What is this woman's deal? Does she think she's some sort of queen and that the President owes her something? I wouldn't call on this psycho radical lefty either.

Hat tip Drudge on today's story (and The Political Teen for pointing me to it):

BUSH SNUBS HELEN THOMAS [AGAIN] Thu Jan 26 2006 15:42:32 2006

President Bush today again avoided taking a question from White House doyenne Helen Thomas during his 45-minute press conference, even though he took questions from every reporter around her front-row, center seat.

"He's a coward," Thomas said afterward. "He's supposed to be this macho guy. He'll take on Osama bin Laden, but he won't take me on."

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

Thomas, who worked as the UPI White House reporter for 57 years and is now a columnist, raised her hand every time the president was concluding an answer to a reporter's question, but he never called on her.

She had a few questions in mind, though. "I wanted to ask about Iraq: 'You said you didn't go in for oil or for Israel or for WMDs. so why did you go in?' "

She also had another question at the ready, just in case, this one about the president's contention that a 28-year-old wiretapping law known as FISA is out of date, which prompted him to order the National Security Agency to conduct a secret electronic surveillance program that Democrats contend is illegal.

"You keep saying it's a 1978 law, but the Constitution 200 years old. Is that out of date, too?"

Afterward, Thomas sat sullenly in her chair in the White House press work area, huddled in her leopard-print winter coat.

But as she left, she made a prediction: "He came on to my turf. I'll bet the next press conference will be in Room 450 of the EEOB," a theater-style room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where she would not be in the front row.

Developing...

Again, The Political Teen pointed me to that, and he's had full Helen coverage all week. She's clearly got a classic case of Bush Derangment Syndrome, and I think him not calling her but calling on everyone around her is hilarious. That's awesome. She's always so disrespectful, well maybe she'll smarten up now.

The Political Teen has more Helen from the past week here, here, and here.

By the way, Drudge's piece says Thomas was a "UPI White House reporter for 57 years"... How old is this woman!? Wow, I gotta give her credit for working for so long... But I'm much more in favor of crediting her with being the nuttiest lefty in the White House press corps (and that's saying a lot.)

Anyone else think she makes a great couple with this guy?

UPDATE: Conservababes remembers July 31, 2005 when Helen Thomas said:

"The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."

Thanks Conservababes, I had forgotten all about that. The best part is that she goes on to get mad about that quote being published. But back to the point, why would The President ever call on this lunatic? Does she deserve any respect when she acts like this? She sounds like she should be rioting with a bunch of kids dressed in black, wearing scarves and throwing molotov cocktails during an anti-war "rally". Not a journalist who deserves to be anywhere near the White House.

So basically Helen, all I have to say to you is: cry about it. The President apparently feels the same way, and has nothing for you but a box of tissues.