Doubting Helen Thomas

[Terri]

By Brent Bozell
August 6, 2008

At a screening of a forthcoming HBO documentary honoring liberal journalist Helen Thomas in Washington, Thomas was asked whether most White House reporters are liberal. "Hell, no!" she thundered. I'm dying to find another liberal to open their mouths [sic]. Where are they?"

Is this Grande Dame of Journalism serious? The answer, of course, is yes. Since Ms. Thomas is dying to find vocal liberals in the news media, the least we can do is point her in the right direction.

Let's see ...

ABC's Claire Shipman says the taxpayers, not the politicians, should sacrifice to close the budget deficit: "If every American were to pitch in $2,000, we could pay off this year's deficit. ... Or, if we handed over, each of us, 500 gallons of gasoline or, in terms we could all really understand, if every American gave up 666 lattes for a year, we could pay off this year's deficit."

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[jack virtus]

I can't seem to decide whether Helen Thomas is 1. A liar? 2. out of touch? 3. Senile? 4. just stupid? 5. All of the above?

I guess i'll go with no.5.

Helen Thomas is about as relevant as Scott McCllelen (sp?)

[Dingbat36]

Every time I see a president, or press secretary call on Helen Thomas at a press conference, I cringe and wonder what the ugly old harridan is still doing there...........(tak ing up space?).

I suspect this woman was probably the beginning of unfair and unbalanced journalism. But then, how could she be expected to see anything clearly if she can't see liberal bias all around her.

She's a disgrace to my gender.


:barf:

[RW]

Sorry, but I think not only Helen Thomas is nutz, but so are the rest of the news people quoted......


ewwww, and my Republican daughter thinks she's gonna make it in journalism.......... ..............she's too smart, too short and too conservative...and one heck of lot better looking than the libs....

[rednail47]

.The job of the media, including their employees such as Helen Thomas, is to sell advertising. Reporting the news is just one of several vehicles for generating sales. Each reporter has a choir that they preach to and most do not stray very far from what they feel their audience wants to hear. No audience,no advertising; no advertising, no newspaper/radio/TV,no job. All the reporters know that and act accordingly

[DrAnalog]

Helen Thomas is a certified nut case. How can anyone in their right mind take her seriously? But then again, most of the media has left their brain somewhere else, so she does fit right in with the rest of them. I'm not sure who is more ignorant, the news media or politicians?

[thomas]

"brains, good judgment and experience. Obama has the first two. Gore has all three."
Throw Helen Thomas into this mix and all I think of is a giant cat box!
The Old Chief

[Dan Talbot]

Helen Thomas is no match for Chris Matthews. He is a dummkopf extraordinaire. But since this article is about Helen, let me just say that she leaves me breathless, the way an overspiced meal that conceals the flavor of the food does.

[MrJLDoug]

My Christian faith compels me to not speak unkindly about the feeble minded so all I can say about Helen Thomas is the pity I feel toward her.
Now that Brent has brought out all these media Liberals, What's with McCain agreeing to debates hosted by the likes of Tom Brokaw?
What every happened to the Town Hall Meetings Obama agreed to but would only do on Holidays like the 4th of July evening?
We all know that the debates will be stacked and Obama will come out smelling like a rose.

[83ragtop50]

When her mouth opens my ears shut.

What an unpleasant old bag.

[mikemo]

Helen is demented and her agenda speaks for itself.
Does anyone really respect any talking heads?

[Bigdog]

ABC's Claire Shipman says the taxpayers, not the politicians, should sacrifice to close the budget deficit: "If every American were to pitch in $2,000, we could pay off this year's deficit. ... Or, if we handed over, each of us, 500 gallons of gasoline or, in terms we could all really understand, if every American gave up 666 lattes for a year, we could pay off this year's deficit."


Damn! Did she actualy say that?? That quote deserves equal time with BO's tire gage solution.

Shipman appears to be even more mentaly impotent then Helen was, until she went senile.

[clovers]

Dear Helen Thomas & Claire Shipman: Warning! Make sure that brain is in gear before activating mouth! Of course, that presupposes that the brain cogs are operable.

LT

[righton]

Helen Thomas is an embarrassment - she's reverted into a joke.

