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Helen Thomas Goes Home
Wall Street Opinion Journal ^
| July 22, 2013
| James Taranto
Posted on 07/22/2013 7:06:25 PM PDT by Michael.SF.
An eerie silence descended on American journalism's attic Saturday morning. Elsewhere the house was loud with cries of mourning for 92-year-old Helen Thomas and of celebration for her life.
This columnist was anything but an admirer of Thomas, and normally we'd give the subject a rest out of respect for the recently departed. But the over-the-top encomiums demand a critical examination because they exemplify a moral and intellectual rot within the journalistic profession
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: helenthomas; israel; jamestaranto; kentucky
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To: onyx
Great ones like Reagan, Churchill, and Thatcher are very rare in History.There were three of them in the 20th century. I fear our quota has been oversubscribed and it will be a couple of centuries more before such arise again.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:35:44 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
To: Berosus
Ms. Thomas was born in Winchester, KY, seventeen miles east of my house Probably in a log cabin.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:40:22 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
To: onyx
How ironic, the same weekend both she and her beloved city “died”.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:45:40 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:47:07 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Biggirl
GMTA and now I’m thinking her grave will be unkempt, too.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:47:09 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: arthurus
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:47:44 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: Michael.SF.
An eerie silence”
...”eerie”, gross, putrid, disgusting, sickening, evil. They all work!
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:49:01 PM PDT
by
albie
(t allowed)
To: Berosus
Maybe Winchester will dedicate a memorial urinal?
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:53:10 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
To: arthurus
LOL.
I only heard of her death on the news once. Clicked on this thread to catch up. Guess I missed the BIG news.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:53:37 PM PDT
by
Bronzy
To: Michael.SF.
I hope they drive a stake through her heart for insurance.
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posted on
07/22/2013 7:57:29 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: Michael.SF.
“Mr President Arafat, it’s HO......T in here.”
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posted on
07/22/2013 8:06:29 PM PDT
by
alstewartfan
("The atmosphere's too cold in here to attract a butterfly like that." Al Stewart)
To: MotorCityBuck
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. "My Native Land" — Sir Walter Scott
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posted on
07/22/2013 8:22:52 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: PA Engineer
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posted on
07/22/2013 8:26:09 PM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
07/22/2013 8:28:01 PM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
07/22/2013 8:39:27 PM PDT
by
elteemike
(Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Lebanon has cypress trees.
To: MotorCityBuck
Since I’m not religious. I get to fully enjoy the old bat’s passing all the more! :0)
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posted on
07/22/2013 9:23:52 PM PDT
by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: Michael.SF.
The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift..I've seen her on TV. The "Daily Beast" must be named after her.
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posted on
07/22/2013 11:57:41 PM PDT
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
07/23/2013 12:37:09 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: Michael.SF.
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posted on
07/23/2013 12:39:33 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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