Bush is not scared of Safddam, but he won't face Helen Veteran journalist Helen Thomas (now with Hearst newspapers) was snubbed at the president's news conference for the first time in living memory. Was he afraid of the real questions she might ask instead of the cream-puff queries from the other journalists? Was he afraid she would demand clarification of his obtuse responses? Or was he mad that she described his as "worst president in all of American history".