When you ask incoherent questions while wobbling on your feet, can anyone take you seriously? Wouldn't be surprised if at one of these press sessions, she all of a sudden didn't keel over on her face.

L&L

[SilentMajority1]

Personally I like HT. She is so obvious and transparent. If all liberals were as truthful we would have been rid of them years ago.

The dangerous one are those who appear to be for us while doing their best to gain and retain political power so they can damage us by any means possible.

[FlaJim]

Thomas' sole claim to fame is longevity and never had anything to do with her reporting ability, even among her 'peers' whom she's unable to locate.

[ColonialMarine]

Sometimes ugly people compensate by being intelligent...

HT's the exception.

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[hiway280z]

This woman is rude and disgusting.

she serves kool aid to all who will listen to her stupid questions.

[Luckyme]

Why is it that conservatives know who we are and what we stand for, while liberals always seem to deny liberalism? Could it be because they are filled with guilt and have no sense of patriotism for this great nation?

I am a very proud conservative who celebrates all the good things this great nation has accomplished here, and what we have done for the worldwide community.

I can't remember ever hearing a liberal say anything similar or being proud of anything we've done. However..... they are very good at finding fault.

[RightStuff]

I emailed Helen once criticizing something she said, and the next thing I knew I was in this bizarre back and forth with someone whom I quickly learned was insane. It was other-worldly, to say the least. I recommend everyone find Lyle Rossiter's "The Liberal Mind", to discover that people like Helen are really half a bubble off center. They are truly sick, and incurable of their illness. The reason they can't be cured, is that their egos will not permit them to admit they have a problem.

[Nicholas]

NBC's Matt Lauer presses Barack Obama -- as not liberal enough, quoting hotheads at the New York Times: "Sen. Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He's lurching right when it suits him, he's zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that's guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash."

How can you tell about BHO? Has he actually taken a clear position on some issue? Besides inflating everybody's tires, I mean....

if every American gave up 666 lattes for a year, we could pay off this year's deficit."

At 365 days in a year, that's 1 or 2 a day. For those of us who have two or more lattes a day, this might work. On the other hand, I expect that a lot of people at Starbucks, MacDonald's, and some convenience stores might lose their jobs, so this might cause more problems than it solves.

I personally have a little problem here - I have never drunk any lattes. In fact, I never started drinking coffee. No lattes, no espressos, .... none of it. Just one more way I cut my expenses, so that I can survive in this economy.

[Nicholas]

Winston Churchill (I think it was - maybe somebody before him) once said that
He who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart. He who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.

This implies that it's possible for a liberal to see the light, and be "cured". Although there are certainly some examples of "headless" senior citizens - Sen. Ted Kennedy immediately comes to mind.

[Teufelhund_USMC]

Let us not call Helen senile. She has not changed since she started out many years ago.
Senility would probably bring improvement.
Let's just call her an old Bolshevik, which is what most "Liberals" are.
The majority of the followers who are not
Bolsheviks, are just ignorant people, who are inherently naive, and are just stupidly looking for a government to keep and care for them and hope that the overseers who will plan their existences, are paternalist and kind.
The worst fault that the Conservatives have is a Politically Correct reticence to call them what they are, Marxists, which is what Liberalism has morphed into. We should never use a kindly word like "liberal" to address or speak of them.
Let's call a spade a spade, and not a heart.
We need to let our hair down, and be direct, and truthful even if it infuriates them.

[MsNurse]

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Thomas was asked whether most White House reporters are liberal. "Hell, no!"she thundered. I'm dying to find another liberal to open their mouths [sic]. Where are they?"

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It's just to hard to find words that fit her!!!!

[RiverKing]

My Christian faith compels me to not speak unkindly about the feeble minded so all I can say about Helen Thomas is the pity I feel toward her.That's how I see Helen Thomas, too. She became an object of pity before Reagan's first term of office.

[welder4]

It is not that she doesn't know there are abundant supplies of left leaning journalists it is she will not admit it to any one . The elites on the left think that the people are stupid and dumb and ignorant but I will tell her one thing, we will show up at the polls in November and try our darnedest to break her little heart. NO Obama for sure !

