Eisele were for his ears only. “I’ll never talk to a reporter again!” Thomas was overheard saying.
“We were just talking — I was ranting — and he wrote about it. That isn’t right. We all say stuff we don’t want printed,” Thomas said.
But Eisele said that when he called Thomas, “I assume she knew that we were on the record.”
“She’s obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item — until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe,” Eisele said.
Still, he noted that reporters aren’t that happy when the tables are turned. “Nobody has thinner skin than reporters,” Eisele said with a laugh.
Nah!
Maybe no one really cares what she does. All’s they are is s bunch on snot nose higher then though’s who think they know more then all the people out here. All 52% of us.
Just once if this group of used car salesman whould get the idea, oops!maybe I should report the news not have a conflict with the person giving me the information. They were the same with Clinton’s people just a little more helpful. to him.
One of these days they will get the idea that maybe, just maybe my attitude and reporting is why circulation of my newspaper is going down. They do not report they give you their idea of what should be. We don’t care, wake up be a reporter again….
I have plenty of spare ammo for Helen.