Video: Helen Thomas on Daily Show with Jon Stewart

On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed famous White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who has been attending White House press conferences ever since 1961 -- that's nine presidents in total!  The two discussed Bush's foreign policy doctrine, the lack of reporting after 9/11, and her recent confrontation with Tony Snow:

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STEWART: You're in a press conference I guess just this week.  He (Tony Snow) said, "Helen, you're heckling me." He said, "It's rude, I'm the teacher" -- I believe is how he put it.

THOMAS: I said, "You're a Johny-come-lately," basically.

STEWART: Did you really?  Very nice.

THOMAS: Now, I asked him if we were going to have permanent bases in Iraq.  And at first...he said no, we weren't going to.  And I decided to revisit the question in the afternoon briefing because I was sure he was off base.  I asked him again.  I said, "Would you like to reconfirm, and I want to revisit this question: are we going to have permanent bases in Iraq?"  He said, "It depends on what you mean by permanent."

STEWART: How do you not --

THOMAS: I don't.

STEWART: It must be difficult not to throw something.

Conservative pundits such as Ann Coulter have attacked Helen Thomas a lot ever since 9/11 for asking the tough questions.  But she has done this for every president -- all nine of them that she has covered.  Regardless of what some say about her, she is definitely one of the greatest journalists of our time.
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