[milmageditor]

It is quite obvious that liberals/Marxists/Communists/etc suffer from a severe case of delusions of grandeur as they can't seem to see the forest for the trees! I guess if you surround yourself with like minded people you don't realize you are one. I can't believe Claire Shipman (sp?) had the audacity to put the blame for the deficit on we the taxpayers and expect us to give up something when it is the fault of the politicians who put us in this mess in the first place. Put the blame where it belongs on the tax and spend liberal democrats! If she thinks we should all give up something than why doesn't she set the example and give up something first. You know that'll never happen because with liberals it's do as I say not as I do. When is the opening day of hunting season for liberals???

[schillerbjr]

Helen Thomas might as well wear a flag of the "former Soviet Union" and worship "COMMUNISTS".


She is "worthless"!!

[DRLJR]

It is important to remember that to a leftist they are the center. So as far as Helen Thomas is concerned all of her colleagues are right smack in the middle of the political spectrum. To these people a moderate is an extreme conservative and conservatives are some where to the far right of Attila the Hun and the Mongol Hoards. And over the years the leftist have moved even further left and out of touch with reality.

This is one reason most of them are so dangerous. They really believe their own rhetoric and positions are the correct ones as well as being unbiased and thus they are incapable of understanding the real life consequences of their positions and policies. And as a result they continue to push their failed policies and programs year after year causing more damage year after year.

They have lost the ability to perceive of or recognized outcomes that do not agree with their expected results. So they push and continue programs and policies when everyone else can see the programs and policies have failed and will never work and should be ended or changed. It is part of their always correct mentality. Compare that with moderates and conservatives. We might not like that something did not work but we look at the facts and accept it and try to figure out the how and why so as not to repeat the same mistakes. Sometimes reluctantly as Senator McCain did on off-shore oil drilling.

And technically Helen Thomas is not supposed to be at White House briefings - she is not longer a reporter but a columnist but the White House has been being nice to her allowing her to still attend White House briefings. I believe it was Tony Snow who took her down a notch one time when she started giving him a hard time.

[schillerbjr]

Helen Thomas belongs in a "rubber room" with men in "white coats" to care for her. She lost her "marbles" about 4 years ago! Has not been the "same" since!!

[dcstark]

It is an old proverb (French, I believe) -- "One can always see the splinter in someone else's eye, but never the beam in their own." :rolleyes:

Helen Thomas can't see any liberals in the media, because they all look and act just as she does, so that can't be wrong, can it?

Yet even the general populace recognizes the obvious bias in the mainstream media. Tsk, tsk.

[candles]

ABC's Claire Shipman says the taxpayers, not the politicians, should sacrifice to close the budget deficit: "If every American were to pitch in $2,000, we could pay off this year's deficitFirst of all. how are the politicians sacrificing to close the budget deficit? IMHO they are not doing their fair share to cut the deficit; if they would cut their spending spree of our tax dollars we would not have this deep of a decifit.

Helen Thomas, the so-called Dean of the White House press corps, doesn't know any liberals in the news media.Maybe she does not think they are as liberal as she is, so they must not be liberals. I wish they would stop calling on Helen, then maybe she will stop showing up.

[lkv7]

Still, Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a Government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.- Thomas Jefferson




... With Liberty, and Justice for all.

[Sentinel]

Great piece Mr. Bozell.
As it is with every liberal, being honest is not in their DNA. Ms. Thomas only accentuates the obvious.

[northwestgal]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most liberal of them all?

It was fun reading all the loony journalist comments - a wonderful collection. You must admit, it takes a certain audacity to spout this nonsense in front of a camera or put it in print. My sense is that they're trying to outdo each other in an effort to burnish their credentials so they can rise to the top of the libera-journalist heap. It's a mad scramble - after all, Helen won't be around that much longer.

Helen, meanwhile, hasn't noticed or pretends that she hasn't, because she's determined to go to her grave believing that she was, and still is, the MOST liberal of them all.

My favorite comment was by Claire Shipman: "If every American gave up 666 lattes for a year, we could pay off this year's deficit". Oh Claire, Claire ... are you by chance a descendant of Marie "Let Them Eat Cake" Antoinette? Because you may have a hard time believing this, but lots of Americans don't frequent places where lattes are served at outrageous prices. Please lead the way in stopping your daily/twice-daily latte purchases and donating the money to our government's coffers.