Helen Thomas To Gibbs: "I Want Your Conscience To Bother You"
CBS News: "Has the president given up on the public option?" Thomas asked, prompting Gibbs to suggest she asks the question every day.
"I ask it day after day because it has great meaning in this country, and you never answer it," Thomas said.
"I apparently don't answer it to your satisfaction," Gibbs said with a smile, prompting Thomas to say, "that's right."
When Gibbs began saying, "I'll give you the same answer that I gave you unsatisfactorily for many of those other days," Thomas interrupted, asking, "Well, is he going to fight for it or not?"
"We're going to work to get choice and competition into health care reform," Gibbs said.
Replied Thomas: "You're not going to get it."
"Well, then why do you keep asking me?" asked Gibbs, to laugher from the press corps.
Said Thomas: "Because I want your conscience to bother you."
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