CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP

CHENEY INVITES HELEN THOMAS ON HUNTING TRIP
Effort to Reach Out to White House Press Corps, Observers Say
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In what Washington insiders believe is an attempt to mend fences with an increasingly contentious White House press corps, Vice President Dick Cheney today invited veteran journalist Helen Thomas on a quail-hunting trip to Texas.

“I would like to extend an invitation to Helen to join me on a quail-hunting trip to the Armstrong Ranch,” Mr. Cheney said in an official statement at the White House. “It will be a chance for the two of us to spend some quality time together.”

The vice president’s invitation took many Beltway observers by surprise, coming as it did only one day after a heated exchange at a White House press conference between Ms. Thomas and President George W. Bush.

But Ms. Thomas, never one to shrink from an opportunity, said today that she would be glad to join the vice president quail hunting in Texas so long as the Pentagon provided body armor for her first.

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If he really said this, it is the epitomy of tastelessness and arrogance.

But, then, what do I expect?

Although ... with this bunch ... I wouldn't have been surprised if Cheney had really said that.

guess he'd like to blow her head off, huh? Nice.

And if it is it can only be construed as a threat.

But Cheney's so arrogant he'd threaten people and not worry about it. Heck, he shot a guy. If had been one of the brown people on my sister's caseload who accidentally shot someone on a hunting trip, they'd be in jail on some charge you can bet.

You don't have to be brown, they hate all of us "peons" equally.