Posted on 01/21/2009 5:13:57 PM PST by Michael Eden
Reporter Helen Thomas is often described as "venerable." That's because she's 1) Older than dirt; and 2) as liberal as the federal deficit is huge.
We receive an important lesson from her on what it means to be a "reporter" in today's world:
Click here to see full youtube video.Helen Thomas: I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?CBC Interviewer: Well, you know, it's interesting because I'm sure that if somebody from the right was sitting here they would say... if you ask the question what should a reporter be they will say, "Oh, I don't know, How about objective?"
Helen Thomas: You're not asking people not to think not to care are you? But you are asking them to give a fair reporting both sides and so forth and I did it for 57 years I was never, never accused of bias in my copy. But I had a right to be angry and unhappy at the trend that I saw in my country that I was close enough to see.
According to Newsbuster's Warner Todd-Houston, Thomas also said that conservatives are neither thinking nor caring people. He describes Thomas' candor as "An admission of bias so strong that it could ward off a vampire" and says, "HotAir says that Thomas' admission is a 'sunbeam of candor,' but I call it more like a dagger into the heart of journalism."
I like the cut of his gib.
It is when the most "venerable" journalists - such as Helen Thomas, Chris Matthews, Bill Moyers, and Walter Cronkite (and see also) - emerge and demonstrate their blatant bias and their literal desire to serve as propagandists - that we see how truly corrupt and dishonest the mainstream media has become.
Bernie Goldberg described liberal journalists as simply believing their political views were normal and proper. They were liberal because - in their mindset - "liberal" was the only way any intelligent and reasonable person could be.
I once went to the length of transcribing a couple of pages of Goldberg's book Bias to demonstrate how "bias" worked to transform a "news" story into blatant "propaganda" - all without "journalists" even being aware of their bias. The Bernie stuff appears about a quarter way into the article.
Helen Thomas couldn't be more wrong - according to study after study - in her assertion that conservatives were not "caring" people. Here are just a few articles on the subject:
Conservatives More Liberal GiversIf Helen Thomas were a good "reporter" she would have went to the trouble of checking her facts at least once in her life.
But then again, conservatives are more honest and care more about the truth, in addition to their being more generous, according to a wide variety of studies from a wide variety of disciplines as summarized by World Magazine.
There are undoubtedly a great many liberal journalists who are just bad people and willing to flat-out lie for the sake of their ideology. But there are also a great many who simply never once bothered to ever check the underlying credibility of many of their beliefs that constitute their worldview.
Whichever it is, you cannot trust the mainstream media today because it is filled to the gills with the dishonesty, corruption, bias, partisanship, and propaganda that is simply endemic to their thought process. They are not fair or objective because they can't be - even if they try. They are simply too convinced that liberalism is simply "true."
By the way, Thomas' claim that she has "never, never accused of bias in her copy" is a joke that belies just how truly out-of-touch she truly is with the political right of this country. Every conservative knows Thomas has been biased since before the days when dinosaurs walked the earth. She has been a liberal goldfish in a f۠ish tank choked full with liberal goldfish for so many years that she simply doesn't even know any other kind of fish.
No pictures. Please! We need a Helen Thomas rule: a special negative one!
Really, no pictures please. I am trying to eat dinner!
Saw a HBO type interview with her and she said she is the only liberal around, she looks to her left and right in the White house and can’t find a liberal anywhere. This was just after she accused the military of actively looking for and killing civilians in Iraq.
This woman claimed on The Daily Show that democracy has never come from the end of a gun.
What is incredibly funny isn’t her lack of historical knowledge, it’s that she was actually around during the Revolutionary War and should have remembered her own reports.
What else should reporter be? Unbiased and truthful come to mind, if you have an iota of integrity.
Someday they'll wake up and find out that today the Moslems are the Nazis and Hitler is dead.
Thomas also said that conservatives are neither thinking nor caring people........
-—sorry Helen,——
we do think and we do care but elitist like you,dismiss our ideas as too simple minded and mean spirited.
These ideas rely on self reliance and sacrifice rather than the collectivism of an overbearing federal government......
When did “venerable” come to be a synonym for “dumber than dirt?”
I’m surprised that Obama hasn’t yet nominated this old crow to be Ambassador to Hamas.
Thomas also said that conservatives are neither thinking nor caring people........
-—sorry Helen,——
we do think and we do care but elitist like you,dismiss our ideas as too simple minded and mean spirited.
These ideas rely on self reliance and sacrifice rather than the collectivism of an overbearing federal government......
You know, I had an uncle whom I dearly loved. Very religious. But a liberal Democrat. I asked him, “Why are you a Democrat?” And he answered, “Because Democrats help people.”
He couldn’t think beyond the 1930s, and he didn’t realize that “helping people” meant prolonging the Great Depression so that it actually lasted three times longer than it should have.
Welfare - that liberal invention of “compassion” - is poison to the soul of everyone who succumbs to it.
“Redistributionism” is another way of saying “stealing.” But the fact that it is the government doing the stealing presumably makes it “moral.” Might does not make right.
The biggest two problems of liberalism is that it represents the abandonment 1) of objective moral values and 2) of individual responsibility.
Alright, people. Once and for all, they are not “reporters”. They are Purporters. Purporters. Remember that.
“You’re not asking people not to think not to care are you?”
The reporter’s job is not about objectivity but activism.
OMGosh she had her farewell address to President Bush in my hometown paper today....absolutely sickening. Also outrageous is that I paid 50 cents for the vast 4 page rag.
OMGosh she had her farewell address to President Bush in my hometown paper today....absolutely sickening. Also outrageous is that I paid 50 cents for the vast 4 page rag.
It is very important that you donate that paper to someone who is housebreaking a puppy. And make very sure that the puppy uses it for its intended purpose.
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