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Helen Thomas, trailblazing reporter, dead at 92
Politico ^ | 7/20/2013

Posted on 07/20/2013 6:53:44 AM PDT by markomalley

Helen Thomas, whose career covering the White House dated back to the Kennedy administration, died on Saturday at the age of 92, the Gridiron Club announced in an email to members on Saturday.

Thomas was the the first woman to join the White House Correspondents' Association, and the first woman to serve as its president. She was also the first female member of the Gridiron Club, Washington's historic press group.

Present at the press briefings of ten consecutive presidential administrations, Thomas's career in journalism ended in 2010 after controversial remarks she made about Israeli Jews were caught on camera.

"Former Gridiron Club president Helen Thomas, our first female member, died Saturday morning at her Washington apartment after a long illness," Gridiron's Susan L. Hahn wrote in an email to members. "She would have been 93 next month."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemite; antisemitism; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; hearst; helenthomas; journalist; journolist; obituary; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; thomas; upi; usefulidiot
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To: markomalley

Didn’t agree with her on much if anything.

But I did admire her tenacity.
RIP Helen Thomas


101 posted on 07/20/2013 7:39:10 AM PDT by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“Helen wasn’t always anti Semitic, that only started after Moses drowned her Egyptian boyfriend.”

Now that’s funny I don’t care who you are.


102 posted on 07/20/2013 7:39:14 AM PDT by beef (Who Killed Kennewick Man?)
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To: BykrBayb

She just had dark brown eyes. They stood out in the photo.

Time really took it’s toll on her over the years.


103 posted on 07/20/2013 7:39:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: PghBaldy
Look at the first sentence, before it is changed: Wikiepedia: Helen Thomas (August 4, 1920- July 20, 2013[1]) was the racist lady that said the thing about Jews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Thomas

It's already been revised...twice, but, for posterity:

The original:

The update (also removed):

People need to know that it's best to wait a little while after an event to hack Wiki.

104 posted on 07/20/2013 7:40:25 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: DoughtyOne

It has nothing to do with the color of her eyes. It’s the evil in them.


105 posted on 07/20/2013 7:41:09 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
We are all God’s children, in the sense that he created each of us. But do you have any evidence that she saw herself as such? Any evidence that she wished to further His agenda?

No, and no, and that is so sad for her.

106 posted on 07/20/2013 7:41:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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To: markomalley

Good riddance to a gun grabbing commie.


107 posted on 07/20/2013 7:42:44 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: john drake

While I don’t think she was attractive, I don’t think she was all that bad looking either. People, when they animate, change their appearance. She may have been charming at that time in her life.

We definitely saw the bad side of her. There may have been a good one at some point in time. I’d imagine she had friends when she died. They probably saw something in her that they liked.

At any rate, she’s gone. An era more or less goes with her.


108 posted on 07/20/2013 7:43:13 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: ImNotLying
So who will fill the void when a photo is needed to depict the face so often needed in certain posting situations/

Hillary, the half-asleep one.

109 posted on 07/20/2013 7:43:21 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: AppyPappy

Helen’s days as an oxygen thief are done.


110 posted on 07/20/2013 7:43:48 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: markomalley

May God have mercy upon her soul. RIP Helen. That’s the best I can do.


111 posted on 07/20/2013 7:44:11 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

But we will now have to endure a parade of Rinos getting facetime telling the world how much they admired her. Tomorrow talk shows will be a love fest for her.


112 posted on 07/20/2013 7:44:26 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: BykrBayb

I don’t see evil in them, but perhaps you’re picking up on something I’m not.


113 posted on 07/20/2013 7:45:10 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: markomalley
...at least she gets to still vote!

Yeah, but the smell at the voting booth will make you wretch as much as her photo whilst alive!


114 posted on 07/20/2013 7:48:22 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: bigdaddy45

“Real nice to see that Free Republic is keeping it classy this morning.”

Not that we should in her case. However we are adults and not apes, and this person has a family that has lost a member and that is never something to rejoice over.


115 posted on 07/20/2013 7:48:59 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: markomalley

She was not a a trailblazing reporter.
She was an activist hack who hid behind the word reporter.
And should be remembered as such.


116 posted on 07/20/2013 7:50:54 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: markomalley

How can they tell?


117 posted on 07/20/2013 7:52:35 AM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: markomalley

Satan finally had to let her in.


118 posted on 07/20/2013 7:53:00 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ((S)
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To: markomalley

Now that she is dead, I really don’t have anything to say. Probably be the same when Jimmuh dies.


120 posted on 07/20/2013 7:57:51 AM PDT by D Rider
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