{"id":15172,"date":"2003-03-08T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-08T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/08\/white-house-doyenne-1-w-0\/"},"modified":"2003-03-08T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-08T14:44:00","slug":"white-house-doyenne-1-w-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/08\/white-house-doyenne-1-w-0\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Doyenne 1, W 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20030307-85033093.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Helen Thomas received her first presidential snub in six administrations<\/a> during a recent press conference, being relegated to the third row and and not getting any questions for the first time in any correspondents&rsquo; memories.  Still, you have to admire her for staying true to herself.  <i>The Washington Times<\/i> speculates that Thomas was snubbed because she &ldquo;has in recent months harangued Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, asking how President Bush can slaughter innocent Iraqis in a quest for oil.&rdquo;  She has also been quoted as saying, &ldquo;This is the worst president ever&hellip;He is the worst president in all of American history.&rdquo;  Well, I can&rsquo;t say I disagree with her, and Ari Fleischer is a pompous, smug little prick who deserved it when the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.c-span.org:8080\/ramgen\/edrive\/iraq022503_whpb.rm?mode=compact\" target=\"_blank\">press corps recently laughed him out of the room<\/a>.  (links to RealVideo; skip ahead to about 29 minutes)<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90424963?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House correspondent Helen Thomas received her first presidential snub in six administrations during a recent press conference, being relegated to the third row and and not getting any questions for the first time in any correspondents&rsquo; memories. Still, you have to admire her for staying true to herself. The Washington Times speculates that Thomas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/08\/white-house-doyenne-1-w-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;White House Doyenne 1, W 0&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}