Helen Thomas: Asking Bush the Tough Questions

By Ann McFeatters, Ms. Magazine. Posted October 9, 2006.

Fearless White House correspondent Helen Thomas has covered nine presidents, and says Bush is undoubtedly the worst.

It was the talk of the blogosphere: As part of Stephen Colbert's eviscerating roast of President Bush at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April -- wonkish Washington's equivalent of the Oscars -- he showed a hilarious video that was supposedly an "audition" for the job of White House press secretary.

His costar in the satiric short: none other than the octogenarian doyenne of White House correspondents, Helen Thomas.