A Curios Case of Free Republic supporting Helen Thomas

misc | July 2, 2009 | misc

[Aunt Polgara]

Now here is the real curios case:

[Wolfie]

Apparently she possesses that rarest of all commodities: intellectual consistency. (Not seen much ‘round here, that’s for sure).

[Eddie01]

I feel as though I need a shower after going there.

I can understand that. Intellectually speaking, visiting DU is like diving into a dirty swimming pool left uncovered near a wood line for a couple seasons.

[Eddie01]

Agreed. Dare I say it, Helen has delegated herself to ‘typical white woman’ status with the Zero administration.

Yes.

What she did, challenging this adminstration in that way, was racist!

Helen, to my knowledge, never challenged any white presidents on press access/press control in the past 40 years - did she. /sarc

[pray4liberty]

Is it me, or is Helen Thomas getting just a little bit cuter?

She wouldn't look too bad if she lost about 100 pounds, got her face lifted and her nose fixed.

She might have to so the Obama minions won't recognize her if they go after her for this! It might be a matter of survival.

If I had her money, I would.

[gibsosa]

bump

[seanmerc]

Courtesy ping for the Helen Thomas ping list - thanks LucyT! FReepmail me if you'd like to be added to the list...

[Lauren BaRecall]

I am SO PROUD of Helen, and I’m being 100% sincere. After all those decades of investing herself in liberalism, she went with the courage of her convictions, even though she was in opposition. Helen is to be commended. Good for her!

[cynwoody]

Um, before you get serious, it’s a good idea to meet her mother.

[Vicki]

I emailed Helen Thomas in support of her challenge. The walls are beginning to crumble when Helen takes notice of what we have known all along.

Her email address is: hthomas@hearstdc.com

The press is full of themselves and we can use this unveiling to our advantage. The press can make the Obama administration's time in office a living hell.

By the way Helen wrote me back and thanked me for my positive and supportive comments.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Great idea! Thanks for posting Helen’s email address!

[MaggieCarta]

Yeah, well, the honeymoon is over now.

[Captain Beyond]

I watched it on FOX and what I came away with is that she is not upset with the scripted questions but that the hand picked town-hall people were the ones getting to ask the scripted questions and that she and the other journalists were bypassed in the process. At some point she says it is not the questions but the process....It more like she was saying “I just brought a new pair of Official Presidential Obama-Knee-Pads and your not letting me try them out because I don't have a scripted question to be asked.”

[skinkinthegrass]

..no more face that sank a thousand ships comments anymore.

lets' not go that far....maybe 998 sank & 2 floundered.
..She's STILL a lib.

[skinkinthegrass]

Gibbs though makes an impression of ineptitude.
What gives? A mistake, or calculated sleight of hand?

He's the sacrificial lamb....errr...Goat...
It was predicted, He won't be the last.
Liberal Moths; to the Marxist Flame.

[skinkinthegrass]

IS THIS, ENOUGH EYE WASH?

[GOPJ]

What's your point?

The point's that inside of Helen might be the old time hard nosed reporter who calls it like she sees it. That's cool - makes it easy to "forgive" her for snippy questions to Bush. If she offends everyone equally ( with ONE standard) she A-OK with me.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I didn’t get that impression. But it’s partly from the context of earlier press conferences and I think the HBO(?) show I watched on her last month - “Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas .....”.

Indeed, the process IS the problem. Gibbs kept saying in essence they could tell him if the questions were poor, etc. Thomas and Reid were saying the questions aren’t the POINT; it’s how the questions get in. They get to choose which questions are easy to answer, make them look good, AND have a practiced answer.

I think HT was folding into this conversation, about hand-picked questions at a “town hall”, her own irritation about earlier being told they have to send their questions to the Press Sec before the press conferences. That is why she said “we never” and “why do we have to e-mail? I can do it right now” and so on.

She KNOWS it’s a town hall, so doesn’t involve press, per se.