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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

Crap. Now all the news shows will have her ugly mug on it and talking on and on about her “great reporting.”


41 posted on 07/20/2013 7:07:15 AM PDT by red-dawg
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To: markomalley

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


42 posted on 07/20/2013 7:07:23 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: markomalley
Well you may not have liked her but she was one of the last journalists in the US who was not afraid of their family being bugged by the NSA and harassed by the IRS.

She was allowed by the ruling class to ask really uncomfortable questions of the Admin, and so she did.....

RIP Helen.

43 posted on 07/20/2013 7:07:40 AM PDT by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
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To: markomalley

May the radical leftwing hack RIP.


44 posted on 07/20/2013 7:08:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: raccoonradio

there are some kinder pix of her also online in earlier times (w. Nixon, JFK etc.)


45 posted on 07/20/2013 7:08:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: cripplecreek

“Oh she took a few jabs at Obama and was punished for it.”

Like so many fellow travelers she learned that once accept the Marxist yoke and move onto the progressive plantation you will be destroyed by your “friends” the minute you stray. She became irrelevant the moment she tried to exercise a small amount of independent speech. Likely she died an extremely lonely creature, particularly if she did not know God.


46 posted on 07/20/2013 7:09:01 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: markomalley

I don’t cry for Commies and Israel hating scum. Good riddance to bad rubbish.


47 posted on 07/20/2013 7:09:41 AM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: markomalley

Bush’s fault?


48 posted on 07/20/2013 7:10:19 AM PDT by South40
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To: markomalley

49 posted on 07/20/2013 7:10:26 AM PDT by Governor William J. LePetomane (The affairs of state must take precedent over the affairs of state.)
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To: raccoonradio
online in earlier times

With Jefferson, Adams etc...

/johnny

50 posted on 07/20/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: hal ogen

So who will fill the void when a photo is needed to depict the face so often needed in certain posting situations.


51 posted on 07/20/2013 7:11:22 AM PDT by ImNotLying (The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

lol!


52 posted on 07/20/2013 7:11:47 AM PDT by South40
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To: markomalley

She was dead to me years ago...


53 posted on 07/20/2013 7:13:10 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising.... Civil War II)
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To: markomalley

I will not speak ill of the dead....at least for a week...


54 posted on 07/20/2013 7:13:21 AM PDT by Popman
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To: markomalley

Huh. Never really expected this.


55 posted on 07/20/2013 7:13:55 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No pun intended, no punishment ... If I offended you, you needed it.)
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To: markomalley

Perhaps we will now enjoy a well deserved respite from her picture, and she will enjoy hearing truth instead of what usually came from her lips to us as “news” or journalism.


56 posted on 07/20/2013 7:13:57 AM PDT by wita
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Sure the old broad was a liberal kook, but she said what ALL the rest of sack-less Mainstream Media never have the courage to say:

Helen Thomas Slams Obama Administration for Controlling Media

57 posted on 07/20/2013 7:14:15 AM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: markomalley

May she rest in peace.


58 posted on 07/20/2013 7:14:36 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
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To: ExTexasRedhead

“What excuses do liberals make when they face God?”
Desperate ones,I would think.


59 posted on 07/20/2013 7:14:51 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: red-dawg
Crap. Now all the news shows will have her ugly mug on it and talking on and on about her “great reporting.”

This will be the latest in a series of headline stories used to keep Hussein's failed presidency on the back burner.

60 posted on 07/20/2013 7:14:59 AM PDT by South40
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