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Insider Report: Helen Thomas: Condi a 'Monster,' 'G--damn Liar' Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. Helen Thomas: Condi a 'Monster,' 'G--damn Liar' 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. Story Continues Below
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!
Probably because they find this reality so upsetting, most media have refused to report one of the most important developments from the elections Nov. 2: Opponents of Second Amendment rights shot themselves in the foot. Of the 251 House candidates supported by the National Rifle Association, all but 10 won. The winners include 20 newcomers. Five of the six Senate candidates backed by the NRA won. "This election was crucial for the Second Amendment," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. "The NRA stands for freedom. Our members are defenders of freedom, and we are proud to see that gun owners across the country came out and voted for freedom." The NRA helped put down the incumbent that Republicans most wanted to defeat, the obstructionistic Senate minority leader. "It cost Tom Daschle his job, absolutely," Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the Connecticut Post. The results of the elections have, for at least the next two years, dashed gun grabbers' hopes of extending a ban on what they call "assault weapons." On Nov. 1 a majority in the Senate supported the ban. No more. "Seven of nine newly elected members to the Senate oppose the ban, and another would only support a more narrowly defined ban. They replace senators who voted six to three in favor of the ban," the Post reported. "If all else held true, the switches would result in the Senate rejecting the ban 48 to 52."
You know how the Democrat establishment and its allies in Big Media still keep wailing that those mean ol' right-wing Christians got President Bush re-elected in order to establish some sort of theocracy? Not true. The Wall Street Journal, mocking the leftist media's attacks on "Bible-thumping homophobic masses averse to redefining marriage," points out: "True, weekly churchgoers voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Bush. But they [composed] the same 42% of the electorate as four years ago. It's self-described moderates (some 45% of the electorate), who made the difference this year. Nearly half went for the President, and if opposition to gay marriage was one of the issues that stirred these swing voters, don't blame bigotry or ignorance. It's more accurate to say that proponents have overreached." The paper notes that it is this reality "that liberals who are so contemptuous of Red America ignore at the risk of more political peril down the road." How delightful, then, that Sen. Kerry is now saying he might run for president again in 2008. And he's refusing to learn from his mistakes. This past week Kerry had this to say about his loss: "Do I find it some mark of failure or distress? The answer is no." And here's some cheeky advice from the Journal to Kerry and the rest of the allegedly tolerant crowd: "In the meantime, if liberals really care about discriminatory legal protections and benefits, they might consider agitating for a repeal of the death tax, which puts gay couples at a disadvantage. Married couples are allowed an unlimited transfer of assets to a spouse before death, a tax benefit denied gay couples. And only heterosexual spouses can inherit each other's assets without paying estate taxes." People can argue that the "religious right" or moderates or Hispanics or "security moms" or those awful white males or whoever re-elected Bush. Such arguments are silly. What matters is that the majority did.
Green tea supposedly has all sorts of healthful benefits, but don't tell that to John Kerry. It helped destroy his presidential candidacy. CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley, in a speech this week to Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, said she saw the beginning of the end for the Massachusetts Democrat in January 2003 when they had breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Dubuque, Iowa. "I'd like to start out with some green tea," Sen. Kerry told the waitress, who stared at him before replying, "We have Lipton's." Crowley told the crowd in West Palm Beach: "There were many green tea instances. There's a very large disconnect between the Washington politicians and most of America and how they live. Bush was able to bridge that gap, and Kerry was not." Kerry had other gastronomic gaffes on the campaign trail that earned him widespread ridicule. Heavily Democrat Philadelphia, including its liberal dailies, mocked him for days when he bungled a photo opportunity by requesting not the customary provolone or Cheez Whiz but imported Swiss on his Philly cheese steak. Most embarrassing of all was when word leaked that Kerry, John Edwards and their spouses faked their photo op lunch at the Wendy's in blue-collar Newburgh, N.Y. It turned out that the foursome had gourmet box lunches back on the campaign bus. Perhaps Kerry can spend the next four years trying to down a pork rind without gagging.
 5. We Hear on the Grapevine: Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell chatted with NewsMax's Christopher Ruddy at the American Swiss dinner in New York. Asked about Hillary's chances for 2008, Rendell said, "Right now she's unbeatable." Dick Morris thinks Hillary is not only a near certainty to be the Democrats' nominee, but also a shoe-in for the Oval Office. Only three Republicans can beat her, he says: Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Condi Rice. He notes that neither Giuliani nor McCain can win the Republican nomination. That leaves Condi ... Earlier this month, at David Horowitz's Restoration Weekend in Boca Raton, Fla., John Fund suggested that a top-tier Republican presidential contender is Ohio's Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell. Former Judicial Watch chairman and one-time Florida senatorial candidate Larry Klayman was spotted in Washington recently. Klayman has formed a private law firm to bring class actions suits that will benefit conservative causes. Larry may give trial attorneys a good name after all. Bill Simon, the stalwart conservative who ran for governor of California, will be running for California state treasurer in 2006.
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