Alternatively, 'what's the sound of one foot swallowed?':
HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHEDWhite 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."
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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.
As noted here many times before, the saddest part of satire (and irony) is its subjects almost never get it.
Stop that! You, in the gallery! Stop that cheering and agreeing with her! Don't make me get out the hose!
I do believe there is a bit of irony there. Cheney will not run for president - his health would too big an issue. I really think the Neocons will just propose an amendment to give Geo. a 3rd term since Jeb seems to have hit a brick wall so to speak.
Posted by: Pat on August 1, 2005 10:50 AMActually, most of us neocons are rooting for Condolezza Rice in 2008.