Has Helen Thomas been sitting in the back?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On "Countdown," they had a clip of her giving Tony Snow an apple, and she was sitting in the front row. Were they seating her a few rows back under Fleischer & McClellan? I know they hadn't been calling on her much, so it might just seem like she wasn't in the front.

Just wondering.

[Spazito]

1. I think she has the front row seat at the press briefings but not

during any of the President's press conferences.

[Nickster]

2. Yup, the emperorer doesn't want her in earshot. But she's been in the fron

t row at the regular press briefings. That's where she belongs by tradition for being the senior correspondent.

[jaxx]

3. I laughed when she gave him the apple. How symbolic.