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."
It seems to me that many elderly people become bitter in their later years. I don't know why.
The time in her career that you speak of includes Tip O'Neill, Pat Moynahan, George Mitchell, Bob Dole, Robert Byrd, Trent Lott, Alan Simpson, Alan Cranston, Ted Kennedy, Jim Wright, Tom Foley, Bob Michel.
Those people didn't fight the way that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are fighting today.
-PJ
This is not our Helen Thomas.
This is not Helen of the press corps.
Not Helen.
Meanwhile, Jay Carney is kicking his heels and pounding
the floor with his fists crying....
“I want THOSE Ruby KneePads, They’re MINE, MINE I
tell you!!!”
Not, me, fine lady, but Christopher Marlowe, late of London.
Helen Thomas, trailblazing reporter, dead at 92....however, she will still get the first question at all Obama press conferences.
Then who is it?
She’s a woman from PA. Even when I first saw this pix I thought it doesn’t look like her, and the period is wrong. This pix is classic ‘30s at worst, and no way the ugly journalist was old enough for such a pix, jokes aside.
It’s on a genealogy website of family pix.
I forgot who said that LOL!
One of old school Freeper LOL!
Her biggest surprise had to be: "Wow - You DO Exist!" .................................. FRegards
She’s with her heroes, the Dead Kennedys!
I’d think more like “Yep! I hated You alright and I now hate You forever, I’ll even go to hell rather than stop condemning Your name!” Hell is a home of very bizarre things.
Woops, not that one. Well if that one is alive then she still has time to change her mind, or to let God into it to change it for her.
Someone get a wooden stake. You can’t be too careful.
According to this it is. Helen Thomas old photos
Agree !
All I can say, good riddance ! I fully support Israel and strongly oppose those who support socialism/communism and who want to destroy Israel.
> I don’t cry for Commies and Israel hating scum. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Wasn’t it Nixon who made her into a household fixture, but he was the one she hated the most.
Quite the opposite. I’ve just always seen grave dancing as a Democrat trait. I always thought Republicans had more class. And quite frankly, exulting in the death of a bitter old woman who’s influence was minimal (at best) seems a bit silly to me. Your stated glee in her passing gives her more worth than her life justifies.
The only reason Helen Thomas was newsworthy was because she was a female, and hung around forever. Her journalistic influence was a blip.
The very first occurrence of that photo is the source you need to READ.
http://www3.familyoldphotos.com/photo/pennsylvania/17983/helen-thomas-1933?size=_original
I already posted why it didn’t make sense. As if there aren’t plenty of “Helen Thomas” women around.
Let’s please stop spreading falsehoods. I saw a liberal blog used this photo in their headlining her death today. It gives wrong impressions and is really some other people’s Pennsylvania grandma.
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