Helen Thomas dead at 92

Rest in peace, Helen, Rest in peace.

What a bummer!

She got booted off the White House press corps for asking an awkward question. Don't remember what. But that she did ask and got booted gave her mega brownie points in my book!

Corresponded with her once, including asking her to write that one article everyone is interested in, and that she is an expert on. Don't know if she ever did... anyone?, anyone? That would be how to most expediently get across DC at various times of the day. Something she was an expert on!

She will be missed! An honest reporter willing to ask the HARD questions!

-t
 
tangent4ronpaul said:
Rest in peace, Helen, Rest in peace.

What a bummer!

She got booted off the White House press corps for asking an awkward question. Don't remember what. But that she did ask and got booted gave her mega brownie points in my book!

Corresponded with her once, including asking her to write that one article everyone is interested in, and that she is an expert on. Don't know if she ever did... anyone?, anyone? That would be how to most expediently get across DC at various times of the day. Something she was an expert on!

She will be missed! An honest reporter willing to ask the HARD questions!

-t
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She said "Jews should get the hell out of Palestine."

 
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tangent4ronpaul said:
Rest in peace, Helen, Rest in peace.

What a bummer!

She got booted off the White House press corps for asking an awkward question. Don't remember what. But that she did ask and got booted gave her mega brownie points in my book!

-t
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She didn't ask it. a Zionist blogger asked her a question,,and she answered it.
It cost her career..
 
I still remember way back, Bill Clinton was President, she was in the White House press corps, and she commented something about "Everything's going down the drain!" Rush gotta lot of mileage out of that for awhile. Of course that's back in my dark days when I used to care what Rush had to say.
 
Watch this!:



I remember watching a WH press conference where she asked a very awkward question and immediately after got booted. Maybe this interview had more to do with it. She didn't get an answer.

-t
 
Some of her statements (from https://kashifiat.wordpress.com/201...len-thomas-quits-at-89-after-israel-outburst/)

The wit and wisdom of Helen Thomas

“I think I’ll work all my life. When you’re having fun, why stop having fun?”

Unsourced, but widely published quote

“You said that the President deplored the taking of innocent lives. Does that apply to all innocent lives in the world? And I have a follow-up… My follow-up is, why does he want to drop bombs on innocent Iraqis?”

From a question to Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush’s spokesman, at the daily press briefing in 2003

“This is the worst President ever. [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.”

From a January 2003 Society for Professional Journalism event when Ms Thomas thought she was off the record

“The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is another liar… ”

“You don’t spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.”

In an interview with Jon Stewart of The Daily Show in June 2006

“Every president hates the Press. Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail.”

In an April 2004 interview with The Majority Report

“Both Blair and Bush have been found lacking in their credibility. Usually by this time a government would have fallen. I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.”

From the same April 2004 Majority Report interview

“There’s no accountability for a blogger. They can ruin lives, reputations, and once you send something into the air, it’s going to land, and there’s nothing that can curb them from saying anything they want. Everybody with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist, and everybody with a cellphone thinks they’re a photographer.”
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Mainstream journalism died the day she retired.

Props to a gutsy lady. Rest well, Helen Thomas.
 
RIP

and her career pretty much ended during the Bush administration, when they decided to just start ignoring her, because she asked real questions, unlike the rest of the sycophants
 
I was able to unfollow or block a few more of the hard core zionists and neo-cons with brand names on twitter over the hateful things they are saying about her and still calling her an anti-semite.
 
Call me crazy, but I don't think it is that impressive taking 60 years to get thrown off the msm bandwagon. That is just me though.
 
People are being very selective in their view of this woman. For every criticism of Bush she uttered, she sucked Clintonite cock twice. Just another partisan hack and a big part of why the entire field of journalism is in the toilet.
 
libertyjam said:
I was able to unfollow or block a few more of the hard core zionists and neo-cons with brand names on twitter over the hateful things they are saying about her and still calling her an anti-semite.
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And she's likely more semitic than most of them calling her that.
 
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